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Vanilla – Free Forum Hosting With Vanilla Forums you will have a simple, powerful discussion forum for your community up and running within minutes. Pacific trash vortex animation showing drift of ocean pollution | Greenpeace International  quietube | Video without the distractions | Youtube, iPlayer, Viddler, Vimeo and more Watch You Tube, BBC, etc. videos without ads, [...]

Choosing privacy in a digital world

Recently in the US there was the first-ever Choose Privacy Week.  The focus of the week was to inform Americans about their rights to privacy in a digital age. With Facebook recently in the news because of privacy concerns it was a timely campaign. Below is an interesting video made by American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom. Although though [...]

Mashpedia – more real-time information plus…

  So many ideas for taking what is out there in cyberspace and mashing them together to create something new. Mashpedia is not a search engine, nor is it wikipedia but something completely new. I found this tool thanks to a post on the excellent Free Technology for Teachers Blog. Mashpedia aggregates data from multiple feeds from sources such as Wikipedia, [...]

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Cyber Bullying | Cyber Friendly Website The CHPRC research investigating cyber bullying began in 2006 with young people and their parents and teachers. This research provided new insights into possible ways of dealing with the growing prevalence of cyber bullying and identified innovative school, home and community interventions. Currently the CHPRC has received funding to evaluate [...]

TwitterGadget

I have been playing around with a new Twitter tool (TwitterGadget) thanks to a post by pdonaghy  Before the first term ended I was trying to explain to some 1st year teachers how they, or teachers in general, might best use Twitter to develop a PLN for their own professional development. I explained about how I used TweetDeck to manage tweets. I tried [...]