On the wire today we have a focus on digital citizenship, and a little on a global project 1. Facebook privacy settings http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/facebooks-privacy-settings-a-complete-guide/ This week seems to have had a number of digital citizenship articles in the various online news sites that I subscribe to: Stuff article on “mum’s cell phone contract” – http://t.co/UWVQINiY [...]
The new facebook poke app raises a concern or two for me in regards to appropriate use. The app which is essentially facebook’s version of snapchat allows the user to do a number of interesting things. Here is what they say about it in the 12 December news release “With the Poke app, you can [...]
Lee sent me this article recently and I have to say I am a little shocked. http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/04/25/google-drive-cloud-storage-terms.html Like many in education I make use of the Google suite of tools, for a long time Google documents and more recently Google drive. I suspect that like many people when it came to agreeing with the terms and [...]
Many schools are considering a BYOD program for a wide range of reasons. For schools this represents a huge shift from the various models they have employed before to see appropriate ICT’s in the hands of their students for learning. Whether the program has been a lab based approach, a laptop program or some blend [...]
Well the first week back at school is completed, I am still recovering from the Ladakh expedition. Its been a very busy week and a very interesting one. One of the first things that caught my attention this week was this article published on the BBC website linking nutrition and learning. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-18997223 – the article [...]
But I guess this is more than computers and computing, its actually all about ICT – information and communications technologies. Many of us may have seen the recent release from Google about a project they are working on called Project Glass. http://g.co/projectglass and perhaps you have looked up the video on youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4 Aside from the privacy and [...]
This is an interesting interactive article hosted on the BBC website. The article asks two pieces of information from you, the first is the country you are in and the second your pre-tax monthly wage. It then calculates your wage against your own countries average wage and the global average wage. Its fascinating The URL [...]
There have been two recent court events in the United Kingdom that reinforce the key underlying principles of digital citizenship: Middle School Digital Citizenship Senior School Digital Citizenship Looking after yourself Respect yourself & Protect yourself Looking after others Respect others & Protect others Looking after Property Respect Intellectual Property & Protect Intellectual Property Source: [...]
I have long been a fan of the work of Sash and Lee Le Fever of the Commoncraft show – http://www.commoncraft.com/ The videos they ahve produced have provide excellent professional development resources and I frequently direct my students and staff to these resources on their website. Earlier in the week I visited the commoncraft site [...]
Thursday, I was down in sunny Nelson for a one day leadership conference with the link learning cluster, working with Charles and Allanah and the principals and lead teachers of the 20+ primary schools that make up this ICTPD cluster. The keynote was Key competencies in the 21st Century. In work that we (21st Century [...]
