SafetyWeb, part of the newest wave of social Web monitoring products for parents, has created a useful service for Facebook users themselves: an app for finding and getting help for all sorts of problems. It's a very simple little app that, with two clicks, places a "Find Help" link in the left-hand column of your home page (under your profile photo). Click on it, and you go to a page that … [Read more...] about New help app for Facebook users
Archives for November 2010
Mobile learning’s growing momentum: Study
The tide against cellphones in school – for learning, not just communication – seems to be turning. Student engagement, tight school budgets (or reasonable technology that so many students already own), and the fact that students like using their own devices are the "driving factors," according to a study by Project Tomorrow, which conducts the annual national Speak Up Survey of students, … [Read more...] about Mobile learning’s growing momentum: Study
Talking privacy at household & international levels
We – all of us (well, maybe all of us above the age of around 28) – are in a very uncomfortable place where personal privacy's concerned. It seems all of our children are social Web users and we all have growing digital footprints ourselves, whether we're on Facebook or not, and we're pretty uneasy about the implications of all this intentional and inadvertent sharing for us as well as our kids. … [Read more...] about Talking privacy at household & international levels