¤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 Hi Everyone, HAPPY SPRING! best, <Karen> -------- It's an A D thanks sp0ns0rs! --------- Digital Dozen Newsletter! http://surfaquarium.com/D12/subscribe.htm Subscribe by March 31st and be registered to win: A workshop by Walter for your staff A paid trip to NECC in Atlanta A paid trip to Alan November's Conference in Boston Recent topics have included educator advocacy, global warming, online graphics editors, Mohandas Gandhi and digital storytelling. Review all this year's issues: http://surfaquarium.com/D12/0607.htm ------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Learn Hebrew Happy Passover From http://www.jr.co.il Watch read and learn on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuEuns-0hIo 2) Happy Spring to Everyone http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/irish2.html Ground hogs day had as its origin a pagan fesitival named Imbohlc wherein the goddess gives birth to her consort. Oimelg, Briget's Eve or Imbolc We can trace Brigit's Eve back to Irish Keltic Tradition, and even into the pre-Keltic period, where it was called Oimelg or Oimelc or "sheep's milk." Oimelg is the time when the ewes are milked at the beginning of Spring. 3) ISPs Sell Clickstreams For $5 A Month http://internet.seekingalpha.com/article/29449 4) Consumers International http://www.consumersinternational.org/ Consumers International (CI) is the only independent global campaigning voice for consumers. With over 220 member organisations in 115 countries, we are building a powerful international consumer movement to help protect and empower consumers everywhere. 5) Ethical Traveler http://www.ethicaltraveler.org This site's "focus is on the positive impact travelers can have by being open, informed, and willing to immerse themselves in other cultures," and "is dedicated to educating travelers about the social and environmental impact of their decisions." 6) The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2006 http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm Annual Edition is now available from Digital Scholarship ********************************************************************* PLEASE ADD YOUR K12 SCHOOL OR SCHOOL DISTRICT TO THE MASTER DIRECTORY OF SCHOOLS ONLINE http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/schools/ The registry is organized by state and by grade level. The registry also includes sites for charter Schools, virtual schools, school districts, state and regional education organizations, state departments of education, state standards and state administrators. ********************************************************************* 7) International Decade for Action: Water for Life, 2005-2015 http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/ "The United Nations General Assembly, in December 2003, proclaimed the years 2005 to 2015 as the International Decade for Action 'Water for Life.'" 8) International Earth Day http://www.earthsite.org Was initiated "on March 21, 1970. The first Proclamation of Earth Day was by San Francisco, the City of Saint Francis, patron saint of ecology." Includes an Earth Day charter and guide for earth trustees by Earth Day founder John McConnell, and related material. 9) Google announces it will start anonymizing their server logs after 18-24 months. http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/search2.html 10) Google Summer of Code for Graduates and undergraduate students http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Directory/Computers.html now accepting student applications. 11) Claire Tomlin won a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2006. While she is described as an aviation engineer and plans to study genetic biology, she also teaches electrical engineering courses. There's a member profile of her in IEEE's current issue of The Institute:<http://www.theinstitute.ieee.org/portal/site/tionline/index.jsp?pageID=institute_level1_article&TheCat=1016&article=tionline/legacy/
inst2007/mar2007/memberprofile.xml> http://tinyurl.com/2xjcsr 12) This is a self extracting installer for Hijack This. http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/ http://216.180.233.162/~merijn/ A general homepage hijackers detector and remover. It is continually updated to detect and remove new hijacks. It does not target specific programs/URLs, just the methods used by hijackers to force you onto their sites. As a result, false positives are imminent and unless you are sure what you're doing, you should always consult with knowledgable folks (e.g. the Help Forums) before deleting anything. 13) By the end of the 110th Congress, the U.S. House of Representatives could achieve the goal of providing broadcast-quality video of all hearings and the floor for download on the Internet. I've bundled my 63 hearings, 1 conclusion, and 2 allegations and submitted them in the form of an unsolicited report to the Speaker of the House: http://www.archive.org/details/us_congress http://public.resource.org/dear_speaker.html 14) Thieves stealing data thru "evil twin" hotspots <http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-wifihack16mar16,0,5875273.story?coll=la-headlines-california> Ensnared on the wireless Web Hackers' latest tactic to steal information is setting up fake hotspots that users unwittingly use to access Internet. 15) AT&T/Cingular blocking wireless customers to free conference call services http://pennpirg.org/PA.asp?id2=31481 http://gigaom.com/2007/03/15/cingular-qwest-blocking-free-calls/ http://gigaom.com/2007/02/26/iowa-telcos-att-owes-12-million/ http://riskman.typepad.com/peerflow/2007/03/more_telcos_blo.html 16) Blocking Port 25 http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/ports.html 17) NYT: Middle School Series http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/newteacherdisci.html The Education Trust, a Washington-based advocacy group, has asserted that a "scandalously high" number of middle school classes are taught by teachers lacking even a college minor in their assigned subjects. Around the country, middle school teachers are often trained as elementary school generalists or as high school subject specialists, with little understanding of young adolescent psychology. 18) Newbie's Guide to Twitter http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9697867-2.html Desktop, Web, & Mobile Apps, Addons, Plugins, Scripts http://twitter.pbwiki.com/ 19) Google can send info to your cell phone upon request via text message: http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/mobile/sms/ driving directions, local listings, weather reports, movies, stock quotes, sports scores, currency conversions, etc. Just send your query to: 466453 20) Origin of "The Tales of B'rer Rabbit" first collected on the Laura Plantation http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/armynavycodenoir.html Also Find pictures of the Code Noir 21) "Through Deaf Eyes" premiers March 21 (PBS) http://www.pbs.org/weta/throughdeafeyes/ THROUGH DEAF EYES two-hour documentary that explores 200 years of Deaf life in America. The film includes interviews with prominent members of the Deaf community, including Marlee Maitlin and Galludet University president I. King Jordan. 22)"After Breaking Off Talks, 2 High-Speed Networking Consortia Now Say They Will Merge"
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