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GREETINGS,

Happy Reading for today.


<Karen>




1)
"Electronic aggression,"  US Centers for Disease Control focus on cyberbullying calls it is "an emerging public health problem."
While acknowledging the Internet's "many potential benefits," the CDC says the fact that 80% of US adolescents own at
least one Net-connected device means that "increasing numbers of adolescents are becoming victims of aggression
perpetrated by peers with this technology" (cellphones, PDAs, or Net-connected computers).
Research now shows a correlation between behaving aggressively online and being victimized.
“Youth who engage in online aggressive behavior by making rude or nasty comments or frequently
embarrassing others are more than twice as likely to report online interpersonal victimization,” wrote
University of New Hampshire researchers in Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine
a year ago, suggesting that online-safety messaging needs to "target the right online behaviors."
Both aggression and victimization are associated with "psychosocial problems."

2)
 “Self-Produced Child Pornography: The Appropriate Societal Response to Juvenile Self-Sexual Exploitation,”
Virginia Law Weekly talked about this phenomenon of teens voluntarily distributing
pornographic pictures they have produced themselves.


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MOTIVATE TEACHERS TO USE THE INTERNET
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Reasons_to_play_here.html>

If you want to learn about how to play on the net,
this is where to start.  Don't know how to turn on your
computer? Hate this stuff? Is this  totally freakin' you out?
Playing around is the key to learning, relax, you can start here.

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3)
Personality Theft
"These identity thieves don't want your money. They want your quirky sense of humor and your cool taste in music."
The Journal says people are not just stealing others' jokes, but their favorites films, books, "life philosophies, even signature poems."

4)
Ireland's Ministry of Justice, Equality and Law Reform has just published a Parents' guide to social networking
"The guide explains what social networking Web sites are and how they operate, all in a user-friendly format."
The beauty of this is how available the booklet will be and that it's free. The government will distribute it through
libraries, community information centres, credit unions, and Web sites, and mobile-phone companies will do so through their retail outlets.



5)
It is 8 - 12 year olds are "the fastest-growing segment of the US cellphone market," 
"phones may give children privacy that parents don't necessarily want them to have."
(already, 72% of 13-to-17-year-olds have mobile phones). The Chronicle cites experts as saying that,
generally children around 10 or 11 can handle responsible use of a cellphone. But it really does depend
on the child. Some of the signs of responsibility the Chronicle suggests are whether a child can remember
to: charge the phone, turn it on before going out without prompting, and follow both family and school rules associated with cellphone use.

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Grants for Women, Grants for Women & Girls
Business Plan Resources for Women,

Government Funding Resources Education Grants,
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6)
Preditor Myths by the Crimes Against Children Research Center.
Despite all that parents hear, "sites such as MySpace and Facebook do not appear to increase [children's] risk of being victimized by online predators,".
US society has been overreacting, the CACRC's article in American Psychologist, "Online 'Predators' and Their Victims," indicates.
Another myth, is that "Internet predators are driving up child sex crime rates," when in fact sexual assaults against teens "fell 52% from 1993 to 2005"
(US Justice Dept. figures). A third myth is that online predators "represent a new dimension of child sexual abuse," when in fact most Net-related crimes
against minors "are essentially statutory rape: nonforcible sex crimes against minors too young to consent to sexual relationships with adults."
Another finding by the Center at the University of New Hampshire was that "most [teen] victims meet online offenders face to face and go to
those meetings expecting to engage in sex" - they were generally not deceived by the offenders about the offenders' age or intentions
(only 5% of offenders posed as other teens). One more myth: that online predators "go after any child." In fact the young people at
greatest risk are "adolescent girls or adolescent boys of uncertain sexual orientation.... Youths with histories of sexual abuse,
sexual-orientation concerns and patterns of off- and online risk-taking are especially at risk.

7)
South Carolina school performance online. A new database provides "report cards" for school performance -  pretty much sucks.


