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UK Team is focusing on online comment defamation
While this article starts out about a lawfirm in Birmingham UK that is going to "track down people who make anonymous comments about companies online" it becomes an amazingly poignant article on the very nature of the Internet today and the push pull between anonymous commenting and accountability of the commenter. Push pull between free speech and online identity and brand protection.
One person in this article claims that this sort of thing is the sign that the "wild west" of the INternet is coming to an end. Oh dear, I hope someone invents a new one if somehow anonymous commenters are now going to risk such!
Also love the article's discussion of the Streisand effect wherein Barbara protested the sharing of some photos of her eroding beachfront which caused a stir and more people looking at the photos than if she had left it alone.
This article is going to be a must read for Flat Classroom students and would be great for college-level discussions as well.
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a new team to track down people who make anonymous comments about companies online.
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a new team to track down people who make anonymous comments about companies online.
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Pixton™ - Comic Strip Creator - Make Your Own Web Comics Online
Another Comic location. This is supposed to have animated comics also as part of this.
TLC = Tech + Library + Classroom: Wordle and Books = Groovy Stuff!
Love how Tara in Bangkok, Thailand used Wordle to introduce books and then mashed up the words in voicethread. What a fascinatingly creative way to use these tools!
Gearing up for Another Flat Classroom Project « Haas | Learning
Fred Haas' reflections are so very real when it comes to ambitious global collaborations. I had to laugh as he said about NetGenEd (last spring's project): "Without question it was a mildly harrowing but ultimately rewarding experience."
The learning curve is TREMENDOUS but once you have it under your belt it is similar to your first year of teaching or boot camp for someone in the military. If you're wondering if this sort of thing is for you, take a read of Fred's very real reflections.
Julie nor I NOR ANY global collaborator will ever say it is easy - if it is perhaps you're not having to be as engaged as perhaps you need to be. However, it is most rewarding!
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it was a mildly harrowing but ultimately rewarding experienc
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Yet, as Vicki Davis quipped at the beginning of the project, “The thing about working on the bleeding edge is sometimes you bleed.”
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Welcome to Zon! | Enter Zon
Massive multiplayer role playing game for learning Mandarin Chinese. Immersion is supposed to be the best way to learn and here it is!
White House opens website programming to public
The whitehouse.gov will look the same to most people except that what is behind it is part of the open source movement with the whitehouse code - now powered by Drupal -- is open source.
For educators, if you've found administrators objecting to the open source movement, maybe you should consider using the white house as an example.
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The online-savvy administration on Saturday switched to open-source code for http://www.whitehouse.gov - meaning the programming language is written in public view, available for public use and able for people to edit.
Net Neutrality FAQ: What's in it for You - PC World
Net neutrality is an important issue being addressed by the US government right now to prevent companies from sort of creating their own version of the Internet. These rules are supposed to keep things "open." I'm also sending these to my digiteen students (you can follow digiteen at http://www.twitter.com/digiteen) and Flat Classroom students (http://www.twitter.com/flatclassroom) for work on their project.
Technology Review: Blogs: TR Editors' blog: Will the Nook Eat the Kindle's Lunch?
Barnes and Noble's response to the Kindle: The Nook.
It uses the Android operating system (Google's mobile OS) and can install 3rd party Android Apps. It also has an MP3 player but does not have built in text to speech (so no UDL here) -
If you use the free wifi at Barnes and Noble you can read any ebook for free - otherwise it is something that you need to buy.
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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Nike breaks mobile bar code campaign at Mountain Dew event - Mobile Marketer - Messaging
Mobile barcodes are a cool way that cell phones are now being used - integrating pictures with SMS - it is called MMS.
Hardlinking or linking using barcodes in the real world to the virtual world is an emerging trend of how the world wide web is evolving.
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"The goal was to make the athletes more personal to the Nike 6.0 consumer,
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Jagtag's MMS 2D bar code system works with every camera phone on the Verizon Wireless and AT&T networks.
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QR Codes Video about how can be used in education
QR Codes are an important new technology that use something called hardlinking.
Flat Classroom Project Ning
All students and teachers should join this, our educational network which looks a lot like Facebook. Here are the guidelines:
1) Students may use no more than their first name, last initial unless your teacher lets us know otherwise.
2) Please accurately identify where you're from.
3) Your teacher will create a group for your school - join the group.
4) This site is PUBLICLY viewable, however you have to be approved to join, so please be patient because we check everyone's profiles and will not approve you unless you are appropriately set up.
5) Check with your teacher on appropriate content - we ban first, ask questions later if there are incidents, although we rarely have to do this because our students are AMAZING!
Sask. university teaches iPhone programming
iPhone programming as part of a college computer science curriculum - ABSOLUTELY! Congratulations Dean Shareski!
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application development for Apple Inc.'s iPhone smartphone mobile device.
The Internet in Society: Empowering or censoring citizens? - Eventbrite
I can't tell if this event will be online too, but if you're in London - it is a good one. Love the description and appreciate Terry Freedman pointing me to it:
"many authoritarian governments are now also beginning to exploit cyberspace for their own purposes; some of them appear to be succeeding in subverting the internet's democratising potential. We may have overestimated the internet's ability to bring change and underestimated the role that political, social and cultural forces play in determining how new technologies are being adopted.
Could the internet actually inhibit rather than empower civil society? Join Evgeny Morozov as he outlines the dramatically different ways in which the internet's potential can be utilised by citizens and regimes."
51 Percent of U.S. Mobile Phone Users Access Online Content | Kikabink News - Internet Marketing News
Online content is being accessed on a weekly basis from their cell phone.
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51 percent of United States based mobile phone users access online content using their mobile phone on a weekly basis.
Steves Reflection of The Conference - Flat Classroom Conference
I love this reflection from the flat classroom conference. This is my favorite movie that I like to share.
Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Estie's kids are working so hard to get to Qatar
The progression to help students meet face to face. Steve Says:
"The Project alone is already unique and very amazing considering the fact that we are actually working together with students around the world with the help of technology. So what better way to finish the project off by actually working with the people we have been working with online."
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The Project alone is already unique and very amazing considering the fact that we are actually working together with students around the world with the help of technology. So what better way to finish the project off by actually working with the people we have been working with online.
Miley Cyrus Dead Rumor Not True
An example of how the Internet often "makes" news. Although many people believe online sources above traditional media, verifying sources is still something that should happen.
Again... don't believe everything you read, ANYWHERE!
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The problem is that regardless of how many times it’s reported that the car accident didn’t happen and the 15 year old Hannah Montana star is still alive and well, people are still believing that it happened.
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It doesn’t matter where they come from, it just says a lot about the state of our educational system
3M MPro 110 | Popular Science
Here's your handheld projector - as my students and I joke - kids will no longer be texting in the bathroom but watching movies.
On the legacy of Chairman Kevin Martin (Lessig Blog)
Lawrence Lessig reflects on outgoing FCC chairman, Kevin Martin.
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