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rballardvt

Schools and Libraries Program - USAC.org - 0 views

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    About the e rate for schools and internet access
leahammond

Student Rights and Responsibilities in the Digital Age: A Guide for Public School Stude... - 0 views

  • You have the right to express yourself online, whether you are writing e-mails, posting to a blog, updating a homepage, or talking in a chat-room. Yet you also are responsible for your actions as they affect others
  • The U.S. Constitution and the Washington Constitution guarantee freedom of expression for everyone, including students. Students do not give up their constitutional rights when they walk onto school grounds. Whether you want to comment on a new school rule, gay rights, teen pregnancy, or the latest national news, you have the right to express your ideas, including those that are controversial. But there are limits
  • such as giving a sexually suggestive speech at a school assembly, or promoting illegal drug use at a school functio
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  • But in most situations, school administrators and teachers cannot prevent you from saying something just because it is controversial.
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  • True Threats Whether you are in school or not, online or in-person, the right to free speech does not protect speech that a reasonable person would interpret as a serious expression of your desire and ability to harm him/her.
  • Defamatory Statements The right to free speech also does not protect false personal attacks against another person that are untrue, that harm someone's reputation, and that you knew, or should have known, were untrue when you said or wrote it.
  • Obscene Speech The right to free speech does not protect speech that deals with sex in a manner appealing to purely lustful interests in a patently offensive manner, and without serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
  • For speech to be considered a "true threat," it must be something that a reasonable person would interpret as a serious expression of an intention to harm him/her.
  • If the school provides students with an e-mail address, it can impose rules on its use. For example, it can require that the address be used only for school-related purposes and can prohibit using the account in a way that interferes with another student's learning, such as sending flames or bullying messag
  • It may also monitor what you view, send, or receive on school-provided computers or e-mail account
  • Your school may prohibit all access to the Internet on any computer. Or your school may prohibit using school computers to access the Internet, including sites such as Facebook or YouTube, or using Hotmail or Gmail accounts, if school officials believe access is disruptive to the schoo
  • When you are using the school's computer and Internet access, school officials can see what you are sending and receiving onlin
  • Check your personal e-mail or non-school-related websites outside of school, on your own time, with a computer that does not belong to the school.
  • But merely because you are off campus, you are not free to say just anything. Remember, state and federal laws make it illegal to post threats of violence against a person or to advocate certain illegal action
  • Posting information on the Internet can be like publishing it in the newspaper. If the website is public, anyone can look at i
  • Keep in mind that school officials, college admissions officers, and potential employers are free to look at it.
  • Other people could take your posting and copy it to another website where you can't delete it
  • What's more, what you put on a public website may stay on the Internet foreve
leahammond

Social Networking Privacy: How to be Safe, Secure and Social | Privacy Rights Clearingh... - 0 views

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    Public Information, Social Network
leahammond

Privacy and Publicity Rights - 0 views

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    Copyright and public rights
Cally Flickinger

Integrating digital literacy and inquiry learning - 0 views

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    How to create authentic lreatning using technology
Joy Ray

Dictation - Online Speech Recognition - 0 views

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    Dictation is a free online speech recognition software powered by Google Chrome. You can use Dictation to write emails and documents in the browser with your voice
Joy Ray

Reading Tasks - Supporting Struggling Learners in Chrome - 0 views

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    Common barriers to independently, efficiently and effectively reading print based reading materials and even some digital text include fluency issues, decoding difficulties, unfamiliar vocabulary and/or lack of background knowledge. Chrome offers a number of tools to help support these students.
Joy Ray

Differentiate Instruction Using Google Apps - Electronic Brains - 0 views

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    Theories that Inspire Great Instruction As a trained Special Education teacher, I have always believed that it is essential to offer a variety of learning strategies and project opportunities to the students in my classroom.
Joy Ray

Google Chrome Apps & Extensions - 0 views

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    Various Chrome Extensions and Apps with nifty assistive technology features and uses. The majority of these apps and extensions included on this board are FREE. | See more about extensions, mind maps and evernote.
Joy Ray

Google Chrome A.T. - Community - Google+ - 1 views

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    This community was created to celebrate the many Apps and Extensions made by developers which serve the accessibility needs of individuals with disabilities. We also developed a searchable Google Database to collect Apps and Extensions that serve the particular challenges anyone might face while working in the Cloud, specifically for the Chrome Browser.
Joy Ray

Home | National Center on Accessible Instructional Materials - 0 views

shared by Joy Ray on 12 Mar 15 - Cached
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    Learn about the basics of AIM, AIM-related policy, and creating accessible media. Experience teaching and training resources and decision-making tools. Collaborate with the AIM Community and explore student stories. View our videos to learn about AIM and how others have used AIM to improve both accessibility and learning.
Joy Ray

Symbaloo - 0 views

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    This Reading webmix is a great tool for teachers and students, containing various lesson plans, online tools, and tutorials regarding all types of Reading.
rballardvt

EdTechTeam - 0 views

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    I was mainly looking at following Dr. Mark Wagner and this is his blog but it also has various guest bloggers that are good
rballardvt

Blog | Dan Gillmor | Just in case you were wondering… - 0 views

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    Interesting technology blogger who talks about a lot of different issues. 
Cally Flickinger

Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners: Grab a ThingLink Account for Your School District - 0 views

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     Great tutorial about using Thinglink for curricula and student curation and collaboration in creative and authentic ways. 
Kate Frisbie

A Comprehensive Guide to Content Curation - 0 views

shared by Kate Frisbie on 10 Mar 15 - No Cached
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    I really like these images to help understand curation and do it wisely.
Kate Frisbie

Mixtapes: The Future of Curation? - Cuepoint - Medium - 0 views

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    A very interesting essay comparing curation to mixed tapes. As a child of the 80s and maker of many mixed tapes, the analogy works for me. It helped me visualize the beauty and effect of Storify or Diigo. Warning: the writer is promoting his next product, but regardless his analogy works.
Kate Frisbie

Social Media for Teachers: Guides, Resources, and Ideas | Edutopia - 0 views

  • n a 2014 survey of 1,000 teachers, just one in five said they use social media regularly with students.
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    Social media can provide great tools for education. Matt Davis has gathered some of the best resources to help teachers get started.
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    Good resources for using the social media tools in your classroom. As I become more comfortable in this social media world, I feel I need to incorporate it into my classes.
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