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This study highlights the potential of using comic-based digital storytelling as an instructional strategy for digital safety education. Guided by the multimodal literacy theory, the study employs character analysis and biterm topic modeling to identify prevalent themes within the curated Pixton comics of 20 students. The study revealed digital footprint, netiquette, and privacy as key themes in student's comics. Comic characters represented students' self-inserts and revealed expressions of their understanding of the topics. 

Digital safety involves protecting oneself, and one’s personal information to mitigate the risks that are inherently associated with using digital technologies. This study employed a multi-method design to explore 26 in-service and pre-service elementary teacher experiences from attending a professional development on digital safety and facilitating a digital safety immersion summer camp. Data was collected through pre- and post-test assessments, surveys, and interviews. Findings from knowledge assessments indicate no significant difference in pre- and post-test assessment. However, elementary teachers displayed high motivation, valuing the critical need for ongoing digital safety education and opportunities for collaboration and self-reflection from the survey and interviews. Teacher challenges included teaching students from different backgrounds with varied expectations and engaging the learners. This study provides recommendations for teacher professional development and has implications for designing teacher professional development on digital safety and for administrators to offer support on digital safety topics amidst the challenges the teachers discussed.