Protecting Your Privacy on Facebook
In an attempt to compete with more open social networking platforms like Twitter, Facebook’s management made an important and very controversial decision in December to change the privacy settings for the popular social networking site. In a recent piece in ReadWriteWeb, Sarah Perez makes a few helpful recommendations users should take to protect their privacy on Facebook. 1. Who can see the things you share (status updates, photos, videos, etc.)? “Probably the most critical of the “privacy” changes (yes, we mean those quotes sarcastically) was the change made to...
Read MoreUsing Cloud Computing to Improve School Communication
If schools are going to use technology to improve organizational processes, it’s important their leaders consider moving many of the school’s daily operations onto a cloud-based network. This enables the sort of communication that can only be accomplished by utilizing the networking and information sharing power of a cloud system. I enjoyed a post on this topic from a few months ago, entitled “Heads in the Cloud.” The author discusses a few ways his school uses Google to communicate more effectively. Here are a few ideas I really liked: Noticeboards–...
Read MoreApple’s iPad
From all accounts, it appears certain that later today, Apple will announce a tablet based platform. Dubbed the Apple tablet or iPad by some, the tablet will have 3G, and iPhone apps will be compatible. Apparently major content providers from media to game companies have been hard at work developing content for the launch and have all but confirmed these details. Gizmodo has chronicled an exhaustive look at the rumors leading up to today’s expected announcement. Here is a Sports Illustrated mock-up on a tablet by Time, inc. that really demonstrates the potential power. Imagine the...
Read MoreFirefox 3.6 Released
Mozilla just released the latest version of its Firefox browser 3.6. Mike Beltzner discusses it’s new...
Read MoreMoodle Versus Other LMS Platforms
Jared Stein from the Utah Education Network compares Moodle with other popular learning management platforms and demonstrates its most important features. Check out Stein’s presentation ( it’s a bit long but a good...
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