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Online, teachers walk a fine line | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY
Teachers have a different standard. It is fascinating to read this newspaper article and also the responses. Our students on Flat Classroom project and Digiteen will be reviewing this information because teachers are held to a higher standard online.
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And some districts -- from South Dakota to New Jersey -- are starting to limit what teachers can do on the sites.
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"It is the responsibility of all individuals associated with the Foundation to act in a manner that will ensure the public's trust as well as the trust of colleagues and peers.
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The Energy Literacy Project
"There is a problem with energy literacy" says Chevron CEO, David O'Reilly, in Thomas Friedman's Hot Flat and Crowded - Julie and I are working to incorporate this into our next Flat Classroom mini-conference in Februray and we turned up this energy literacy nonprofit. This is fascinating.
FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right
This website had a TON of hits this past month -- in the millions -- 3 people and some spreadsheets did this. (See Tom Hoffman's post for more on it.) I think this is something that the students of the Flat Classroom Project will need to integrate into their work.
Thinking Machine wiki / Think Handhelds
Information collected by Karen Montgomery on using cell phones in learning. Some great resources are here.
PC World - 15 Hot New Technologies That Will Change Everything
Great article on the technologies that will change everything. Wonderful for your movies.
SpringWoodsHS » home
Got a link to this wiki from Estie Cuellar, amazing teacher who has joined in Flat Classroom this year. She says:
"I would like to share something with you guys. I teach a Sports Marketing Class. I’m always looking for new and fun ways to reach the kids. Yesterday, I started my class on a comprehensive project that I’m calling, “Rock On.” The goal of the project is for the students teams (all of my classes work in teams) to synthesize what they’ve learned in class so far (they’ve learned the marketing mix, target marketing, positioning, segmenting, and the 7-key functions of marketing) and plan a 20 city tour for their band. I found the project from a “Best Practices” book that Jeff McCauley of The Marketing Teacher compiled from marketing teachers and sent out as a PDF a couple of years ago. I have modified the original project to utilize Web2.0 technologies."
Interesting ideas - wish I could teach marketing!
U.S. Army warns of Twittering terrorists | News - Security - CNET News
Interesting article w/ new term "hacktivists" -- politically motivated hackers. That is a new term.
Twitter is written up in this report as being used by extremist groups of all kinds "socialists, human rights groups, communists, vegetarians, anarchists, religious communities, atheists, political enthusiasts, hacktivists and others...."
Why not just say everyone uses twitter? (Well, everyone DOESN"T use twitter but it can mobilize a lot of people in a pretty short time.)
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xamines the possible ways terrorists could use mobile and Web technologies such as the Global Positioning System, digital maps, and Twitter mashups to plan and execute terrorist attacks.
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"Potential for Terrorist Use of Twitter,"
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FOXNews.com - Cyberbullying: Parents, Tech Companies Join Forces to Keep Kids Safe - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News
Excellent article on cyberbullying and an example of a girl who was harrassed online and killed herself. This sort of thing is tragic and we should consider what we think aboutinternet harrassment penalties, particularly against children.
There are mention of several websites including one I'd never heard of called CyberBully Alert.
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An ex-friend’s mother faces charges in federal court as a result, and Missouri has made Internet harassment a crime.
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Cyberbullies often commandeer e-mail accounts and social-networking profiles, attacking kids while pretending to be someone they trust, like a best friend. They use cell phones and the Web to spread embarrassing and cruel material, and they can harass their victims well beyond the schoolyard -- even when they're "safe" at home.
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25+ Incredibly Useful Twitter Tools and Firefox Plugins
Cool article on twitter tools and plug ins for twitter. These help us see into what can be done with twitter, the cool tool that is really a customized, unique search engine of people.
Discovery Education | Discovering Diabetes
My Dad has diabetes as did my grandfather. This is a great program and discovery does things right -- please consider letting your students join this great event.
"Discovery Education has launched a program for high school health/science teachers designed to help educate students about Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. The site includes lesson plans (coming soon), lots of videos and multimedia interactives on digestion, blood glucose and diabetes.
To recognize World Diabetes Day on November 14, all students with Type 1 diabetes are encouraged to create videos to "Shout Out" about diabetes and tell their story. For each video submitted, Novo Nordisk will make a donation to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to help fund research leading to a cure for Type 1 diabetes. Plus, each student who submits a video will receive a free Discovery DVD. "
Blog Action Day 08
Blog action day is today, October 15th. I let this one creep up on me.!! This is how bloggers unite and talk about important issues related to the world. Poverty is the action issue for this year
Wireless Broadband Education Competition
Competition for envisioning the future of wireless broadband - what could you do with high speed wireless broadband. This competition carries a prize and a trip to Florida this next February - application due November 1st, so a quick turn around.
My good friend, Louise Maine, shared this with me. It is a great opportunity. Please share it.
One Laptop Per Child Home
One laptop per child is attempting to get small, portable computers in the hands of children in impoverished areas.
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The mission of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is to empower the children of developing countries to learn
by providing one connected laptop to every school-age child. In order to accomplish our goal, we need
people who believe in what we’re doing and want to help make education for the world’s children a priority,
not a privilege.
Children's Way - Teaching Kids and Parents Internet Safety
I highly recommend that elementary and middle schools at least sign up for a school code for woogi world - this is a great tool suggested by Hoover City schools for teaching digital citizenship. My daughter (my intrepid tester of all kid virtual worlds) loves it and says she thinks it is great for kids.
BLUE MEN - Inconvenient Youth
Interestingly, inconvenient youth is built on the Ning platform. Fascinating use. This video from the blue man group on the environment has been widely viewed around the world. Such videos spark social change -- these are not TV commercials but viral videos that spread from blog to blog and email to email. How information travels has fundamentally changed.
Inconvenient Youth
Some students have started this to promote environmentally sound actions. This is run by students and I saw a little profanity on the home page.
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