[ECP] Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings Resources and Headlines

¤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 Everyone,

Happy reading for today.

best,
<Karen>



1)
Palestinans Pull Folk Tales From Schools
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2924789
The Hamas-run Education Ministry has ordered an anthology of Palestinian
folk tales pulled from school libraries, reportedly over mild sexual
innuendo, the most direct attempt by the Islamic militants to impose their
beliefs on Palestinian society.
The book ban angered and worried many Palestinians, who have feared that
Hamas would use last year's election victory to remake the Palestinian
territories according to its hard-line interpretation of Islam.
The 400-page anthology of 45 folk tales narrated by Palestinian women was
first published in English in 1989 by the University of California at
Berkeley. It was put together by Sharif Kanaana, a novelist and anthropology
professor at the West Bank's Bir Zeit University, and by Ibrahim Muhawi, a
teacher of Arabic literature and the theory of translation.

A Turkish court has "banned" YouTube in Turkey due to videos that
are deemed offensive to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the nation's modern
founder.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/03/07/youtube-banned-in-turkey-a
fter-insults-to-ataturk/

*********************************************************************
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.
*********************************************************************

2)
Recordings by Historical Figures and Musical Legends Added
To the 2006 National Recording Registry
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/folk.html
What do President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, legendary performer and
songwriter Eubie Blake, Gershwin Prize-winning musician Paul Simon
and The Rolling Stones have in common? Today, Librarian of Congress
James H. Billington named sound recordings made by them and 21
others to the National Recording Registry to be preserved for all time.

3)
Hillary Clinton's code-switching:
Linguistics
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/

Code Switching African American Vernacular English (AAVE)
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/AAVE.html
also called Black English, Black Vernacular, or Black English
Vernacular (BEV), is a type variety (dialect, ethnolect and sociolect)
of the American English language. It is known colloquially as Ebonics
("ebony" and "phonics"). With pronunciation that in some respects is
common to that of Southern American English, the variety is spoken by
many blacks in the United States and ethnic minorities worldwide. AAVE
shares many characteristics with various Creole English dialects
spoken by blacks in much of the world. AAVE also has grammatical
origins in, and pronunciation characteristics in common with, various
West African languages.
AAVE's development has its deepest roots in the trans-Atlantic African
slave trade, but it also has features of English spoken in Great
Britain and Ireland during the 16th and 17th centuries.
Most blacks, regardless of socioeconomic status, educational
background, or geographic region, use some form of AAVE to various
degrees in informal and intra-ethnic communication (this selection of
variety according to social context is called code switching).

Ringleaders on the Educational CyberPlayGround
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Ringleaders/Home_ringleaders.html

Ask EXPERT DR. JOHN RICKFORD Ringleader on the Educational CyberPlayGround
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/johnR.html


4)
American Sociological Association has issued a call for the end to the use of
Native American team names, logos and mascots in athletics.
Resolution at http://tinyurl.com/2lpsyb
Chief Illiniwek makes his last dance February 21, 2007
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Arts/resources2.html
The debate about mascots - of any type - is a great opportunity for teaching, and 
for getting students (and others) to think and feel deeply about
issues of representation. Chief Illiniwek has been part of a climate
of intense racial antagonism for his 81 years, including official
segregation and a KKK chapter here on campus in the late 1920s.  Some
of this is excellently documented in Jim Loewen's book, Sundown Towns.
Chief Illiniwek Facts.
Cherokees expel freedmen descendants from tribe
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/04/cherokee.freedmen.ap/index.html?eref=rs

5)
Nominate an Outstanding Teacher for the American Stars of Teaching Award
https://www.t2tweb.us/AmStar/About.asp
Nominations for American Stars must be submitted by March 31, 2007.
The U.S. Department of Education is seeking nominations for its fourth
annual American Stars of Teaching project, which recognizes exemplary
teachers who raise student achievement, use innovative classroom
strategies and make a difference in their students' lives.
Teachers across all grade levels and disciplines will be honored this
fall as 2007 American Stars of Teaching. One teacher will be
recognized from every state and the District of Columbia. Colleagues,
parents, students, school administrators or members of the community
may nominate a teacher they believe has demonstrated the skills,
talents and qualities that personify an American Star of Teaching.
Last year, the Department received more than 4,000 nominations for the
program. Honorees were selected by a committee composed of former K-12
teachers who now work for the U.S. Department of Education. As in the
past, Education Department officials will visit the schools of
American Star teachers to congratulate them on their success.

