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Public opinion on Internet use and civil society Dr Juliet Pietsch Professor Ian McAllister Australian National Institute for Public Policy and ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences April 2011

From Andrew Churches - of EdOrigami

"You may wonder how the Facebook for Educators guide came about … A few months ago, Facebook recognized that a guide like this was needed. They asked me to write it. I accepted the offer on the condition that I could write without filtering or restrictions from Facebook. Facebook saw the value of a candid third-party opinion and agreed."

"Furthermore, the global average piracy rate for PC software in 2010 was 42 percent, the second-highest figure in the eight years the BSA has been conducting its worldwide study. Piracy rates are considerably higher in some developing markets, including averages of 60 percent in the Asia Pacific region, and 64 percent in Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe. And the BSA believes one of the reasons piracy is so widespread is that many users of pirated software don't actually understand that they're stealing."

Wasn't it just the other day that teachers confiscated cellphones and principals warned about oversharing on MySpace? "Now, Erin Olson, an English teacher in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, is among a small but growing cadre of educators trying to exploit Twitter-like technology to enhance classroom discussion. Last Friday, as some of her 11th graders read aloud from a poem called "To the Lady," which ponders why bystanders do not intervene to stop injustice, others kept up a running commentary on their laptops. "

The idea for this page is to build a 'best of the web' reading / watching list for school leadership regarding using social media for school advancement. Rather than talk about how great social media is we're using social media to build this reading list.

Great roundup

"In the fall, Alice Marwick and I went into the field to understand teens' privacy attitudes and practices. We've blogged some of our thinking since then but we're currently working on turning our thinking into a full-length article. We are lucky enough to be able to workshop our ideas at an upcoming scholarly meeting (PLSC), but we also wanted to share our work-in-progress with the public since we both know that there are all sorts of folks out there who have a lot of knowledge about this domain but with whom we don't have the privilege of regularly interacting."

The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education helps educators gain confidence about their rights to use copyrighted materials in developing students' critical thinking and communication skills.

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"ABC Pool is a social media site where you can share and engage with creative work and collaborate with the people who make it. It's a place to upload images, text, audio, and video. Anyone, any age, anywhere can contribute to Pool. Pool is run by the Australian public broadcaster and has a number of projects to which you can contribute independently or co-create with others. It's a place to meet collaborators, and Creative Commons licensing provides a way to share your work in a safe legal framework. All Pool members are asked to follow the guidelines and to report inappropriate items or comments."

"The potential for danger increases when Twitter squatters go to great lengths - often through the use (and abuse) of legitimate images or biographical material - to look and sound like the real thing. The good news for most average Joes is that Twitter squatters are more likely to have big corporations and celebrities in their crosshairs."

Scrible is a new service offering a nice set of tools for highlighting, annotating, and bookmarking webpages. Scribble offers browser bookmarklets for Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer. With the Scrible bookmarklet installed, anytime you're on a page just click the bookmarklet to launch a menu of bookmarking tools. The Scrible tool set includes highlighters, sticky notes, and font change tools. When you annotate and bookmark a page in Scrible it is saved as it appeared to you when you were done altering it.