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Facebook, Cell Phones, & iPods: Updating The K-12 Student Handbook

Thu Jun 18 16:00:37 +0000 2009

Today's students live in an incredibly high tech world- from cell phones to Facebook to YouTube to iPods- K-12 schools are faced with a multitude of new challenges that must be addressed in your student handbook. How can you restructure your student handbook to include the potential issues that may arise as a result of students' increased use of these technologies? Join us for a live, 60-minute audio conference where you and your colleagues will learn: * Keys to Drafting K-12 Handbook Policies for Today's Students * Online Use Policies: Facebook, MySpace & Online Communities * Crafting Guidelines & Policies for Cell Phone & iPod Use at School * Protecting Your School from Liability: What You Need to Know * Cyberbullying & Technology Misconduct: What Educators Must Know

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Put to the Test: Saywire

Tue Jun 16 22:53:58 +0000 2009

Saywire is a safe, social learning community that provides access to a single network where teachers, staff, and students can reside and work together. There is no public access. Saywire provides teachers with a platform in which they can safely communicate and collaborate in their traditional and virtual classrooms.

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10 Most Dangerous Things Users Do Online, The Staff of Dark Reading

Tue Jun 16 19:37:52 +0000 2009

Security pros cringe as their users download software for personal use, turn off firewalls to speed up a connection, or leave their passwords stuck to their laptops. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could give end users a list of the most dangerous things they do online every day, and then tell them why those activities are particularly risky? The following is our list of "The Ten Most Dangerous Things Users Do Online," along with some explanation of the risks — and solutions — associated with each.

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Internet Safety Month Promoted by InfoSource Learning

Tue Jun 16 19:26:59 +0000 2009

InfoSource Learning, through their website www.SimpleK12.com, shares a collection of links to resources for teachers, teens, and parents during June 2009 – Internet Safety Month.

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Survey: Family time eroding as Internet use soars by AP: Yahoo! Tech

Tue Jun 16 19:23:26 +0000 2009

The decline in family time coincides with a rise in Internet use and the popularity of social networks, though a new study stopped just short of assigning blame. The Annenberg Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California is reporting this week that 28 percent of Americans it interviewed last year said they have been spending less time with members of their households. That's nearly triple the 11 percent who said that in 2006. These people did not report spending less time with their friends, however.

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Lawsuits Test Free Speech in Internet Era

Thu Jun 11 23:20:52 +0000 2009

A federal appeals court in Philadelphia must decide whether a Pennsylvania middle school can suspend a student who, at home on her own time, created a lewd MySpace page aimed at her principal.

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Microsoft_TeachTec (TeachTec) on Twitter

Thu Jun 11 17:07:28 +0000 2009

#NECC09 Twitter Treasure Hunt- Mission #3: Name a Microsoft/HP workshop at NECC. Clue: http://bit.ly/dbru6.

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Japan tests cell phones to stop pandemics (eSchool News, June 9, 2009)

Thu Jun 11 16:52:30 +0000 2009

An experiment in using technology to help stop the spread of pandemics is about to begin in Japan, and its results could have implications for U.S. schools as well.

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iPhones invade college campuses, but will they replace the student ID? (CR80News)

Thu Jun 11 16:47:31 +0000 2009

The challenge for many college administrators today is how can they put cell phones to work for both students and the college. In Palo Alto, Calif., home of Stanford University, developers of an iPhone application called iStanford 2.0 hopes one day to see the iPhone replace the campus ID card. The entrepreneurial Stanford students have already produced a suite of iPhone applications that access the university’s course catalog, campus map and other resources. The application suite was rolled out in October and has already garnered national attention, including winning the $10,000 grand prize for AT&T’s “Big Mobile on Campus” contest for best smart phone application. One of the student members of the firm said he hopes to see the iPhone replace student identification cards in the future.

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Campus Officers Cruise Facebook and MySpace for Clues to School-Related Crimes - washingtonpost.com (April 6, 2009)

Mon Apr 06 19:38:43 +0000 2009

As high school students flock to social networking sites, campus police are scanning their Facebook and MySpace pages for tips to help break up fights, monitor gangs and thwart crime in what amounts to a new cyberbeat.

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Measuring 21st-century skills Articles - On the way: Nation's first tech-literacy exam

Thu Apr 02 17:25:12 +0000 2009

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For the first time ever, technological literacy will become part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation's Report Card, the test's governing board has announced.

Students post schoolyard-brawl videos online (eSchool News, March 19, 2009)

Tue Mar 24 19:02:16 +0000 2009

School officials and cyberspace watchdogs are worried that the videos encourage more violence and sharpen the humiliation of defeat for the losers.

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Teachers Get MySpace, Google and CNET Training - NYTimes.com

Mon Mar 09 18:34:15 +0000 2009

Teachers to meet Tuesday (3/3/09) with representatives from Google, MySpace, CNET, YouTube and Technorati for training on how to bring blogging, podcasting, online video and social networking into their classrooms.

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U Michigan Brings K-12 Educational Software to Cell Phones : February 2009 : THE Journal

Mon Feb 23 19:01:08 +0000 2009

Engineers at the University of Michigan have developed software aimed at turning cell phones into educational tools for K-12 students.

