YOU are our heroes for wanting to be informed and involved with your students’ lives, even if you don’t have the same personal connection to social media as they do!
More than 700,000 users have visited our pages and resources this year, and many of those visitors return three, four, five, or more times to continue learning about the latest trends.
We have two “gifts” for our newsletter subscribers today that we hope will keep serving your family throughout the new year:
Get a copy of the brand new Digital Citizenship Techniques (Version 2.0) PDF book (a $20 value) when you fill out a short survey sharing your ideas, challenges, and stories about helping your kids stay safe on social media.
This book features 192 experts sharing tips about:
Social media safety resources
Mental health resources for students
Developing a personal brand online
Building a Private Portfolio
Launching a positive public footprint
Do you have 15 minutes during winter break to take the SmartSocial Social Media and Cell Phone agreement course WITH your students?
If your kids have an internet-connected device (or will be getting one this holiday season) and/or have access to social media this course is for YOU!
This course can cover family agreements for many types of devices:
Cell phones (with data or “dummy phones” that operate only on wifi)
Tablets
E-readers
Computers
Chromebooks
Internet-connected gaming devices (for example Xbox, Playstation, even the Meta Virtual Reality Gaming System)
Social media accounts (like Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, etc.)
This course will be available to only VIP members again in January, but in December it’s free to everyone. You chose what rules the agreement covers with our suggestions of what to discuss as a family.
(Yes, even those college-aged students could benefit from some reminders while they are home.)
We want to listen more to our VIP members, parents, educators, and students around the country. Every week in 2022, we’ll give you a preview of what resources we are working on and how you can help us!
Reply to any of our email newsletters with your answers to our questions and you might get a $5 Starbucks gift card in our appreciation for your time and ideas to help build our content!
Topics we’re working on for the first few weeks of January:
New Instagram safety tools: Have you seen a difference?
“Delete that tweet”: When was the last time you scrubbed your old social media? Do all your “memories” accurately reflect your ideas today? How do you help your students do this?
Apple Screen Time settings: Do you have a story of screen time challenges that Apple Screen Time settings helped remedy?
We look forward to the good news and opportunities in 2022 for all our families and schools! Stay tuned in early January for all the new resources and programs coming to SmartSocial.com.
Please reply to this email if you have a question about one of our programs or an app. I read every email.
Thanks for your support and for helping us keep kids safe online!
- Josh Ochs, Founder of SmartSocial.com
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