Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Internet Safety PSA's and other links

I'm attending the i-JAM Internet Safety conference and will post more later regarding the sessions I attended. For now, I thought I'd give some links to free public service announcements that school districts can download and broadcast:

http://www.projectsafechildhood.gov
http://www.adcouncil.org - search on left for Health & Safety and some relevant subcategories.

Also, there are a couple of episodes of PBS's "Frontline" that the presenters recommended:

"Growing Up Online"
"Inside the Teenage Brain"

More later... Take care! JR

Friday, November 21, 2008

62,000,000+ hits - another Internet sensation...

Is this 2.0?


Get a Voki now!

Giving Web 2.0 a shot...

Given that many of our CIO's are discussing the educational relevance of blogs, wikis and any number of "Web 2.0" applications, I thought I'd take a stab at this myself. If all goes as planned, I'll use this site to document conversations I've had with local CIO's. Ideally, it will increase our collaboration with one another and maybe we'll use this as one forum to share our input on topics relevant to the K-12 CIO.

I attended the regional TIS meeting today and several useful items were brought up. I'll admit that I had no idea what a 'voki' was, so I may be looking to educate myself and create one. Tons of free Web 2.0 tools are mentioned at http://www.go2web20.net.

Wish me luck... Take care! JR