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The folks at Dateline created this mock MYSPACE page to illustrate how information can become too much information. Roll your mouse over each part of the profile, to see why the information is potentially dangerous. This model could be used to open a great dialogue with students on cybersafety and privacy practices.

New term for how digital youth take in information: MEDIA SNACKERS. Check out the video on this page!

Technology integration matrix from Florida. This amazing resource was picked up from Lucy Gray. Really amazing.

This is a great guide. I would love to use something like this as a model for how we develop our PD.

The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students

How can we maximize the learning power of participatory Web sites while ensuring students are protected and behave responsibly? Creating and administering a private social network is an excellent method for establishing a safe social learning experience.

Melanie McBride's perspective on blogging from April 2004 - really amazing how the piece brings up points that are STILL being debated today

How some of these issues were being looked at 4 years ago

Enter social video games as a solution - immersive environments that simulate real-world problems. Today, technologically eager schools are replacing textbook learning with social video games, and improving learning outcomes in the process. Here's how they're doing it.

8-minute animation which has been created how to keep kids (age 5-7) understand how to keep safe online, to treat each other well, and to understand what personal information is.

More advice from Sue Waters on how to moderate comments and posts using GMail.

How and when social network sites go about such policing of their users is up to them. Do the sites take such matters seriously? Some good (and bad features) of each are reviewed.

With the increasing popularity of e-mail and online instant messaging among today's teens, a recognizable change has occurred in the language that students use in their writing. This lesson explores the language of electronic messages and how it affects other writing. Furthermore, it explores the freedom and creativity for using Internet abbreviations for specific purposes and examines the importance of a more formal style of writing based on audience.

Home Business & Finance News Top News UK World Sports Technology Entertainment Science & Health Environment Motoring Oddly Enough Lifestyle The Great Debate Blogs Special Reports Video Pictures Weather Do More With Reuters RSSRSS Feed Widgets Mobile Podcasts Newsletters Interactive TV Partner Services Career Centre Professional Products Financial Media Support (Customer Zone) About Thomson Reuters RPT-FEATURE-Murder brings scrutiny to fast-growing Craigslist Sat Apr 25, 2009 12:28pm BST Email | Print | Share | Single Page [-] Text [+] "There's a whole field of law emerging which is online media liability law and the question is how much liability do we place on companies that host information other people post online," said John Palfrey, a Harvard Law School professor. "The general policy approach we have taken to the Internet starting a decade plus ago was to say there is basically no liability, but these recent cases put to the test that policy," said Palfrey, who is a co-director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Flames of Moral Panic: You may have noticed that the media has fully embraced "sexting" [a term invented by the media] as the latest horror story about teens and technology. First it was about how the internet is teeming with predators a la "To Catch A Predator," with the most dramatic stories focusing on girls who met these predators in real life [read the real deal here: Online "Predators" And Their Victims]. Next it was about cyberbullying, highlighting the most extreme cases that ended in young people having to switch schools or even more tragically committing suicide. The latest is "sexting," where teens are naively sending and receiving sexually explicit photos or video of themselves to friends via cell phone, again, with the most dramatic cases highlighted.

This is a positive step forward if the focus is going to be on how digital technologies can transform teaching and learning, and if students are encouraged to think critically about the media-ecosystem they inhabit.

Giving Students Ownership of Learning: Footprints in the Digital Age. In the Web 2.0 world, self-directed learners must be adept at building and sustaining networks.

While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.

Hashtags were first introduced on Internet Relay Chats (IRC's were live chats and messaging - kind of a precursor to the social sites we use today). They became popular on Twitter, where they were initially used for "tweet chats". Tweet chats are like open group discussions around a particular topic. The essence of the "tweet chat" is still relevant in how marketers can use hashtags today. 3 Key Marketing Strategies for Hashtags - Brand and campaign specific - Trending Hashtags - Content Hashtags Businesses follow many ways to implement hashtags on social media. Social media hashtags deserve more attention from marketers. To increase their reach among an increasingly global market, more brands use social media analytics tools to change their Hashtag Marketing.

Hashtags are one of those things all marketers seem to know they need to use in social media, but perhaps not so many of us are using them to their full effect. At that moment, I reverted to the simplest and quickest use of hashtags by devising a pithy catch-phrase or choosing from the most popular used hashtags list, as suggested by my social media platform of choice.This is a great start, but it undervalues the potential power and importance of Hashtags In Social Media So here are our top seven tips on how to use hashtags to transform your brand's marketing strategy:- 1. Understand the basics 2. Choosing the right number of hashtags 3. Be concise 4. Be specific 5. Use trending hashtags 6. The best hashtags for brands 7. Check your spelling This is a great start, but it undervalues the potential power and importance of hashtags in an effective Social Media Marketing Strategy. For More Information Visit: http://bit.ly/2OQ8HzE

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