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This site provides reading materials for students studying the law as it applies to activities in cyberspace. The reading materials include edited cases, statutes, treaties, and law review articles, as well as content written by the individual module authors. Some have likened the study of cyberspace law to trying to board a moving bus. Given the pace of change in this field any attempt at a traditional casebook would largely be outdated before it reached the hands of the students. This site is designed to take advantage of the hypertext media offered by the world wide web by providing reading modules that can be altered or replaced as the law changes.

Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.

Organized around the way middle schoolers use the Internet, the CyberCitz Project provides teaching materials on Internet safety, security and ethics. This new project includes an Educators' Guide, a youth website, technology citizenship posters, and e-lessons on a K-12 learning management system. This project was produced in collaboration with the Virginia Department of Educational Technology and IIIA at James Madison University. Navigate through the curriculum content using the sidebar on the left side of the screen.

Web-based Comics. BitStrips for Schools places it on a private virtual network where teachers can moderate content and review all characters and comics. Students can flag inappropriate comments or bullying, which is then instantly removed pending teacher review. There is a nominal fee of $9.95 per month for up to 40 students.

iKeepSafe partnered with Woogi World to reach children and educators directly. Children will learn more effectively about digital citizenship including cybersafety, security, and ethics through the moderated kid to kid interaction, the online challenges or "episodes", and parental/educator involvement. Marsali Hancock, iKeepSafe Coalition President, says, "Woogi World allows us to create content which organically combines cybercitzenship education, play, and academic learning in a way that is exciting for kids."

Click on the buttons in the Blue Menu for carefully selected and annotated resources in each of our six CyberSafety areas: identity safety, cyberbullying, cyber predators, piracy & plagiarism, inappropriate content, social networks.

"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."

A teen has sued his mother for harassment after she logged into his Facebook account and changed content. He also claims she's made "slanderous" comments about him in Facebook as well. It's important to note that this 16-year-old lives with his grandmother and not his mother, and that he appears to be old enough to drive in his home state of Arkansas.

Here are 8 tips to monitor and protect one's online reputation from the U.S. Government Information Security Blog: Search your name. Type your first and last name within quotation marks into several popular search engines to see where you are mentioned and in what context. Narrow your search and use keywords that apply only to you, such as your city, employer and industry association. Expand your search. Use similar techniques to search for your telephone numbers, home address, e-mail addresses, and personal website domain names. You should also search for your social security and credit card numbers to make sure they don't appear anywhere online. Read blogs. If any of your friends or coworkers have blogs or personal web pages on social networking sites, check them out to see if they are writing about or posting pictures of you. Sign up for alerts. Use the Google alert feature that automatically notifies you of any new mention of your name or other personal information. Limit your personal information. Tweet/chat/discuss regarding business and the emerging trends in your industry, but limit posting information on your personal life, which could be a subject of major scrutiny by recruiters and hiring managers. Also, be sure you know how organizations will use your information before you give it to them. Use privacy settings. Most social networking and photo-sharing sites allow you to determine who can access and respond to your content. If you're using a site that doesn't offer privacy settings, find another site. Choose your photos and language thoughtfully. You need to ensure that information posted online is written professionally without use of swear words and catchy phrases. Also, be very selective in posting photographs, and use your judgment to ensure that these photographs are how you want the world to see you. Take action If you find information about yourself online that is embarrassing or untrue, cont

While many stakeholders are involved in developing policies on the use of Web 2.0 technologies in K-12 education, new research suggests that teachers are the most important group driving adoption. This is a major finding from a national research survey of more than 500 district technology directors. The survey was commissioned by Lightspeed Systems Inc., a leader in network security and management software for schools, and Thinkronize Inc., creators of netTrekker, America's number one educational search tool, with support from Atomic Learning.

Video Conferencing is one tool that can be used to extend and enhance the impact on\n\n * Curriculum Content and delivery\n * The Professional Development of school staff\n * The quality of leadership within schools\n\nVideo Conferencing enables learners to do things that are hard or impossible to do by other means.\n\n * Collaborate easily and regularly\n * Be in more than one place at once\n * Link directly to places and resources\n

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.

