Category: isafety
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Internet Safety and Digital Citizenship Presentations for Students, Parents and Teachers
At the request of several school leaders in Oklahoma and Texas, I’m putting together a series of updated presentations this year for K-12 students as well as parents and teachers focusing on Internet safety, privacy, cyberbullying issues, digital footprints and digital citizenship. (Contact info is available on my “speaking” page.) photo credit: cotaro70s Using video…
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Don’t assume your public wifi connection is secure
This evening I’m in a motel in Colby, Kansas, and the wifi user agreement includes some language which caught my attention: SECURITY OF YOUR ACCESS AND USE Due to the nature of wireless LAN and High Speed Internet Access networks, control of physical access to the network cannot be ensured. In the case of wireless…
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Access Flash websites on an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch (including Webkinz and Club Penguin)
Addition 8/14/2011: CloudBrowse is no longer free, it was at the time I wrote this post initially. It’s now a $3 app. If there’s one thing my children have lamented more than any other when it comes to iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad technologies, it’s the lack of support for Adobe’s Flash technology. Club Penguin…
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Criticism of School District Content Filtering Policies is not a personal attack on ALL tech directors
I shared the following today as a response to a comment posted on my recent rant, “Cognitive dissonance from the school internet filtering message.” I think the issues and questions highlighted here are worth extracting and sharing as a separate post. This is a VERY important conversation. Blog reader “JJ” wrote: I am an avid…
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iPhone / iPod Touch Parental Controls, Digital Ethics, Open Access, and Apple as App Gatekeeper
Controversy continues to brew over Apple’s ability to “gatekeep” applications which are or are not approved in the official App Store for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Writing for TechCrunch yesterday in the article, “Steve Jobs Reiterates: ‘Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone,’” MG Siegler cites an alleged email from Steve…
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Storychasing Literacy Keynote on SlideShare (METC 2010)
I recorded audio during my opening keynote (“Storychasing Literacy“) at the Midwest Educational Technology Conference (METC) today, and synchronized that mp3 file this evening to my presentation slides on SlideShare. Storychasing Literacy (METC 2010) View more presentations from Wesley Fryer. SlideShare does permit users to add YouTube videos to slides, but videos cannot be added…