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Why defining ‘bullying’ is important for schools

October 8, 2014

By Anne Collier There are all kinds of reasons why “bullying” and “cyberbullying” can’t be applied to just any kind of mean behavior that

What are we really seeing in the social media fishbowl?

September 18, 2014

By Anne Collier Apologies in advance for a slightly parasitic blog post, but this thoughtful piece by Prof. Justin Patchin of the Cyberbullying Research Center –

Kindness really could be going viral! Just look…

August 14, 2014

By Anne Collier The use of kindness as a conscious, very effective grassroots solution to bullying is picking up steam. Where youth are concerned, sometimes the kindness is

Beginning of the end of #purge, revenge porn or social cruelty?

July 27, 2014

By Anne Collier We so want to believe it: that the fact that Twitter and Instagram are actively taking down #purge-related accounts signals “the tipping point of this

A positive, insightful new book for schools on bullying

April 18, 2014

By Anne Collier In the preface to her new book, Positive Relations @School (& Elsewhere), author and risk-prevention educator Nancy Willard tells of a conversation with a

Safer Internet Day 2014: The global safety collaborative

February 7, 2014

By Anne Collier What do a high school student who’s a bullying prevention activist, two criminology professors and Safer Internet Day (February 11) have in common?

‘Bullying Experiment’ video: What’s wrong with this picture?

December 12, 2013

By Anne Collier You may have seen “The Bullying Experiment” video that has gone viral (as of this writing, 3.1 million views on YouTube). Two actors stage a

Students in social media: There’s monitoring & then there’s monitoring

October 2, 2013

By Anne Collier There’s an upside and a serious downside to monitoring students in social media, and the upside doesn’t involve outsourcing (that was an

Why not a gazillion ‘likes’?: Getting wise to gamification in social media (& life)

May 16, 2013

By Anne Collier Likes in Facebook and Instagram, +1’s in Google+, (potentially) “HISCORE(s)” in Snapchat are fun to get (though there isn’t much

Cyberbullying ‘neither an epidemic nor a rarity’: Researchers

March 25, 2013

By Anne Collier This has been stated before but not seen (or reported) enough: Cyberbullying is not an epidemic, even though news reports about it seem to have reached