http://www.edtags.org/ http://www.edtags.org/css/EdTags.jpghttp://www.edtags.org/bookmarks.php/all/may08 Recent bookmarks posted to Edtags.org 60 http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3046&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that a Connecticut high-school student could be barred from running for student government after posting a blog entry calling a school official a “douchebag” and encouraging other students to write or call the official to annoy her, the Hartford Courant reports. katiebda Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:41:38 +0000 may08 privacy story http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2999&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en Despite the worries of their parents (and professors), teenagers’ use of language online is surprisingly sophisticated. That’s the conclusion of two researchers from the University of Toronto, who looked at spoken and IM communications of 72 people ages 15 to 20. Instant messaging represented, they said, “an expansive new linguistic renaissance.” katiebda Thu, 15 May 2008 18:47:48 +0000 may08 youth authorship research http://charactercounts.org/programs/reportcard/2006/index.html The 2006 Report Card on the Ethics of American Youth, a biennial national survey conducted by Josephson Institute and released as part of National CHARACTER COUNTS! Week, October 15-21, reveals high rates of cheating, lying, and theft. katiebda Wed, 14 May 2008 04:00:47 +0000 may08 research deception http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/25/magazine/25STOCK-TRADER.html?ex=1210824000&en=00671aaefd61302b&ei=5070 At age 15, Lebed had used the Internet to promote stocks from his bedroom in the northern New Jersey suburb of Cedar Grove. Armed only with accounts at A.O.L. and E*Trade, the kid had bought stock and then, "using multiple fictitious names," posted hundreds of messages on Yahoo Finance message boards recommending that stock to others. katiebda Wed, 14 May 2008 01:25:38 +0000 may08 deception story identity http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2982&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en Dr. Jerald J. Block, a psychiatrist and professor at Oregon Health & Science University, argued that the shooters in the Columbine High School massacre “spent a significant amount of time playing first-person-shooter computer games and creating game levels for others to use,” and that they became “unable to distinguish the boundaries between their virtual lives and their real lives, in effect mixing the two,” according to a news release. katiebda Tue, 13 May 2008 03:42:04 +0000 may08 research identity http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2988&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en A high-school dean of students and a Roman Catholic archdiocese are suing Facebook over a fake profile created with the dean’s name. They are trying to get Facebook to identify the creators of the phony page, the Indianapolis Star reports. katiebda Sat, 10 May 2008 18:42:04 +0000 may08 identity story http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2973&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en Over on the blog bavatuesdays, a professor tells of a visit yesterday to the University of Richmond for a lecture that was interrupted by a lockdown following reports of a gunman on the campus. As the audience sat in a dark, locked room awaiting their fates, hoping and praying that tragedy wouldn’t befall another Virginia university, they began communicating and comforting each other via Twitter. katiebda Thu, 08 May 2008 03:20:41 +0000 may08 participation story