Mr. Stevenson, 54, does not deny using a .22-caliber rifle fitted with a scope to kill the cat, which lived under the San Luis Pass toll bridge, linking Galveston to the mainland. He also admits killing many other cats on his own property, where he operates a bed and breakfast for some of the estimated 500,000 birders who come to the island every year. Jurors heard opening arguments on Tuesday in the trial of a bird-watching enthusiast who fatally shot a cat that he said was stalking endangered shorebirds. James M. Stevenson says he was protecting piping plovers. FYI: A Billion Birds Die in Plate Glass.

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.

Student Use of Technology and how it impacts the classroom. Let’s be clear about another thing. The episode in his classroom had been plotted and scripted ahead of time, with Neil Noland part of the charade all along. The phone was an extra of his mother’s, its service contract long expired.

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.

Washington post article reports unique threats women bloggers face. The article highlights the poor treatment of women on-line often happens offline. Women are being intimidated - they include ACADEMICS, PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMERS [emphasis added other women normally UNAFRAID to speak their minds.]

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.

10,000 links that can drive up test scores in all areas, and more specific needs such as motivation. The Educational CyberPlayGround™ has it all. From the simple beginning steps up to the most sophisticated technology you need to know.

The author of the blog post, Matt Hickey of Seattle, says that using paper as a shim to put pressure on the hard drive has worked on about 70 percent of the failed iPods he has encountered — even though he is not sure why it works.

SlideShare now has private sharing! Get full control on what, where and how to share! Keep it private, share with contacts, send business presentations to clients & colleagues, embed on company intranets etc.

Sight See

A place to capture and share ideas, experiment with and publish links about nonprofit technology, educational technology, adoption challenges, information design, visual thinking, creativity, ICT in the developing world, and much more.

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.

The public radio station in Harrisburg, PA will feature our new 31-track CD "Where the Coal Trains Load: World Music from Eastern Pennsylvania" in their weekly "Artbeat" segment that highlights arts and cultural events in central PA on Friday, November 23 on WITF-FM 89.5. Where the Coal Trains Load is chock full of the sounds of home, 31-tracks of music from around the world, recorded in the coal region, where singers and musicians can trace their roots to every continent.

Interdiscipliary - TEACH HISTORY THROUGH SONG Interdisciplinary Educational Curriculum

In Shadow of the Fathers, Robert Friedman turns a disturbing, possibly tragic historical event in Puerto Rico into a captivating work of fiction. Personal obsessions and public events collide as the novel's characters grapple with lies, false identities, puzzling connections, U.S. wars and colonialism.

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."

Funky Tonight' is performed by John Butler Trio & Keith Urban at the ARIA Awards Oct.2007

WAIT! I thought YOU were in charge of security!!!!!!!

What Elste discovered in June was that there was no system for tracking the CDs after they are sent, no system for getting them back or destroying them, and that the data on the discs wasn't even encrypted.

Portable hard discs sold locally and produced by US disk-drive manufacturer Seagate Technology have been found to carry Trojan horse viruses that automatically upload to Beijing Web sites anything the computer user saves on the hard disc, the Investigation Bureau said.

The researchers describe the Windows random number generator as a program that is "a critical building block for file and email encryption, and for the SSL encryption protocol" which is used by all Internet browsers.

In time, Egerstad gained access to 1000 high-value email accounts. He would later post 100 sets of sensitive email logins and passwords on the internet for criminals, spies or just curious teenagers to use to snoop on inter-governmental, NGO and high-value corporate email.

Authorities allege that during this time, Butler began to illegally hack into computer networks operated by the Air Force, NASA and the federal Defense and Energy departments. He didn't steal any information, but again left open a door so he could re-enter later, authorities said.

Interruption is a major workplace concern today, especially for people engaged in information work, and computer technologies are widely viewed as exacerbating the problem. One reason for concern is the high incidence of interruptions.