The Cable Industry's effort to educate parents about protecting their child's identity online. Click on the video link at the bottom of the page to access six flash videos: Internet Safety Pledge, media literacy, phishing and predators, kids' blogging content, privacy issues, etc. Resources are in English and Spanish.

An agency devoted to educating and inspiring urban youth to become successful students and global community leaders by engaging them in socially dynamic, content-rich learning experiences.

Media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language.

If your small business enterprise relies on your ability to maintain an online presence (most small businesses do), then maybe it's time to focus on the important things to draw interested people in, engage customers and boost sales - like your website, blog and social media portals. You need to continuously add high-quality content in order to keep feeding readers new information, make navigation simple so they won't lose interest on your site due to long load times and other issues, and ensure that there will be a call-to-action button/phrase that will nudge customers to buy - and buy more, all the time.

Remarketing is the practice of using ads to target those who have already shown an interest in your products or services by visiting your website. With remarketing, since you're showing highly customized ads to people who have previously visited your website, they're more likely to click on your ads, making the entire campaign cost effective. 1. Use Dynamic Remarketing 2. Launch a Sequential Remarketing Campaign 3. Segment Your Remarketing Audience 4. Use Content Remarketing 5. Remarket to Existing Customers 6. Cap the Number of Times Audience Members See Your Ad 7. Change Your Ad for Non-Converting Audience Members 8. Change Your Ad for Non-Converting Audience Members ow you know about a few advanced AdWords Remarketing Strategies. Pick some of the options highlighted above that you think would be a best fit for your advertising campaigns.

Hashtags can boost impressions, improve the search ability of your content, and encourage more people to talk about your brand. But using hashtags effectively, especially for business marketing, means doing more than just plugging them into your tweets on Twitter or posts on Instagram, Facebook or another social network. Here's what you need to know to use Hashtag Marketing better as part of your overall small business marketing strategy. - Trending Hashtags - Niche Hashtags - Branded Hashtags - Product or Service-Specific Hashtags - Call-to-Action Hashtag Ultimately, there is no one "right" type of hashtag to use to boost your social media posts. Instead, you'll be best served by using a wide range of hashtag types that are relevant to your business and your audience.

eCommerce personalization means showing individualized offers, product recommendations, and other content to your visitors based on their previous actions, demographics, and other personal data. Now, here are some examples of personalized marketing in eCommerce: 1. Deliver Weather-Sensitive Personalization 2. Adjust Navigation to Visitors' Interests 3. Recommend Product Categories Based on Browsing Behavior 4. Personalize Search Results 5. Send Personalized Email Based on User Behavior 6. Use Geo-Location Targeting 7. Show Category-Specific Discount Coupons 8. Sort Recent Products by Interest Level 9. Suggest Complementary Products 10.Pitch an Upsell at and after the Purchase 11. Remind Shoppers of Previous Engagements 12. Use a Style Finder 13. Show Product Recommendations Below the Product 14. Personalize the Homepage Banner by Category 15. Show Personalized Offers to Returning Visitors eCommerce Personalization has taken the world by storm. For all the small and medium players out there, it is no longer a luxury that can be overlooked. With a plethora of e-commerce personalization tools making their way to the market, personalization is going to become an important element in the sales strategy for a large number of ecommerce businesses. For More Information Visit: http://bit.ly/2MskkLd

Many people use hashtags, but not everyone uses them properly. We will unveil some ways to use hashtags properly, so your brand will get more likes and engagement on social media. Hashtags serve as a social media search tool- they help to tie different social media posts together that relate to a particular topic, making them easily searchable. Using hashtags in your social media posts ensures that a larger audience outside your own followers is able to see your post. It also helps your brand to get more attention and engagement when you use Trending Hashtags. 1. Use Just the Right Amount 2. Find Which Hashtags Are the Most Popular (Influencer Hashtags) 3. Find What Hashtags to Use For Your Particular Audience 4. Use the "CCC Rule" (Creative, Catchy or Comical) 5. Keep Your Hashtags Short and Simple 6. Optimize Your Account Settings for Hashtags 7. Use Branded Hashtags for Your Business 8. Use Hashtags Consistently Use hashtags to target specific audiences. Use hashtags to draw attention to specific marketing events or social movements. The best practice is to choose the right hashtag for the content and audience you want to reach. For More Information Visit: http://bit.ly/2YUxTop