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Instagram adds video

June 21, 2013 By Anne 2 Comments

Instagram adds video

Facebook's little photo-sharing app just became a video-sharing app too. Whether they're using Apple or Android phones, Instagram's 130 million users can now simply pick whether that image they want to capture is better static or in motion, then click on either the little camera or videocam icon (see the left-hand screenshot below). If they go with video, they can capture up to 15 seconds (no … [Read more...] about Instagram adds video

Filed Under: mobile, Social Media, video Tagged With: app, cellphones, Cinema, filters, Instagram, mobile phones, Social Media, video sharing, videos

Now there’s YouTube designed for school

December 14, 2011 By Anne Leave a Comment

Because most schools block entire social media sites in an effort to keep out inappropriate content, they also block all the perfectly appropriate and even educational content on the social Web. That goes for YouTube too, of course. But "YouTube has a vast library of content, much of which can be used for educational purposes," PC Magazine reports, so Google launched YouTube for Schools, which … [Read more...] about Now there’s YouTube designed for school

Filed Under: School & Tech, Social Media Tagged With: classroom, filters, school, Social Media, YouTube

Latest trends in Web filtering

November 12, 2010 By Anne 3 Comments

GetParentalControls.org has not only done parents a service in testing and ranking 9 top filtering products, they noticed some key trends in the process. First, the winners of their three categories for effective filtering are NetNanny in both the Editor's Choice and Most Secure categories and K9 Web Protection in the Most Accurate category. They invited the 20 companies in their product guide to … [Read more...] about Latest trends in Web filtering

Filed Under: Risk & Safety Tagged With: adult content, BitDefender, BrightFilter, BSecure Online, CyberPatrol, filtering software, filters, GetParentalControls, hate, NetNanny, Norton Online Family, Optenet, parental controls, proxies, proxy services, Safe Eyes, violence, workarounds

Reflection on filters, social media & school

May 2, 2010 By Anne 1 Comment

School filtering works better when less restrictive and blended with teaching students how to "take responsibility themselves for using new technologies safely," said a study by British education watchdog Ofsted I blogged about in February). Educator Tom Whitby and the amazing comments to his blog post, "Deal or No Deal" got me thinking about this all over again this weekend. User-produced … [Read more...] about Reflection on filters, social media & school

Filed Under: Filtering, monitoring, etc., Online Safety 3.0, Risk & Safety, School & Tech, school policy Tagged With: filtering, filters, online safety, Social Media

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IMPORTANT RESOURCES

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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