Cyberslammed About The Book

Shanterra McBride

Shanterra McBride is the founder and director of PLOT (Preparing Leaders of Today), a company designed to inspire young people to be more than what's expected, more than what's required, and more than what's modeled.McBride is also the spokesperson for Unicel's StandUp! Program, which draws attention to the issue of cyber bullying. More info.

Joshua Herman, an attorney at Miller, Hall & Triggs, LLC in Peoria, Illinois, also reviewed the particular legal issues within our Sexting chapter. Herman prosecutes for local governments, focuses on educational and governmental law, and has published analysis and guidance regarding various Sexting issues. More info.

Jayne Hitchcock

Jayne Hitchcock, author and internationally recognized cyber crime expert. She speaks about cybercrime and online security to educational institutions, librarians, corporations, the general public, students and parents, and trains law enforcement personnel throughout the USA. More info.

Chuck C. Nguyen

Chuck C. Nguyen and his family sought refuge from their war torn country of Vietnam in 1980. Growing up in America, he had to learn to peacefully overcome the challenges of fitting into a new culture. After earning his clinical degree in counseling, Chuck served as a social worker at the Maine State Prison. He developed and facilitated a program that utilized yoga, tai chi, and peaceful mindfulness practice for prisoners. He is currently a clinical high school social worker in the Maine. He facilitates and presents bullying prevention workshops and presentations for middle and high schools across Maine. Chuck empowers kids to use effective and nonviolent methods of peaceful Eastern philosophies in dealing with obstacles and bullying in their lives. He is the founder of the Peaceful Warriors Program for kids and instructs Zen Vietnamese Martial Arts for teens and adults.

Lyn Mikel Brown

Lyn Mikel Brown Ed.D. is is a mom, professor, and community activist. Her research on girls’ social and psychological development has garnered her notice in magazines like People Magazine and Mademoiselle, as well as reviews in newspapers such as The New York Times and Boston Globe. She is the author of four books, including Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection Among Girls and Packaging Girlhood. More info.

Thomas Hutton

Thomas Hutton, an attorney with the Seattle, Washington law firm Patterson, Buchanan, Fobes, Leitch, and Kalzer, and a former in-house counsel with the National School Boards Association. Prior to joining Patterson Buchanan, Mr. Hutton was a senior staff attorney for the National School Boards Association (NSBA), where he conducted amicus curiae (friend of the court) advocacy in appellate courts on public education issues nationally and provided support and resources to state school boards associations, local school districts, and the NSBA Council of School Attorneys, the professional association for attorneys who represent school districts. More info

Nancy Willard, MS, JD, executive director of the Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use and is the author of Safe and Responsible Use of the Internet: A Guide for Educators and Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats: Responding to the Challenge of Online Social Aggression, Threats, and Distress She taught “at-risk” children with emotional and behavior difficulties, practiced law in areas of computer law and copyright, and provided consulting services to schools on the implementation of educational technology, before focusing her professional attention on issues of youth behavior when using information communication technologies and safety, legal, and ethical issues related to the use of the Internet in schools. More info.

Stan Davis

Nancy Willard

Stan Davis, co-author with Charisse Nixon, PhD, of The Youth Voice Research Project is also the author of Schools Where Everyone Belongs: Practical Strategies for Reducing Bullying (2nd edition, Research Press, 2007) and Empowering Bystanders in Bullying Prevention (Research Press, 2007). He trains educators throughout the United States and consults with schools. Stan recently retired from school guidance counseling after 41 years as a child and family therapist and school counselor. More info.

Anne Collier

Anne is Editor of NetFamilyNews.org and founder and executive director of its parent organization, Net Family News, Inc., She is a writer and journalist who has worked in the news media since 1980. With SafeKids.com's Larry Magid, she co-directs Connect-Safely.org, a Web-based interactive forum and information site for teens, parents, educators, and everybody interested in the impact of the social Web on youth and vice versa. Connect-Safely is a project of Net Family News, Inc. Anne and Larry co-authored MySpace Unraveled: A Parent's Guide to Teen Social Networking (Peachpit Press, 2006). More info.

_Just when you’ve figured out what
cyberbullying is, it keeps changing!

Cyberslammed is an invaluable resource for educators, parents and students in 5th-12th grade to help them understand, prevent, combat and transform the most common cyberbullying tactics performed through laptops, cell phones, and digital cameras every day.

With this book, you get a logical, 360-degree approach that examines six forms of digital cyber-harassment by teens against teens including:

•    Digital Pile On (Ganging up on someone on chat forums or Instant Messaging);
•    Rating Website (Using Internet polls to get bystanders to vote for their "ugliest," "fattest," "dumbest" peers);
•    Imposter Profile (Creating a website or social networking profile to deceive others to assume it is genuinely owned and maintained by the target);
•    Haters’ Club (Spreading mob mentality on websites or social networking sites to persecute an individual);
•    Sexting (Taking or sending an explicit photo of oneself and forwarding it to friends or potential suitors);
•    Videojacking (Videotaping a target without his knowledge/approval and uploading the video to a popular video-sharing websites.)

Sponsored by Time Warner Cable, Cyberslammed is a first-of-its-kind hybrid workbook that can be used in classrooms as a teaching tool as well as at home as a defense resource. Each chapter is jam-packed with tactical advice to help parents, educators and teenagers quickly analyze the underlying conflict online and off and work toward its solution with the least harm done. Crafted with advice from cyberbullying experts, parents, educators, psychologists, attorneys, law enforcement and even a martial artist, Cyberslammed provides a comprehensive rundown of six of the most harmful digital conflicts teens face online today...and the best ways to stop it!