¤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/ Educatonal 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 Happy Reading <Karen> 1) Music and Math http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/IEC/shaw2.htmlSecond-Graders in Study Scored Higher than Others on Fractions and Proportional Math.
Element Song . . .There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/IEC/elementsong.html Interdisciplinary K12 Science Resources and Seemless Curriculum http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/IEC/iecscience.html The National Science Teachers Association has TURNED DOWN an offer of 50,000 free copies of "An Inconvenient Truth", purportedly because it may compromise their ability to raise money from ExxonMobil, which supports the NSTA with money and produces a lot of "educational" materials that the NSTA *does* distribute (or allows to be distributed at its annual convention, which isn't exactly the same thing). Get 'em early, and they'll stick with you for life. I hope that, rather than just using this to generate political outrage, Gore and the producers of the film will simply bypass NSTA and find a way to get copies to each science teacher. ~ Rod Van Meter Who is Teaching Science? http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/newteacherevolution.html 2) Is student data safe? http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650210566,00.html Utah's universities are working to protect students' personal information, but some schools need to get their policies up to date to block hackers and comply with federal law, according to a report obtained by the Deseret Morning News. The first comprehensive information technology audit for the state system of nine public colleges and universities reveals a need for more formalized security policies to protect private information ranging from Social Security numbers to health data. Selling Student Data is http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/PRIVACY_INFORMATION.html 3) Evolution of language, interspecies animal communication http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/interspecies.html and computer machine language, artificial intelligence. http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/complang.html Computers taught to sort opinion from fact http://upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060925-055616-9311r The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is funding a research project designed to teach computers to scan text and then sort opinion from fact. 4) The Federation of American Scientists http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/HowToIntegrateTech.html declared that video games can redefine education. The theory is that games teach skills that employers want. It captivates students so much they will spend hours learning on their own. Gender Equity http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/Digitaldividequity.html Justine Cassell: Disempowering Girls as Users of Technology. Girls' use of technology threatens the established social order. That's the real reason behind the fear of girls using social networking sites. Throughout US history, each time women have become the most frequent users http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/womengrrlstech.html of a popular and brand new communication technology, narratives emerge in the mass media and eventually in the popular psyche about the dangers awaiting women who use technology alone. Web 2.0 Tools http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/Tools.html Directory of open access journals http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/ejournal.html 5) More than half of the malware coming out of China aims to steal passwords from unsuspecting computer users http://tinyurl.com/y4u8ef Guide to securing computers using windows xp home edition http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/index.html Apple Mac OS X patch plugs 31 vulnerabilities http://tinyurl.com/y79m5s Microsoft Corp. has released Vista http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061130/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_vista Vista Takes Security Up a Notch http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2063967,00.asp Review: But new features will have greater impact on consumers than corporations. One of the advertised hallmarks of Windows Vista is security as in Microsoft's renewed focus on and dedication to tightening up the Windows operating system. Indeed, Vista is chock-full of new security features including a beefed-up firewall, integrated anti-spyware functionality, BitLocker drive encryption and UAC (User Account Control) but these features will ultimately have greater benefits for consumers. For corporate customers demanding cross-platform functionality, centralized manageability and rock-solid reliability, these new features will likely be nothing more than window dressing. --> Attention: Vista EULA So if Microsoft thinks maybe you violated your license it can shut down your machines. And they have extremely limited liability. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/423/3 Now if Microsoft breaches the contract it wrote, the Vista EULA, what are your rights? Well, according to the terms of the agreement you agreed to, "you can recover from Microsoft and its suppliers only direct damages up to the amount you paid for the software. You cannot recover any other damages, including consequential, lost profits, special, indirect or incidental damages." But the Microsoft Vista EULA, like many other software license agreements, gives the owner of the software (remember that's Microsoft because you didn't buy it, you just licensed it) the right of self-help. They have the right to unilaterally decide that you didn't keep up your end of the contract, for example you didn't properly register the product, you weren't able to demonstrate that it was genuine, and so on, and therefore they have the right to shut you off or shut you down. So, what gives them the right? Apparently, the very contract that they now claim you violated. 6) SANS Top 20 Report - Deja Vu http://osvdb.org/blog/?p=148 "I previously blogged about the SANS Top 20 List in a pretty negative fashion. The list started off as the "Top 10 Vulnerabilities" and quickly expanded into the Top 20 Vulnerabilities. Even last year (2005), they were still calling it a "Top 20 Vulnerabilities" list when it clearly had become anything but that. This year, SANS finally wised up calling the list "SANS Top-20 Internet Security Attack Targets". Yes, they are now listing the 20 most attacked "targets", not "exploited vulnerabilities". "Hackers not afraid of being caught" http://tinyurl.com/uuztt Lance Spitzner is considered the leading light in the field of honeypot research. He is the founder of the Honeynet Project which currently consists of 15 organizations spread throughout the world. The Honeynet Projects goal is to capture information on threats, analyze them and publish the findings. Realizing the importance of this project the US Government awarded him a grant that allows him and small to team to focus exclusively on the project. Beware Dangling Cursors in Oracle Code http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2064828,00.asp British security researcher David Litchfield is raising an alert for a brand-new class of vulnerabilities affecting Oracle database products. Federal Rules May Not Fully Secure Online Banking Sites http://tinyurl.com/y3kd6t Zombie Tool makes use of windows, anti virus flaws http://tinyurl.com/sjh26 An updated variant of a malicious bot program is spreading via a flaw in Symantec's antivirus software as well as through several holes in Microsoft code. 7) Scooped - by his own mobile phone http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1960253,00.html At some point during this message Goodman would punch in the code programmed as the security number in most mobile phones- 4444, or any similar repetition of a digit - and gain instant access to messages in the personal mailbox. Because most people forget to change the security code in place when they buy the phone, the method worked beautifully for Goodman. Crack Cell Phones http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/cell_phone.html 8) Integrating Folk Music, Folklore and Traditional Culture Instruction Into K-12 Education http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/folk.html Story Telling - Did you Hear? Gossip serves a purpose. http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Arts/Folktales.html Gifted Child Industry' Preys on Parents' Insecurities http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/play.asp <>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<> Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings Mailing List ©1993NetHappenings: the largest and oldest K12 Education Mailing List Email Preferences -- Subscribe - Unsubscribe - Digest
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