6)
Interview with Dan Lohrmann,
Michigan chief information security officer
http://www.gcn.com/print/26_05/43222-1.html

7)
Month of PHP bugs gets rolling
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=8174
Security researcher Joanna Rutkowska has demonstrated several methods
that sophisticated rootkits can use to hide from even the most reliable
detection method currently available - hardware-based products that read
a system's RAM.

8)
Hacker steals crucial data from French Prez candidate
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/05/french_candidate_hacked/

9)
Vint Cerf: Father Knows Best
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=118596

10)
'Hero Gye-Baek' Computer Mystery Solved, Hacker Jailed
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200703/200703070023.html

-------- It's an A D thanks sponsors! ---------

Educational CyberPlayGround Mailing List
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/Subguidelines.html
Helps educators make the most efficient use of your resources
Get your products or services noticed
through support of the Educational CyberPlayGround,
a clearinghouse of educational resources.

Education Vendor Directory
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Directory/
------------------------------------------------------------------------

11)
Leak Hunters
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=118872

12)
Triple Cross - Must check this out <Karen>
http://www.peterlance.com

13)
Steve Jobs, Spymaster
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,72877-0.html
A judge ordered Apple last January to pay the $700,000 legal fees of two
websites that reported on an unreleased product code-named "Asteroid."
Apple had sued the sites seeking the identities of leakers within its
ranks, but lost the case.

14)
VA to control, restrict use of mobile storage devices
http://www.fcw.com/article97837-03-06-07-Web

15)
Cybercrime Treaty: What it Means to You
http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2100916,00.asp
Cybercrime is getting cheaper all the time, as shady characters sell
tools to help criminals spam, phish, hack and crash. And a new treaty
ratified by the U.S. Senate could wind up passing the costs of combating
cybercrime directly to American businesses.

16)
Gadfly zeroes in on Oracle bugs
http://news.com.com/Gadfly+zeroes+in+on+Oracle+bugs/2008-1002_3-6164785.html
Don't even try to tell David Litchfield that Oracle is unbreakable.
Litchfield, a noted bug hunter, has made it his mission to tell the
world that database software is insecure--Oracle's database software in
particular. Litchfield has been vocal in his criticism of Oracle, even
calling for the resignation of Oracle Chief Security Officer Mary Ann
Davidson.

17)

C-SPAN TAKES LEAD IN MAKING VIDEO OF CONGRESSIONAL
HEARINGS, WHITE HOUSE AND OTHER FEDERAL EVENTS
MORE WIDELY AVAILABLE TO THE ONLINE COMMUNITY
http://www.c-span.org/about/press/release.asp?code=video
Cable Network Introduces New Copyright Policy and Expanded Capitol Hearings Website 
WASHINGTON (Wednesday, March 7, 2007) - Advancing its longstanding mission
of bringing government closer to the people, C-SPAN announced today two major
initiatives designed to greatly expand citizen access to its online video of federal 
government activities, such as congressional hearings, agency briefings, and
White House events. These actions are intended to meet the growing demand
for video about the federal government and Congress, in an age of explosive
growth of video file sharers, bloggers, and online 'citizen journalists.'
The policy change is effective immediately.

18)
U.S. House of Representatives
Committee on House Administration
Oversight Hearing on the Smithsonian Business Ventures
http://www.archive.org/details/gov.house.cha.05252006-dvd

<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>
Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings Mailing List ©1993
NetHappenings: the largest and oldest K12 Education Mailing List Email Preferences -- Subscribe - Unsubscribe - Digest 
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/NetHappenings.html

Copyright FAIR USE Statements to be included when reproducing
annotations from NetHappenings.

The single phrase below is the copyright notice to be used when
reproducing any portion of this report, in any format:

EDUCATIONAL CYBERPLAYGROUND http://www.edu-cyberpg.com
NetHappenings copyright

<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>

Other related posts: