“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.

Rep Brooks Talks to Student Volunteers

“You are the reason that I ran for office,” she said, talking to the middle school students.  “Do well in school and keep growing and learning.” Representative Brooks explained that the digital skills that the students are learning will help them find jobs, and later help them create jobs.

The students showed Congresswoman Brooks how they refurbish computers.  This year, 50 computers have been completed and 20 have been donated to the families of students that don’t have a computer at home and 6 have been donated to a local nonprofit so they can teach others computer and Internet skills.   Additional computers will be donated to other families with students and to doctors that provide medical services in Haiti.  The student volunteers also teach younger teens online safety skills.

Representative Brooks Joins Net Literacy’s Honorary Board!

After explaining how their chapter was impacting the community, the students asked Representative Brooks if she would consider joining the Net Literacy Honorary Board. 

When we asked her, she didn’t hesitate, she immediately say yes!  That was really cool and we presented her a Fishers Junior High Net Literacy shirt and took a picture together.

As part of Net Literacy’s service to Hoosiers, more than 23,000 computers have been donated to almost 1000 nonprofits and to more than 13,000 families with students in more than 70 Hoosier counties.  A video of Representative Brooks’ discussion with the students will be posted shortly.

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 danielkent@netliteracy.org.

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Hangout information
Saturday, December 8, 6pm Eastern
Live on the Google+ page of Dan Kent
Hashtag #netlit
Send online reputation questions to: danielkent@netliteracy.org
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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 are best practice examples of engaging students when talking about online reputation and where are the most useful resources? Tune in, join the discussion, and ask your students’ toughest online reputation questions.
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Presenter information

Anne Collier is a journalist, a writer, a youth advocate, founder and executive director of the Net Family News (www.NetFamilyNews.org), and co-director of Connect Safely (www.ConnectSafely.org). Anne serves on Facebook’s Safety Advisory Board and the advisory boards of Family Online Safety Institute and GetNetWise.org.

Tim Lordan is the executive director and council for the Internet Education Foundation (http://www.neted.org/) and developed Net Safety Tips on the go (www.NetSafetyApp.org). Tim also manages GetNetWise.org, the Internet Caucus Advisory Committee, and the State of the Net.

Sue Sheburne an adjunct faculty member in the Biobehavioral Health Department and an Assistant Director at the Morgan Academic Support Center for Student-Athletes at Penn State University (http://www.gopsusports.com/genrel/sherburne_sue00.html). Sue also oversees or advises the Athletic Department’s Nagle CHAMPUS/Life Skills Program, the Athletic Director’s Leadership Institute, and the Student-Athlete Advisory Board.

Dan Kent is founder and executive director of Net Literacy (www.NetLiteracy.org) and oversees the Net Reputation (http://www.netreputation.org/) initiative. He is a student at Yale School of Management.

Click on the video below to listen to Dave McClure’s sage insights and perspectives about the Internet, produced for South Africa’s iWeek 2012.

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Dave McClure was elected a “Net Literacy Hero” in 2010 and is a member of Net Literacy’s Honorary Board.

Make a difference and add to the thoughtful discourse on the Web – just click on the image below!

What I Wish My Parents Knew Sweepstakes!

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 youth in support of digital inclusion, broadband development, and the MDG’s.

The Internet is a platform to do good and on September 12, 2012, a new website, A PLATFORM for GOOD is launching to help get the good word out and enable teens, teachers, and parents connect, share and do good online. This site is a project of the Family Online Safety Institute, a knowledgeable and trusted source of online safety information that Net Literacy endorses. A PLATFORM for GOOD provides a toolbox of actionable resources that we believe are particularly useful to teens.

What do you wish your parents knew about tech? Well, here’s your chance to be heard by clicking HERE.

Want to help your teacher by offering suggestions about how to use the Internet to make class even more engaging – check out the link to see what some teachers are doing HERE.

To keep up to date with the latest good and cool stuff happening in cyber space as discussed via blog – click HERE.

Net Literacy was invited to get the GOOD word out and show how students rule (and do good things) at Net Literacy and make a difference so please check out this blog When Teens Engage Teens about Internet Safety.

For more information about why A PLATFORM for GOOD is definitely for the good, contact me at danielkent@netliteracy.org