Media, Technology, Digital Privacy & Safety Resources:

I've highlighted over 60 of the most powerful resources for school counselors and all school stakeholders to consider using in School Counseling Programs including School Counseling Program websites to teach ethical use of technology, media literacy, the importance of freedom of the press and privacy, and keeping school stakeholders well-informed and their data private:

• #Citizenfour Hashtag for the movie Citizenfour--Laura Poitras's award-winning documentary film of the days in Hong Kong in 2013 where Edward Snowden gave the information about NSA illegal surveillance to her and journalist Glenn Greenwald and ongoing organizing against illegal goverment and corporate surveillance activities worldwide; CitizenFour was how Snowden originally identified when he first contacted Poitras as an employee of an NSA contractor www.citizenfourfilm.com
• #DontBreakOurPhones: Hashtag for ensuring government does not put backdoors on smartphones or force Apple or other companies to break encryption to safeguard digital privacy
• #JeSuisCharlie Hashtag in solidarity with the shooting attack on 1/7/15 in Paris, France against Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine staff and police killing at least 12. In the words of author Salmon Rushdie, "I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity."
• #NetNeutrality Hashtag for organizing to  keep the Internet free and democratic without a corporate takeover putting up a paywall or allowing those with greater economic resources easier and faster access
• #scchat: Hashtag for ongoing professional school counselor chat on Twitter moderated by Dr. Erin Mason
  
• #Surveillance Hashtag for organizing to challenge illegal use of spying against civilians in te USA or abroad as well as illegal use of cameras by police and the military and other forms of recording being used by the FBI, CIA, NSA in the USA and other governments around the world
• 65 Things We Know About NSA Surveillance We Didn't Know a Year Ago: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/65-65-things-we-know-about-nsa-surveillance-we-didnt-know-year-ago
• 1971 "Before Watergate, Wikileaks, and Edward Snowden there was Media, Pennsylvania" www.1971film.com
• AAPI Voices: Digital articles, data, and information empoweringAsian Pacific Islander American voices: http://aapivoices.com
• Adblock Plus: Internet surfing without the advertisements or data-tracking www.adblock.org
• Adbusters: A global network of culture jammers and creatives working to change the way information flows, the ways corporations wield power, and the way meaning is produced in our society (and the originators of Occupy Wall Street) https://www.adbusters.org/
• The Admission Game College Planning Blog https://www.theadmissiongame.com/blog/
• Admitted: National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) blog https://www.nacacnet.org/learning/communities/admitted/default.aspx
• Amazon is good for customers but is it good for books? (New Yorker article by George Packer): http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/02/17/140217fa_fact_packer?currentPage=all
• American Library Association (ALA): Ensuring access to information for everyone www.ala.org
• Antiwar.com: Blog for antiwar news, commentary, activism www.antiwar.com
• ARIS Parent Link: NYC's DOE Achievement Reporting and Innovation System: Educators Using data to close achievement gaps (vimeo explanation) https://vimeo.com/17932153
• Asia Pacific Forum: Progressive pan-Asian radio hour & on the web www.asiapacificforum.org...
