Smart Social Podcast: Learn how to shine online with Josh Ochs

We sat down with David Kaufmann a technology teacher at Medina City Schools who has been a teacher for over 18 years and a coach for 22 years. In this podcast episode, discover tactical tips for monitoring your child’s social media activity, setting internet safety rules , and teaching them how to develop positive screen time habits.

Recently on the Smart Social Podcast, we sat down with Tracy Wright who is a freelance writer from Giggle Magazine to talk about cyberbullying. In this episode, Josh and Tracy share advice for parents whose child may be experiencing cyberbullying or participating in it. Learn what cyberbullying warning signs to look out for and what parents can do before an incident turns into a life-threatening situation.

Recently, we sat down with Lori Davis from Xavier School to discuss her school’s experience watching the Smart Social Digital Citizenship Speech Videos. Instead of having Josh as a guest speaker, their school opted to get one of our off-the-shelf video modules to screen to their students. In this episode, Lori describes how the videos helped her educate students on how they can make their online presence the number one ticket to getting into their preferred university.

Learn the 4 tips you can use to keep your digital footprint safe this summer. We caught up with Sterling Kellis, Sterling Kellis, Assistant Dean of Technology, College of Information Systems and Technology at University of Phoenix.

In this Parent University newsletter we talk about the World Health Organization officially recognizing gaming disorder and the warning signs, which social media network is making it easier to monitor app activity, the new Fortnite: Battle Royale feature parents need to know about, and more.

We asked 3 mental health professionals to share the 5 keys of talking with your family about the sadness associated with social media.

The Tik Tok app is a music video social media platform. Currently the app is not available in the US, despite being the most downloaded app in 2018. Tik Tok was purchased by the creators of Musical.ly and we predict they will make an app available in the US very soon.

It can be challenging for parents to find all of the important security and safety information they need to know to keep their family safe. So, we created this bi-weekly newsletter to bring you up to speed on all of the things happening in digital safety and popular teen trends. In this Parent University member newsletter we talk about which social media network is more popular with teens than Snapchat and Instagram, where teens are seeking advice online, which social media habits are linked to depression, and more. We spend countless hours each week researching (and summarizing) the latest digital safety tips parents and educators need to know, join Parent University to get access to our best research and resources.

In this Podcast episode, Josh Ochs talks with a very special guest, a mother who shares an important story about suicide and '13 Reasons Why.' Learn what parents need to know about this popular Netflix series, how they can talk to their kids about suicide, and how the show is affecting students and their families.

13 Reasons Why is a Netflix show based on a 2007 novel by the same name that depicts suicide in a graphic manner and is incredibly popular with teens. Many educators and psychologists have raised concerns that the show may serve as a trigger for self-injury among vulnerable students. In this episode, we catch parents up to speed on Season 2.

13 Reasons Why is a Netflix show based on a 2007 novel by the same name that depicts suicide in a graphic manner and is incredibly popular with teens. Many educators and psychologists have raised concerns that the show may serve as a trigger for self-injury among vulnerable students.

In this episode, Josh Ochs sat down with a high school student named Carson Magee who raises awareness for students with Type 1 diabetes. Learn how Carson built his Google presence as Josh asks him questions on how students can shine online.

There have been a lot of digital safety updates in the news. In this Parent University member newsletter we talk about keeping students safe on Fortnite: Battle Royale, the new social media challenge that has teens snorting things up their nose, why Twitter banned a major parental control software provider from advertising on their platform, what Snapchat updated this week (spoiler alert: they made a lot of changes), how users can download their Instagram data, and more.

The news is buzzing with tons of digital safety updates this week. In this Parent University member newsletter we talk about why a teenager was charged for bullying others on Snapchat this week, why the Attorney General is issuing a warning about the Musical.ly app, what parents need to know about the new Instagram and Snapchat updates, how families can protect themselves from data breaches like Facebook’s, the negative effects of social media, how students can shine online, and more.

How do I keep my children safe online? This question has been asked multiple times by worried parents that do not know what to do. Today on the show, Josh sat down with Ruth Dearing, a Parent University subscriber and a digital safety expert based in Sydney, Australia. They talked about how to keep your children online, cyberbullying, and the importance of education with communication.