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While everyone else in my family was stuffing themselves with turkey stateside, I was attending a public relations conference in Munich.  The topic was the role Web-based audio and video PR will play in the future. I didn’t learn anything new, but I did realize we are all on a path of no return. The World Wide Web, and all its technical wizardry, is here to stay.

I’m a wee bit of a technophobe. It’s not entirely true, but I tend to view gadgetry as an ersatz for truly living. So whenever someone approaches me with anything that can only be enjoyed with a plug or batteries, I falter and resist.

Life for our children looks a lot different than it did for us as we grew up. They have to learn how to deal with computers one way or the other.

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Enter Adina’s Deck, a Nancy Drew meets Ghostwriter teenage foursome who solve cyber-mysteries at school. Whether it’s online dating, plagarism or cyber-bullying, this series addresses some real-life issues like no other show I’ve seen.

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 (the others are pending financing). Even my son, who tends to grow impatient with ‘real-life’ programming, as opposed to cartoons, loved it. My daughter, who is taking a short three-hour course about how to use the Internet tomorrow, enjoyed the themes throughout the series, too. It makes her feel grown up to type on a keyboard, like her mom. She has grown so fond of my old laptop that I’ve promised to give it to her if she keeps up her grades this year.

Thankfully, we have insightful directors such as Debbie to lean on when our children’s minds seem filled with online chatter. A group of positive role models, the clan in Adina’s Deck fosters honesty, integrity, and the type of problem-solving lacking in most television programming today. Recommended for children ages 8 to 13, this award-winning series promises to help us parents unlock the mysteries of today’s tweens with a nice dose of ethics tossed in!

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Called “Adina’s Deck,” the stories revolve around the efforts of a group of middle schoolers, led by the tech-savvy Adina, to investigate their classmates’ online dilemmas. The name comes from the deck of cards members must pull from in order to discuss their problem. It’s also a reference to what Adina’s parents gave her after taking away her computer for getting kicked out of school for cyberbullying.

The first in the series, “Adina’s Deck: Solving Cyber Bullying Mysteries,” was released last year and dealt with the story of a popular but “stuck-up” girl who was being harassed online. The ensuing investigation revealed that the culprit was her supposed best friend.

Two new half-hour episodes dealing with online predators (“The Case of the Online Crush”) and the prevalence of cutting and pasting homework assignments from the Web (“The Case of the Plagiarized Paper”) make their Bay Area premiere Sunday at the Cerrito Speakeasy Theater in El Cerrito.

Shot in the Bay Area with a volunteer cast of local actors, “Adina’s Deck” is the brainchild of Debbie Heimowitz, who developed the series as part of her work on a master’s in education that she received last year from Stanford.

Before Heimowitz and writing partner Jason Azicri, who’s getting his master’s in family therapy at Santa Clara University, begin work on a new script, they research the topic. They say they often find that issues are misunderstood. For instance, for the online predator episode, they discovered that most men who target young women in chat rooms don’t lie about their age and are attractive.

“A lot of females think they won’t be hurt by someone who’s good looking,” Heimowitz says.

In the show, the investigation reveals that not only is the online predator exactly who he says he is, but he’s also carrying on an e-mail affair with another club member.

For the show on online plagiarism, Heimowitz said she strove to counteract the attitude she found among young people that copying essays and other material off the Internet is wrong only because you could get caught. “It’s not wrong because you can get in trouble. It’s wrong because you’re stealing someone else’s work.”

To illustrate this point, a character in the show actually gets away with plagiarizing from the Web, only to have her artwork stolen and turned in under someone else’s name.

2 p.m. Sun. Free. Cerrito Speakeasy Theater. 10070 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito. (510) 814-2400. www.adinasdeck.com

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Thanks to everyone who came out and auditioned on Day 1! We will be notifying our first group’s Callbacks no later than this Thursday.

Parents- we really appreciate those of you who drove or flew up to Walnut Creek. We were overwhelmed with your dedication and generosity! If you were from Santa Monica, Burbank, Nevada or Sacramento, I’m talking about you! :)

We can’t wait to meet the rest of you, auditioning for the first time on Sat. May 17th.

Already this is going to be challenging… with so  many talented people who came out already… we have had over 800 submissions so far & auditioned a total of 50 already.

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Amelia Varni, “Adina,” Kelcie Stranahan “Skye,” Cristina Delvalle “Haley” and Donald Lett II “The Counselor” made an appearance at the SF Film Festival at Wondercon along with directors Debbie and Jason. Nick Myggen from the camera department was there too. Here are some pictures from the event:
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Digital sticks and stones can’t break bones—but they can hurt even more. What educators can do to curb bullying in cyberspace.

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Ryan Halligan was bullied so relentlessly at school, he finally learned kickboxing to defend himself from the physical assaults. But when the attacks moved online, he had no way to fight back, and no refuge. Day and night, he received e-mails and instant messages from classmates ridiculing him and calling him a loser. When a pretty girl at school pretended to like him online but later revealed she was only joking, the taunting e-mails and instant messages increased, only with even more venom. A few weeks later, in October 2003, Ryan hanged himself in his family’s bathroom. He was 13 years old.

Now, Ryan’s father travels to schools around the country to share the events that led up to his son’s suicide and to warn educators and students about the dangers of cyberbullying. “Please don’t ever forget Ryan’s story,” he says, “or the fragility of adolescence.”

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