Protecting Your Privacy on Facebook

Saturday, 30 January 2010, 8:27 | Category : Afterthoughts
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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 [...]

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Using Cloud Computing to Improve School Communication

Thursday, 28 January 2010, 13:01 | Category : The Digital Principal
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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 theĀ  networking and information sharing power of a cloud system. I enjoyed a post on [...]

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Apple’s iPad

Wednesday, 27 January 2010, 3:20 | Category : Afterthoughts
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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 [...]

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Firefox 3.6 Released

Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 21:06 | Category : Afterthoughts
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Mozilla just released the latest version of its Firefox browser 3.6. Mike Beltzner discusses it’s new features.

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Moodle Versus Other LMS Platforms

Monday, 25 January 2010, 0:42 | Category : The Web 2.0 Teacher
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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 view).

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