This is not about free trade at all. This is an entertainment industry-written bill designed to recreate the Internet in its image — as a broadcasting platform, rather than one used for user-generated content and communication. ~ Mike Masnick

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In Memory of Irena Sendlerowa 1910-2008 she KNEW what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews, (being German.) Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box.

[ECP} Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings Newsletter The Conscience Un-Conference: Using Social Media For Good is a free, one-day "un-conference" co-hosted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media click to apply.

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Speakers will include Hall of Fame player Ernie Banks, All-Star pitcher, broadcaster, and manager Larry Dierker, baseball language expert Paul Dickson, and Negro Leagues pitcher Mamie "Peanut" Johnson, among many others.

Privacy / China / USA / somebody ought to sue someone. The audit showed that several DOD organizations did not follow disposalpolicies, did not properly train personnel or did not develop and implement on-site procedures for the authorized release of IT equipment.

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K- 12 Teachers Interested in learning strategies to teach about the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights using Library of Congress primary sources? Participants will leave with strategies and materials they can use in their schools.

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Webology OPEN ACCESS journal is published and available ONLINE now. Library we love librarians! Wikipedia; Popularity; Citation Analysis; Encyclopedia

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In fact, there are but two essential reasons we maintain these increased controls on behalf of our community: to protect our participants so that images that violate their privacy are not displayed, and to prevent companies from using Burning Man to sell products.

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As The Times' Dawn C. Chmielewski reported Friday, emissaries of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. recently approached the owners of this newspaper, the New York Times, the Washington Post and Hearst Corp. about joining a consortium that would charge for online news content.

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Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors.

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Anyone who is censored on the Net either in America or in China needs a VPN.

Walter Cronkite passed away. He was the first one to get the term news anchorman applied to him. He was the only TV news person I trusted until John Stewart.

Got a question? Try Ask-WA!Getting the best answers to your questions just got a lot easier with Ask-WA. More than 60 Washington libraries, backed by an even larger network of libraries worldwide, have teamed up so that you can ask your questions anytime, 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week, and get great answers from a live librarian.

China Baidu.com Bravo! Hewlwtt-Packard, the world's top PC maker and Dell Inc. Said they wer not providing Green Dam with their PC's in China. DO NOT BUY Acer, Lenovo and Sony who are providing Green Dam Software and Minor Escort programs with computers sold in China on July 4th which coincides with America's Independence Day Celebration.

In Today’s Global Economy, only a Handful of States Score Favorable ‘Letter Grades’ on International Benchmarks. The report, issued today by the American Institutes for Research (AIR), based on international performance benchmarks in math for 4th and 8th grade students concluded that only 4th graders in a handful of states – among them Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Kansas and Vermont – are learning at B or B- levels when compared with students internationally. “The highest achieving countries are so far ahead of us, we will never catch up if we run at the current pace,” said Phillips. “Our states and school districts should no longer be comparing themselves to their neighbors. They will be competing for jobs and innovations with students around the globe.”

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Education is free to children in China up to the age of 15 at the end of middle school then it comes to an end. Parents must pay if they want their child to continue through High School. Most cannot afford it. Then they must take the exam and compete to get into a college.

I want to know how music is licensed for legal distribution over the internet, what are the terms of said license and how dose the record labels make there money.

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Media conglomerates have poor business model; economically rationalized “culture industry” is actively hostile to vital aspects of humane culture.

Aniaso was born around 1792 as a member of the Igbo tribe in West Africa. The main character was born in Africa but, at a young age, was transported to Jamaica, where he remained until his death. As a member of the Moravian mission he had a third identity: he was part of a global brother- and sisterhood of fellow Moravians of different ethnic backgrounds. Because of the interest his fellow Moravians took in his life, his biography was recorded, translated, and published in various Moravian periodicals, and finally preserved in their archives.

Better use of data, transforming high schools among ED's key priorities. Podesta said he believes the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) can help spur needed changes. Duncan agreed,#k12newsletters

The Dan Crowley Award, offered by the Storytelling Section of the American Folklore Society, is a $200 prize for a graduate or undergraduate student essay dealing with some aspect of storytelling performance in formal or informal settings.

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Lessig has announced that Warner Music issued a DMCA takedown on one of Lessig's own presentations, in which his use is almost certainly fair use. Lessig, of course, is a lawyer, and a big supporter of fair use, so it's no surprise that he's also said he's going to be fighting this.copyright, dmca, fair use, larry lessig, takedown,Companies:warner music group

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Where Native Languages Live: In the Circle, and in our classrooms. Those of us in the generations following those who endured the trauma of boarding schools and were shamed for speaking Native languages, still have much to learn and must put in our language-learning time now. We will. We are. We know what's at stake.

