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Steve Ransom

Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords - Yahoo! Finance - 6 views

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    Wrong, yes. Yet, some really NEED the job and are willing to sacrifice their privacy and rights... and in this economy, I understand that.
Steve Ransom

Austin Carroll, Indiana High School Student, Expelled For Tweeting Profanity - 6 views

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    Do a Google search for "fake facebook twitter imposter principal"... it's not all that uncommon :-(
Roland Gesthuizen

What happens to your social media when you die? | Metro - 0 views

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    "It's a topic few of us think about. What should happen to your social media accounts after you die?"
Steve Ransom

SnapChat is less private than you think | ITworld - 32 views

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    Users, kids and adults alike, need to realize that even with tools like Snapchat, privacy is an illusion. Even Snapchat admits this in its own privacy policy.
Steve Ransom

Rapportive - 10 views

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    A great browser/Gmail extension so that you can see an email sender's online profile/digital footprint of sorts. Every useful. (via@mcleod)
Samantha Morra

Digital Dossier - 0 views

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    Our student's real permanent record.
Steve Ransom

Leaving 'Friendprints': How Online Social Networks Are Redefining Privacy and Personal ... - 0 views

  • "Our kids today will give everything [in terms of personal information] away, but it's not at all clear how this will shake out in the long run,"
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      A marketer's gold mine, among other things.
  • Third-party applications, he argued, can take that data outside of the friendly confines of a social networking site and combine it with data from other sources to piece together enough information to steal a person's identity.
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      That's always been my feeling about 3rd party apps. I don't use them for the most part.
  • Hoffman illustrated how social connections are made online and the ease with which a stranger can become part of a network.
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  • When a business contact from the LinkedIn world wants to become your friend on Facebook, do you accept the invitation, giving them access to the photos on your Facebook profile from last summer's rowdy beach party?
  • And what about the person you don't really know who wants to be your friend because you have some friends in common? According to Hoffman, that new friend may just be mining your social circle for information. As networks grow and more friends of friends (and their friends) are accepted by users, it's unclear who can be trusted.
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      Hmmmm... this has occurred to me before, but I'm not sure how real it is our how paranoid we should be. However, we do need to take a look at our followers' digital footprints (blogs, tweets, posts, pages,...) if suspect.
  • According to Acquisti, people are more likely to divulge key personal information -- their photo, birthday, hometown, address and phone number -- on social networking sites than they would on other web sites
  • In one study, Acquisti found that that people will divulge information when they see others doing so. That tendency, he believes, may explain why so many people are willing to dish out personal information on the networks.
  • Holy Grail for marketers is to track consumers and their friends -- and what they say about a product -- via social networks. "People are more willing to divulge information for social purposes, and the lead users are 18 to 25 years old," Bradlow notes. "The social norms around privacy aren't going to be what they were before."
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    The information provides opportunities not only for legitimate business purposes, but also for the nefarious aims of identity thieves and other predators, according to faculty at Wharton and elsewhere.
Steve Ransom

'Boobies' controversy stays alive with Vegas pix - 51 views

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    Very poor decision. Very poor model. Very hypocritical. Adults need to set the bar. Administrators and teachers even more!
Steve Ransom

Teenagers, Legal Risks and Social Networking Sites | Lucacept - intercepting the Web - 33 views

  • The majority of teachers have not used SNS in an educational context
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      Which is why educators need to help students leverage these new learning spaces for more purposeful uses beyond mere socializing.
Steve Ransom

Gilbert Gottfried Fired As Aflac Duck After Japanese Tsunami Tweets - 36 views

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    How easy it has become to share your thoughtless and tactless ideas with the world... and there are real consequences to public insensitivity, indecency, meanness, dishonesty,...
Steve Ransom

CBC News - Toronto - Toronto conference to focus on Facebook risks - 11 views

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    Users of social networking sites, she said, should "beware of the five Ps" - professors, prospective employers, parents, police and predators.... Cavoukian says 77 per cent of all employers check out prospective employees on Facebook before they make hiring decisions.
Steve Ransom

ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: Naming in a Digital World: Creating a Safe Persona on the ... - 22 views

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    In this lesson, students explore naming conventions in digital and non-digital settings then choose and explain specific names and profiles to represent themselves online.
Steve Ransom

Teachers Under Fire for Internet Use - TheApple.com - 30 views

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    Some teachers need to get a license in common sense!!!!
Maggie Verster

Leaving digital footprints that count - 26 views

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    This wiki deals with the reasoning behind and the tools needed to manage your digital footprint
Steve Ransom

Digital Life : NPR - 26 views

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    5-part series. Text and Audio. Very good interviews and information.
Steve Ransom

Educational Leadership:The Transition Years:Positive Digital Footprints - 38 views

  • aught up in sensational stories
  • trying to frighten digital kids
  • Help students build positive digital footprints.
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  • Scare tactics
  • one-size-fits-all approaches to Internet safety are "analogous to inoculating the entire population for a rare disease that most people are very unlikely to get, while at the same time failing to inoculate the population that's most at risk"
  • Instead of teaching students to be afraid of what others can learn about them online, let's teach them how digital footprints can quickly connect them to the individuals, ideas, and opportunities that they care most about.
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    Great piece by Bill Ferriter (@plugusin) on the tension between helping kids create a positive, empowering digital footprint and the use of scare tactics to dissuade them from being active online - Two diametrically opposed paradigms.
Steve Ransom

For teachers on Facebook, professionalism trumps fun - The Globe and Mail - 33 views

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    Lots to wrestle with here: Bottom line - be wise, professional, kind, and have integrity. If we all followed these, there would be on problem
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