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It's time for Online Safety 3.0. Why 3.0 and why now? The online-safety messages most Americans are getting are still pretty much one-size-fits-all and focused largely on adult-to-child crime, rather than on what the growing bodies of both Net-safety and social-media research have found. Online Safety 2.0 began to develop messaging around the peer-to-peer part of online safety, mostly harassment and cyberbullying and, increasingly, sexting by cellphones, but it still focuses on technology not behavior as the primary risk and characterizes youth almost without exception as potential victims. Version 2.0 fails to recognize youth agency: young people as participants, stakeholders, and leaders in an increasingly participatory environment online and offline. To be relevant to young people, its intended beneficiaries, Net safety needs to respect youth agency, embrace the technologies they love, use social media in the instruction process, and address the positive reasons for safe use of social technology. It's not safety from bad outcomes but safety for positive ones. ... Safety is essential but only part of what we want for the people who are going to run this world! Online Safety 3.0 enables youth enrichment and empowerment. Its main components - new media literacy and digital citizenship - are both protective and enabling. Ideally from the moment they first use computers and cellphones, children are learning how to function mindfully, safely and effectively as individuals and community members, as consumers, producers, and stakeholders.

Online Safety 3.0 - safety and good citizenship while using the internet and participating in social networking. A "watershed" moment, says Bonnie Bracey Sutton (at http://www.mercurynews.com/fdcp?1257974940062).

A great resource for cellphones in education LG Text Ed program brings together an advisory council of leading child behavior and health experts who examine important issues related to tweens, teens, and mobile phone use.

Arne Duncan on using the toys kids love--games and cellphones--to teach them, inside and outside the classroom walls.

Are you having trouble getting through to folks to try to loosen up the restrictions to allow you to do the kind of work you REALLY want to do? This article, shared by one of our new coaches, Jason Suter, may help.

"a collection of ideas each teacher implemented to successfully break and/or work within the ban where they teach in an effort to empower students with the freedom to use their cell phones as personal learning devices. "

Now there's no excuse for us to be using hardbound text books....

drop.io has rich phone functionality. simply hit the 'drop it' button to setup a free conference call line (not recorded) and a voicemail line (recorded). use them as you please. you can even have your voicemail automatically forwarded to email addresses, twitter accounts, itunes (for podcasting), or your blog.

alternative to gabcasting?

"MailBliss is a free email service that allows you to get an email address for your phone. Any emails sent to your new mailbliss email address will be forwarded to your phone as a text message."

"This site is designed to promote the networking and integration of Mobile Learning into classrooms around the world. On this site you will find several resources that will help you to find answers to your questions:"

First, we explore using cell phones as data collection tools: audio recorders, digital cameras, and digital camcorders. Additionally, we consider how classroom projects can be developed for cell phones: creating ring tones, text messaging, mobile WebPages, and mobile surveys. Finally, we contemplate the future features of cell phones and how those features play a role in learning.

Stream video directly from your mobile phone (like your iPhone, for instance).

Free polling software (think: American Idol). Embed on a webpage, Power Point slide, etc and watch the results in real time! Neat animations, too. 1,000 free votes per month.

Claims that it's free for "progressive schools who didn't make AYP"!

Did you make AYP? If not, maybe you can get a free SMS voting system subscription!

Create a Mobile Website, Mobile Site Builder, .mobi Compliant

I want to go to a movie like this!

"Celly is an educational cloud service built around text messaging. We want your phone to be a device for learning while keeping it fun and a little competitive. Our first service is simple group text messaging. You can easily create channels for your classmates, your friends, and your family. Our text channels can have any number of members, and we have some unique privacy and messaging options. "