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Great video by the Victorian Department of Justice about their Social Media Policy. Most of it relates to other gov employees (eg. teachers) as well.

A good article in light of the furore around Justine Sacco. Tarun Wadhwa makes an interesting point that what would have happened if Joanne had in fact been hacked. Also makes the comparison with the Boston Bombing fiasco involving the use of social media.

There are alarming links between Democratic Republic of Congo's coltan wealth, widespread rape, violence and consumer demand for smaller faster technology. Despite the horror of this war, its victims are largely forgotten and its perpetrators avoid justice. And too often, the Church has remained silent when it should speak out. The Your Call campaign wants to put a stop the silence around this issue and the injustice suffered by many women in the Congo. - See more at: http://micahchallenge.org.uk/engage/w2w/learn-more/w2w-learn-more-get-inspired/647-your-call#sthash.fn3IR0UP.dpuf

"Internet browsing is the strongest forte of iPad because of features like portability, connectivity, functionality and easy access it provides on the go. While iPad's default Browser Safari does more than justice to internet browsing experience on iPad, it does not fully take advantage of the in-built iPad capability and power. This is where all the other iPad Internet Browser alternatives make their entry into the scene, particularly by exploiting the full potential of iPad's offerings and sometimes even providing high end touch gesture integration for internet browsing alacrity."

games4Change director offers valuable perspective on games for teaching, learning, and social justice

Filament Games is a game production studio that exclusively creates learning games. Our core competency is producing games that combine best practices in commercial game development with key concepts from the learning sciences. Accordingly, our senior staff is comprised of individuals who are equal parts game and instructional designers; a "dual literacy" that allows us to engineer authentic gameplay mechanics (rules and interactions that directly correlate with specific learning objectives). Filament Games was founded in 2005 by education technology expert Dan White, game designer Dan Norton, and software engineer Alex Stone. In the time since, Filament has developed over 30 educational games for clients ranging from National Geographic's JASON Science to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's iCivics Inc.

This is the official policy for social media use at the Department of Justice and provides guidance for departmental employees and external contractors on their professional and personal use of social media.

"The OKCast is a weekly open source blog and podcast with the goal to explore, connect, use and inspire open knowledge projects around the world to develop the public commons, improve organization and government transparency and communication, and advocate for social justice and social activism."