One of the great ironies of the information age is that, while the late twentieth century will undoubtedly have recorded more data than any other period in history, it will also almost certainly have lost more information than any previous era.

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Among the LGA's most unpalatable phrases are "best practice" (the best way of doing something), "benchmarking" (measuring), "slippage" (delay) and "democratic legitimacy" (voted in).

an online how-to guide for protecting your private data against government spying. EFF created the site with the help of the Open Society Institute in order to educate Americans about the law and technology of communications surveillance and computer searches and seizures, and to provide the information and tools necessary to keep their private data out of the government's hands.

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The purpose of this website is to inform you of a proposed Settlement of a class action lawsuit brought by authors and publishers, claiming that Google has violated their copyrights and those of other Rightsholders of Books and Inserts

ALA, ARL, ACRL To File Amicus Brief pending Google Book Search settlement

Intercosmos Media Group d/b/a directNIC.com creates link farms out of parked domain names. WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center returns www.ironmountaininc.com back to owner. Iron Mountain stores everyone's data. Of course it was registered with Intercosmos Media Group d/b/a directNIC.com who is causing all these problems and took 1 year to get resolved!!

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Some of the robust differences in child vocabulary development at 54 months are likely to come from parents in higher-income groups using gesture to communicate more different meanings when their children were 14 months, the paper said.

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H-Folk -- in cooperation with The American Folklore Society, The Folklore Society of Great Britain, The Folklore Studies Association of Canada, the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, the National Folklore Support Centre [India], and the Socit internationale dethnologie et de folklore.

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The Digital Reference Section (DRS) conducts a free, one-hour orientation monthly, on the second Wednesday at 11 a.m. - noon, Eastern time, via Web conference. Throughout the program, DRS staff provide opportunities to ask questions, learn strategies for online access of the materials, and sample the collections and resources provided to facilitate your research.

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China Folklore Since 1998, legislation work in the field of folklore protection has entered a new phase. The Committee on Education, Science, Culture and Public Health of the National People’s Congress has conducted a widespread and in-depth survey across the country, and the Ministry of Culture has also included in its agenda the formulation of the Law on the Protection of National Folklore.

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China - China offers free education to teachers of the future. Reform for teachers' pay system. More highly qualified teachers attracted to work in China's rural areas. China's college teachers to be graded on results.

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Released on Dec. 11, “Preschool Curriculum: What’s in It for Children and Teachers” synthesizes the best research on how young children learn in those academic domains and discusses the implications for improving preschool education. Healthy children demand jump rope Physical Fitness, a Healthy Diet, Brain Based Learning and Brain Development Resources.

"Consumers are getting more astute about" privacy, said Fran Maier, the CEO of TRUSTe, which evaluates online privacy practices.

We were once People of the Book but now we are becoming People of Screen. But to complete this transformation in full we need a set of tools which will allow us to manipulate, create, and process moving images with the same ease we have for words.

"All of our forensic investigators felt it was a complete miscarriage. It was clear she was absolutely innocent,'' he said. "The mistakes and misinformation that occurred in that courtroom were astounding."

There is NO liability for schools if they choose not to set it to block an area and something "inappropriate" happens to appear on that site. The CIPA regulations mentioned the understanding that filtering is not perfect. EVERY librarian and ed tech specialist in the schools should have the authority to override the filter and provide access to a site that has been inappropriately blocked - based on the educational determination of its content!

How will schools provide students with the necessary instruction for future employment, as well as responsible consumption (information credibility), without opening the door to Web 2.0 instructional technologies?

Looking back, abundant data exist from states like Connecticut and Massachusetts to show that by 1840 the incidence of complex literacy in the United States was between 93 and 100 percent wherever such a thing mattered. Yet in 1818 we were a small-farm nation without colleges or universities to speak of. Could those simple folk have had more complex minds than our own?

Twenty years after its first publication, H. David Brumble III offers a revised American Indian Autobiography. He does this in light of two criticisms. First, critics have challenged his assertion that "it is possible to separate Indian from editor/amanuensis" in early preliterate as-told-to autobiographies (vi). Second, Brumble was accused of not giving enough credence to the preferences of American Indians in regards to the material they chose to present.