• Avaaz: A global web movement organizing citizens to close the gap between the world we have and the world most citizens want ( العربية  Deutsch русский Français Español Português 한국어 简体中文 繁體中文 日本語 Nederlands Italiano עברית) www.avaaz.org
• Banned Books Week: National celebration of the freedom to read and challenging censorship. Over 11,000 books have been challenged since 1982 www.bannedbooksweek.org
• The Becoming Radical Blog: A place for the pedagogy of kindness (public and scholarly writing of Dr. P. L. Thomas challenging corporatization of education and systemic classism and racism) http://radicalscholarship.wordpress.com/
• Big Noise Films: Investigation, analysis, & video/film on progressive world issues www.bignoisefilms.com  
• Books that Heal Kids Blog: An elementary school counselors' bibliotherapy blog www.booksthathealkids.blogspot.com
• Brave New Films: Progressive film/media www.bravenewfilms.org
• Building Blocks interactive Media Conversation/Video with LGBTQ families https://lgbtqinteract.wordpress.com/
• Bullying in Schools Infographic https://kidsbridgemuseum.com/2012/04/27/school-bullying-infographic/
• Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood www.commercialexploitation.com
• Caring Bridge: Using love, hope, and compassion to makes health journeys easier with free patient websites www.caringbridge.org
• Center for Digital Democracy www.democraticmedia.org
• Center for Media and Democracy: Non-profit investigative reporting group focused on exposing corporate spin and government propaganda. They also publish PRWatch, SourceWatch, BanksterUSA, and ALECExposed.org www.prwatch.org/cmd
• The Center for Media Justice: Communities historically marginalized from democracy defending rights to fair media access and accurate representation advancing strategic stories to transform the public narrative around race, class, and power using media justice frameworks www.centerformediajustice.org
• Center for Media Literacy: Helping citizens, especially the young, develop critical thinking and media production skills www.medialit.org...
• Children, Teens, and Reading Infographic (Common Sense Media): Showing a sharp decline in USA adolescent reading and continued stagnation in reading scores and achievement gap) https://www.commonsensemedia.org/children-teens-and-reading-infographic
• Citizenfour Laura Poitras's award-winning documentary film of the days in Hong Kong in 2013 where Edward Snowden gave the information about NSA illegal surveillance to her and journalist Glenn Greenwald; CitizenFour was how Snowden originally identified when he first contacted Poitras as an employee of an NSA contractor www.citizenfourfilm.com
• Classrooms, Counseling, and Collaborations in School Blog: https://counselingcollaborations.blogspot.com/?goback=.gde_121084_member_249217689
• CloudFare: Protects and accelerates online websites with fast load times; provides free website security encryption including SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) to ensure encryption between  servers, browsers,  the website, and data on one's website as well as protection agains bots, malware, web crawlers, and other threats https://www.cloudflare.com/overview
• Codeacademy: Learn how to code interactively (computer science) for free any age any time anywhere www.codeacademy.com
• College App Map: 20 new free or low-cost college apps designed to help K-16 students navigate their way into and through college as part of the College Knowledge challenge http://collegeappmap.org/applist.html
• College Bound Blog: Higher education access issues https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/college_bound/
• The College Solution Blog: Lynn O'Shaughnessy's college affordability & admissions tips site www.thecollegesolution.com/tag/college-blog
• Coming Out Twice: The dynamic youtube science duo at Asap Thought come out as gay and challenge heterosexism and sexism in science as young educator role models https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWOUI2cu-64#t=203
• Commercial Alert www.commercialalert.org
• Committee to Protect Journalists: Defending journalists worldwide www.cpj.org
• Common Sense Media: Family media and technology information and free K-12 school curricula/lessons on digital media skills including safety, critical thinking, and making wise media and technology decisions www.commonsensemedia.org
• Communications Consortium Media Center: Public interest media resources for effective media relations for nonprofits www.ccmc.org
• Computer Clubhouse: Building after-school technology youth competencies in under-resourced communities in 20 countries www.computerclubhouse.org
