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The Internet has created a whole new world of social communications for young people who are using e-mail, social networking Web sites, instant messaging, chat rooms and text messaging to stay in touch with friends and make new ones. While most interactions are positive, increasingly kids are using these communication tools to antagonize and intimidate others. According to a 2008 University of Toronto cyber bullying survey, nearly one in five Canadian students surveyed reported having been bullied online in the past three months.[1] An Alberta study found that one-third of students who had cyber bullied, had also been victims themselves.[2]

Great website about digital media ethics and royalty free resources.

I highly recommend that elementary and middle schools at least sign up for a school code for woogi world - this is a great tool suggested by Hoover City schools for teaching digital citizenship. My daughter (my intrepid tester of all kid virtual worlds) loves it and says she thinks it is great for kids.

Great place to teach digital citizenship for students in elementary ages. Schools can sign up for accounts. Excellent place to evaluate as part of how the www is changing the world and how information is moving between children.

This article on Facebook's privacy problems shows how Jenifer Stoddart, Canada's Privacy Commissioner, is taking on Facebook, who has 30 days to comply with the commissioner's request.

Concerns about Facebook privacy loopholes are important to understand in this year's research.

Internet safety links

ARticle on copyright infringement lawas and how this is being interpreted in Ireland.

A very good list from SociableBlog.com : Social Media Blog Share this with your students!

The Premier Kristina Keneally does not rely on a notebook to communicate with the public - she uses Twitter. Some MPs use the social networking site to simply make announcements, but the Premier actively engages Twitter users who make contact with her.

Is twitter becoming a new way to communicate in politics? For it to be effective, does there have to be 2-way communication?

"Google Australia will today be sent a "please explain" letter from two local privacy organisations demanding to know why the company has been collecting personal Wi-Fi network data from Australian homes alongside the images it takes with its Street View cameras."

Does Google collect data about wireless Printers, computers, mobile phones and other devices found in a street? Why would people be concerned about their privacy?

innovation of communication, how we can transfer data through our communication methods, weather that be through online, or by our phones.

Technology digital is up to date and more advanced. Being trusting on what is on the internet we must consider digital integrity has created methods for protecting the integrity of digital data.

People this day in age feel they are "naked" without their cellphone. People need there cell phones and cannot live without them they feel that everyone has them and if they do not they are a nobody. There were several persons sitting at a table and all of them were talking to somebody not at the table on their phone. Too many people have cell phones and rumors and things get spread fast. You need to know how to use a cell phone correctly and not using it all the time and using "text speek" in school.

Students communicate digitaly at a young age students may struggle with writing, and be better understanding it in images, videos, and songs or music. Special education students may find it easier to express themselves by speaking or pictures instead of writing. It is create communication with sound, pictures and writing.

"Nasa is turning to net technologies to keep in contact with spacecraft and satellites, using a computer running Linux."\n\n"The project will allow mission scientists to use a standard web browser to monitor spacecraft and to swap data with them or their crews. "\n - Summarized by BBC News\n\n

People were getting fired from their jobs because they were sending sexual or valiant images. They were expected to fire 40 employees at DOW Chemical. The internet computer usage in this job were respect and response able. They didn't listen and use the internet for wrong reasons.

In an age in which instant news and constant life streams from Facebook and Twitter change the way we communicate, the rules of etiquette surrounding these interactions are still evolving. What happens when I expected a phone call about something and read about it in a status update instead? What's the polite response to a distant friend posting bad news on Facebook? What to do with sensitive information? Making matters trickier, good etiquette on Facebook might not apply on Twitter or in an e-mail. These days, milestones like marriage, pregnancy, breakups and divorce are being described over more forms of communications than ever.

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