Writing a book subtitled "Southern Folk Culture" is an ambitious undertaking. Fortunately, John Burrison recognized the wide scope of the topic and narrowed his focus to a study of specific folk traditions found throughout the South in general by providing a specific focus on his own research on Georgia's traditional culture. Burrison's book is an interesting presentation of variations on the theme that folklife is a vibrant resource that profoundly shapes and expresses southern culture. Roots of a Region is not an exhaustive treatment of these topics. It is an accessible introduction to the study of southern folklore, written in an accessible style that presents academic research to readers with a non-specialized interest in folk culture.

Folk Tales from a Persian Tribe: Forty-Five Tales from Sisakht in Luri and English.

Sun Microsystems, Inc., is teaming up with Carnegie Mellon University to support the continuing development of Alice, the university’s innovative, Java technology-based computer programming environment that teaches students to program Java software while having fun creating 3D animations, stories and video games.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,KIPP schools, NOLA charter schools, Milwaukee voucher program, The top 70 percent of US public high schools, Pittsburgh merit pay $7.4 million performance bonuses to principals districtwide,teaching workforce dominated by generalists who, studies show, are vastly under-prepared in math, Corruption in Texas Early Education Model TEEM Texas’s State Center for Early Childhood Development administrators make money by selling out to vendors and publishers.

The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) is a method for using specific standards to enable automated vulnerability management, measurement, and policy compliance evaluation (e.g., FISMA compliance). NVD is the U.S. government content repository for ISAP and SCAP.

My teacher Armand Mednick told us the real story behind The Secret Seder which is about a young boy who would grow up to become a beloved art teacher written and by Doreen Rappaport a Caldecott book award winner.

K-12 students are being specifically asked on this year’s survey how they would improve schools if they were the President.

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Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education journal's can be seen online. For librarians and teachers who give instruction in media literacy.

BUSH SIGNS RIAA-BACKED INTELLECTUAL-PROPERTY LAW President George Bush (R) on Monday signed into law an intellectual-property enforcement bill that would consolidate federal efforts to combat copyright infringement under a new White House cabinet position. Report on DMCA Law's Unintended Consequences. The Ten-Year Legacy of Harm to Fair Use, Free Speech.

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Oldie but goodie Listen to Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) explain why he voted against the amendment and gave an amazing primer on how the internet works.

The study, conducted with a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, found that states—which were already struggling with shrinking budgets—were constrained to design their NCLB support systems around what they thought they could accomplish.

(U.S. and Canada) for Librarians as Community Partners: An Outreach Handbook (publisher: American Library Association) Articles by practicing academic, public, school, special librarians sharing their experiences on how U.S. librarians are not tied to computers inside libraries: how librarians partner, outreach, and market libraries in their communities. Librarians with ethnic backgrounds serving diverse cultures are encouraged.

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a text converter translates the text of the U.S. Bill of Rights into text messaging language. Transl8it!

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Kudos to the NJEA Review for this fabulous techie article that we can all understand. The Toolbox Featured in the January, 2008 issue of the NJEA REVIEW Web widgets increase student engagement by Patricia Bruder, EIRC

Goodby Google!! Menlo Park based Cuil will launch later this evening with an index of 120 billion web pages, making them arguably the most comprehensive search engine on the web (Google doesn’t disclose the size of their index, although they claim to know about a trillion unique web pages. It’s pronounced “cool.”

Screw the DMCA: The chorus of voices criticizing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) has just gotten a bit louder with the addition of a new and authoritative voice: The Library of Congress.

Creole Dialect Speakers and Creole Culture. Learn about stigmatized varieties and much more. Administrators, Educators, Reporters, and the Public are invited to learn about the following topics from Academic Experts. Creole, Pidgin, Patois, Dialect AAVE, African American Venacular English, Ebonics Irish American Vernacular English.

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Since Care2.com is classroom-appropriate and kid-friendly, it’s also a great place to do some technology and writing lessons with ecards.

Letters, prose, poems, drawings mailed by soldiers and other servicemen and women during world war two.

hese Trends represent general directions regarding computing in libraries — short-term future directions where, from my perspective, things are or could be going.

McCain's security detail, police arrested Carol Kreck,a 61 year old librarian in Denver, for carrying a sign on public property.

Welcomes submission of manuscripts dealing with all aspects of librarianship as practiced on the World Wide Web, including both existing and emerging roles and activities of information professionals in the Web environment. New authors are welcome!

three-dimensional navigational browsers through which students can take a virtual tour of the human body over an Internet2 connection.

It is somewhat discouraging to see that publishers have to check the articles submitted by academics and researchers for possible plagiarism.

