I recently came across a great PDF publication titled, A Parent’s Guide to Facebook found on this site-http://www.connectsafely.org/Safety-Advice-Articles/facebook-for-parents.html It goes over all those things I wish I could tell parents and much more! A great resource to add to your own website, share with your Home & School group or post to your school’s Facebook [...]
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Diipo.com is a social networking site that is reported to combine the networking of Twitter with the media-sharing of Facebook and the document-sharing of Google Docs. It’s still in beta testing. It’s just for students and teachers. I’m intrigued… Read the article on Edudemic
Lynn came across a Fair Use website that has some pretty good ideas plus some good links for copyright free images if you want to share it with the group. The Fair Use Test is particularly useful! Do you have more sites that you use to teach about copyright laws and fair use? Please leave [...]
I make a video each year to show at our Grand Gala for Blessed Trinity which is now a promotional tool for our school. This year’s video was something special and therefore has been used in-house for different promotional events. I hesitated posting the video on our website due to copyrighted music I used for [...]
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How do schools handle their AUP? At St. Wenceslaus, I thought we were having new families (all kindergarteners and any other new families in grades 1-8) sign ONCE. Then annually teachers would review our acceptable use policy and sign a record stating they (the teacher) reviewed our policies with the students. In reality, what is [...]
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Jill Elfering on June 26th, 2007
Will Richardson (the Tools) What are the types of literacy and skills students need as they are leaving schools today Educators need to understand that in many cases we are using technology but the pedagogies have not yet changed. We have taken only the first step. Now we need to develop new pedagogies to prepare [...]
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Presenter website: http://web.mac.com/artu/iWeb/maestrotools/Home.html Wiki: http://eduese.pbwiki.com/ I have a 1 MB connection this morning, so I hope blogging will update correctly. I’ve been keeping backups, copying text before I save just in case… There are many resources listed and referenced in this session according to the NECC program – I’ve copied this information to the bottom of [...]
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