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		<title>Guidelines for updating your school&#8217;s social networking policy</title>
		<link>http://cyberbullying.us/blog/guidelines-for-updating-your-schools-social-networking-policy.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 12:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sameer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a followup to our last blog post, we’d like to share some more guidance to keep in mind as you are updating and refining your school’s policy related to Facebook (and other social networking sites). We hope this is helpful for you. Please remember, though, that you must do a lot more than policy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public schools, Facebook, and the FCC</title>
		<link>http://cyberbullying.us/blog/public-schools-facebook-and-the-fcc.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 14:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sameer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our colleague Mike Donlin and I have been talking out some issues related to public education and teen technology use. He has recently pointed out that there are certain points that the FCC would like schools to know as it relates to their intersection with and use of social networking sites. Specifically, schools need to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bullying Law Summary Fact Sheet Updated</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cyberbullying.us/blog/?p=1225</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We have just updated one of our most popular resources. You can find our latest bullying law fact sheet here. As you can see, all but 2 states now have bullying laws in place or scheduled to take effect in 2012. Most of these (35) include language about electronic forms of bullying while still relatively [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confiscating Cell Phones from Students at School</title>
		<link>http://cyberbullying.us/blog/confiscating-cell-phones-from-students-at-school.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sameer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we begin the new school year and reaquaint ourselves with some of the negatives implications that student-owned electronic devices at school may have, I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot recently about teachers and administrators confiscating cell phones due to school policy violations. Many of us know from experience that it may be more of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bring Your Own Device To School</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cyberbullying.us/blog/?p=1117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many educators have struggled to confront the challenges associated with high-tech devices in the classrooms (especially cell phones).  Cyberbullying.  Cheating.  Distractions.  Inappropriate digital material. There is no shortage of possible issues. The seemingly easy way to respond to these concerns has been to ban all personal electronic devices from the classroom (or the entire school).  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyberbullying Prevention and Response: Expert Perspectives</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cyberbullying.us/blog/?p=1078</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Given the prominence of several high-profile incidents in recent months, cyberbullying has been all over the media. As a result, parents, educators, and other youth-serving adults are looking for information to educate themselves about this problem. Even though cyberbullying may seem fairly new to many, a core group of researchers and Internet safety advocates have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Formal Rules for Students and their Devices at School</title>
		<link>http://cyberbullying.us/blog/formal-rules-for-students-and-their-devices-at-school.html</link>
		<comments>http://cyberbullying.us/blog/formal-rules-for-students-and-their-devices-at-school.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sameer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cyberbullying.us/blog/?p=1063</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As we continue to work with public and private schools around the nation, we see much variability in the formal policies in place related to student-owned electronic devices and their display and use on campuses. Some schools have simply elected to ban all netbooks, tablets and iPads, laptop computers, smartphones (e.g., iPhones, Blackberrys, Evos), Nintendo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House Bullying Conference</title>
		<link>http://cyberbullying.us/blog/white-house-bullying-conference.html</link>
		<comments>http://cyberbullying.us/blog/white-house-bullying-conference.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cyberbullying.us/blog/?p=978</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday March 10, 2011, the White House convened a conference to address the issue of bullying. First Lady Michelle and President Obama welcomed parents, students, researchers, industry leaders and others to discuss the negative effects of bullying and highlight some of the best-practices and promising approaches in prevention and response. I was honored to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Can Educators Search Student Cell Phones?</title>
		<link>http://cyberbullying.us/blog/when-can-educators-search-student-cell-phones.html</link>
		<comments>http://cyberbullying.us/blog/when-can-educators-search-student-cell-phones.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cyberbullying.us/blog/?p=926</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Do students have an expectation of privacy on their cell phones while at school? The short answer to this is a qualified yes. Whether educators have the authority to search the contents of student cell phones depends on a lot of factors. The key issue in this analysis (that we have raised before on this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bullying and Cyberbullying Laws &#8211; Clarifications on our Fact Sheet</title>
		<link>http://cyberbullying.us/blog/bullying-and-cyberbullying-laws-clarifications-on-our-fact-sheet.html</link>
		<comments>http://cyberbullying.us/blog/bullying-and-cyberbullying-laws-clarifications-on-our-fact-sheet.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sameer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cyberbullying.us/blog/?p=888</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our state-by-state bullying and cyberbullying laws fact sheet is one of the top-most documents downloaded from our site; we encourage you to check it out if you haven&#8217;t already. That said, it is also a fluid resource that we are constantly updating. Some recent questions have been posed, and so I wanted to take the [...]]]></description>
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