• Computers for Youth: CFY's Take IT Home program improves children’s learning environment at home and to strengthen the school-home connection www.cfy.org
• Confide: Free end-to-end encrypted off-the-record mobile messaging with screen-shot prevention https://getconfide.com/faq
• Connect Safely: Smart socializing starts here (social media safety tips for youth) www.connectsafely.org/
• CostofLearning.com: A blog, information source, and universal net price calculator to compute the actual cost of college across all schools www.costoflearning.com
• The Counseling Geek School Counseling Blog for Techies: www.thecounselinggeek.com
• Counselors' Corner Blog: Views and opinions from school counselors about the counseling profession www.hscw-counselorscorner.blogspot.com
  
• CrossRef.org: CrossRef is a collaborative reference linking service that functions as a digital switchboard. It effects linkages through CrossRef Digital Object Identifiers (CrossRef DOI) tagged to article metadata supplied by publishers. It is a linking system where a researcher can click on a reference citation in a journal and access the article. www.crossref.org
• https://www.cryptoparty.in
• Cyberbully Hotline: Enabling students to report issues of violence and other school concerns (via text or call) to administrators anonymously and without fear of retaliation through school-based hotlines  www.cyberhotline.com
• Democracy Now! (English/ Español)  www.democracynow.org
• Digital Learning Environments: Tools and technologies for effective classrooms.  DLE demonstrates how the technologies available in a digital learning environment empower teaching and learning https://www.guide2digitallearning.com/
• Digital Literacy & Citizenship Classroom Curriculum (K-12): Free and customizable, downloadable lessons on all topics digital to keep students well-informed and safe using multiple devices in the digital world in eight domains: internet safety, privacy & security, realtionships & communication, cyberbullying, digital footprint & reputation, self-image & identity, information literacy, and creative credit & copyright  https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/curriculum ; scope and sequence: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/scope-and-sequence
• Digital Tools to Keep Your Work Safe (Mike Tigas, Pro Publica) https://cdn.tig.as/files/20140823/20140823-ona.pdf
• Dipity: free digital timeline website organizing web content by date and time. Users create, share, embed, and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines integrating video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location, and timestamps www.dipity.com
• Drugs.com: independent medicine information website for drug and related health information for consumers and healthcare professionals including: how medicines work: their uses, side effects and potential to interact with other medicines (includes both an online pill identifier and a drug  interactions checker) https://www.drugs.com
• Duck Duck Go: Search engine that protects privacy and doesn't keep track of searches or sell data https://duckduckgo.com/about
• Edudemic:  Giving everyone access to the leading edge of thinking in the most accessible, consumable, compelling way possible www.edudemic.com/
• Education Week: raising the level of understanding and discourse on critical issues in American education www.edweek.org
• Electronic Frontier Foundation: Civil rights group defending rights in the digital world www.eff.org...
• Electronic Privacy Information Center: A public interest research center focusing public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, open government, free speech, and other topics www.epic.org
• Elementary School Counseling Blog & Website www.elementaryschoolcounseling.org
• Elementary School Counselors of Oceanside, CA Video
  https://www.youtube.com/edit?ns=1&video_id=HplRzoP47Ag
• Encrypt the Web Report: Who's Doing What? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/encrypt-web-report-whos-doing-what
• Encryption Software: for Data (Document, Cloud, Email, Mobile) using PGP Technology https://www.symantec.com/products-solutions/families/?fid=encryption
• Encryption Works: How to Protect Your Privacy in the Age of NSA Surveillance https://freedom.press/encryption-works
• EZAnalyze and Time Tracker--Data Tools for Educators: EZAnalyze provides free, Excel-based tools designed to enhance the data-driven work educators engage in. While Professional School Counselors are the target audience for EZAnalyze products, professionals and students in other disciplines also find these tools useful www.ezanalyze.com
• Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting www.fair.org
• FED UP: "Everything we’ve been told about food and exercise for the past 30 years is dead wrong. FED UP is the film the food industry doesn’t want you to see." www.fedupmovie.com
