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Barracuda Web Filter: Welcome
This is a spyware removal tool that works at ECPPS only if you have an admin login.
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Friday Institute for Educational Innovation - FIZZ
Fizz - Safely! Broadcast Your Classroom. Online media and social networking sites are the new standard for communication and entertainment among our students.
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Fears of impostors increase on Facebook - CNN.com
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know who your friends are and keep your sensitive information private,
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primarily two ways to stay safe on Facebook
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The Brave New World of MySpace and Facebook -- Inside Higher Ed -- Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs
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Campus administrators should inform their students about the potential dangers
of using social networking Web sites — but they should be cautious not to do so
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(1) the threat of criminal behavior; (2) how they might be seen by potential
future employers; and (3) possible violations of their institution’s student
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How to Friend Mom, Dad, and the Boss on Facebook...Safely - NYTimes.com
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Friending mom
and dad, the
boss, or other
work colleagues opens up the details of your private life for the whole
world to see - and you might not be entirely comfortable with that. What's to be
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With lists, you can create groups of friends on Facebook, separating work from
family and close friends. It's simple to use, but it's definitely an
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MySpace Releases Names of 90,000 Sex Offenders - NYTimes.com
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Attorney General Roy Cooper of North Carolina are among officials pressing
social networking sites to adopt more stringent safety measures - 4 more annotations...
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Facebook post 'I feel like killin some1' proves true | Technically Incorrect - CNET News
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Nineteen-year-old Craig Ramsden left a simple message on his Facebook wall: "I'm
twisted at home. My head's up my ****. I feel like killin some1 need to stay off
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Although Ramsden's Facebook post was deleted some time after the stabbing of Mr.
Gilligan, police found it by examining a laptop used by a witness who had
visited Ramsden's Facebook page upon hearing about the stabbing.
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Sharing Selectively on Social Networking Sites - NYTimes.com
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35 percent of Internet users in the United States aged 18 or over now use an
online social network, according to a December survey by the Pew Internet
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our “friends” on social networking sites are actually a mix of people —
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Study: Teens on MySpace mention sex, violence - CNN.com
(CNN) -- A new study finds that 54 percent of teens talk about behaviors such as sex, alcohol use, and violence on the social networking giant MySpace -- presenting potential risks even if all they're doing is talking, researchers said Monday.
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"It's really not that MySpace is bad or good. I think the lesson is that it's a
tool, and how you use it determines the kinds of outcome you're going to get,"
Moreno said - 2 more annotations...
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Top News - Schools grapple with teachers' Facebook use
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"I believe that educators should keep a clear line separating educational
relationships from social relationships," he said. "As long as the use of the
tool is related to learning, education, or professional development, I don't see
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there needs to be a shared agreement between teachers and their students as soon
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Facebook, Inc. News - The New York Times
Facebook third-party applications
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60 million members
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In May 2007, Facebook unveiled an initiative called Facebook
Platform, inviting third-party software makers to create programs for the
service and to make money on advertising alongside them. The announcement
stimulated the creation of hundreds of new features
or "social applications" on Facebook , from games like Scrabble to new music
and photo sharing tools, which had the effect of further turbo-charging activity
on the site. - 1 more annotations...
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Gail Holloman Holmes / FrontPage
Gail is a DPI educator on loan...
Web 2.0 Tools are among the 21st century technology tools based on the idea of communication and collaboration. These tools include blogs, podcasting, widgets, interactive documents, wikis and other emerging tools. A good source of reading can be found at Scribd, an online community. A wiki, one of the more known tools, allows users to freely create and edit web page content using any web browser. This wiki will be used to share online tools that can be used in the classroom. The intent is to provide links to the tools, strategies for using them and samples that could be possibly used in the classroom. -
Is It Okay To Be A Technologically Illiterate Teacher?
The Fischbowl: This post won the Edublog Awards for most influential post of 2007.
