Year: 2007
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Has your school mailserver been blacklisted?
The continuing proliferation of spam and phishing schemes are being driven by many factors, but identity theft figures prominently on that list. For organizations with a large number of Windows-based computers, including school districts, one unfortunate side effect of teachers, students, or others unwittingly installing malware on a Windows-based computer system is that the organizational…
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Digital Storytelling – How much time?
In my morning workshop on Digital Storytelling Monday in Irving ISD, I shared the 10 minute video “Strive to Engage not Entrall” with teachers which I created on Sunday. I then asked teachers to guess how much time it took to plan, produce, chop and publish this digital story – estimating with percentages the time…
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Fight Phishing
Identity theft is serious business and a serious threat to Internet users everywhere. PayPal’s online challenge “Can you spot Phishing” is a simple, five question quiz which could be used for a short professional development or faculty meeting overview of phishing and an online security update. If people are using email (as most teachers in…
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8 Random Facts
Ms. Tina tagged me, so here we go…. First, the Rules: Post these rules before you give your facts List 8 random facts about yourself At the end of your post, choose (tag) 8 people and list their names, linking to them Leave a comment on their blog, letting them know they’ve been tagged So…
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Tragedy on the Kingfisher bridge
Our family had a remarkable day of exploration and discovery today. Our travels and conversations certainly provided much food for thought for upcoming blog posts on several topics! For now, in addition to uploading about 150 pictures to Flickr from our day, I’ll tell a sad tale we learned when we were in Kingfisher. Kingfisher,…
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Great day with Oklahoma A+ Schools
I had a GREAT day today at the Oklahoma A+ Schools annual conference. I’ll be posting a new photo set to Flickr tomorrow with images of the conference. Of all the educational organizations in Oklahoma I have encountered to date, A+ “gets it” more than any others in terms of the pedagogical reforms we need…
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Maintaining perspective and changing the world
If you are not a reader of Tom Hemingway’s “Tryangulation” blog, I’d recommend checking out his thoughts. Tom has lived in Turkey for the past eight years, but has had a rich array of experiences living in working in many different countries. One of the best things about the blogosphere is the way it can…
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Featured speaker at Oklahoma Encyclo-Media
I was happy to see the program (PDF) for our upcoming state librarian and media specialist conference in Oklahoma, “Encyclo-Media,” that I am listed (on page 7) as a “featured speaker.” This may not sound like a big deal, since I have had the opportunity to keynote and provide spotlight presentations at various conferences the…