• Fight for the Future: Protecting and expanding the Internet's transformative power with civic campaigns engaging millions of people. Challenging attempts to limit basic rights and freedoms, and empowering people to demand technology (and policy) that serves their interests www.fightforthefuture.org
• Films For Action: Community-powered alternative news center and film learning library raising awareness of social, environmental, and media-related issues not covered by mainstream news by providing essential information for a just, sustainable, and democratic society www.filmsforaction.org
• First Look Media: A new media venture to support investigative reporting and challenge corporate media and the governments and corporatiions that get away with lack of scrutiny https://omidyargroup.com/firstlookmedia/pierre-omidyar-provides-initial-funding-of-50m-to-establish-first-look-media/
• Free Press: ReformMedia. Transform Democracy.www.freepress.net
• Free Snowden: In defense of Edward Snowden (Journalistic Source Protection Defense Fund) https://freesnowden.is/surveillance-programs/index.html
• Free Speech TV www.freespeech.org
• From the Counselor's Office Blog: Thoughts, ideas, and resources on issues pertaining to school counseling www.counselorsoffice.blogspot.com
• Future of School Counseling (SCOPE youtube video):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc1DHBh7lHw&feature=share
• Ghostery: Free internet website viewing privacy tool to see what companies/entities are watching your searches and stop/report unwanted data trackers using an add-on to Chrome and Firefox browsers www.ghostery.com
• Glen Greenwald, J.D., https://firstlook.org/theintercept/dispatches/
• Global Revolution: The whole world is watching: independent media livestreaming and blogging about Occupy Wall Street www.globalrevolution.tv
• GMO OMG: Documentary film that asks, "What's on your plate?" and challenges the dangers of GMOs and other pesticides used by corporate farming in the food supply www.gmofilm.com
• Google Drive: Free file storage and synchronization for shared authorship of documents/files https://drive.google.com/
• Google Websites/Wikis: Free website and wiki development with user-friendly calendars, translator button, countdown/reminder "timers" https://sites.google.com/?pli=1
• GothamSchools: Independent blog news and analysis about NYC public schools www.gothamschools.org
• Great Websites for Kids (animals, the arts, history & biography, literature & languages, mathematics & computers, reference desk, sciences, social sciences) https://gws.ala.org/
• Greg Palast: Investigative journalism and film www.gregpalast.com
• Groundspark: Igniting change through film (challenging familyism, genderism, heterosexism) www.groundspark.org
• The Guardian (independent international media) (UK): https://www.guardian.co.uk/world
• GuardingKids.com: Responsible use of technology and stopping cyberbullying resources https://www.guardingkids.com
• How to Combat Online Surveillance: https://theoccupiedtimes.org/?p=12362
• HTTPS Everywhere: Free Extension for Firefox and Chrome Browsers to encrypt communications with many major websites increasing secure internet browsing https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
• Hushmail: Free encrypted email for privacy on the net www.hushmail.com
• ID Gaming, Programming, Tech, & Visual Arts Academies: Gaming design, photography and film-making, technology, and programming  summer camps for high school students www.internaldrive.com/film/
• "I forgot my phone" Youtube video: questioning the overuse of smartphones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OINa46HeWg8
• I'm Here. I'm Queer. What the Hell Do I Read? Blog: www.leewind.org
• Independent Media Center www.indymedia.org
• IndieBound.org: Supporting independent booksellers because it's better for the local economy, local community, and the environment https://www.indiebound.org
• Indies First: 1,000+ authors working at independent bookstores to encourage buying books at independent bookstores nationwide https://www.facebook.com/indiesfirst
• Indykids!: A free paper for free kids (4th-8th grade reporting on social justice issues and media without corporate influence); video: https://vialogues.com/vialogues/play/12173 ; https://www.indykids.org
• Inside Schools: Independent blog guide to NYC public schools (elementary, middle, high school, registration, gifted & talented, special education, bilingual, free academic and college preparation resources, and specialized high school prep programs and testing, deadlines, and reviews of high schools) www.insideschools.org
  
