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" Windows "Own Your Space--Keep Yourself and Your Stuff Safe Online" Digital Book for Teens by Linda McCarthy"

Practical tips and tutorials about using web2.0 tools and mobile apps in education .The best free web, adnroid, smartphone,iPhone, and samsung applications to help you better enhance your mobile learning.

A great list of internet safety resources online.

Twenty minute introduction to a debate in Sao Paulo with Gilberto Gil and others about copyright policy and digital technologies. Familiar remix.

" Change Your Image: 13 Simple Tools to Alter Digital Photographs and Create Images"

AwayFind is a digital assistant for your email-you can close your inbox but still receive urgent messages Identify which emails for us to look out for Stop constantly checking email-we'll find your timely messages Be notified of important messages immediately over SMS, IM, Twitter, or even a phone call

Primary school ict coordinator blog

"How close are we to this? The post was written in December 2009, and Blake-Plock says he's seeing some of these already beginning to come to fruition."

"At Google, we support the education of families on how to stay safe online. That's why we've teamed up with online safety organization iKeepSafe to develop curriculum that educators can use in the classroom to teach what it means to be a responsible online citizen. The curriculum is designed to be interactive, discussion filled and allow students to learn through hands-on and scenario activities. On this site you'll find a resource booklet for both educators and students that can be downloaded in PDF form, presentations to accompany the lesson and animated videos to help frame the conversation. "

share and model the use of currrent internet tools participate in proffesional networks assist students in building learning networks provide sufficient learning opportunities for students to become digitally literate  inspire every child to be quality global citizens

This is a copy of a private resource for parents full of short lessons and quizzes.

" These days, college students are burdened by higher costs than ever before. Tuition is at an all-time high and continues to skyrocket, making it more and more difficult to get a diploma without incurring serious debt. The incredibly unaffordable cost of textbooks just adds insult to injury. With textbook publishers holding a virtual monopoly in the market, students often have little choice in the matter. Luckily, a new paradigm is beginning to emerge: open textbooks. Giving the students the option of print or free digital copies, costs drop precipitously. The only problem: textbook companies don't want them on the market."

Food for thought, so maybe the discussion needs to shift from simple information recall to evaluation of information and synthesis of information.

Food for thought, so maybe the discussion needs to shift from simple information recall to evaluation of information and synthesis of information.

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"We hear about it all the time: Universal access to research, education and culture-all good things, without a doubt-made possible by things like open source software, open educational resources and the like. But what are these various communities and what do they mean? How can we all learn more and get involved? School of Open has rolled the conversation back to square one so that understanding the basics is easy. Through a list of new courses created by users and experts, people can learn more about what "openness" means and how to apply it. There are stand-alone courses on copyright, writing for Wikipedia, the collaborative environment of open science, and the process behind making open video. These free courses start March 18 (sign up by clicking the "start course" button by Sunday, March 17): Copyright 4 Educators (US) Copyright 4 Educators (AUS) Creative Commons for K-12 Educators Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond These free courses are open for you to take at any time: Get a CC license. Put it on your website Open Science: An Introduction Open data for GLAMs Intro to Openness in Education A Look at Open Video Contributing to Wikimedia Commons Open Detective "