Local School Board Blocks Social Networking Sites

A front page article in the Red Deer Advocate, ‘Teachers Facing Cyber Attacks’ tells how the Red Deer Public School Board blocks myspace, facebook and other social networking sites in an attempt to fight cyber bullying of both students and teachers. According to Ron Eberts, assistant superintendent for information technology services, “The No. 1 reason […]

Back to School – Will Your Classroom be Wiki’d?

In this article from PC-World.ca, Don Tapscott talks about the ‘new’ classroom. Mr. Tapscott is the author of Wikinomics where he describes the changes in business and the workplace as a result of collaboration and sharing of ideas versus top-down, command and control environments which are elements of the traditional workplace. Schools, just like businesses […]

Digital Red Deer

Dean Frey, Director of the Red Deer Public Library and his staff, are using web 2.0 to provide a venue for information on the upcoming municipal elections through http://www.electionforum.ca. Blogs, podcasts and forums are incorporated into the site to provide information and communication on the elections planned for October 15, 2007. You can read more […]

Museums and Web 2.0

Museums – small or large – local or global can make use of web 2.0. Blogging and podcasting are ideally suited to aid a museum in it’s objectives of marketing and education. Large museums have ‘virtual’ exhibits, but many smaller museums have been faced with challenges in getting their message and collections out on the […]