• Instagram: Free picture and video editing and sharing www.instagram.com
• The Intercept: Online newsmagazine devoted to advocacy journalism on freedom of the press and challenging illegal government and corporate surveillance started by journalists Glen Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Laura Poitras and funded by billionaire philanthropoist Pierre Omidyar from First Look Media https://firstlook.org/theintercept
• International Day to End Impunity: Every day around the world artists, journalists, musicians, writers and free expression advocates are being silenced, often with no investigation or consequences to their perpetrators. The International Day to End Impunity achieves justice for those persecuted for exercising their right to freedom of expression www.daytoendimpunity.org
• International Society for Technology Education (ISTE) www.iste.org
• Jeremy Scahill's blog: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/staff/jeremy-scahill/
• Jitsi: Free encrypted video calls, messaging, and document-sharing to protect privacy www.jitsiproject.org
• JYJ Counselor Blog: Elementary school counselor focused on technology and fun in school counseling programs https://jyjoynercounselor.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html
• Kahoot: Free game-based social learning interactive quiz platform for all platforms and all ages and all subjects https://getkahoot.com/how-it-works To join a Kahoot learning game/quiz enter code & create user name here: https://kahoot.it
• The Kids Right To Read Project: Challenging censorship and promoting freedom of reading https://www.ncac.org/Kids-Right-to-Read
• Language Learning Speaking and Reading Fluency Difficulty for English Speakers (Infographic) http://dailyinfographic.com/what-are-the-hardest-languages-to-learn-infographic
• Leading Success: Online toolkit for educators leading and collaborating for equitable K-12 student academic, career, and college access success (College Board) www.leadingsuccess.org
• Let's Encrypt: Free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA), run for the public’s benefit provided by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) https://letsencrypt.org/about/
• Little Miss Geek: Inspiring girls to be tech pioneers www.littlemissgeek.org
• McTucky Fried High School: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) teen/tween web series tackling gender identity, coming out, bullying www.mctuckyfriedhigh.com
• Media Education Foundation: Producing/distributing documentary films to inspire critical reflection on social, political, cultural impact of USA media www.mediaed.org...
• Media Family Use Plan: American Academy of Pediatrics evidence-based planning guidelines for healthy media use by children, teens, and families https://www.healthychildren.org/English/family-life/Media/Pages/How-to-Make-a-Family-Media-Use-Plan.aspx
• Media Matters: Web-based progresssive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the USA news media www.mediamatters.org/
• MissRepresentation.org:  Social action campaign and media organization to  inspire individual and community action, and ultimately transform culture so everyone, regardless of gender, can fulfill their potential https://missrepresentation.org
• Netsmartz Workshop: Interactive online safety for children and teens ages 5-17, parents and guardians, educators, and law enforcement using videos, games, activity cards, and presentations with companion websites for children (NetSmartzKids.org) and teens(NSTeens.org) www.netsmartz.org
• New Media Literacies: The New Media Literacies constitute the core cultural competencies and social skills that young people need in our new media landscape. If these New Media Literacies are learned they form the building blocks for students' participation in new media: Play, Performance, Simulation, Appropriation, Multitasking, Distributed Cognition, Collective Intelligence, Judgment, Transmedia Navigation, Networking, Negotiation,  and Visualization www.newmedialiteracies.org/
• NOH8 Campaign: Promoting marriage, gender, and human equality through education, advocacy, social media, and visual protest www.noh8campaign.com
• NSA and Surveillance Made Simple Video Animation https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/nov/26/nsa-gchq-surveillance-made-simple-video-animation
• NSA Files Decoded: What the revelations mean to you: https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/snowden-nsa-files-surveillance-revelations-decoded#section/1
• Open WhisperSystems: a large community of Open Source contributors and a small team of dedicated developers advancing free state-of-the-art secure easy to use communication tools. Apps include: Signal for ios instant-messaging and voice calls, and for android TextSecure, Redphone for voice calls, and Flock for syncing calenders and contacts on android devices https://whispersystems.org/
