Phishing and Facebook

By Paul Cowan, on February 13th, 2012

Around this time of year as our students learn all about their new email accounts and staff begin to prepare for teaching we often see a spike in malicious “phishing” emails.  These messages purport to be from some form of authority, usually our local helpdesk and they encourage staff and students to visit a . . . → Read More: Phishing and Facebook

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The Case For Social Media in Schools

By David Blackwell, on October 12th, 2010

A year after seventh grade teacher Elizabeth Delmatoff started a pilot social media program in her Portland, Oregon classroom, 20% of students school-wide were completing extra assignments for no credit, grades had gone up more than 50%, and chronic absenteeism was reduced by more than a third. For the first time in its history, . . . → Read More: The Case For Social Media in Schools

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Three Ways Educators are Embracing Social Technology

By Steve Leichtweis, on October 6th, 2010

This is a re-post of a interesting article from Mashable.com. If you are interested in the potential for the use of social media technology in the classroom there are a number of excellent articles posted on this site weekly. While the site is predominately focused on the North American context don’t let that . . . → Read More: Three Ways Educators are Embracing Social Technology

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