Welcome! and www.bullying.org

[William Belsey]

Hello,

I would like to take a moment to introduce myself to the members of this
list. My name is William Belsey. I have been involved with with kids,
technology and community development for some time now.

If you would like a little more information about my background and the
projects I am currently involved with, I would invite you to visit my
personal Web site below.

If I may, I would like to share a project that my students have created that
I hope readers of this list might find helpful.

Sincerely,

Bill

<p>William Belsey

belsey at thenet-worker.com

www.TheNET-Worker.com

"Making Connections  to Make a Difference"
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www.bullying.org

In the spring of 1999, one week after two students went on a deadly rampage
at a high school in Colorado, a similar attack struck Taber, Alberta Canada.

A 14-year-old boy opened fire inside W.R. Myers High School. One student was
killed, another was wounded.

Within hours after the shooting, stories began to emerge of the relentless
bullying the accused had previously endured.

www.bullying.org is our response to these events. It is an
attempt to help young people help each other.

The students who have helped develop the project wanted to use the power of
the Internet to let their peers know that young people dealing with the
issues of bullying and teasing "Are NOT alone. That being bullied and teased
is NOT their fault and that they CAN do something about it!"

www.bullying.org is a project for kids by kids. Youth can contribute their
personal reflections, poems,  music, drawings, photographs, and even films.

If you are an adult working with kids, a school, a school board or other
organization that has already developed resources, programs and expertise
about the issues relating to bullying and teasing, please contact us so that
we may list this your information to let others know where they can go for
help or support on our "Help" page.

Please share this site with others whom you think will benefit from it.

The site is only just beginning, but we anticipate it growing VERY rapidly
as the issue is so universal, so pervasive and the needs are so great.

www.bullying.org is a project of IEARN-Canada ( www.iearn-canada.org ).

Thank you very much for your time and support of www.bullying.org

Sincerely,

William Belsey

Coordinator, I*EARN-Canada:

bill at iearn-canada.org

I*EARN-Canada: http://www.iearn-canada.org

"Youth Using Technology to Make a Difference"