http://www.edtags.org/ http://www.edtags.org/css/EdTags.jpghttp://www.edtags.org/bookmarks.php/all/story Recent bookmarks posted to Edtags.org 60 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94668692&ft=1&f=1013 The Internet has given unprecedented access to information, but where do we draw the line? A new Web site invites users to share old college exams online. Is it cheating — or democracy? katiebda Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:00:48 +0000 september08 cheating story participation http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3327&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en Residents of Westchester, the neighborhood surrounding Loyola Marymount University, in Los Angeles, say microblogging services like Twitter are not only allowing students to find out where their classmates are partying, but also when the gatherings are about to be shut down by the police. katiebda Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:45:35 +0000 september08 dm2 participation story http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/02/juicycampus-expands-its-libelous-gossip-machine/ JuicyCampus, the controversial site that lets students post totally anonymous (and often malicious) comments about their college classmates, has launched a new version of its site and opened support to over 185 new campuses, with 500 expected by the end of the month. JuicyCampus is essentially a public, anonymous bulletin board that encourages users to gossip about eachother, often referring to their targets by their full names. katiebda Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:29:51 +0000 september08 dm2 participation story http://ypulse.com/archives/2008/04/online_relation.php I know a girl who asked a boy to be her boyfriend via Facebook before they had even discussed the matter face-to-face. It was Gen Y's version of the omnipresent grade school love letter that read: "I like you. Do you like me? Check yes or no." katiebda Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:34:54 +0000 august08 dm2 privacy story participation http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/arts/television/17kaku.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2 When Americans were asked in a 2007 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press to name the journalist they most admired, Mr. Stewart, the fake news anchor, came in at No. 4, tied with the real news anchors Brian Williams and Tom Brokaw of NBC, Dan Rather of CBS and Anderson Cooper of CNN. And a study this year from the center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism concluded that “ ‘The Daily Show’ is clearly impacting American dialogue” and “getting people to think critically about the public square.” katiebda Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:24:55 +0000 august08 trust story http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3251&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en A growing number of professors are experimenting with Facebook, Twitter, and other social-networking tools for their courses, but some students greet an invitation to join professors’ personal networks with horror, seeing faculty members as intruders in their private online spaces. Recognizing that, some professors have coined the term “creepy treehouse” to describe technological innovations by faculty members that make students’ skin crawl. katiebda Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:49:56 +0000 august08 privacy story http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=3&ref=technology The Trolls Among Us: Weev (not, of course, his real name) is part of a growing Internet subculture with a fluid morality and a disdain for pretty much everyone else online. katiebda Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:50:18 +0000 august08 dm2 participation story http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93346096 Web designer Sean Tevis has raised more than $96,000 from nearly 6,000 people — most of whom aren?t from Kansas — in his bid to unseat Kansas state Rep. Arlen Siegfried. katiebda Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:58:27 +0000 august08 participation groups story dm2 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/02/world/asia/02china.html Yet even as the police tightened security before the Games, the power of new information technologies to chip away at the official line was still on display. In a poor county in Guizhou Province in the south, a teenage girl died under mysterious circumstances, and rumors of police malfeasance and a cover-up spread widely on the Internet, prompting public protests to demand a new investigation. katiebda Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:21:30 +0000 august08 story dm2 participation http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i44/44a02301.htm In 1996, Congress enacted Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which provides immunity from legal liability for messages posted by anyone other than the operator or proprietor of a site or service. The presence of such a barrier goes far to explain why victims are frustrated, as most poignantly illustrated by Juicy Campus, a campus-gossip Web site. katiebda Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:56:58 +0000 july08 story legal participation http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3160&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en Academic cheating and dishonesty have long been a problem. But with YouTube students have discovered a new avenue for actually promoting such fraud. Liz Losh, a rhetorician at the University of California at Irvine, notes that there’s now a genre of videos that combine cheating advice with a “do-it-yourself aesthetic.” She flagged one of them Wednesday on her blog. It shows a student using a scanner and photo-editing software to make a cheat sheet on a Coke bottle. katiebda Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:39:12 +0000 july08 authorship story youtube cheating http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3136&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en Publishers see Web sites like Textbook Torrents, which offer free downloads of textbooks without authorization, as part of a growing problem of piracy that could potentially threaten their industry. But the founder of Textbook Torrents calls his actions “civil disobedience” against “the monopolistic business practices” of textbook publishers. katiebda Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:45:02 +0000 july08 authorship story 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://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://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/us/27mit.html?fta=y Marilee Jones, the dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, became well known for urging stressed-out students competing for elite colleges to calm down and stop trying to be perfect. Yesterday she admitted that she had fabricated her own educational credentials, and resigned after nearly three decades at M.I.T. Officials of the institute said she did not have even an undergraduate degree. katiebda Wed, 14 May 2008 01:01:41 +0000 april07 story deception mit