tips for safe social networking:• Learn about and use the privacy and security settings on social networks. Consider restricting access to your page to a select group of people—for example, your friends from school, your club, your team, your community groups, or your family.• Think twice before posting pictures you wouldn’t want your parents or future employers to see.• Be cautious about how much personal information you provide on social networking sites. The more information you post, the easier it might be for a hacker, thief, or stalker to commit a crime.• Install a security suite (antivirus, antispyware, and firewall) that is set to update automatically.• Use tools to manage the information you share with friends in different groups. If you’re trying to create a public persona as a blogger or expert, create an open profile or a “fan” page that encourages broad participation and limits personal information. Use your personal profile for trusted friends.• Let a friend know if he or she posts information about you that makes you uncomfortable.• If someone is harassing or threatening you, remove the person from your friends list, block the person, and report the incident to the site administrator.• Make sure that your password is long, complex, and combines, letters, numerals, and symbols. Ideally, you should use a different password for every online account you have.• Be cautious about messages you receive on social networking sites that contain links. Even links that look they come from friends can sometimes contain malware or be part of a phishing attack.• Be aware that people you meet online might be nothing like they describe themselves, and they might not even be the gender they claim.• Flirting with strangers online could have serious consequences. Because some people lie about who they really are, you never really know who you’re dealing with.
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Nation's Digital Learning Report Card | Digital Learning Now - 0 views
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In developing their plans, states should adopt a sense of urgency around certain policy areas: establishing a competency-based education that requires students to demonstrate mastery of the material,providing a robust offering of high quality courses from multiple providers,ending the archaic practice of seat-time,funding education based on achievement instead of attendance,funding the student instead of the system,eliminating the all-too-common practice by school districts of prohibiting students from enrolling with approved providers, either by withholding funding or credit, andbreaking down the barriers, such as teacher-student ratios and class size limits, to effective, high quality instruction.
Preliminary Report: Wisconsin Framework for Educator Effectiveness - 0 views
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The Wisconsin Educator Effectiveness Design Team recommends key design features of a performance evaluation framework for teachers and principals. The framework, released November 2011, will shape the development of a state model, specifically guiding training, piloting, and implementation of Wisconsin's educator effectiveness system. The system will measure both educator practice as well as student outcomes.
Keeping Pace with K-12 Online Learning - 0 views
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K-12 online and blended learning have evolved in new directions in the past year. While nowfamiliar segments of the field, such as online charter schools and state virtual schools, have continued to grow, relatively new forms such as consortium programs and single-district programs are expanding even more rapidly, as is the range of private providers competing to work with districts. As of late 2011, online and blended learning opportunities exist for at least some students in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia, but no state has a full suite of full-time and supplemental options for students at all grade level. See page 164 for WI.
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This is an annual report on policy and practice across the nation...state by state. Empahsis on quality of online and blended learning this year. You'll find this to be very informative and factual. Note the "Planning for Quality" section pages 50-62...well done.
eSchool News » How to practice safe social networking » Print - 0 views
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From Ian Jukes, this includes good dialogue and a collection of tips for individuals. This could be used as an educational tool for high school students.
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