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Archives for November 2010

Kinect for Xbox 360: Signs it’s a holiday hit

November 30, 2010 By Anne Leave a Comment

Looks like Kinect for the Xbox 360 videogame console is one of the hot items of this year's holiday shopping season. The maker of the motion-sending, controller-free gaming product (where the gamer's the controller), Microsoft, says it's scrambling to keep up with demand, having sold 2.5 million units worldwide in Kinect's first 25 days, the Christian Science Monitor reports. To see if this makes … [Read more...] about Kinect for Xbox 360: Signs it’s a holiday hit

Filed Under: Social Media, videogames Tagged With: Kinect, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation Move, videogaming, Xbox 360

The MySpace-Facebook mashup

November 29, 2010 By Anne Leave a Comment

Facebook and MySpace have been integrating their content-sharing features in recent months, and the latest is literally called "Mashup." With it, MySpace users can "populate their MySpace page with the likes and interests listed on their Facebook profile, and then stream MySpace content to the page based on the Facebook information," Information Week reports. The feature is already being used by … [Read more...] about The MySpace-Facebook mashup

Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: Facebook, integration, Like, mashup, MySpace, social networking

Cyberbullying: What I’ve learned so far

November 26, 2010 By Anne 9 Comments

A sequel to "Notes from a conference on bullying," posted last week.... Cyberbullying incidents don't happen in a vacuum. I'm saying this because I keep running into signs that adults do think they are events that somehow happen in a vacuum or come in out of the blue. However, since Facebook activity is a reflection of users and their lives – and much of the focus of most teens' lives is … [Read more...] about Cyberbullying: What I’ve learned so far

Filed Under: cyberbullying, Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety, School & Tech, school policy Tagged With: cyberbullying, Parenting, school culture, school policy, social norms

British bishop’s costly Facebook gaffe

November 24, 2010 By Anne 1 Comment

There are an awful lot of teenage users who have a better sense of how impactful their Facebook comments can be than the white-haired Church of England bishop who just lost his job for saying exactly what he thought about the royal engagement on his Facebook page. "The Bishop of Willesden, the Right Reverend Pete Broadbent, said the union between Prince William and Kate Middleton would last about … [Read more...] about British bishop’s costly Facebook gaffe

Filed Under: Social Media, social networking Tagged With: Bishop Broadbent, digital footprint, Facebook, Kate Middleton, online privacy, Prince William, royal engagement

Families, be on high alert this ‘Cyber Monday’

November 23, 2010 By Anne Leave a Comment

You may've heard about how the Monday after Thanksgiving tends to be the biggest online shopping day of the year. Great bargains are to be had. Therefore by definition, it's also a big day for online fraud, so somewhere between now and then, you might have a family chat about being extra alert when shopping on "Cyber Monday." MacWorld suggests that you be extra cautious about deals that are too … [Read more...] about Families, be on high alert this ‘Cyber Monday’

Filed Under: Security Tagged With: Black Friday, computer security, Cyber Monday, cybercrime, holiday shopping, online fraud, Sophos, TrendMicro

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Our (DIGITAL) PARENTING BASICS: Safety + Social
NAMLE, the National Association for Media Literacy Education
CASEL.org & the 5 core social-emotional competencies of SEL
Center for Democracy & Technology
Center for Innovative Public Health Research
Childnet International
Committee for Children
Congressional Internet Caucus Academy
ConnectSafely.org
Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
Crimes Against Children Research Center
Crisis Textline
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative's Revenge Porn Crisis Line
Cyberwise.org
danah boyd's blog and book about networked youth
Disconnected, Carrie James's book on digital ethics
FOSI.org's Good Digital Parenting
The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
If you watch nothing else: "Parenting in a Digital Age" TED Talk by Prof. Sonia Livingstone
The International Bullying Prevention Association
Let Grow Foundation
Making Caring Common
Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
MediaSmarts.ca
The New Media Literacies
Report of the Aspen Task Force on Learning & the Internet and our guide to Creating Trusted Learning Environments
The Ruler Approach to social-emotional learning (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
Sources of Strength
"Young & Online: Perspectives on life in a digital age" from young people in 26 countries (via UNICEF)
"Youth Safety on a Living Internet": 2010 report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (and my post about it)

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