http://www.simplek12.com/internetsafety - 0 views
New Jersey Principal Asks Parents To Ban Facebook, Social Networking, Text Messaging - ... - 0 views
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Anthony Orsini, the principal at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, sent out an e-mail Wednesday morning asking parents to help him get all of his students off social networks and keep careful track of their text messages.
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An interesting article about the use or not the use of technologies within schools. do you have an opinion?
Seven Questions to Ask About Texting in Class | MindShift - 1 views
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"# What's the impact of messages related to classwork when they're part of a large stream of messages students receive from friends, family, horoscope advice, sports scores and so on? # What sort of learning happens best (or is reinforced best, perhaps) via SMS? # How can these sorts of messages be adapted to students' progress and how can they be sequenced and scaffolded over time? # How many students are able and willing to participate in these sorts of educational activities via their mobile phone? Can students afford the texting fees? Do they want to use their text-messaging allocations for this purpose? # Can we subsidize this sort of SMS traffic for student populations? # If these sorts of messages between home and school become more common, will there be a way to include parents and parents' phones in the loop? # Can these quizzes be sent to parents' phones so that they can have the opportunity to pose a question to their children? "
Using the Internet to Increase Access to HIV information :: United Nations Development ... - 0 views
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The internet has long been identified as a key platform to increase user’s access to HIV awareness and prevention information. Current internet based interventions consist of establishing websites and chat rooms. However, these mechanisms alone have been ineffective in providing key access to the majority of internet users.
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This partnership builds on UNDP’s ongoing efforts to increase access to HIV awareness information to millions of Chinese by working with commercial media and advertisement companies, government partners, production companies, people living with HIV and UN partners.
Capturing and Holding the Attention of The Contemporary Internet Surfer: GoArticles.com - 0 views
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he online forum has been changing the way we grab attention, and the way we give it. In the world of cyberspace, fewer and fewer people have the concentrative patience to devote long moments of attention to text.
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Animated graphic ads and dynamic sound effects succeed in getting but not holding attention. The average internet surfer just does not have the mindset to settle on the details, and that's what a web manager wants them to do.
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The internet format provides a unique opportunity to use blends of imagery both motion and still, sounds both effects inspired and content driven, and text both bulleted and extrapolated. We are seeing more intelligent and blended use of these mixed media methods, and the population responds to it.
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You Tube or Your own "Professional Tube": Some Considerations: GoArticles.com - 0 views
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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!
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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.
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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.
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The Internet - Your Main Entertainment Hub - 0 views
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However, one aspect you may have over looked is that it is a central hub for entertainment.
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Access to free entertainment could not be easier and what is better than playing in the convenience of your own home. You do not even have to leave your sofa if you do not wish to, meaning that you are able to set the scene in which you can relax, unwind and simply have fun.
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Taking advantage of free games means you can keep all your pennies firmly in your pocket. The entertaining free games available on the net tend to be easy and come with a full set of instructions. You can enhance your game playing skill with absolutely no risk of handing over any cash. This can boast your confidence before you decided to take part in any games that are played for real money.
Impact of Media on Learning - 1 views
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All forms of media- the newspaper, radio, television and the internet are equally important in imparting education
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Media literacy or education does not only mean to be entertained by media but to learn something from it.
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Computer-based education has transformed the traditional offerings of distance learning.
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Obama: Broadband, Computers Part of Stimulus Package - PC World - 0 views
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To help our children compete in a 21st century economy, we need to send them to 21st century schools," Obama said
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The plan will also include rolling out broadband, both to places where it isn't available and to health-care facilities, Obama said. It is "unacceptable" that the U.S. ranks 15th in the world in broadband adoption
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Obama also called for hospitals to be connected to each other through the Internet. Modernizing the U.S. health-care system "won't just save jobs, it will save lives,"
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