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  • BeSeen App: Training Wheels for Social Networks

    Have your children played our BeSeen app yet? BeSeen is our free mobile app designed to simulate an online social network for kids. By playing BeSeen, youth can subliminally learn how to be responsible on social networks through navigating fictional situations that test their judgment on private and...
    Posted to Weblog by Judi Westberg-Warren, President on 06-26-2012
  • Web Wise Kids Featured in eSchool News!

    A report from eSchool News came out which lists the top ten ways that schools can teach students about Internet safety. The number one method to teach kids is to use games, and Web Wise Kids is listed as a resource. You can read the rest of the report here. (were featured on pages 53 and 70). For...
    Posted to Weblog by Judi Westberg-Warren, President on 06-13-2012
  • Web Wise Kids and BeSeen: An Award Finalist!

    We are proud to announce that our BeSeen game has been selected as an award finalist by the Pittsburgh Technology Council! This year’s fourth annual DATA Awards Event is part of the Creative Technology Network, developed with the generous support of the Benedum Foundation. Called Pittsburgh’s biggest...
    Posted to Weblog by Judi Westberg-Warren, President on 06-07-2012
  • Would a Lift on Age Restriction Be Good for Kids on Facebook?

    Facebook has been considering lifting its age restriction on accounts and opening up its accounts to kids. (for more information, you can read this article. If the FCC “okays” this move, it could be an important help for parents with tweens. As the article says, millions of tweens are online under false...
    Posted to Weblog by Judi Westberg-Warren, President on 06-05-2012
  • BeSeen FAQs

    BeSeen is our mobile phone app we created in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University. The game is designed to be played on a mobile phone and simulates a social network. It was designed to teach kids how to be responsible on social networks like Facebook, by securing their private and personal information...
    Posted to Weblog by Judi Westberg-Warren, President on 05-16-2012
  • Teen Bullying Suicide Pushes Newspaper to Take a Stand

    A teen in Iowa, 14 year old Kenneth Weishuhn Jr., committed suicide because of bullying, and a newspaper is now taking a stand. Shaken by Weishuhn’s death, The Sioux City Journal dedicated its entire front page of its Sunday edition paper to an editorial rallying the city against bullying. Full front...
    Posted to Weblog by Judi Westberg-Warren, President on 04-30-2012
  • Web Wise Kids is a 2012 Design, Art and Technology Awards Finalist!

    The Pittsburg Technology Council has nominated Web Wise Kids’ BeSeen app in their upcoming awards ceremony of the year. The annual DATA (Design, Art, and Technology Awards) ceremony, which celebrates the best design, art and technology inventions in the nation, is split into seven categories: Innovation...
    Posted to Weblog by Judi Westberg-Warren, President on 04-24-2012
  • Reinforcing our Mission

    This morning, I read this article about (http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/08/justice/texas-teen-flees/index.html) how a young teenage girl narrowly escaped from a Facebook predator. I am so grateful to hear that this teen was prevented from being another statistic; She was very lucky to escape, but there...
    Posted to Weblog by Judi Westberg-Warren, President on 03-09-2012
  • BeSeen Now Available on Android!

    We are very excited to announce the launch of BeSeen on the Android platform! Beginning January 5, 2012, your kids can download the new app and having fun while learning about internet safety across social networks on their Android phone. BeSeen, our free mobile app first released on the iPhone in...
    Posted to Weblog by Judi Westberg-Warren, President on 01-06-2012
  • Happy Holidays from BeSeen!

    Happy Holidays from BeSeen! Please download this wallpaper complimentary of us!
    Posted to Weblog by Judi Westberg-Warren, President on 12-21-2011
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