BBAB 239 : Idea Generator for Your YA Novel

Brain Burps About Books Podcast #239

Idea Generator for Your YA Novel

An Interview with Anne Collier

Announcements

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This week's guest is Anne Collier!

Editor of NetFamilyNews.org and founder and president of Net Family News, Inc., Anne is a writer and youth advocate who has worked in the news media since 1980. With SafeKids.com‘s Larry Magid, she co-founded and, until March 2015, co-directed ConnectSafely.org, a Web-based resource for parents, educators, and everybody interested in the impact of the fixed and mobile social Web on youth and vice versa.

Anne has served on three national task forces on youth and Internet safety, including as co-chair of the Obama administration’s Online Safety & Technology Working Group, which delivered its report to Congress, “Youth Safety on a Living Internet,” in June 2010, and the Harvard Berkman Center’s national Internet Safety Technical Task Force of 2008. Most recently she served on the Aspen Institute Task Force for Learning & the Internet of 2013-’14.

Ann and I talk about

• How Net Family News can help with ideas for your young adult novel.
• Kindness Wins by Galit Breen.
• What does sexting have to do with teen pregnancy?
• Casel.org.
• What constitutes cyberbullying?
• Why she founded www.icanhelpline.org.
• Follow I Can Help on Twitter: https://twitter.com/icanhelp
• Hot button issues.
• How the internet changed education.
• SEL – Social Emotional Learning.