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"Parents were worried about their girls trawling the site for hours on end, looking up friends, and what they were doing.

Some amount of social snooping is acceptable but when logging in daily becomes a compulsion, I say that Facebook has turned us into modern-day voyeurs."

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"Imagine hundreds of thousands of great short videos, and other media, explaining every topic taught to school kids. Imagine them rated and sorted into a giant Directory, making them simple to find. WatchKnow--as in, "You watch, you know"--is a non-profit online community devoted to this goal. "

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"About a third of Americans have gone online using a cell phone or other hand-held device. And an increasing number of people are using the devices for activities such as texting, sending e-mails, playing music and instant messaging.

According to a new report by the Pew Hispanic Center, most of those hyperusers are young Latinos and blacks.

There are four main reasons for that trend."

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"For more information on how to handle bullies, check out the BBC's new Facebook Page and website. You can show your support for the "bullyproof" movement and receive a free badge to post on your Wall or send to a friend.

We want to ensure that people understand how to address cyberbullying if it occurs on Facebook, so here are some useful tips from our Help Center: "

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"So why do I think these stories are meaningless? Simple. Your phone, my phone - any smartphone - will become our primary portable computers long before these two products catch on in the mainstream. For the more adventurous among us, it's already happening. Chris Rawson writes about 33 products his iPhone made obsolete. It's not just about the iPhone either. Any smartphone - Android, Palm (a client), Blackberry, WinMo - will soon do double duty as PCs, turning all the above two products into vaporware.

Why? Simple. Moore's Law. Already an 64gb iPod Touch has enough on-board storage to easily hold two operating systems, OS X and OS X mobile. Apple is even billing it as a pocket computer. As processor speeds increase and full graphics systems get embedded onto single chips, the phones will soon be able to embody a PC experience as soon as they get near a flat screen TV and a keyboard. Some data will be locally stored but the rest will be in clouds - either your personal cloud or your employers. Want a clamshell keyboard and screen like a laptop? No problem, soon we'll see "dumb shells" that encase phones so they can do more on the go."

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"There are no bells at Bishop Carroll High School ushering students onto their next class.

There are no classes, for that matter, no timetables telling students where to be and what to study.

For almost 40 years, the southwest Calgary high school has embraced self-directed learning by allowing its students to individually decide how they'll tackle their high school studies.

Bishop Carroll High School is one of six schools across the country that make up the Canadian Coalition of Self-Directed Learning."

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Interesting use of Twitter to capture historical events in 140 characters or less...

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"As adults, we take social skills for granted... until we encounter someone who lacks them. Helping children develop social skills is viewed as a reasonable educational endeavor in elementary school, but by high school, educators switch to more "serious" subjects. Yet, youth aren't done learning about the social world. Conversely, they are more driven to understand people and sociality during their tween and teen years than as small children. Perhaps its precisely their passion for learning sociality that devalues this as learning in the eyes of adults. For, if youth LIKE the subject matter, it must not be educational. Unfortunately, I fear that we are doing a disservice to youth by not acknowledging the social learning that takes place during this period. Worse, what if our efforts to curtail social interactions out of a preference for "real" learning have professional costs?"

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"What follows is a sort of anti-buyer's guide, a list of products and devices that you may never need or even want to buy again (or receive as a gift) if you have an iPhone. Some of these are certainly open for debate, but more than a few of them are products that, for all intents and purposes, are completely unnecessary if you have an iPhone. (Items in bold also apply to the iPod touch)."

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Bet Buy's customer service account on Twitter.

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"Roughly 2,000 camera apps are available at prices that start at the unbeatable free and typically top out at $2.99. Here are 15 that will help you capture, edit, enhance and share your images. "

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"t’s been almost 40 years since the teaching of writing in schools had its last major shift, a move to an emphasis on the “writing process,” which still holds sway in most classrooms today. But with the advent of Web-based social networking tools like blogs and wikis, YouTube and Facebook, it may be that the next revision of writing pedagogy is upon us, one that emphasizes digital spaces, multimedia texts, global audiences and linked conversations among passionate readers.

Moving to a new pedagogy is not easy for many district administrators, however, as the Web as a writing space is still primarily an unknown, scary place to put students. But as research is showing, students are flocking to online networks in droves, and they are doing a great deal of writing there already, some of it creative and thoughtful and inspiring, but much of it outside the traditional expectations of “good writing” that classrooms require."

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"For the third consecutive year, the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has conducted a study that looks at the usage of social media among Inc. 500 companies. The 2009 results confirm that America's fastest growing private companies adopt social media marketing initiatives at much higher rates than other companies, and that interest in social media has grown since the first study was conducted in 2007.

Conducted by researchers Nora Ganim Barnes and Eric Mattson, this year's study looked at 148 of the 500 companies on the 2009 list. As was the case in each of the past two years, respondents were asked about their usage and familiarity with six types of social media tools, including blogging, podcasting, online video, social networking, message boards, and wikis. According to the study, social media usage by companies on the Inc. 500 has grown in the past year, with 91 percent of companies reporting that they use at least one social media tool, compared with 77 percent of companies surveyed in 2008. Of the six social media categories covered in the survey, the one that continues to be the most familiar to Inc. 500 companies is social networking, with 75 percent saying that they are "very familiar with it.""

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"The communication and information professors, Mor Naaman and Jeffrey Boase, found that there tend to be two types of Twitter folks. The majority, or 80 percent, were what they called ``meformers'' -- Twitter users who sent out messages that revolved around themselves, updating others about their activities or sharing thoughts and feelings.

The other 20 percent are ``informers'' -- people who were actually sharing information. Not surprisingly, the informers tended to have larger social networks and be more interactive."

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"Instructors and students can learn more about social networking sites by using Facebook.com to set up profiles that correspond to fictional characters in a text. By creating a model profile, instructors can familiarize themselves with the procedure and teach students the importance of maintaining high privacy settings on their profiles. The lesson will teach safe use of social networking while exploring characters in literature. Student computer access is necessary (1 per 5 students)."

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"A technology expert says recent incidents involving Facebook postings should serve as a reminder that nothing is truly private on the net.

Nathalie Blanchard, shown here on a beach holiday during her sick leave. Carmi Levy points to the case of a Quebec woman who alleges her disability benefits were cut because of photos on her Facebook profile.

Nathalie Blanchard, a Granby resident, says she's suffering from severe depression that has made it impossible for her to work full-time for the past 18-months.

She says her sick leave payments were cut after insurance giant Manulife obtained profile pictures on Facebook showing her at bars, whooping it up during her birthday and on a beach holiday.

Blanchard, who says her doctor had advised her to have some fun, is now going to court to have her benefits reinstated. Her lawyer Tom Lavin filed a suit on her behalf in Quebec Superior Court on Friday."

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"Like eBay, a growing number of companies are turning to business schools these days for help in redefining what it means to be socially responsible. School administrators say firms in industries across the board are looking to incorporate initiatives in this area into their business plans and everyday leadership decisions."

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"Latin School of Chicago and Sonoma Country Day School are among the K-12 institutions that are using the technology developed by Stanford University and adapted for use at their schools. With a little more than 1,000 students, Latin School of Chicago launched its first version of the application at the beginning of the 2009-2010 school year. The school worked with Terriblyclever Design, which is run by a group of Stanford University students, and its own Web site designer to implement the iPhone app."

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