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Jeff Ratliff

Google Dashboard lifts curtain on stored data - 0 views

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    Gives users the ability to see what information Google stores about them.
Chalana Perera

Implementing Effective Classroom Internet Safety: Keeping Students Safe while Online Ne... - 0 views

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  • Though most schools have special filters in place to keep kids safe while using the Internet, these filters do not catch everything.
  • viruses
  • keeping a watchful eye on students is not enough
Chalana Perera

Integrating Technology into the Classroom - concerns - 1 views

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  • There is nothing stopping students from cheating with each other while on the internet, especially if you are giving online assessments
  • permission form
  • Many schools don't have the necessary equipment. Some aren't connected to the internet.
Chalana Perera

BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | UK surveillance plan to go ahead - 2 views

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shared by Chalana Perera on 21 Nov 09 - Cached
  • asking firms to retain information on how people use social networks such as Facebook.
  • More communication via computers rather than phones Companies won't always keep all data all the time Anonymity online masks criminal identities More online services provided from abroad Data held in many locations and difficult to find
  • recognition of the role of data in protecting the public
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  • Communications data is crucial to the fight against crime and in keeping people safe. It is a highly technical area and one which demands a fine balance between privacy and maintaining the capabilities of the police and security services
  • The Home Office says it wants to change the law to compel communication service providers (CSPs) to collect and retain records of communications from a wider range of internet sources, from social networks through to chatrooms and unorthodox methods, suc
  • ecret security services have legal powers in the UK to intercept communications in the interests of combating crime or threats to national security.
Chalana Perera

BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Danish pupils use web in exams - 0 views

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shared by Chalana Perera on 21 Nov 09 - Cached
  • The teachers also think the nature of the questions make it harder to cheat in exams
  • the internet is so much a part of daily life, it should be included in the classroom and in examinations.
  • they can use the internet to answer any of the four questions.
Chalana Perera

Google launches Maps tool for finding flu vaccine | Webware - CNET - 0 views

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  • users can now visit Google's new flu shot Google Maps page to find out if there is any vaccine available in their area.
  • has yet to receive information on flu shots from many locations.
  • working with the Centers for Disease Control
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  • users can input their Zip code or town and find all the vaccine available in their area
  • e vaccine providers aware of the project so that they can contribute."
Chalana Perera

BBC News | Sci/Tech | Search engine seeks billion URLs - 0 views

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  • But size is not everything and while alltheweb seemed lightning fast when I tried it, it did not appear to match the relevancy of a much smaller search engine now
  • find more of these highly rated gems and place them on the first or second page of search results, resulting in a better and more satisfying search experience."
  • the result of more than a decade of research into optimising search algorithms and architectures in a project initiated at the
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  • storage subsystems, operating in parallel to distribute user queries, search the catalogue and spider the Web.
Chalana Perera

Internet Time and the Reliability of Search Engines | EDUCAUSE - 4 views

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shared by Chalana Perera on 13 Sep 09 - Cached
  • earch engines are unreliable tools for data collection for research that aims to reconstruct the historical record.
Chalana Perera

Magazine Led to Database's 'Abortion' Search Block : NPR - 0 views

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shared by Chalana Perera on 13 Sep 09 - Cached
  • The block was an "overreaction," says Michael Klag, the dean of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, which maintains the POPLINE database.
  • An inquiry into why the world's largest database on reproductive health blocked searches using the term "abortion" has found the restriction was put in place because of articles from an abortion advocacy magazine available on the site.
Chalana Perera

BBC News | SCI/TECH | Search engines swamped - 1 views

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  • Internet users have been turning en masse to search engines for information, following the unprecedented terrorist attacks
Chalana Perera

Health Database Blocked Searches on 'Abortion' : NPR - 1 views

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shared by Chalana Perera on 13 Sep 09 - No Cached
  • The world's largest database on reproductive health, POPLINE, has been blocking searches using the term "abortion"
  • discrepancy in the retrieval
  • "Eliminating this term essentially blocks access to the reports in the database and ultimately to information about abortion,"
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  • Sorrough said librarians were instructed by POPLINE to use alternate terms such as "unwanted pregnancy" or "fertility control, post-conception."
  • administrators then made the decision to restrict 'abortion' as a search term," she said.
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