Advocates 4 Digital Citizenship, Safety, & Success

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Vaio laptop safety recall
Again, as a health thing, you shouldn't REALLY put a laptop on your lap. I have a food tray that I use when I use my laptop in the recliner. In addition to claims that it causes infertility in men, it is also not good for your laptop to cover the ventilation holes with your clothing (or that little bit of pudge on your thighs.)

This is something to mention to laptop users as part of digital health and wellness with digital "citizenship" and safety.
tags: education, safety, ad4dcss

Whither censorship? « What Counts!
Very interesting ponderings from an elementary teacher in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada about the balance and issues that have caused some parents to want to block all "social" tools in school.

I think she has very balanced ponderings on this and it is excellent reading.
tags: education, ad4dcss, digitalcitizenship

Aunt Lee Dot Com
From Leann Lacy - some cool materials to use with children for safety and other educational games.
tags: education, ad4dcss, digitalcitizenship

Mathtrain.TV
Mathtrain.tv brought to you by Mr. Marcos and his 6th grade class in Santa Monica, CA. Let your students find answers about what they are doing here. This is amazing!

This is an excellent example of WHY students should be creating and sharing with other students.
tags: math, edu_news, ad4dcss

Advocates for Digital Citizenship, Safety, and Success
This is the RSS page on netvibes that pulls together all of the most recent resources for advocates. If you have netvibes, this is a great tab to add to your group.
tags: ad4dcss, education, professionaldevelopment, digitalcitizenship
Group Ad4dcss's best bookmarks
The advocates for digital citizenship, safety, and success diigo group has over 400 bookmarks categorized by the 9 aspects of digital citizenship that we are using to organize. Join in and share your bookmarks. This is becoming a great resource.
tags: ad4dcss, education, edu_news, bestpractices, professionaldevelopment
ad4dcss » I read blocked blogs
The information at the advocates for digital citizenship, safety, and success about the I read blocked blogs week. This loosely joined group of educators has created a central clearinghouse for activities such as this. Create activities that fit within digital citizenship and join and post. We have a blog, wiki, and more information -- everything is linked at http://www.netvibes.com/coolcatteacher#Ad4dcss -- Join in.
tags: ad4dcss, education, edu_trends, techintegrator, all_teachers, professionaldevelopment
Announcing “Blocked Blogs Week” — June 29th - July 5th at Change Agency
I read blocked blogs week is the week of NECC -- this site has information about the buttons and shirts that you may order to take with you to NECC.
tags: ad4dcss, digital_access

Tapped In Festival 2008: Beyond conflict -- Building Peaceful Communities
Tapped in has been a mainstay in education and a non threatening method of using chat to link with people around the world. This longstanding contributor to education has its 2008 Tapped In Festival scheduled for July 23 and July 24th with some neat things planned. This website has more information for you and certificates of participation will be available for those who participates.

Teachers should connect in which ever way they feel most comfortable and the power of embedded networks should never be ignored.
tags: ad4dcss, education, globalcollaboration, flat_classroom, edu_news, professionaldevelopment