"Sometimes it's really hard to tell the difference between cyberbullying and harmless fun - it can be really easy to send on stuff without thinking about how seriously it could affect someone's life..."

We have already had, some readers may have missed it, an Anti-Bullying week to throw the spotlight on cyber-bullying and the distress caused by the spread of malicious video content across the internet through social networks, video sharing websites, e-mail and mobiles.

The Department for Children, Schools & Families have created a set of three videos with the aim of demonstrating how a seemingly harmless and funny internet clip can be something far more sinister, and can even make the viewer an unwitting accomplice in the cyber-bullying chain.

It has already been announced that lessons in using the internet safely will be a compulsory part of the English primary curriculum from 2011. The lessons are one element of a new government strategy called “Click Clever, Click Safe”.

Readers can read the Report at http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/ukccis/download-link.cfm?catstr=research&downloadurl=UKCCIS%20Strategy%20Report-WEB1.pdf.


The main messages in the lessons are ‘Zip It, Block It, Flag It’:

Here are the 3 video clips...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2YjbxtCMkw, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp23MQlmUnU and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTUsh-IiImQ