Georgia State University fired back this week at its accusers, three academic publishers that say the institution invites students to illegally download and print readings from thousands of works. The university asserts that its online distribution of course material is permitted under copyright law's fair-use exemption."

It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of “reading” are emerging as users “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense.

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Indian Folklore Research Journal publishes original and unpublished research papers, book reviews, resource reviews and announcements in the discipline of Folklore. Indian Folklore Research Journal is published annually by India's National Folklore Support Centre.

minimum-F policy,BROWN VS. BOARD and ZELMA HENDERSON dies,Monroeville Junior High School. The lawsuit says black students at the county's only public junior high have been called slurs such as the "N-word," "filthy trash" and "black monkey.", boarding-school system the federal government set up for Indian children, one in three American children overweight,D.C.’S MOST FAILING SCHOOLS,Big Words: Research-Based Strategies for Building Vocabulary from Pre-K to Grade 3"

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May 18, 2008 at William Grant Still Arts Center Queen Calafia: Ruler of California starring Ursaline Bryant. The idea of the name of California being derived from a saga of black women warriots was not taken seriously in historical circles.

A Trained but Novel Way to Keep Track of an Underground Library Collection While Making It a Stationary Lending Collection

This new Orphan Works legislation proposes a change in U.S. copyright that would (indirectly) require artists, illustrators, photographers, and any creative individual to actively maintain and defend their copyright by registering each and every work with privatized registrars. Failure to do so would leave everything you've ever created as an artist up for grabs by anyone who wanted to copy, reproduce, create derivative works of, or flat out steal your work since the act defines an "orphan work" as any work where the author is unidentifiable or unlocatable, and applies to both published and unpublished works, U.S. and foreign, regardless of age.

Proposed secret copyright deal takes aim at iPods, providers. I have a GREAT idea: Why don't we let the RIAA write our copyright laws? The Canadian government is secretly negotiating an agreement to revamp international copyright laws which could make information on iPods, laptops and other personal electronic devices illegal and greatly increase the difficulty of travelling with such devices.

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Contributions to this Special Issue (Volume 5, Number 3) should address Folksonomies, Taxonomies, Knowledge Organizartion, the Web and Search Engines. Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics:

Why the Orphan Works Act is Uncle Sam's Thieves' Charter. Two-tier nature of US copyright law.

Students planning to become English teachers in California are eligible for up to $19,000 in APLE student loan pay-back by the state.

Powerset is gonna get Google but Good! On Monday, a story on Powerset launched a new semantic search engine that allows users to input natural language queries to find items. So far, Powerset simply indexes Wikipedia, but the speculation is that the site may branch out to the Web at large.

WE LOVE LIBRARIANS!!! He was allowed to speak publicly Wednesday under a rare settlement in which the FBI agreed to withdraw its letter and lift the gag order. That should show other librarians, and members of the public who receive any of the nearly 50,000 national security letters the government issues each year, that "you can push back on these," Kahle said.

Important K-12 Library and Education Professional Development Information and Technology Skills Instruction - Technology - Collaboration - Information Literacy JULY 27 - JULY 28, 2008

Countdown’s Bushed!: You Gotta Be Kidding Me Edition: Next is an update on the Orwellian No Child Left Behind program, which has resulted in graduation ratios going down and schools hurting for funding country-wide. Turns out that the cornerstone of the program, Reading First, a program emphasizing literacy administered by the president’s brother, Neil Bush, has not proven to be effective whatsoever. So the reality is that NCLB is actually leaving children behind in favor of lining the pocket of the Bush family.

Friday night is singles' night at the city's main library.

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The article discusses information literacy in the age of "wikiality", Stephen Colbert's term for "a reality where, if enough people agree with a notion, it must be true." Learn how to work with Google.

Al Gore had seen what happened with the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956, which his father introduced as a military bill. It was very powerful. Housing went up, suburban boom happened, everybody became mobile. Al was attuned to the power of networking much more than any of his elective colleagues. His initiatives led directly to the commercialization of the Internet. So he really does deserve credit.

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The Educational Cyber PlayGround has posted a valuable article "How To Keep Your Child Safe On The Internet"with tips and hotlinks for training kids to be safe on the Internet. Any parent whose children have access to a computer-- whether their own laptops, a home desktop, or a friend's-- should take a look at this posting. 21century Literacy Skills.