8)
Microsoft Gives Software to Nurture Future Coders
The DreamSpark program will provide programming tools to high school
and college students worldwide.
<snip>
Microsoft is giving away development and design software to university
and high school students around the world through a program aimed at
fostering technology innovation worldwide.

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INTEGRATE THE ARTS INTO THE CLASSROOM

Do your Students, Teachers, Administrators, Tech Eds
need to know where to go for great online resources
for the arts?

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9)
The Science of Fairy Tales
But are the most magical moments from some of our favorite stories actually possible? Basic physical principles and
recent scientific research suggest that what readers might mistake for fantasies and exaggeration could be rooted in reality.

10)
Style Wars
http://www.folkstreams.net/film,161 Runtime: 01:09:47
Film Facts
http://www.folkstreams.net/filmfacts,161
The film chronicles an extraordinary epoch of youthful creativity and civic controversy. Teenage graffiti artists made New York City's
ramshackle subway system their public playground, battleground, and spectacular artist canvas. Opposing them were
Mayor Ed Koch, the police, and the Transit Authority. As MC's and DJs rocked the city with new sounds, street corner
B-boy breakdance battles became performance art. The phrase "New York 1982"(the superimposed title that starts
the film) has itself become a code for a legendary time of heroic teenage exploits, a touchstone for successive
generations of youth worldwide, many of whom can recite the film's dialogue by hearts
"One of the greatest documentaries ever made" Alexander Alland, Professor of Anthropology Columbia University
"Practically every question addressed by scholars in the arts - folk, popular and high style - is raised at some
point in this film and discussed in considerable detail" Nora Groce, American Anthropologist "A breakthrough
documentary" A.O. Scott The New York Times "Groundbreaking and nearly perfect. It's the kids themselves
who speak most eloquently to their work" Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle.

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11)
Information Isn't Reserved for Books
It's online, and today's librarians are experts at finding it
If Google and a librarian had an informational smackdown, who would win?
Many people champion Google, with its impressive number of results.
But research librarians say their powers have been unfairly dismissed in the online age.
Not only can they outsmart Google's dead ends and weaknesses, librarians say,
but they can help people surf faster and smarter by showing them hidden databases and tricks.
"It's one of the most misrepresented professions," said Saima Kadir, a reference
librarian with the Houston Public Library.
In an age of clickable gratification, when books, articles and data are moving online,
some people wonder whether librarians are relevant, said Leslie Burger, the immediate
past-president of the American Library Association. But Burger said they are more necessary than ever.
She said librarians are subject to outdated stereotypes: "fusty, bookish, sensible shoes,
eyeglasses and not particularly friendly. We're really the polar opposite of that right now."

Depository Libraries-GIO: Ask a Librarian
A formal agreement between the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO; www.gpo.gov) and a network of 20 depository
libraries has relaunched and expanded the scope of a virtual reference service called Government Information Online:
Ask a Librarian (GIO; http://govtinfo.org). Be careful about using the dot-org. Typing "govtinfo.gov" will switch you to
the USA.gov site. That may not be too much of a mistake in time. One of the primary strategies of the GIO service
is to promote its existence through links from other leading dot-gov sites, such as USA.gov and Thomas.
The engineering of such linkages falls mainly to GPO. The depository library participants, led by the University of
Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and managed by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC; www.cic.net), will
handle providing the free chat- and email-based virtual reference service.
Reference librarians from 20 academic, state, and public depository libraries will be available to direct users to
information from government agencies, in particular federal, but state, regional, and local agencies as well.
The federal government coverage should be consistently strong, as all the libraries involved are federal depositories.
Coverage of state and local collections will vary, along with other expertise. John Shuler, project manager and
bibliographer for urban planning and government information at UIC, describes the expertise of participant library
collections and staff as stretching outside the GPO collection. "We draw on multiple sources and all levels, including specific local expertise.

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