Tags: cell phones 21st century learning

Free lessons offer cyber-bullying prevention

Wed Feb 11 18:48:39 +0000 2009

CyberSmart! Education has released a free, research-based cyber bullying curriculum for K-12 schools.

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Advertising - Teaching Teenagers About Harassment - NYTimes.com

Mon Feb 02 20:33:02 +0000 2009

A New Ad Warns About Abusive Texting A new public service ad highlights the growing problems of "textual abuse," where harassment of children occurs by way of text messages.

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About 20 percent of teenagers have posted or sent nude cellphone pictures of themselves, according to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, a nonprofit group.
digital dating violence.
The behaviors can be a warning sign that a teenager may become a perpetrator or a victim of domestic violence, according to the group.
teenagers frequently received digital threats or upsetting requests from people they were dating. But the teenagers were not talking about it, did not know how to handle it and did not know what was appropriate and what was not.
“It was abuse that there was no protocol around,” Mr. Law said. The parents were not aware of the interactions, and the teenagers did not know how to prevent it, he said.
The campaign and its Web site, ThatsNotCool.com, encourage teenagers to set their own boundaries. It is intended to appeal to all teenagers, not just those with serious problems.
“The kids don’t want to be told what’s right and what’s wrong,” Mr. Law said.
On the site, teenagers can send one of 35 “callout cards” — brightly colored messages they can send by e-mail, post to their Facebook or MySpace accounts or download — that are meant to tell someone they have crossed a line.
The messages are sharp. For example: “Congrats! With that last text, you’ve achieved stalker status.”
The site offers an area where teenagers can seek advice, like how to stop a boyfriend from nonstop text-messaging. For more direct advice, the site tells teenagers to call or conduct a live chat with trained volunteers.
The campaign is digitally focused, reflecting the way teenagers communicate. Even the posters that will appear in schools, which display some of the “callout card” messages, ask viewers to snap a photo with their cellphone and text-message it to someone.
All of the communications are aimed at teenagers, not parents. Ms. Soler said the fund was working on a campaign to alert parents to problems, but for now, she wanted to get teenagers discussing them.
“We want to give them the tools to say ‘You can have a healthy relationship, and here’s the road map,’ ” Ms. Soler said.

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Teacher Magazine Education Discussion Forum: What Advice Do You Give to the Victim of a Bully?

Thu Dec 11 19:04:22 +0000 2008

Join the discussion regarding "What advice do you give to the victim of a bully?"

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Kansas State University Survey Delves into Cyberbullying

Thu Dec 11 18:55:37 +0000 2008

An online bullying survey was completed by 216 students — 93.7 percent were freshmen— enrolled in the University Experience classes at Kansas State University. The goal of the survey was to determine if bullying behavior followed students from high school into college and how freshmen perceived bullying. The survey used the cyberbullying definition provided in Kansas' anti-bullying law, which took effect in January 2008 and was revised in July to include cyberbullying. The law requires schools to develop anti-bullying policies, plans and preventative measures. Cyberbullying is the use of any electronic communication device, such as e-mail, instant messaging, text messages, blogs, mobile phones, pages, online games or Web sites, to create an intimidating, threatening or abusive environment.

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A survey of more than 200 Kansas State University students — mostly freshmen — indicates 54 percent of them believe cyberbullying is a "minor problem" or a "common problem" among students at the university.
The survey used the cyberbullying definition provided in Kansas' anti-bullying law, which took effect in January 2008 and was revised in July to include cyberbullying. The law requires schools to develop anti-bullying policies, plans and preventative measures. Cyberbullying is the use of any electronic communication device, such as e-mail, instant messaging, text messages, blogs, mobile phones, pages, online games or Web sites, to create an intimidating, threatening or abusive environment.

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Mistress's Favorite Links from Diigo

Facebook, Cell Phones, & iPods: Updating The K-12 Student Handbook

Put to the Test: Saywire

10 Most Dangerous Things Users Do Online, The Staff of Dark Reading

Internet Safety Month Promoted by InfoSource Learning

Survey: Family time eroding as Internet use soars by AP: Yahoo! Tech

Lawsuits Test Free Speech in Internet Era

Microsoft_TeachTec (TeachTec) on Twitter

Japan tests cell phones to stop pandemics (eSchool News, June 9, 2009)

iPhones invade college campuses, but will they replace the student ID? (CR80News)

Campus Officers Cruise Facebook and MySpace for Clues to School-Related Crimes - washingtonpost.com (April 6, 2009)

Measuring 21st-century skills Articles - On the way: Nation's first tech-literacy exam

Top News - Study: Internet safer for kids than many think

Students post schoolyard-brawl videos online (eSchool News, March 19, 2009)

Teachers Get MySpace, Google and CNET Training - NYTimes.com

U Michigan Brings K-12 Educational Software to Cell Phones : February 2009 : THE Journal

Free lessons offer cyber-bullying prevention

Top News - New Google software tracks users' location

Advertising - Teaching Teenagers About Harassment - NYTimes.com

Teacher Magazine Education Discussion Forum: What Advice Do You Give to the Victim of a Bully?

Kansas State University Survey Delves into Cyberbullying