Dramatic scenarios will help students to understand the positive and negative sides of this new technology. With the new technologies, students, using their cell phones, mobile email devices and handheld computers, can send and receive messages within seconds. Unfortunately, most kids don't know social and legal consequences of sending an inappropriate text or picture. This program explores the basic do's and don'ts of texting and sexting. After viewing this program, students will come to realize the importance of considering the long term and unintended consequences of hitting "send."

Originally released by Mazzarella Media, 2011. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on July 16, 2018.

Power of Texting (4:23); --Spreading Rumors (5:23); -- Things Change (6:02); -- Don't Give Up Control of Your Life (8:31); -- Wrap-Up (0:40); -- Credits: Play It Out: Texting and Sexting (Think Before You Hit Send) (0:55); .