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As a practical outworking of this reflection and anticipation, I encourage you to set aside some time to tidy up your online presence. And perhaps even encourage others around you to do the same.

FEARFUL parents are unnecessarily sending pre-schoolers to early learning classes to give them an academic edge.

"These CC 4.0 licenses are the result of of two years of work to overcome some of the weaknesses that marked the 2011 version CC licenses. Some of the features and improvements included in 4.0 licences which make them easily shared and re-used include improved readability and organization and common-sense attribution."

This is an informed interview with ISP employees about the Labor policy making the ISPs responsible for enforcing the Clean Feed.

Federal Government plans to introduce ISP-level filtering to provide a 'safer' internet experience for Australian families are likely to be met with significant resistance from within the ISP community.

Create a tour of websites and add a voice over.

Australian teachers can add content from edna into their own websites by using RSS services. This free service, enables edna's shared information to be accessible directly to a school's own website or teachers personal computer via a free RSS reader.

"One of the essentials in Reading this year is one-on-one conferencing with students. When I saw that The CAFE suggested using three-ring binders with tons of copies for each student, I went mentally-fetal. It wouldn't just be one three-ring binder I'd need to organize. I have three classes! Knowing that much paperwork would overwhelm me, I set about devising a system. I settled on Evernote with an iPad I've borrowed from my district's IT department. I want to lay out a few screenshots of how it works and why I like it."

"Digital storytelling comes in many forms. Digital storytelling could refer to creating podcasts, creating videos, or creating multimedia ebooks to name of few of its forms. If you're considering developing your first digital storytelling project for your class, here some resources that can help you get started."

Diffbot looks like a new sort of RSS reader but one that turns webpages of choice into a "newspaper" sort of look. This may offer others an easier way to read this information

"Companies who want to know more about prospective employees can learn a lot by checking their Facebook profiles, according to a new study. Jennifer Golbeck and colleagues at the University of Maryland surveyed the public profiles of nearly 300 Facebook users for information about their favourite activities, TV shows, movies, music, books, quotes, and membership in political or other organisations. They also looked at the "About Me" and "blurb" sections. The work did not include status updates or other data that is only available to users' online friends."

"In this post, 4 screencasting apps for the iPad are reviewed: ReplayNote, Explain Everything, ScreenChomp, and ShowMe."