• Pikesville High School Counseling Deparment (Baltimore, MD) Website/Blog https://pikesvillehscounseling.blogspot.com/p/aboutcontact.html
• Pinterest: Online bulletin board to share what you love www.pinterest.com
• Prezi: Zooming presentations editor (free cloud-based computing private presentation media for students and educators in educational institutions) www.prezi.com
• Project Censored: Teaching students and the public about the role of a free press in a free society--and to tell the News That Didn't Make the News and Why www.projectcensored.org/
• Project Unbreakable: Increasing awareness of issues surrounding sexual assault, child abuse, and domestic violence, and encouraging healing through art. Originally featured photos of sexual assault survivors of all genders holding posters with quotes from their attackers and expanded to include photos from survivors of child abuse and domestic violence  featuring 4,000+ photographs worldwide. www.project-unbreakable.org
• ProPublica: Investigative journalism in the public interest exposing abuses of power and betrayals of public trust www.propublica.org
• Remind: Free text/email messaging future reminders for educators to students and parents that keeps everyone's phone numbers/email private https://www.remind.com
• Restore the Fourth: Working to support the US constitution's 4th amendment right to unfair search, seizure (and surveillance) www.restorethefourth.net
• RootsAction: Online activism initiative committed to economic fairness, equal rights, civil liberties, environmental protection, and defunding war www.rootsaction.org
• The Savvy School Counselor Blog www.savvyschoolcounselor.org
• SchoolBook: Blog on NYC school news, data, conversation sponsored by WNYC & NYT www.schoolbook.org
• School Counseling by Heart Blog: Inspiration, insight, techniques, and humor by a school counselor for school counselors https://schoolcounselingbyheart.wordpress.com
• SchoolCounselor Blog: Sharing innovative ideas, lessons, & quality resources (Danielle Schultz) https://www.schcounselor.com/
• School Counselor Central and Blog: Resources for school counselors to close achievement and opportunity gaps including a graduation tracker, personalized learning plan, multiple mangement and accountability tools, and a blog with reguarly updated SCCC lessons https://schoolcounselorcentral.blogspot.com and https://schoolcounselorcentral.com
• Science Daily: Internet-based digest of latest research in science www.sciencedaily.com
• SCOPE: Resources to help school counselors use technology productively and creatively hosted by Dr. Erin Mason https://scope4scs.org/
• Scratch: Youth creating interactive stories, games, animations, and learing how to code www.scratch.mit.edu
• Secure Messaging Scorcard (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2014): Which apps and tools actually keep your messages safe based on seven criteria: Encrypted in transit?, Encrypted so provider can't read it?, Are past communications secure if your keys are stolen? Is the code open to independent review? Is security design properly documenrted? Has there been a recent code audit? Note that the scorecard is constantly updated and a tool to encourage more companies to make their tools as secure as possible when using encryption due to widespreak internent and phone surveillance: https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard
• Sharif Abdel Kouddous: Egyptian American independent reporter, Democracy Now! correspondent, The Nation columnist https://www.thenation.com/authors/sharif-abdel-kouddous#axzz2YX5u5IhZ
• SignalVine.com: Text messaging platform enabling counselors (and other staff) to easily communicate with thousands of students to maximize student responsiveness/engagement to expand staff reach, allow more personalized and real-time digital communication with students than email, and enable counselors/staff to more quickly identify who needs their help the most www.signalvine.com
• SignUp Genius: Free electronic sign-up program eliminates paper and allows internet-based access and management www.signupgenius.com
• Smore: Create free stunning flyers instantly www.smore.com
• Snapchat Guide for Parents: How to help teens stay safe using Snapchat images in messaging, avoid sexting, report inappropriate images, and cancel teen accounts: https://www.snapchat.com/static_files/parents.pdf
• SPARK Movement: Girl-fueled activist movement ending commodified sexualization of women and girls in media www.sparksummit.com
• Spideroak: Private, secure file storage, syncing, and sharing (versus Dropbox or Google drive, which are easily surveilled due to lack of privacy controls) https://spideroak.com
