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Cristina Nevins

Our view: Teaching kids cybersafety a good move - 1 views

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    Very interesting article about how schools should teach students about cyber safety.
Stephen Berlinger

Cyber Crime.gov - 0 views

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    This is a website taking you to a plethora of state level laws that impact the areas of online Criminal Justice.
erika webb

Digital Divide Opens Up in Patient Use of Online Medical Records - iVillage - 0 views

  • That said, less than 10 percent of Americans appear to be using electronic medical records, with almost half saying they're not even clear if their doctor actually offers access, according to a Harris Interactive/HealthDay survey of more than 2,000 American adults
  • blacks and Hispanics were only half as likely to sign up for personal health record access compared with white patients, the authors noted, and the wealthiest patients were 14 percent more likely to initiate personal health record use than the poorest patients.
  • Older patients, between the ages of 51 and 65, constituted the largest slice of the high-user group, they found, accounting for four in 10 among such patients.
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    Article regarding the disparity in use of online medical records.
Jason Pinkerton

Top 20 Social Networks of 2008 - 0 views

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    I thought this was a neat article because it shows how close Myspace and Facebook were only a few years ago and now Facebook is dominant.
Trevor Johnson

Internet helping students to cheat - 0 views

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    This is an article that gives information about how students use the internet as a way to cheat in class.
Yvonne Garth

:: The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It - 0 views

shared by Yvonne Garth on 01 May 11 - Cached
  • This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity—and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation—and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control
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    Here is an article on the "Future of the Internet."
Amy Hallmark

The Benefits of Video Chat - 0 views

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    Video chat is an idea that has been around for a while, but not until recently was it actually possible on a large scale. Now people can talk to each other as if they are in the same room through their televisions, and do it everyday if they want to.
Trevor Johnson

Blogging loses appeal for US teenagers - 0 views

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    A US study has indicated that younger internet users are losing interest in blogging and switching to shorter and more mobile forms of communication.
Burks Oakley

Girl, 12, Sentenced in Seattle for Cyberbullying - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Good article about cyberbullying - and it was a 12 year old girl!!!
Burks Oakley

A Virtual Revolution Is Brewing for Colleges - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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    Very thought-provoking article about the role of the Internet in the future of higher education.
Burks Oakley

Smart phones write a new chapter in e-books market -- latimes.com - 0 views

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    Interesting to see how smart phones may win out over dedicated e-book readers such as the Kindle
anonymous

Why we don't need phone numbers - Hack a Day - 0 views

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    Out with the old, in with the new!
Burks Oakley

Tips to Keep a New PC Free of Malicious Software - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Good advice on how to keep your computer free of malware
Burks Oakley

Innovate: Positioning Faculty Support as a Strategy in Assuring Quality Online Education - 0 views

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    Good paper about the need for strong faculty support in developing quality online courses - access to full article requires free registration
Burks Oakley

HDNews.net - fhsu052609 - 0 views

  • It's the latest chapter in an evolving debate about the place of innovation in higher education. Is outsourcing teaching -- especially for huge and often poorly run introductory courses -- a way for colleges to catch up with other industries and rein in out-of-control costs? Or does it mean gutting what makes universities special?
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      This is an interesting concept - to outsource the teaching of introductory courses.
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    This seems really bad for higher education (IMHO).
Emily Boles

JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching - 0 views

  • tand the pedagogy of the adult learner.  To use the online tools effectively, instructors must be familiar with the technology available to them as well as how to use it. This paper describes effective andragogical methods for adult instruction. It will also present the available tools and the method and reason for using them. By reviewing the research of current methods of instruction, a road map to course design will be recommended. There are effective techniques to
  • ture, discussion, lab, and practice. They move the course to the online environment using the same
Jack Campbell

Worried about getting a virus while surfing, try linux... - 0 views

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    Some people are ditching windows and making the switch to one of the Linux distros. Nice article on how Linux systems don't get viruses.
Jack Campbell

Why it might not be a good idea to let the military to tweet, facebook - 0 views

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    There is always the good side, keep troops connected to home, but that can be bad too.
Jack Campbell

Tired of your facebook account? - 0 views

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    Want to get rid of your facebook account? Here is a step by step howto on closing your account.
Jack Campbell

Use twitter to promote your website - 0 views

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    A neat howto, on promoting your website using twitter. Hope it helps any of you.
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