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3 employees at the Iowa Civil Rights Commission were fired for sending hundreds of emails calling co-workers derogatory nicknames. The emails were sent during work time when the employees were supposed to be investigating complaints of housing and employment discrimination

This is the reason why we need to teach cybercitizenship in our classrooms

Search for math resources in this Searchable URL Database. Connections to the Iowa Core

This is a really interesting and challenging legal issue. The article is an opinion piece on current anti-bullying legislation in Iowa. The author takes a position against the bills' position that schools have authority to discipline cyber-bullying issues outside of school hours. The author's position is that the bill violates students' first amendment rights. I would tend to agree, although anytime a teacher does set up a forum through facebook, twitter, or some other public sharing place, the school does have the responsibility to teach cyber-citizenship and monitor those forums created through or by the school. For example, if a classroom teacher has students create twitter accounts for class or a facebook group for a lesson, then the school has the responsibility to get involved. The lines do get blurred, though, and it is not a 'cut and dried' situation that one bill can adequately respond to on it's own.

A group of 8th graders in Iowa that manage Google Apps for Education. So cool!

This is really neat! Get the kids on board to teach the teachers and others. Fun to see Andy Crozier in the video- I have known him for many years-since he was in elementary school

I really likes this video when I watched it. Lots of food for thought in one short movie.

AEA partnering with schools to provide better use of google apps in the classroom.

I did not know this. I wonder if my district will be doing this. The high school kids will be getting laptops this year. I sub. I am glad I am taking this class so I will be a wee bit familiar with Google Apps.

I wish I had just a few more days before students return. It will be interesting to see how familiar they are with diigo.