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Any parents out there that are completely clueless about the internet? This site is perfect for learning the basics!
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This is about a comedian's ex wife putting videos of their marriage falling apart on youtube. She is being sued for not having rights to post stuff about him on youtube. She posted 3 26 minute videos on it.
Not all websites are trust worthy. Here are some tips to help be a little more safe with your privacy online.
"TIP #1: Do Some New Year's (Data) House Cleaning
Get New Passwords: Use different, strong passwords for each of your online accounts so if one is compromised the rest are safe. Strong passwords contains letters, numbers, different cases, and symbols. Check your password's strength here.
Close Old Online Accounts: Unused online accounts are a liability. Hackers could use them to infiltrate your more important accounts . Get rid of them. If you can't remember where you have old accounts search your email inbox with queries like "registered", "confirm" or "your account" to find email records of old accounts.
Cull Your Friends List: You put a lot of information about yourself on social networks. Would you want that friend of a friend you met once, two years ago to be carrying around a physical copy of all that information? Probably not. Keep the people you know and trust. Delete the rest.
Go Paperless: Still receiving bank statements and doctors' invoices by mail? You don't need your Social Security number floating around in your trash can on the curb outside. Call your bank, doctor, credit card company etc. to find out if you can go paperless and manage your records via a secure online portal. You'll save a tree and protect your privacy.
Shred Sensitive Documents: Those credit card and health savings account statements you don't need that have been sitting in that folder in your desk? They're a privacy liability. Get rid of them (securely, using a shredder).
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Web browsers have evolved into highly customizable software platforms capable of controlling and protecting much of the information that flows between you and the parties you interact with online. Modern browsers have an impressive array of privacy enhancing capabilities and options. They can, for example, warn you before you visit suspicious or fraudul
Article about teachers being filmed and put on youtube -- I did a post a while back called "spies like us" that talks about this happening. Again, talk about behavior to kids before this happens at your school - www.digiteen.net is our effort.
According to ReadWriteWeb dot com's review in June 2008, YouTube's share of the movies download pie was a staggering 75%+ … bigger than Google's slice of the search market!
Using YouTube to reach the media is cheap and easy. This is the biggest advantage that can gain you high visibility, especially if you have to be cost conscious. It will show almost any movie content or format, though MPEG4 is the preferred form and AVI a close second.
YouTube has become a repository of an incredible variety of movies, infomercials, how to videos and much more. It lets you as a viewer, stay up to date with the newest videos and movies, through its subscription service.
There are lots of networking and viral marketing benefits, in reaching a wider audience; getting to know more people and learning through YouTube.
So there are issues associated with posting videos that feature bigotry, violence, sexually explicit materials and other abuses. Within YouTube there is a moderation process, but it can take some time before genuinely bad material is removed. There is frequent copyright infringement especially of cinema and music movies; and it remains to be seen when an effective response to this issue can be formulated.
"Our story yesterday about the laptop thief who returned it and apologised after an embarrassing clip of him dancing was posted on YouTube by the computer's owner"
It is all very well to provide resources to learn about digital citizenship, but the BEST way for students to learn is to actually be online connecting and collaborating with others globally. This is where the Digiteen Project is SO powerful. It not only uses resources such as this one, but gets students putting expectations into practice. http://digiteen.org
"Interviews with educators discussing the benefits of blogging and how it can be used with students."
Featuring Anne Mirtschin, Julie Lindsay, Kim Cofino and Paul Blogush and his students