Award-Winning FYI Film
Last year our friend and filmmaker Paul Sun created a short film that features what we hope you will find most true of us at FYI: leveraging research into resources that elevate leaders, kids, and families.
Archive October 14, 2010
Super Bowl Ads and Kids
My friend, Brian Raison from Ohio State, sent me the press release below by the Drug-Free Action Alliance about how teenagers responded to the Super Bowl…
Stunning Media Use for Kids
OK, I don’t consider myself naive when it comes to kids’ use of media. But even I was surprised by this study by the Kaiser Family Foundation about kids’ media use.
The Happiest Place to Text
Recently I spent a day at Disneyland with my family, riding rides and battling crowds at the “Happiest place on earth.”
Sexting and Exploitation
If you work with teenagers and you’ve followed the news over the past few months, the term “sexting” isn’t new to you.
Sexting is the sending of nude or nearly-nude images and/or sexually explicit messages via cell phone text/image messaging, …
Don’t Build a Site!
Note: FYI Advisory Council member Toben Heim joins us today as a guest blogger to share ideas from the marketing world that can help you rethink the ways you communicate with kids. Look for more guest blogs from Toben and …
Technology Matters Provocative Ideas About Media and Ministry from Shane Hipps
Have you ever stopped to think about whether using a cell phone, instant message service, email, or even a sound system impacts the message you communicate using those media? In this interview with author Shane Hipps, we are challenged to stop and think about the implications of every day technology that we may never have considered before.