Building Your Digital Dossier: A Cyber-Technology Update for High School and College Students

Will the digital dossier of your students someday trump their paper resume?  Can free speech be held against them?  Participants are led through a tour of live popular websites while we discuss their risks of use.  Our presenter’s insights into online behavior are gleaned from research, experience, insider-information from today’s teens as well as partnerships with technology-focused institutions and the FBI.  In exploring the technologies that have grown up alongside today’s students, participants will better understand how to protect themselves from possible addictions and exploitations.

A Cyber World of Trouble for Elementary School Students

Have many of your students adopted virtual pets on Webkinz?  Are they members of Club Penguin?  Do they know the ways in which Cyber-Predators using these and other “kid-friendly” sites target victims? We will cover these issues and many others during this kid-friendly, informative, and interactive program.  By bringing three-dimensional reality to the two-dimensional world of Cyberspace, students will better understand the world of cyber-socializing and cyber-bullying.

Cyber-Smarts for Middle School Students

Have many of your students created Facebook or MySpace profiles? Are they playing “Slap-a-Ho” or “Hide the Hotties” during class? Do they understand the consequences of using video phones to record the behavior and images of others?  This highly interactive program provides an update on the world of cyber-dating, cyber-rating, blogs, pornography, gaming, gambling, and cyber-stalking.

Do your faculty members know what a Hotornot rating is and how it can affect a student’s self-esteem?  Have any of your staff members received MySpace messages from students?  Do they understand the consequences of video phone technology in the academic setting?  Do they know how X-Box live outings might affect students’ interpersonal and language skills? "Cyber-Smarts" effectively bridges the gap between adults and today’s cyber-generation caused by the explosive growth of the Internet, video games, and other popular technologies. 

A Cyber World of Trouble for Parents by Katie Koestner

Do you know what archive.org is and how it might affect your child's college admission?Do you know the purpose of BitTorrent Programs and how the use of such programs may make parents liable? Do you know how predators use MySpace, Facebook, and Xanga to locate their next targets?  Do you know what an X-Box live outing is?  Do you know what the difference is between a Facebook "Poke" and a Facebook "Photo Tag"?  If you have no idea what we are talking about, then "A Cyber World of Trouble" is the program for you. 

Sexting, Gaming, and "It's Complicated":  Teen Cyber-Culture

Find out what your child’s digital dossier might be saying to a college admissions counselor or future employer before it’s too late.  Be able to better protect your family from online predators, both sexual and economic.  Learn the latest identity theft scams and how organized crime members are using bots to commit their offenses.   We teach you how to prevent your child from engaging in illegal file sharing.  Parents of all “skill-levels” will benefit from this in-home program on parenting skills for digital kids and their devices. 

Teen Relationship Culture: An Update for Parents by Katie Koestner

Is your son "Hot or Not?" Has your daughter "Faced the Jury?" In this program, parents receive a comprehensive update on relationship culture and sexual misconduct among today's teens. With her captivating delivery, and vast breadth of knowledge about the teen relationship scene, acclaimed speaker, Katie Koestner, provides parents across the country with the tools to effectively communicate with their kids about sensitive gender issues. Attendees have the opportunity to dicuss and debate a real-life case study, as well as experience a multi-media presentation of teen pop culture, from movies to magazines.

Too Drunk to Text Message? Cyber-Related Sex, Sexual Misconduct and Media Literacy by Katie Koestner

Technology has become the racing pulse of relationship newness and the flying fingers composing a sext message can type promises of a hook-up later that night. The platform for relationships in 2010 has shifted over the quicksand with tree vines of face-to-face communication easing out into brighter air. When our "personal" communications become instantly public and permanent through the World Wide Web and indelible imprint of data transmission, how do we even keep secrets anymore?

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