¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤,¸¸,ø¤º Please link to the Educational CyberPlayGround http://www.edu-cyberpg.com Add your SCHOOL OR SCHOOL DISTRICT URL http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/schools/ Please Share and Add Your Song http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ncfr/ Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings Mailing List ©1993 ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤,¸¸,ø¤º Greetings, Happy Reading Everyone Happy St. Modomnoc's Day Feb. 13th Happy Valentinees Day Feb. 14th http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Arts/Valentine_Clip_Art.html <Karen> 1) Etymology of Rock 'n Roll, Hillbilly Music, Race Music, and the Roots of Rap. http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/IEC/iecmusic4.html 2) The Ballad John Henry - http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Arts/Folktales_John_Henry.html John Henry - African American Legend, Steel Drivin' Man. The song is about a terrible kind of accident or crime. It's a mourning song, a hammer song and a work song. Mr. Nelson can be startling in his frankness about what historians really do. "History in the archives is not rational inquiry," he writes, "and it is seldom disinterested. It is disorganized, messy, and obsessive, much like junk-road scavenging....We are suspicious of other people's narratives, but we always assemble our own stories out of the flotsam and jetsam we find." 3) Dress Codes, Character Education, Recommmended Resources http://tinyurl.com/39g6rb Bastards of the Party: The Evolution of Bangin' It documents how the CRIPS and Bloods emerged from the ashes of the Black Panther Party and how the closing of the 14 largest factories in the LA area took the hope of unskilled workers and handed it over to offshore drug dealers and onshore programs that kept money for counseling/intervention for themselves and was used as an excuse for class division along racial lines. 4) Museum Grants http://www.imls.gov/applicants/obe.shtm 5) Microsoft - You may ask why this is new to Windows Vista as previous versions of the operating system do not appear affected. <http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2007/01/31/issue-regarding-windows-vista-speech-recognition.aspx> Windows Vista's sophisticated speech recognition allows for easier operation and extended support for commands. This has been largely used to help facilitate computing use especially for users that are affected by dexterity difficulties or impairments. You can learn more about Windows Vista'saccessibility tools including speech recognition by going to <http://www.microsoft.com/industry/healthcare/providers/businessvalue/housecalls/accessibletech.mspx>
6) Nownow Beta in partnership with Amazon http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/search.html Email the question and they will find real people to answer it and send 3 answers back to you. 7) 3-D model shows big body of water in Earth's mantle http://www.physorg.com/news90171847.html "A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis has made the first 3-D model of seismic wave damping---diminishing---deep in the Earth's mantle and has revealed the existence of an underground water reservoir at least the volume of the Arctic Ocean. It is the first evidence for water existing in the Earth's deep mantle." 8) Assistive, Adaptive, Accessible Technology http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/specneeds.html 9) Could Canada Kill Net Neutrality?<http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml? articleID=197004617>
Advisers to the minister of industry seem to favor telecommunications companies' arguments in favor of a two-tier Internet system, according to reports. The debate over network neutrality is crossing the Canadian border. The Canadian Press reported Tuesday that it obtained documents showing advisers to Minister of Industry Maxime Bernier seem to favor telecommunications companies' arguments against regulation. Also See Professor Lawrence "RW" Lessig's "The Withering of the Net" (2006) http://www.archive.org/details/igovernance_rawfootage_l2a 10) Reading First Flunks http://tinyurl.com/ewgqn The flagship program for evidence-based reform in NCLB was Reading First, a $1 billion per year program designed to give high-poverty schools proven reading programs to use in grades K-3. Instead, Reading First money has gone primarily to traditional basal textbooks lacking any evidence of effectiveness Press reports have shown how the department's Reading First technical assistance contractors had serious conflicts of interest. The leaders of two of the three centers were on the design team for one of the most widely adopted remedial programs under Reading First, and were authors of one of the major basal textbooks (Manzo, 2006; Grunwald, 2006). 11) K12 State School Board info is pathetic online joke. http://tinyurl.com/yrc4df A Cincinnati Enquirer examination late last month of 63 public school websites in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky shows that 73 percent don't list direct phone numbers for school board members; 40 percent don't offer direct e-mail addresses. And 33 percent of school systems offer neither. Public school boards make decisions that affect thousands of families.They control the spending of millions of tax dollars, reports Michael D. Clark.
They decide sweeping policy issues. Yet in many cases, people who want to be heard on such important issues get no help when it comes to using school district websites. And those who take the timeto show up at a board meeting often run into strict time limits of five minutes or less.
12) 2007 1 Million in all the K-12 online classes http://tinyurl.com/y7l847 across the US Los Angeles Times reports. 13) Copyright Law and Music http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/musiclaw.html DRM Explained http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/drm.html Music Deals http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/musiclawdeals.html Steve Jobs Apple CEO's says labels should drop DRMDigital-rights-management (DRM) technologies aren't "deterring illicit copying of music."
British recording giant EMI plans to offer "a broad swath of its recordings" for sale online without DRM. 14) Cyberattacks Up 50% By 2010, VeriSign Says http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml;?articleID=197004664 15) Highly-Critical Flaw Discovered in Trend Micro Products http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2092841,00.asp 16) Hackers Attack 92,000 Korean Computers http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200702/200702090011.html 17) Nuclear Safety Commission website hacked http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/02/08/cnsc-hacked.html Someone hacked into the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission's website and inserted photographs of a nuclear explosion spurring the agency to call in the RCMP. 18) Corporate crimeware threat 'moving to Adobe' http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39285850,00.htm Security improvements made to Office 2007 mean cyberattackers will focus on flaws in other desktop applications, experts warn The launch of Microsoft Office 2007 is likely to force malicious hackers to focus more attention on looking for vulnerabilities in other desktop applications, such as Abobe's Acrobat Reader, experts told delegates at the RSA Conference 2007 in San Francisco on Wednesday. 19) Cybercrime tools get cheaper http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39285867,00.htm It's becoming cheaper and easier to get hold of the tools needed to launch a cybercrime attack, security firm RSA claimed on Thursday. 20) "Google's Moon Shot"-- http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070205fa_fact_toobin printable at http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/070205fa_fact_toobin Feb 12 New Yorker) describes the current strange situation all the major American publishers are suing Google for scanning their books without permission; Google is expected to PAY THEM OFF, which it can easily afford, gaining the keys to the kingdom. 21) A Profile of College Presidents, 1986 and 2006 http://chronicle.com/stats/acesurvey/index.htm <>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<> Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings Mailing List ©1993NetHappenings: the largest and oldest K12 Education Mailing List Email Preferences -- Subscribe - Unsubscribe - Digest
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