[ECP] Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings Resources

Hi All,

This is a pretty full list of cherry picked resources so I'll leave the
headlines for another day.

best,

<Karen>


1)
FaceTime Researchers Discover Symfly Trojan Abusing Alexa Toolbar
http://www.facetime.com/pr/pr070313.aspx

2)
Need to make your book #1 on Amazon for the day?
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/selfpublish.asp

3)
Show Us the Money: How Online Databases Can Help Taxpayers Sort Out State Spending 
http://www.ntu.org/pdf/ntuib%20161%20State%20Spending%20Databases.pdf

4)
Faculty Higher education salaries, tenure, and fringe benefits of full-time faculty 
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2007/2007150.pdf

5)
Play Is Important
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/play.asp
Creativity is the ability to challenge, question and explore.
Many educators have focused on the importance of play and
creativity in learning. Many people have influenced the way we
think about education and have introduced different
theories to the ongoing debate.

6)
World History for Us All
http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu
"a comprehensive model curriculum for teaching world history
in middle and high schools."

7)
A brief History of Programming Languages
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/complang.html

8)
Passover Through Archaeology and Rare Documents: A Teaching Site
http://www.passoversite.org
This site uses artifacts and rare books to tell the story of the Jewish holiday 
of Passover. The items appear in chronological order and include the oldest
extant Haggadah from the Cairo Genizah, a 1985 Haggadah in memory of
the Holocaust, and related historical documents. Also includes a section of
study questions. from the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York.

9)
Feared as Possible Terrorist Target
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2108437,00.asp
As if RFID chips in driver's licenses and passports weren't scary enough
already, London's Royal Academy of Engineering is suggesting that
someday a terrorist will be able to read personal details from a
distance and, given the right antennas and amplification, set a bomb to
go off when a particular person gets within range.
It's already widely acknowledged that unencrypted data stored on an RFID
chip in a passport can be read covertly by anybody with a pass-by
reader.
As the ACLU pointed out at Black Hat earlier in March, you can buy parts
on the Internet to make a reader for as little as $20.

10)
White House use of outside e-mail raises red flags
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9015092

11)
UIC worker charged in security breach
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=5164853
A Chicago hospital worker is charged with stealing patient information.

12)
Firms face disaster over WAN bottlenecks
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=8412
Two-thirds of large enterprises don't have enough bandwidth to replicate
or backup their remote sites in an emergency, according to a survey of
IT managers and directors.

13)
Eight Faces of a Hacker
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=120800
"If you know the enemy and you know yourself, you need not fear the
result of a hundred battles." -- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
"Who are those guys?" -- Paul Newman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
You fight against them every day: hackers, attackers, insiders. You know
what they do, but not who they are.

14)
ANI Zeroday, Third Party Patch
A new vulnerability was recently discovered, in the wild, that affects
the .ANI file format. This flaw affects all versions of Microsoft
Windows and can be delivered through multiple attack vectors,
specifically any user who visits a malicious website. This flaw remains
as of yet unpatched by Microsoft.
We have provided a brief analysis, free third party patch (with source
code), which is all available here:
http://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/20070328.html


15)
Five civil servants suspended over "DNA espionage'
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23391084-details/Five+civil+servants+suspended+over+%22DNA+espionage'/article.do
It is alleged they copied confidential information and used it to set up
a rival database in competition with their employers, the Government's
Forensic Science Service.
It also maintains the controversial database containing DNA samples of
almost four million people, the largest in the world.

16)
"BIRD FLU" INFORMATION FOR ETHNIC LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/birdflu.html
Avian Literature Database is a bibliographic database of
documents of effects of wind energy development
(including towers, power lines, and other wires) on birds.


17)
DirectgovKids
http://kids.direct.gov.uk/
Activity based lesson plans, with clear curriculum links,
enable teachers to use DirectgovKids in the classroom in a cross-curricular way. 

18)
EUobserver.com
http://euobserver.com/
The EUobserver.com is the largest online daily news site focused
on the European Union.

19)
Evaluation of Web Search Engines
http://www.um.es/gtiweb/wesen/
This web site is dedicated to gather all scientific literature
published in the web about the evaluation of the search engines,
more particularly about the information retrieval effectiveness.


20)
Grey Literature, Grey Water
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/search.html
A podcast from George C. Gordon Library, Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
about grey literature. One of a series, found here.

21)
Open Source Content
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/OpenSource.html
Open learning at openlearn
Welcome to The Open University's openlearn website -
free and open learning educational resources for learners
and educators around the world.

22)
NFER educational research and test development business
Literacy http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/research.asp
Current levels of literacy and numeracy: the story so far - (March 2007)
Key Stage 2 English in Wales, optional support for teacher
assessment - (January 2007) Research Summary
Raising the achievement of bilingual learners in primary schools:
evaluation of the pilot/programme - (December 2006)
Research summary and downloadable reports

23)
Top 25 Web 2.0 Search Engines
http://oedb.org/library/features/top-25-web20-search-engines

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