Teaching About Web Includes Troublesome Parts

Two hot topics of concern for educators and parents are "concerns about how their children are acting online toward friends and rivals, and what impression their online profiles might create in the minds of college admissions officers or future employers." A group called Common Sense Media has put together lessons for students on online behavior. The classes are based on “ethical fault lines”: identity (how do you present yourself online?); privacy (the world can see everything you write); ownership (plagiarism, reproducing creative work); credibility (legitimate sources of information); and community (interacting with others)." See Teaching About Web Includes Troublesome Parts.

How Privacy Vanishes Online

How much information about you is floating around online? Social media encourages users to share information about themselves. The pool of personal information revealed in sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr can be assembled with data mining to form a "social signature" - a picture of that person's identity. See How Privacy Vanishes Online.

Adobe CS5 Released

Adobe released the CS5 versions of Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash, and other programs on Monday. If you have a spare 61 minutes, you can watch the launch event video here.