• Snapchat Guide for Parents: How to help teens stay safe using Snapchat images in messaging, avoid sexting, report inappropriate images, and cancel teen accounts: https://www.snapchat.com/static_files/parents.pdf
• Stop Watching Us: Revelations about the USA's National Security Agency's surveillance apparatus represent a stunning abuse of our rights. We demand the US Congress reveal the full extent of NSA's spying programs www.stopwatching.us
• Storybirds: Short art-inspired stories made for free and shared on any digital device www.storybirds.com
  
• Strikingly: Free mobile-friendly 1-page websites https://www.strikingly.com/
• SusanOhanian.org: Educator blog challenging corporate education reform in K-12 schools with evidence, research, and advocacy www.susanohanian.org
• Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-Out (TACO): Software add-on that stops secret corporate tracking of web-browsing https://targeted-advertising-cookie-opt-out-taco.en.softonic.com/
• Teach-nology: Providing free services designed to support educators' in effectively incorporating technology in teaching and learning. www.teach-nology.com
• That's Not Cool: Ending digital dating abuse/relational violence www.thatsnotcool.com
• TinyURL.com: Free webpage to shorten long URLs using redirection and new permanent links https://tinyurl.com
• Tor: A network of virtual tunnels that allow people in groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet  www.torproject.org
• Truthout: Investigative reporting and critical analysis revealing systemic injustice www.truthout.org
• TSCCAIN.org: Transforming School Counseling/College Access Interest Network website featuring audio recordings and other resources from the monthly teleconference meetings of the school counseling interest network of ACES, the Association of Counselor Education and Supervision hosted by Dr. Sean Finnerty https://tsccain.org
• Tumblr: Free blogs with photo/video uploads https://www.tumblr.com
• Twitter: Free real-time information network filled with bursts of 140-character information called tweets that can include photo and video uploads https://twitter.com
• Upside Down World: Covering activism and politics in Latin America www.upsidedownworld.org...
• Vimeo: A respectful community of creative people who are passionate about sharing the videos they make--providing free tools for making high-quality videos on the web www.vimeo.com
• Vine: Mobile app to create free uploadable 6-second looping videos https://vine.co
• Voki: Free for users to create speaking avatars  on the web using their own voice using a customized talking character as an effective learning tool (includes text-to-speech in 25 languages) www.voki.com  
• Waging Nonviolence: Original news and analysis about worldwide struggles for peace and justice www.wagingnonviolence.org
• What Kids Can Do: Supporting adolescent learning in and out of school. Using digital, print, and broadcast media showing the power of what young people can accomplish when given the opportunities and supports they need and what they can contribute when their voices and ideas are taken seriously especially youth marginalized by poverty, race, and language, ages 12 to 22.  www.whatkidscando.org...
• "Why Privacy Matters" TED Talk by Glenn Greenwald, J.D., 2014 http://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matters
• Wikileaks www.wikileaks.info...
• Wired Safety: Internet safety, help, and education https://www.wiredsafety.org...
• Women, Action, & the Media: Advocating gender equity in media access, representation, employment, and ownership and a world where a just media is essential to a just society www.womenactionmedia.org
• Wordle: Generate free "word clouds" from text  the user provides to give greater prominence to words appearing more frequently in source text with different fonts, layouts, and colors individually or shared in the Wordle gallery www.wordle.net
• The Young People's Project--Math Literacy and Social Change: Develops students aged 8-22 from traditionally marginalized populations as learners, teachers, leaders, and organizers through math and media literacy, community-building, and advocacy  https://www.typp.org/
• Youth and Gender Media Project: Films and social change for and about gender noncomforming youth www.youthandgendermediaproject.org/
• Youtube.edu: Educational videos www.youtube.com/education
• Z Communications (Z Magazine, Digital publications, books) www.zcommunications.org
• Zeemee: Free video/digital portfolio platform for high school and college students to share their stories and work/artifacts with admissions officers and employers https://www.zeemee.com/