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What’s “Print?”
In his blog, Bud The Teacher looks at "print resource" and what it means in this digital age. Has it become a meaningless term?
The Carnegie Cyber Academy
The Carnegie Cyber Academy is a cybersecurity program of instruction developed at Carnegie Mellon University for classrooms, community centers and home schoolers. Students enter a cyber academy and take on three missions that teach them safe computer practices. Learning objectives and outcomes correspond to ISTE NETS. The group has a FACEBOOK page that links you to daily updates, blogs and activities. See: http://bit.ly/18iDle
Interview with Kathy Schrock at NECC
Kathy talks about the highlights of the NECC conference in this UStreamed interview.
Notes from McTeach: NECC 2009 From Where I Sit
It's been quite awhile since I've posted anything here, and what better time to write something than the start of NECC 2009! Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find the funds to go myself this year, but I know I'll be learning plenty in the next few days as I read, listen, watch, twitter, and plurk from the comforts of my own home.
Studies Explore Whether the Internet Makes Students Better Writers
The rise of online media has helped raise a new generation of college students who write far more, and in more-diverse forms, than their predecessors did. But the implications of the shift are hotly debated, both for the future of students' writing and for the college curriculum.\n\nSome scholars say that this new writing is more engaged and more connected to an audience, and that colleges should encourage students to bring lessons from that writing into the classroom. Others argue that tweets and blog posts enforce bad writing habits and have little relevance to the kind of sustained, focused argument that academic work demands
What Does Internet Blocking Suggest to Students?
This morning, a student sent me a link to an article describing the Internet crackdown occurring as official China has ‘prepared’ for the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. “Looks like schools aren’t the only place Facebook is blocked,” read the text across my inbox.
Parent Permission Sample for Read/Write Activities on the Web
This form is powered by Wufoo Online forms and is a ‘guide’ to getting parent permission at the teacher level to allow students to participate in read/write activities. It is not a ‘policy’. You will need to produce a printed version to ensure that you have a signature. Ensure that you provide adequate opportunity for parents to contact you with questions or express an interest in parental education about the read/write web.
Free Software/Web Tools
A collection of Web 2.0 tools with links - screened by CLRN (California Learning Resource Network) with appropriate grade levels. Includes blogs & wikis, bookmark/resource sharing, productivity, collaboration and social networking.
Blogs allow kids at Gilbert school to express feelings
Students, administrators and teachers at Gilbert Classical Academy have a new tool to express themselves that is rarely tapped by schools as a teaching aid: blogs. Blogs have been available on the Internet for years, offering Web users an opportunity to opine on various subjects and post images in a personal journal that anyone on the Internet can read. But schools have generally not utilized them as a classroom tool because officials have such worries as: What if inappropriate messages are posted? What if a hacker steals personal information on a child or staff member?
Student Bashes Administrators, Gets Disciplined
A court case upholds administrators’ rights to discipline a student who used derogatory language on a blog, but questions arise. In Doninger v. Niehoff, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in May that a Connecticut school district that disciplined a student for vulgar and derogatory remarks made off-campus did not violate her free speech rights.
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According to Doninger, the principal told her that Jamfest was cancelled because of the students’ action. The principal denied saying that. That evening, Doninger posted an entry on her personal blog in which she noted that Jamfest had been cancelled, referred to the district administrators as “douchebags,” and encouraged continued contact with the superintendent to “piss her off more.” The following day the event was rescheduled. Sometime later school officials
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The appeals court found that it was reasonably foreseeable that Doninger’s posting would reach campus and that the posting created a foreseeable risk of substantial disruption within the school environment because the language used was offensive. It likely disrupted efforts to resolve the controversy, and the posting that Jamfest had been cancelled made it foreseeable that school operations might well be disrupted further.
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Cyber Bullying: Responsibilities and Solutions
The use of filtering or blocking software to prevent teens from accessing social networking Web sites is another approach that schools and parents can utilize. The disadvantage with blocking software is that teens eventually find a way to circumvent the blocking software. "Given the propensity for youth to constantly update language by the use of new words and phrases and alterations to the meaning of existing words and phrases, it would appear a difficult task to keep filtering software fully updated."
Public Humiiation or Net Safety Ed?
Anne Collier recounts the saga of the Windsor High School teen who was recently singled out at a school assembly meant to warn students about the dangers of providing too much personal profile information on MySpace. She asks us for input on whether we think this is effective cybersafety training - or a form of public humiliation.
Some See Risks in Youngsters Creating Blogs
Unlike a typical social network page, a blog can be seen by anyone and at least one young fashion blogger says she's been recognized by strangers on the street - a worrisome turn for adults worried about privacy and predators. For the bloggers, it's a chance to keep track of their obsession, with input from friends or other fashion fans.
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On her blog, 12-year-old Tavi Gevinson posts photos of herself wielding a toilet plunger, posing in a room covered with newsprint and wearing a paint-splattered tutu inspired by Dolce & Gabbana's spring 2008 collection.
She's part of a young generation of fashion bloggers who display their outfits for all to see. "Well I am new here," she wrote March 31 in her first post at Style Rookie. "Lately I've been really interested in fashion, and I like to make binders and slideshows of 'high-fashion' modeling and designs."
Shaping Youth [Blog]
Amy Jussel, founder of the <b>Shaping Youth</b> blog, examines how media and marketing influence children in this quick-paced and lively blog.
Commoncraft "Explanations in Plain English" [Video]
CommonCraft now has their entire collection of "Explanations in Plain English" videos posted to their own YouTube Channel. See: social networking, twitter, blogs, wikis etc.
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