New prevention tools

I have been using the format live webinar at schools nationwide since 2013 and I am a big fan of this format because it has several advantages. On the one hand, I can present the content of my topics at many schools simultaneously: Cyberbullying, sexting, right to one’s own image, cyber grooming. From 2014 to 2019 I have held about 1,200 seminars and reached about 72,000 people and I personally could never have done that. Another advantage is that the format offers a certain anonymity for the audience and this is very advantageous for the pupils, because when I beam out of the room at the push of a button, they are alone with the teacher, class teacher, guidance counsellor or school social worker. And then they open up, then they talk about their own experiences, because the subjects I teach them are what they deal with in their free time day after day. Live webinars are also preferable to a YouTube video. I was told, why not put a video on YouTube? But the webinar changes every day. I can incorporate new judgements, new cases, new legal regulations on a daily basis, so the webinar has changed massively since 2013. Putting a video up on YouTube would be static and does not bring personal exchange. And finally also the time aspect: 200 webinars per year, that is pure consulting hours of 300 hours, 25 hours per month. If I would go to the schools personally, there would be many, many hours for travelling to and from the schools. There are also apps, applications like Love Storm for example, where you can report hate comments, that you can basically make it clearer how much hate there is on the Internet. This report alone is already a step in the right direction, to uncover it and to make it conscious and to look, how can we take action against it. Love Storm also offers online training on the topic of how to do something against hate comments.

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