http://www.edtags.org/ http://www.edtags.org/css/EdTags.jpghttp://www.edtags.org/bookmarks.php/all/march07 Recent bookmarks posted to Edtags.org 60 http://news.com.com/Want a job Clean up your Web act/2100-1025_3-6171187.html A fourth of human resources decision makers said they had rejected candidates based on personal information found online. Most people, however, remain unaware of the effect their Net reputation can have on their job prospects. Examples of online information that has been shown to create negative information include MySpace pages that reveal excessive drinking or disrespect for work. katiebda Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:39:53 +0000 march07 privacy story http://www.tribune-chronicle.com/News/articles.asp?articleID=16523 The math teacher reported that someone had created an account in his name on MySpace, an Internet community sharing board, that included photos and comments of a sexual nature. The site was viewed by some of his students. katiebda Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:12:10 +0000 march07 privacy undecided trustteam http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/28/AR2007032802038.html?hpid=sec-education Two McLean High School students have launched a court challenge against a California company hired by their school to catch cheaters, claiming the anti-plagiarism service violates copyright laws. "You can't take a person's work and run it through a computer and make an honest person out of them," Wade said. "My son's major objection is that he does not cheat, and this assumes he does. katiebda Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:59:29 +0000 march07 plagiarism cheating privacy authorship ownership undecided http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=1957 Citizendium, the peer-reviewed "progressive fork" of Wikipedia, has opened for business. It will be worth watching to see whether the encyclopedia's embrace of soft hierarchy -- unlike Wikipedia, Citizendium requires contributors to identify themselves, and it lets a panel of scholars make final decisions on edits -- slows its growth. katiebda Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:51:04 +0000 march07 quality participation undecided http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/21/education/21friends.html?ex=1176350400 Facebook and other social networks like MySpace have transformed the social lives of teenagers in many ways, and that includes how they make the transition from high school to college. Hundreds of colleges have their own Class of 2011 groups on Facebook. They are generally not formally affiliated with the universities and are begun by students who want to connect with classmates months before they set foot on campus. katiebda Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:44:49 +0000 march07 social networking participation undecided http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2007/03/19/28speech_web.h26.html? The U.S. Supreme Court appeared sharply divided today on whether a high school student’s banner proclaiming “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” outside an Alaska high school was protected speech or a message that school authorities could suppress because it ran counter to their policies against the promotion of illegal drugs. The court is expected to make a ruling in June. katiebda Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:40:41 +0000 march07 free speech undecided http://www.teachermagazine.org/tm/articles/2007/03/01/05virtual.h18.html?levelId=2200 After Colorado officials decided to check up on the state’s 18 online schools last year, auditors delivered a scalding report. Among the problems: low test scores, high dropout rates, lax oversight, inadequate teacher credentials, and questionable funding. The investigation followed complaints from teachers and administrators of physical schools that were losing students & funds to online schools. katiebda Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:36:43 +0000 march07 online learning undecided http://www.oercommons.org/ OER Commons is a teaching and learning network of shared materials, from K-12 through college, from algebra to zoology, open to all to use. katiebda Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:25:00 +0000 march07 undecided edu-tech resources http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=6937 Open Educational Resources (OER) gives teachers & students free access to more than 8,000 digital learning materials. Educators & students can add tags, ratings, reviews, and comments to help others quickly find what they're looking for. The site's mission is to provide a single point of access through which educators & students can search for, browse, evaluate, and discuss the learning materials. katiebda Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:23:32 +0000 march07 edu-tech undecided http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=1926 A Facebook group called “White Nation,” which featured a graphic of a black infant in handcuffs and the caption, “Arrest black babies before they become criminals,” has sparked outrage on the campus of the University of Southern California katiebda Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:44:59 +0000 march07 participation speech racism trustteam http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews Cyber bullies are even forcing their girlfriends to undress in front of webcams and then sharing the images with others online. "Girls might send it to their boyfriend and she is pressured to do it thinking he's just going to see it. So she gives in and the next thing you know it's all over (the place)." katiebda Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:16:28 +0000 march07 participation speech trustteam cyberbullying behavior http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=6882 "e-Rate: 10 Years of Connecting Kids and Community" indicates that e-Rate-supported connectivity now allows 100 percent of public libraries to provide free internet access to communities, and it credits the e-Rate with increasing the number of public-school classrooms with internet access from 14 percent in 1996 to 95 percent in 2005. However, the report notes there is still work to be done. katiebda Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:27:41 +0000 march07 access edutech participation http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=1933 The Internet discussion board for current and prospective law students is one of several boards hosted by AutoAdmit. It bills itself as “the most prestigious law-school discussion board in the world.” But it also contains postings that degrade individual students, with offensive comments that include sexual references and racist jabs. katiebda Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:19:13 +0000 march07 participation speech trustteam http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=6944 A school board trustee has come under fire for taking legal action against an anonymous blogger "Orthomom" who has written a number of scathing criticisms on her blog about the trustee's lack of support for private school students. Many support Orthomom's right to free speech. My question is, does she have any responsibility to reveal her identity, rather than attacking the trustee anonymously? katiebda Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:28:49 +0000 march07 free speech transparency participation trustteam http://edtags.org/uploads/community/nyt_article_031907.doc “Can large groups of widely scattered people, working together voluntarily on the net, report on something happening in their world right now, and by dividing the work wisely tell the story more completely, while hitting high standards in truth, accuracy and free expression?” katiebda Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:34:10 +0000 march07 authorship crowdsourcing participation undecided fortrustteam