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Popular Information found on the Educational CyberPlayGround on music, science, law, brain development, child development, teacher resources, evolution, presidents, plagiarism, reading, school uniforms, copyright, Karen Ellis, babies, intelligence, school uniforms, san diego quick assessment.

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"In my judgment, the decision to block the search term was an overreaction on the part of the POPLINE staff," said Michael Klag, dean of the Bloomberg School in a press release Tuesday. "Other measures are available to us for ensuring that items in the POPLINE database meet USAID guidelines."

by Michael S. Hart Founder, 1971 Project Gutenberg Inventor of eBooks - In 1985 when Gary Kildall, IBM's first choice before Bill Gates to design their PC's operating system a few years earlier, came out with the first electronic encyclopedia, who would figure it would be only a quarter of a century before print encyclopedias faded from the limelight to join vinyl records and dinosaurs?

by Michael S. Hart Founder, 1971 Project Gutenberg Inventor of eBooks - It's all over for those hefty paper encyclopedias. No less an authority than The New York Times tells us it is time to "Start Writing the Eulogies for Print Encyclopedias," that it is all over other than rolling out the last few editions of some last few hard-boiled Luddites who insist on paper encyclopedias, at a price that could easily buy you a decent used car.

Hawai'i's average score lags behind most states and lags significantly behind the highest achieving states.

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ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom At middle/high school level ... I just wish teachers would catch up with online, subscription tools. At the public library we often encounter the same misunderstanding that database resources aren't "books" or periodicals" even when in full text with complete citations. Digital Literacy Is Knowing How We Store What We Know. It is irresponsible for educational institutions not to teach new knowledge technologies such as Wikipedia." I've seen a lot of cases where people summarily dismiss any use of Wikipedia.

1000 SEARCH ENGINES & The Invisible Web - THE HIDDEN NET - Specialized Search Engines

The first known recording of Ginsberg reading the poem was thought to be March 18, 1956, at a notorious performance in Berkeley, Calif. Until now. Also read and hear Howl 2 Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Howl, Reed College, Cordley Coit

DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 29 November 2007—Lawsuits have been dismissed and issues surrounding distribution of eAudiobooks have been resolved, according to Recorded Books and NetLibrary, the parties involved.

Hypertext is a non-linear way of presenting information, hypertext allows learners to follow their own path, what they are interested in and when they want to know about it.

“Using a tool like CiteULike, researchers (who are finding 99 percent of their journal papers online, probably bypassing the library) can now reach directly into the bookshelves of other researchers in their field (or any other field), anywhere the world, knowing nothing about them other than what they have bookmarked, and see what they are reading right now,” he said.

"The Kickoff Webcast with Karen Ellis" webcast.

Find out how to contact online librarians and get help for free. See if your library is online and participates. It's better than Google!!! Youth Vs. Adults in Gadget Wars

FAIR USE - USE IT OR LOSE IT - Media Literacy High School curriculum

C-span Tonight Saturday, January 26, at 7:00 PM American book Awards

The eScholarship Repository, a service of the California Digital Library, provides a robust full-spectrum, open access publishing platform for pre-prints, post-prints, peer-reviewed articles, edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals. The repository houses a broad range of scholarly content from disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, mathematics and sciences.

The list is intended to serve as a forum in which individuals of any and all interests can discuss Any and All issues relating to Online Social Networks, most notably their current and potential use by libraries/librarians and/or their current/potential use within institutions of higher learning.

[EDInfo] Notices Inviting Applications (January 4, 2008)Recent grant opportunities from the U.S. Department of Education (ED) include... * Early Reading First Program -- CFDA# 84.359A and B * Grants to Reduce Alcohol Abuse -- CFDA# 84.184A

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A law expected to revolutionize Israel's library system, with radical changes that include canceling membership fees.

Catching Digital Cheaters vs. Should iPods or other handheld gadgets instead be “required” during tests?

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K-12 First Grade Practice Skills - Literacy 100 Most Frequent Words in Books for Beginning Readers, pre-primer, early, and first grade readers. Reading Children's Books online, Audio Books to hear and read along, Teacher Recommended online reading activities, games and resources. The top 20 titles that created readers. Introduce children to writing.

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Pfaffenberger's study has already turned up some surprises.

For the first time in the prestigious national math and science contest's nine-year history, girls were awarded both grand prizes

More about these amazing PEOPLE and the JOB they did for AMERICA. These People are COMPUTER PIONEERS. Computer Wonder Women Hedy Lamarr's Invention Finally Comes of Age Movie actress Hedy Lamarr invented cell phone technology. Decline in Numbers of Women in Computer Science Threatens U.S.Competitiveness

NetHappenings Google's campaign to digitize the world's books. How to work with Google.

