Category: isafety
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Beware of Genieo Adware on Apple Computers
Today was a sad but perhaps inevitable day: I saw installed adware on an Apple laptop for the first time. The adware was from a company called Genieo, which the English WikiPedia identifies as an Israeli startup. Thomas Reed‘s June 2013 article, “Malicious Genieo installers persist,” documents the adware problem which can infect both Apple/Macintosh…
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Digital Citizenship: Learning to Cross the Street in a Digital World
These are my notes from Jennifer Cutler’s presentation for the OU K-20 Center provided PD workshop, “Digital Citizenship: Learning to Cross the Street in a Digital World” at Ranchwood Elementary School in Yukon, Oklahoma, on April 3, 2013. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. We don’t share this with you at the start…
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Online Petition: Oklahoma City Public Schools Must Adopt Balanced Internet Content Filtering Policies
To acquire and practice literacy skills today, students and educators in Oklahoma City Public Schools require access to Evernote, Google Docs, Gmail, Edmodo, Posterous, Celebrate Oklahoma Voices, and other educationally appropriate, interactive websites. All these websites are currently (as of February 9, 2012) blocked by OKCPS for student access. OKCPS must stop its “draconian” and…
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Vimeo or YouTube? Where to Post Family Videos?
A family friend and member of our church has a middle school-aged son who is getting to be quite a videographer. I have taught him for two years in Sunday School, and have glimpsed on a few occasions some of the films he’s created with his friends. (Reminds me in a positive way of Super…
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MinistrySafe Online Video Training for Youth Protection from Sexual Abuse
These are my notes from the MinistrySafe online training video for churches. This is a required training program our church has paid for all adult volunteers who work with children and youth to complete. My wife saw these trainers (who are lawyers in the Dallas area) present in person and helped bring this training program…
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An Exemplary Elementary Computer Lab Setup, Website and Lesson Plans
In September 2011, I had a wonderful opportunity to spend most of the day with Bob Sprankle at Wells Elementary School in Wells, Maine. The day had an auspicious start at the Maine Diner in Wells. If you ever have a chance to eat there, don’t miss it! Thanks to David Warlick and the New…