Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Schools and districts are required, both legally and professionally / ethically / morally, to monitor employee and student use of technology tools when those tools are used for professional or instructional purposes. School organizations that don’t must face the legal and public relations ramifications of ignoring potential employee / student…

I had some time to kill this afternoon in an urban public high school, and I decided to try a few web sites to see what they were filtering. I wasn’t looking for porn here, just which “social software” sites were being blocked. Here are the results, do you see a pattern? flickr: OK Blogger: OK Xanga: OK MySpace: OK…

Michigan Child Protection Registry Michigan is now the first state in the country to create a child protection registry that enables parents to guard children from unwanted electronic messages. The free service is intended to protect minors from messages about pornography, tobacco, gambling, alcohol, illegal or prescription drugs, firearms, and…

Michigan is now the first state in the country to create a child protection registry that enables parents to guard children from unwanted electronic messages. The free service is intended to protect minors from messages about pornography, tobacco, gambling, alcohol, illegal or prescription drugs, firearms, and fireworks. More information about…

The Boston Globe reported on May 28 that the Boston Public Schools no longer allow students to use Yahoo, Hotmail, or other personal Web-based accounts from school. The action was taken after four incidents of students using school computers to e-mail threats, hit lists, and pornography to other students and…