Losing Our Edge: American Students Unprepared for the Global Economy Featuring Andreas Schleicher, Head of the Indicators and Analysis Division, OECD Directorate for Education

Kellie Pickler clip? From "Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader"? Americans are SO STUPID!

K12 Newsletters - Music and Dance for the Jewish Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanza Holiday.

Each month the ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. - Observations on Scholars' Use of Digitized Resources - Technology Standards for Students - Preventing Online Exam Cheating, Call for Papers on Academics in Virtual Environments - Recommended Reading: Book Review STUDIO THINKING: THE REAL BENEFITS OF VISUAL ARTS EDUCATION

Find all the job openings in D.C.and We all know what Home Schooled means but what is "Unschooling"?

Preservation of digital media. This world is going to loose a lot work.

Secure desktops not just for Vista. Al Gore's Web site hacked. Flaw leaves Microsoft looking like a turkey.

ISN'T IT CHEAPER JUST TO TEACH SOMEONE TO READ. Failing Reading Scores and Building Prison Cells is Big Busine$$

Domain name disputes and resolution faq's. Complainant accuses Respondents of "typosquatting," intentionally registering a domain name that is identical to its mark but for a simple typographical error.

If I can read 100 blogs, which should I read to be most up to date?

Let’s get something straight here: technology is complicated, and it’s unreasonable to expect every professor to understand the nuances of digital projectors, editing software, classroom response devices, PowerPoint lectures or even — God help you if this is true — Internet browsers.

2 day symposium at Princeton.

Sight See: SPECIALIZED SEARCH ENGINES - Learn how to find and use the Invisible Web and Meta Search Engines at the Educational CyberPlayGround. Find a Guide to Online Research A visual mapping of Complex Networks and all the Free E-books you can eat.

"To Read or Not to Read: A Question of National Consequence" "We've got a public culture which is almost entirely commercial- and novelty-driven," says NEA chairman Dana Gioia. "I think it's letting the nation down."

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Bi-weekly update on U.S. Department of Education activities relevant to the Intergovernmental and Corporate community and other stakeholders.On November 15, the non-partisan National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) released results of the 2007 Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA), which provides comparable data on fourth- and eighth-grade reading and mathematics achievement in 11 of the nation's urban school districts.

Children And The Internet, Internet, Internet Governance Forum, Internet Security, Law Of The Internet, Breaking Media News, Media Literacy only about 1 billion, or 20% of the world's population have Net access

Steven Van Zandt starts Middle School and High School Music Education Curriculum.T hat's guitarist/singer Steve Van Zandt of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band -- a.k.a. Little Stevie, a.k.a. Miami Steve, a.k.a. Silvio Dante, Tony Soprano's consigliere -- at a sit down in the Capitol yesterday with Sens. Bob Menendez and Frank Lautenberg.

Known as the foremost Afro-American intellect of his time. Early Twentieth Century Afro-Caribbean Activist/Intellectual in Harlem.

Best resources for both reading games, traditional Language Arts and interactive Childrens Books Online that integrate technology into the classroom. Best resources for both traditional Language Arts and modern communications sites and applications on the web.Online stories and activities - Explore this site, you'll find lots of resources such as songs, simple texts, audio files and educational games for beginners.

Video games are very effective teaching tools for teaching aggression.

Michelle Malkin our student’s test scores on a major international reading exam have been rendered invalid because the contractor who printed the tests misnumbered the pages–and the Department of Education failed to proofread the booklets! Comments anyone?

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2007 American Book Award Winner and Author Dan Cassidy of How the Irish Invented Slang will be meeting Spike Slattery's grandson. Spike was the guy who first used the word jazz in front of Scoop Gleeson at a reading in Sonoma, CA where the old jazz and gin-i-ker came back to life.

Book Review: Basile's Tale of Tales, also called the Pentamerone, is a collection of fifty stories--chiefly complex tales of magic, popularly known as fairy tales--published in Naples in 1634-1636.

Apparently the Ohio Education Association has sent a memo discouraging teachers from using social networking sites. I think this is the wrong message. How about: "Never post anything online you would not want to see on the front page of your state's largest newspaper."

Databases for Educators: NY Times Lesson Plan Archive; Gateway to Educational Materials; ASN State Standards Viewer. The ASN provides tools and databases that enable access to and interaction with the authoritative collection of learning and content standards from states and national content groups.

