by SWOVA Team | Mar 3, 2020 | From the Headlines
Technology use is now intertwined with our lives so much that we live in a culture where we are constantly being bombarded with messages from the media at an alarming rate. Our love of media is not a new one. According to the Halifax Insurance Digital Home Index,...
by SWOVA Team | Oct 6, 2020 | Respectful Relationships (R+R) Program, SWOVA News, Youth programs
“The Internet is an interruption system. It seizes our attention only to scramble it.” – Nicolas Carr This summer my co-facilitator, writer and good friend Christina Antonick, and I have been writing internet safety curricula for SWOVA and...
by SWOVA Team | Aug 19, 2020 | SWOVA News
I’ve been working this summer on some amazing internet safety curricula for SWOVA. It’s been yet another great opportunity to learn more about violence in our world, this time online. It’s truly been an eye opener, because of course, I am 37, and grew up in an...
by SWOVA Team | Jun 17, 2020 | Programs, SWOVA News, Youth programs
The days when etiquette encompassed topics such as who should open a door for who and how to set a table correctly, definitely predated the internet and social media. We live in a whole new world now where communication is instantaneous and anonymous. When we...