Lucky Kawekakea has gone on holiday for the next two weeks. He’s gone down to the South Island with 18princess and her family to meet some of his namesakes - the keas. He was very excited on Thursday afternoon to be going home in 18princess’s schoolbag. Check back soon for tales of his school holiday adventures!

We had a discussion about cyberbullying and how to stop it.  We came up with ideas of how we could help stop it: 

1. Stand up and say stop it - don’t keep quiet about it
2. Report it  - tell someone - a parent, a teacher, an adult you trust
3. Keep talking about it and spread the message
4. Just don’t do it 

We came up with half a dozen ways to that people use to bully people over the internet like: videos, pictures/images, voice recorder/audio or written word.   

After our two week holiday, we’re going to make a powerpoint presentation on Stop Cyberbullying.

One day in the middle of Napier a shrill cry ran out through the city, Kawekakea’s close friend Jenny had been kidnapped.

Kawekakea jumped on to his trusty steed Steve and rode off to save Jenny.

Kawekakea  found tracks which led to a cave.  He realised that evil Billy had kidnapped Jenny duh duh duh duh duh.

Kawekakea fought evil Billy.  The battle was fierce until he beat evil Billy with a final blow yaaaaaaaaaaaay!

After that they rode back to Napier on Kawkakea’s trusty steed Steve.

On Friday we had a big discussion on Cyberbullying because March 30th 2007 was officially Stop Cyberbullying Day.
We talked about cyberbullying and did some brainstorming about it. Here’s some of our discussion notes.
Our Scribe of The Week will post some more of the discussions later.

Why should we help stop Cyberbullying?

It’s doesn’t feel good to be on the receiving end of it.
It can have a depressing effect on some people.
It can make people feel afraid.
We’ll miss out on the good things on the Internet.
It’s just plain wrong!

Image from Scott McLeod