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"In partnership with Topics Education, Microsoft is sponsoring an education initiative that supports teachers' needs for addressing digital citizenship and helping students understand how to handle and share digital content and respect for an authors/students intentions for sharing creative work. Topics Education developed a comprehensive turnkey, end-to-end curriculum that provides educators with teaching resources, an experiential student curriculum and tools to teach students about creative rights so that it is meaningful and relevant to their lives and achieving their potential."

Bullying is on the rise and putting all our kids at risk, on and off line. Stephen Balkam, CEO of the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) joins blogtalkradio (at 8 minutes into the program) to help us understand the importance of digital citizenship in the online world as a buffer for challenging events such as bullying and as a necessity for being part of today's society in general.

How to search for anything online

Being online is like being in public. Nearly anything that gets posted can come back to haunt you. When you post it yourself, this isn't such a big deal - after all, it's your fault if you post something like the "fatty paycheck" tweet, the Twitter update that resulted in Cisco Systems Inc. revoking a job offer.

Being online is like being in public. Nearly anything that gets posted can come back to haunt you. When you post it yourself, this isn't such a big deal - after all, it's your fault if you post something like the "fatty paycheck" tweet, the Twitter update that resulted in Cisco Systems Inc. revoking a job offer.

Cyberbullying, online predators, and other Internet-related dangers make headlines almost daily. Fear of what lies beyond that glowing screen at which our kids so love to stare dominates the current perception of what the Internet has become. In this climate of perceived threat, schools do what we all do with that of which we are afraid. We avoid the threat and try to forget it's out there.\n\n

The digital world can be tricky for teachers.Those who grew up in the pre-Twitter era are often left casting about to learn how to use new technology and keep up with students. Others, comfortable with using text messages and Facebook to make connections, find themselves questioning, as they navigate the new frontier, just where students fit in.

Learn how to turn on Google's SAFE SEARCH filtering.

These "new" tools to encourage collaboration are simply updated versions of classic classroom activities.

Materials from Learning Library, Teachers' Strategy Guides & Ethics Casebook

"There seem to be three forces at play when it comes to education and social media"

Responding faster to a lead or a potential customer is going to leave a better impression than making new customers or any customers wait around. Live chat is one of the quickest methods of customer service, but it used to be horrible. Live chat is one of the best tools that many B2B companies are utilizing on their websites. Here are four reasons why you need eCommerce live chat now 1. Responding faster = more leads 2. Help people even when you're not there 3. Overcome objections instantly 4. Forms are a thing of the past Responding faster to a lead or a potential customer is going to make a better customer experience. It can actually be the difference maker when it comes to converting a customer. Responding faster is guaranteed to provide a better user experience and it will likely lead to increases in conversions.