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 […]
Read more "Local School Board Blocks Social Networking Sites"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 […]
Read more "Back to School – Will Your Classroom be Wiki’d?"The CRTC – Canadian Radio and Television Commision (in their words “The CRTC is an independent agency responsible for regulating Canada’s broadcasting and telecommunications systems. We report to Parliament through the Minister of Canadian Heritage.”) released its annual report on Canadian Broadcasting on Tuesday this week. Here’s the news release with some highlights. Here’s the […]
Read more "The Latest CRTC Report – Good News For the Web!"Here’s an example of using community submitted content to creat a video podcast and addition to your blog. This video was shot by my ten year old grand-daughter and with a little editing, music and titles we have a video podcast episode. Innisfail & District Historical Village is a non-profit group in Innisfail Alberta Canada […]
Read more "Brass Cast – Episode 3 – Innisfail Historical Village – Tipi Raising"Does your CEO blog? Would they like to? Would the PR department let them? Today on BNN – Business News Network, they talked to Steve Rubel, senior vice president, Edelman PR on the pros and cons of executive and corporate blogging. Good interview! No matter what questions they threw at him, Steve Rubel responded with essentially […]
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