 a little bit of time for people to join in and Tony Vincent and we're here at ISTI 2015 and we're going to start our interview with Sarah Bagley here very shortly well he's gonna wait a little bit after you start a there there we there we are we've got a microphone here at ISTI it's a little loud so hopefully you hear us okay well you we will we will certainly find out oh there's heart so hearts are good that means they they like what they see so far so online and on Twitter is known as the geeky girl and she's gonna tell us about herself and and her experiences and it's it's kind of unique and I think that you're going to be interested in what she has to say and her website is the geekygirl.net oh and some people are already familiar with your stuff so that's great okay there's 28 29 people watching so tell us about yourself how old are you and and tell us your story okay hi I'm Sarah I'm 17 years old I'm going into my senior year at Bishop McDevitt High School in Harrisburg Pennsylvania and the reason I got started into bullying and cyberbullying was I was cyberbullied three times before the age of 15 and two of them were two of them were actually my really close friends of mine they were practically my best friends and so it really hurt and I didn't want other students to go through that I also didn't want I wanted to educate the parents and teachers on ways that the kids can like come to them and they're aware of like the signs of it so I didn't want other people to feel what I went through so and can you describe that feeling what what was it like and what did you do about it it was kind of upsetting and lonely but my parents had gotten the first cyberbullying issue because they at the time I had sent like an email to someone and they were like oh you shouldn't have done that so they had my email like password so and it wasn't the email wasn't sent through me it was actually my brother who sent it from my account but they still took my email away and so they had gotten the email for the quiz and they had known that it was cyberbullying right away because of my dad being so big into technology and so they didn't let me see the quiz at first but I did eventually see it and the questions that were asked were really hurtful so I was very I became very upset I didn't want to go to school for the longest time and the school really didn't do anything they gave her a day of in school suspension and then she was back and so that caused me to switch schools and then like the second time it was over a stupid science project or something and my parent I had realized it was cyberbullying like coming from the previous cyberbullying experience and so I showed my mom right away because it happened on Facebook and then the final time it was on Twitter and the girl was saying mean and hurtful things about myself and my family and so I blocked her on all social media and like deleted blocked on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram so these are people that you knew from yes yeah so so you've had a really hurtful experience but now you're kind of on a mission so tell us what's what you're doing now I'm trying to make parents teachers and students aware of what their online presence is and how they can like prevent cyberbullying as well as how their digital footprint online can affect their life later down because there's people there are college recruits who have been denied scholarships and there are people who have been denied jobs because of their online presence wow so they're giving you heart when I interview people you can't see what what people are asking they say they say you rock there they they like your work leave it is 36 there anybody have questions and I'll start I guess I've had questions already but so if somebody's being bullied what what it's the first thing you would say they should do I trust an adult or a parent and don't be afraid to tell them even though you might think that it's like you're gonna be scared but tell someone because it's so much more helpful and you don't have to go through it alone you have videos on your website that people were mentioning to tell us about those oh I have like YouTube videos on like there was a I think digital storytelling had a contest one year of a cyberbullying video and I have that on I also have a link to different a movie on cyberbullying and I have a bunch of clips showing different cyberbullying videos the question is what what do you what advice do you do you give kids who are people who are afraid to be on social media because they're afraid of the cyberbullying I would say don't be afraid to be on social media use it for the good like my geeky girl and my personal account they're being used for the good and they're being used to like make my digital footprint something that I will be proud of and so they should be proud of that and making sure and like proud they should be proud to be online even if they have to deal with a cyberbullying they should still be like comfortable online yeah and then so there's a lot of parents watching what what can parents do to help their kids I can say what my parents do my mom has my Google has my Gmail hooked up to hers on her phone she also has my Facebook logged in on her phone but I guess that's such since we have such a good relationship but don't be afraid to like sit down and talk with your kids about the issue of cyberbullying because it's something that needs to be addressed and is only addressed sometimes only once a year in a computer class for 40 minutes or something so it needs to be something that's discussed at home and how you can like not how you can like not engage the bully and how you can just react calmly to it and not be so like I don't say like uptight but you don't want to add fire to fire that's what I'm trying to say and how you can like how students can just enjoy being on social media without having to worry so much about oh if I'm being bullied I have to get off social media now you can stay on social media you just have to make sure that they're blocked and if something like that happens the parents need to you guys the parents need to show that blocking someone is okay in this situation so then the questions asked you do you Skype or do like Google Hangouts with classes I can I mean I've gone to I've it depends on like the location like I can I've grown up to New Hampshire before and I can I can if you really want me to I can Skype into a classroom or I can do a Google Hangout with everyone because I'm I'm actually open to that kind of stuff so I can also travel that'd be fun I'm sorry there's a couple questions went by that I didn't get a chance to see so yeah so Megan Bird in Arizona said she'd love for your kids for her kids her class kids to meet you virtually and I I think I think that would be great so what other things should teachers know about cyber bullying oh goodness I have a whole presentation on this because they should just be aware of like the normal signs of cyber bullying which is like if you're using a computer in the classroom they should um if the student like switches tabs quickly or it's like scared to go on the computer is very hesitant asking why we have to do it online that's a clear sign that there is cyber bullying going on or like there's some issue online that's happening that's my big thing to teachers to see about cyber bullying that's that's really good advice and just in that just saying on the chatroom people are just really liking what you're saying and a picture together so and people take screenshots during pairs so we'll try to make it so they can drive me nuts that Periscope makes you do this vertical video because like if we did it sideways maybe they can take a screenshot and rotate it but that's not the way the app was designed smile all right anything else you want to say no unless I have more questions they say they they got it great they have your website and they know a little bit about you and it sounds like you've made some connections so thanks for sharing with us because this is super important topic it's one that can keep students from learning and from being happy and we want them to be the oven we want them to be learning learning and we want them to be happy so that's it for now from Isti 2015 I'll see you later