These are my notes from Colin Webb (Noble Public Schools) and Glen Hammonds’ (State Attorney General’s Office) presentation at the February 7, 2012 Oklahoma Technology Association / Encycl-Media Conference titled, “Can You Do That? Legal Issues in Tech Administration.” MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. First from hearing from Colin Webb: today we’ll
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Last month, Ponca City Schools in Oklahoma faced a news headline any 1:1 laptop school could potentially confront in the local media: “Ponca City student accesses porn on school laptop.” According to the article: A Ponca City mother is outraged. She says her son has been accessing pornography….on a laptop that was issued by the
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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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As educators, we need to STOP locking up all our curriculum content behind logins and passwords. We need to stop following behind our institutions like compliant sheep when our leaders suggest things like, “You should put your entire course in BlackBoard / WebCT / Moodle / etc.” In today’s webinar for eTechOhio, I argued that
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Cross-posted from Balanced Filtering in Schools. eSchoolNews’ August 17, 2011 article, “ACLU sues Missouri school district over internet filtering,” provides details about a new lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union against the Camdenton R-III School District in central Missouri. The lawsuit is part of the ACLU’s “Don’t Filter Me” campaign. Camdenton Schools are
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Chances are your students may not recognize the name Gilbert Gottfried, but they all recognize his voice. Until he posted controversial tweets this week, Gottfried was the official voice of the Aflac duck. photo © 2005 Olaf Gradin | more info (via: Wylio) See the posts, “Gilbert Gottfried Apologizes for Offensive Japan Tweets” and
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When lawyers create extensively long documents which can have a significant impact on the lives of others, yet the documents themselves are too complex and long for “regular folks” to read and understand, something is amiss. That was the case with the 2010 health care legislation in the United States, which was over 2000 pages
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These are my notes from Dr. Michael Wesch‘s keynote at the 2011 Heartland eLearning Conference on March 8th. Follow him on Twitter: @mwesch. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Book recommendation: Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses by Richard Arum Critical moment for me in my own teaching – 7 years ago
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Academic journals should not have paywalls. Academic publishing is done for many reasons, but high among those should be the desire to share ideas in the “commons” of information so others can both learn from and build on those ideas. Forcing others to PAY to simply read your ideas when they are formally published in
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In October of 2005, Dachau Concentration Camp survivor, Eva Hance, and Mauthausen Concentration Camp Liberator, Mark Geeslin, shared a 90 minute presentation with students in Lubbock, Texas, as well as other parts of the United States connected via videoconference to the International Cultural Center of Texas Tech University. That videoconference was recorded, but until yesterday
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The Generation Project provides an innovative way for anyone to make a specific kind of impact in the lives of children from lower income situations through financial giving and the recommendations of teachers. If you have a worthwhile activity or experience you’d like to fund (or partially fund) for a deserving, low income student, you
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Don’t post profanity on a blog or any other social media website, especially if you’re a teacher in a public school. That advice shouldn’t sound outlandish to anyone, but it would apparently be news to Natalie Munroe, a currently-suspended teacher in Pennsylvania’s Central Bucks School District. According to yesterday’s Montgomery Media article, “Teacher blog controversy
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Mike Daisey is theatrical storyteller who recently traveled to the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China, which Andrew Keen of TechCrunch describes as the: …430,000 person factory that manufactures around 50% of all the personal communications devices used in America. photo © 2010 Robert Scoble | more info (via: Wylio) After reading Devin Coldewey’s post on
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Will Richardson shared numerous thought provoking ideas as well as article and book recommendations in his presentation in Amarillo today, “Learning in a Networked World: For Our Students and For Ourselves.” One of the standouts which I read after his presentation, waiting here in the Amarillo airport for my flight home, is Steven Johnson’s May
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Yesterday at the 2010 Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference in Manchester, New Hampshire, my 10 year old daughter and I shared a breakout session titled, “When Student Published Videos Go Viral: Lessons Learned.” In our discussions we focused on four different viral videos which can be considered case studies for student media publishing: Jessi Slaughter (Jessica
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These are my notes from Alice Barr’s breakout session, “Digital Citizenship for our Schools” at the the 2010 Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference in Manchester, NH on 30 Nov 2010. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Track conference conversations using the Twitter hash tag #cmtc10. Alice is the Instructional Technology Integrator at Yarmouth High
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This podcast is an interview with Ruslana Westerlund, the creator of the ELL Bill of Rights (ellbillofrights.com) and the keynote speaker at the “Co-teaching and Collaboration Conference” in St Paul, Minnesota on 12 Nov 2010, at the School Community of Excellence. Ruslana is an educator originally from Ukraine, and has worked for years with English
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Do students at your school take care of their laptops, or the laptops they are able to use on carts kept at school? Lenovo sponsored the following ten minute CSI-spoof video to help students understand the critical need to take care of laptops, especially Thinkpad laptops featured in this video. This video was created by
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These comments were shared by Andrew Zolli at the Creativity World Forum in Oklahoma City on 17 November 2010. Andrew gave a FANTASTIC talk, and in these final minutes of the panel discussion addressed Facebook social graphs and some of the implications this has for privacy. See my post and text notes from this GREAT
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It’s quite interesting to spend three days a week this semester teaching and writing on the campus of the University of North Texas, in Denton. Last week the organization, “Justice for All” sponsored a controversial anti-abortion campaign. These were the signs that greeted students, faculty, and others walking by the student union and the outdoor
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