A good, eye-opening read.
Measuring 21st-century skills Articles – ISTE unveils new tech standards for teachers.
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Chicago can seem like a big scary city. There are a lot of great and fun things to do, but it is also easy to get off the beaten path and find trouble. The Internet is a lot like that. It can be an amazing resource for knowledge, creativity, research, and fun, but you can also find trouble. Just like you wouldn’t allow your child to wander around a big city like Chicago unchaperoned, so to should you monitor your child’s activity on the Internet.
If you don’t spend a lot of time on the Internet discovering it’s many secrets may seem like a daunting task. It doesn’t have to be, and it might lead to greater communication between you and your children. Here are some basic safety tips.
The Internet is enormous and ever expanding. No one person can know all of it, but if you start to educate yourself now you can begin a healthy conversation with your child about staying safe.
We have compiled some links to start your conversation about web safety. Head to following web address to check them out: http://tinyurl.com/62websafe.
The Administration Building & Algonquin Middle School are up & running on the new AT&T fiber-optic network.
We are planning on turning on three more buildings Tuesday November 3; Forest Elementary, Central Elementary, & Building & Grounds.
Stay tuned for more.
In case you haven’t heard, our transition to AT&T’s fiber optic opt-e-man network was successful. Currently the Admin Building & Algonquin are up and running. We are confidant that the whole district will be switched over by Thanksgiving.
We are experiencing a real increase in speed, resources that were not open to us before are now available, and we can download… stream, you name it! This is exciting.
Just want to let you know that I appreciate being allowed to talk at your staff meeting. And again, if you think I can help out with tech integration in your classroom don’t hesitate to email me. We’ll always have YouWho.
Here’s a link to my Diigo account, specifically the tag Education. That long list of blogging educators, Support Blogging, is in there.
I shot this pic the last week of September with my iPhone. I am standing in the administration parking lot and Forest Elementary is in the background. In the foreground are workers from Sonoma underground. They are boring underground to install conduit for our new fiber-optic network. We are still on target for a 2009 install!
Wiki.com is very cool. Think of it as Google for wikis. The site let’s you choose to search all wikis, just Wikipedia, all "indie" wikis, or just encyclopedia style wikis.
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Since the FCC has just put the kibosh on telemarketing robocalls (see New York Times article) I thought it might be helpful to post a link to the National Do Not Registry for all kinds of unsolicited telemarketing.
If you want to call to sign up for the Do Not Call registry the number is 1-888-382-1222.
To register online or to register multiple numbers at once head to www.donotcall.gov.
For more information about cell phones head to the Federal Trade Commission’s page here.
And yes, I’ve registered!
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