November is National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month. Find: Thanksgiving, Native American Dance, Music, Language, The debate about mascots, The Oneida hymn tradition, Buffy Saint-Marie, Bureau of Archives and History Pennsylvania State Archives. First Nation Rights Activists, Law, Alaska People, Black First Nation People, Tainos, Carib First Nation People who lived in the U.S.Caribbean Islands, HAWAIIANS The first settlers of Hawai'i.

What Do You THINK? Please Leave Your Comments Every hear What happened to the CIO joke?

More about Student Use of Technology and How it Impacts the Classroom. It’s time that teachers wake up and realize that the only way to reach today’s student is to meet them on their own playing field. The fact is, that many of those working in education, in politics, in the civil service are the equivalent of modern day illiterates. Without understanding how to read and write on the web, there is no other way, really, to describe this state of being. This is why media literacy teaching and learning need to be the top of every school's literacy strategy. Reading and writing is about more than pen and paper these days.

Educational CyberPlayGround Directory was is the first one ever created. Is your K-12 School in the directory? It started in the U.S. circa 1993. Can you imagine that it's built by people like you? If you submit the neighborhood school or school district it will go in the directory. We build it! It's a national folklore project. And we get to see the what our schools can do - and what they aren't doing! If you've got it FLAUNT IT.

Historical Roots - In 16th-century Germany, cartoons in the form of broadsheets or broadsides (single cartoons printed on large pieces of paper) began to be posted in public places with the intent of swaying people's beliefs. It's a tentative move onto the Internet: Comics can only be viewed in a Web browser, not downloaded, and new issues will only go online at least six months after they first appear in print. Find out more about Cartoon Art.

The secret motivation that makes students read. Debates about improving student performance rarely take into consideration an important perspective of students, that is, how much they value an education and whether they see education as a path to success. Children who are emotionally involved by having fun and enjoying the activity. Test subjects are able to remember twice as many emotional words and pictures as neutral ones.

Yesterday's Philadelphia Inquirer detailed the archival work on Chew family documents regarding slaves that is has been undertaken at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Interdiscipliary - TEACH HISTORY THROUGH SONG Interdisciplinary Educational Curriculum

Dr. Mashup; or, Why Educators Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Remix The best-known "mashups" are astute combinations of artistic product -- vocals from a hip-hop album laid over Beatles tracks, for example, or a Sergio Leone film set to a new score. But as Brian Lamb points out in Educause Review, the world of mashups now incorporates not just art, but also online applications and other forms of digital media. Mr. Lamb, the manager of emerging technology and digital content at the University of British Columbia, makes a strong case that professors ought to take mashups seriously. That doesn't mean every educator should painstakingly edit Disney films into a treatise on copyright, but it does mean that professors should learn about "data mashups" and strive to make course content open and remixable. "We might ask if the content we presently lock down could be made public with a license specifying reasonable terms for reuse," Mr. Lamb writes. "When choosing a content management system, we might consider how well it supports RSS syndication."

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Vol. 4, No. 3 of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS journal We are pleased to inform you that Vol. 4, No. 3 of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS journal, is published and is available ONLINE now.

Karen, on email for first time in 5 days... NYT story is #6 on most emailed POPULAR stories today IT WAS SO GREAT SEEING YOU...YOU ARE THE GIN-I-KER LET'S GET THIS SHOW ON DE ROAD Growing up Irish in Queens and on Long Island, Daniel Cassidy was nicknamed Glom. “I used to ask my mother, ‘Why Glom?’ and she’d say, ‘Because you’re always grabbing, always taking things,’” he said, imitating his mother’s accent and limited patience, shaped by a lifetime in Irish neighborhoods in New York City. It was not exactly an etymological explanation, and Mr. Cassidy’s curiosity about the working-class Irish vernacular he grew up with kept growing. Some years back, leafing through a pocket Gaelic dictionary, he began looking for phonetic equivalents of the terms, which English dictionaries described as having “unknown origin.”

The Educational CyperPlayGround Internet Tutorial For Beginners. Learn to Click and Scroll to rock and roll around the net.

GSN Host Dylan Lane Discusses the Competition, Prizes and Goals in New Cable in the Classroom Podcast. About the “National Vocabulary Championship” GSN’s National Vocabulary Championship (NVC) is a nationwide academic competition that offers high school students the opportunity to win money toward college tuition through local and national events.

The piece is called, “A Vision of Students Today,” and features a very large class of college students, sharing short notes about their personal and education learning experiences, and the vast gap that exists between the one that they have created (one that many of us remain ignorant of) and the one that we inflict on them.

