In 8th grade we learn about cyber bullying, causes, and consequences. Here an assignment the students work on.

2. Answer these questions:
•How many of you have ever received a mean or threatening
e-mail or IM (FB, BBM, SMS, etc)?
•If so, did you tell anyone? Who?
•Have you ever received e-mails or IM’s from someone you
did not know?
•Did you respond to them? Why? Or why not?
•What would you do if you knew a friend of yours was
sending threatening anonymous e-mails or IM’s to someone?
•What is your theory about why people send bad messages
via the Internet?
•How would you propose that this type of “bullying” be
stopped?

3. Answer these questions on a Word document:
•What are one or two words to describe your feelings about his
film?
•Have you ever been frightened like Susan was from a message
being sent to you via-email or through an IM?
•What would you guess are the reasons why Amanda decided to
threaten Susan through the Internet?
•How can “just teasing” your friends this way be dangerous?
•What do you think would have happened if Susan had told her
parents what was being e-mailed to her?
•What do you think should happen to Amanda for what she did?
•If you were one of Susan’s friends, what action would you take
considering what happened to your friend?
•If you were to write a conclusion to this film, how would you have
it end?

4. Create a Digital Poster (Glogster)that will include:
1. Statistics of abductions(kidnaps) or deaths due to cyber bullying. Include
some examples of the most known stories.
2. Trace the history of internet usage and abuse over the past 10 years. You
may show it as a timeline.
3. Create a mind map with all the CC values(
trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, citizenship) and
how each of them can be applied to cyber bullying
4. Generate a list of rules on basic safety for students in the correct use of the
internet.
5. Show some ways of cyber bullying
6. Say a message to ALL the world about how and why we should stop Cyber
bullying. And what can you do if it happens
• You may include:
a. a speaking avatar
b. Images
c. Videos
d. Sounds
http://wiigamer.glogster.com/Whats-Bullying/
http://xxroboticzxx.glogster.com/Stop-Cyberbullying/

5. Assignment
Possible tools
or web 2.0
options to use
1. Statistics of abductions(kidnaps) or deaths due to cyber
bullying. Include some examples of the most known stories.
You tube
videos, Voki
,sound recorder
2. Trace the history of internet usage and abuse over the past 10
years. You may show it as a timeline.
timetoast, dipity, ex
cel
3. Create a mind map with all the CC values(
trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, citizens
hip) and how each of them can be applied to cyber bullying
Popplet, mindomo
4. Generate a list of rules on basic safety for students in the
correct use of the internet.
Prezi, voki, text,
sound recorder
5. Show some ways of cyberbullying Wordle, tagul,
tagxedo, text,
image
6. Say a message to ALL the world about how and why we should
stop Cyber bullying. And what can you do if it happens.
Doppel me, voki

6. Resources
Computer history
• http://www.computerhistory.org/highlights/publicweb20th/
Cyberbullying resources:
• https://docs.google.com/a/cag.edu.gt/viewer?a=v&pid=gmail&attid=0.2&thid=12f073
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%3Db8ddbf4b50%26view%3Datt%26th%3D12f07313ff3049ed%26attid%3D0.2%26
disp%3Dsafe%26realattid%3D3cf3305559982028_0.2%26zw&sig=AHIEtbR_qE_gF
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• http://charactercounts.org/pdf/bullying/CyberbullyingOnlineResources.pdf
• http://charactercounts.org/chron/2011/01/07/decreasebullying/
• http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2011/09/06/bullying_bb.html
Web 2.0 Tools
• http://edu.glogster.com/
• http://www.doppelme.com/
• http://prezi.com/
• http://www.voki.com/
• http://www.youtube.com/
• http://cooltext.com/
• http://www.wordle.net/
• http://www.popplet.com/
• http://www.mindomo.com/
• http://www.tagxedo.com/
• http://tagul.com/
• http://www.timetoast.com/

7. “Cyber bullying involves the use of
information and communication
technologies to support deliberate,
repeated, and hostile behavior by
an individual or group, that is
intended to harm others.“
Bill Belsey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmD8OKl8vVM – Kitchen bullying..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE2Ru-jqyrY – Once posted…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZPDjz7L0Uw&feature=related – Words hurt

8. Word:
Description:
Drawing:
My understanding: 1 2 3 4 5