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I'm just back from a visit to St. John's College High School in Washington, DC.  This is the second year I've done a talk to their 9th graders.  When we specced the talk originally, it was another of the talks I've given about "internet safety."  Happily, the faculty and administration were glad to have the talk take another turn.  This year and last I've been able to talk openly with the students about the real threat to them on the Internet:  themselves.

In the course of the talk, I shared a couple of videos:

• Digital Dossier from the Digital Natives project
• Think Before You Post, a PSA from The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)
• Corey Vidal's YouTube Channel

I also collected the sites I mentioned on a Diigo list.

Enjoy!

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