Category: Net Literacy Alliance

Net Literacy’s Fishers Junior High chapter was honored by a visit from Congresswoman Brooks (Indiana’s 5th Congressional District), and the 15 student volunteers that met her and talked with her were thrilled! “I was so impressed when I learned about your leadership and what you were doing,” said Representative Brooks as she explained to the students why she felt what they were doing for the community is so important. “You are the reason that I ran for office,” she said, …

Indianapolis Public Schools, Indiana’s largest school district is using 46 Net Literacy student-created videos to help teach online safety. The videos were uploaded to IPSTube and can be viewed by clicking on this link: http://ipstube.ips.k12.in.us/search/?search_id=internet+safety&search_type=search_videos&x=0&y=0 They were also loaded to the IPS’s Curriculum Resources and their Technology Competencies. IPS is using the voice of net savvy teens to help students be safe while having fun online. For more information, contact [email protected]

click on the link to watch Google Education On Air: http://youtu.be/gNjnqwJdwt4 . . Hangout information Saturday, December 8, 6pm Eastern Live on the Google+ page of Dan Kent Hashtag #netlit Send online reputation questions to: [email protected] . Session description This Google Education On Air provides practical and actionable strategies to students enhance their online reputation as they seek scholarships, employment, and admission to competitive colleges. We’ll also discuss today’s online reputation landscape and what’s in store for the future. What …

On September 23, 2012, Net Literacy discussed its student-empowered digital inclusion and digital literacy model to the United Nations Broadband Commissioners in New York City. Woven throughout the presentation, Net Literacy referenced its support of the Broadband Commission’s “B more” campaign and we asked the Commissioners to consider adding a fourth objective for the Working Group on Youth – to engage youth-managed and focused organizations to innovate, propose, and test practical and effective sustainable development solutions that engage and mobilize …

We are grateful that the leading online safety site iKeepSafe.org invited Net Literacy to blog about online safety. Click on the image below to see the first blog.

Net Literacy partnered with the Indiana Partnership Center, Attendance Works, the Marion County Commission on Youth and the Center for Evaluation & Education Policy to help increase awareness of the importance of attending school every day. Serving as the “voice-of-youth-to-youth,” we use straight talk to explain the importance of attending school every day. . For more information, click and the link and read the report or contact Jack Garvey ([email protected]), Hedy Chang ([email protected]), John Brandon ([email protected]), Terry Spradlin ([email protected]), or …

High school student volunteers working at Net Literacy chapters throughout Indianapolis donate their 10,000th computer to a family with students not having a computer at home. This letter says it all.

Bright House Networks has supported Net Literacy’s Safe Connects program by providing $600,000 in advertising avails to rotate 25 student-created public service announcements throughout five counties in central Indiana. This initiative was first announced at a 2007 press conference held at the State House conducted by Indiana’s Superintendent of Public Instruction. The two companies have extended the partnership via initiatives ranging from teaching elementary school students during a YMCA summer program to inserting 15,000 safety notices in students’ backpacks. In …