The Greenwood Library of American Folktales. 4 vols. Edited by Thomas A. Green. 2006. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group. 1592 pages. ISBN: 0-313-33772-1 (hard cover). This story of the trickster trying to imitate another occurs in other variants in the Southwest (See, for example, the Jicarilla Apache, "Tales of Fox: Fox and Kingfisher," p. 116). As in the tale types designated by folklorist Stith Thompson as animal tales, "The Coyote and the Woodpecker" offers a moral lesson. The philosophy of acceptance and noncompetitiveness is consistent with general Pueblo worldview and morality. (3:109)

Meet my friends The Funk Brothers ~ Karen Ellis MORE #1 HITS THAN The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones and Elvis Combined HOW ALLAN SLUTSKY GET THE IDEA FOR THE MOVIE? This film is based on a book of the same title by Mr. Allan Slutsky that won the 1989 Rolling Stone/BMI Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award. Mr. Slutsky a New Jersey-based musician, author, and movie producer who worked for 14 years in putting together the movie, told me that after a theatrical run, the film will go to cable and then be released on tape and DVD. The documentary movie has already played in Los Angeles for a week in December 2001 in order to qualify for next year's Academy Awards, but that its official world premiere will be in Detroit in January or February of 2002. Produced by Paul Elliott and David Scott, Executive Producers Allan Slutsky, Paul Justman, Sandy Passman and Karen Ellis Founder and CEO of the Educational CyberPlayGround, Honorary Funk Sister

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HE WAS SWELL (PUN) Finally, I was at the Irish Arts Center in New York tonight to hear my pal Danny Cassidy talk about and read from his brilliant book on How the Irish Invented Slang—The Secret Language of the Crossroads (CounterPunch). He could and should turn his rap into stage show. He was mesmerizing. inspiring and inspired.

OpenSocial announcement <> Social Web: Positive side effect <> 2 new 'worlds' for kids 6+ <> Ultimate photo-sharing on phones <> New mobile 'social networks' <> How YouTube stardom works

Ixquick has teamed up with Blinx to offer this new facet of their service.

REFERENCE: ENCYCLOPEDIAS: INTERNET: RESOURCES:Wikipedia: The Next Generation Wikipedia: The Next Generation It's called Veropedia. Its goal: To create something that students and teachers can rely on

Ovid licenses its scholarly and health-related databases to medical schools, academic libraries, large hospitals and healthcare systems, and pharmaceutical, engineering, and biotechnology companies.

CLEARING UP COPYRIGHT CONFUSION | STATISTICS ON THE STATE OF EDUCATION, U.S. AND WORLDWIDE | EDUCAUSE LIVE! SEMINARS | HALLOWEEN LINKS: GRAVESTONE STUDIES | RECOMMENDED READING

This is an excellent summary of how English is getting more and more spoken as a lingua franca, in spite of anti-colonialist pride.

Why we curse.

Efforts to preserve the Gullah-Geechee creole language and culture in the southeastern United States.

Teachers and Professors are afraid of violating copyright, "teachers use less effective teaching techniques, teach and transmit erroneous copyright information, fail to share innovative instructional approaches, and do not take advantage of new digital platforms."

Eleven people and an international organization join the distinguished ranks of Nobel Laureates now numbering 797. The scope of the awarded work ranged from the sub-atomic observations made by the 2007 Physics Laureates to the global risks that the 2007 Peace Laureates are monitoring and publicizing. Find out more about the 2007 Nobel Laureates before they come to Oslo and Stockholm in December to receive the Nobel Prize

Welcome to the new way of teaching kids music. As music classes are squeezed out of many schools in order to permit more time on math and reading, teachers are looking for new ways to integrate music into classrooms.

"Jail Library - These are things I find abandoned in books or stuffed on the book cart at the jail where I volunteer.

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The Killer Whale is on the Eagle side and Salmon is the Raven side, so they can get married.

Norman Jackson - Tlingit Carver Ketchikan Alaska is of the Tongass Tlingit of southeast Alaska and was born in Ketchikan, Alaska. His lineage is from his mother who is of the Tongass Tlingit Kaats Hit Bear House of southeast Alaska. His father is Kaagwaantaan Tlingit of Klukwan, Alaska.

e-book acceptance his surprisingly positive experience using his Blackberry as an e-book reader. A book is, foremost, the arrangement of words in sequence, and they are, to borrow a buzz-phrase from the digital folk, platform agnostic.

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