Educational CyberPlayGround Nethappenings Headlines and Resources 5/23/06

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Greetings,

There are the headlines and resources that caught
my eye over the past few days.

Please share with friends, colleagues,  and family . . .
those who need to broaden their understanding of the net.

I salute Hazel Haley!

enjoy,

<Karen>


1)
TEACHER RETIRES AFTER 69 YEARS OF CLASSROOM TEACHING
Hazel Haley, at 89 the longest-serving public-school teacher in Florida --
and, as far as anyone knows, in the country -- is retiring after 69 years,
67 of them at one school, 54 in a single book-crammed, pink classroom. A
few years ago, the Florida Legislature ruled school districts could hang
on to veteran teachers, but now time has run out, and Miss Haley must go.
Through the years, Miss Haley has taught an estimated 13,500 students,
including Lawton Chiles, Florida's late governor and former U.S. senator.
But he was no more adorable or beloved than anyone in this semester's
three senior honors English classes. Here are a few things to remember
about Miss Haley: She was a student here herself, graduating in 1933. She
has never married and lives alone, but every student she has ever taught
is dearly regarded as ''my child.'' She drives to school in Earl, her 1988
Grand Marquis. She is a lifelong Anglophile and will happily show off
letters from Margaret Thatcher and the Queen. An accomplished motivational
speaker, she believes that life is a series of little joys.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/education/14587725.htm

2)
Media Mythmakers: How Journalists, Activists, and Advertisers Mislead Us, <http://www.livescience.com/othernews/060516_predator_panic.html>
"despite relatively few instances of child predation and little hard data on
topics such as Internet predators, journalists invariably suggest that the
problem is extensive, and fail to put their stories in context." He adds that
"the issue is not whether children need to be protected; of course they do.
According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children,
'based on what we know about those who harm children, the danger to
children is greater from someone they or their family knows than from a stranger'."

Parents need to know about social-networking. There are good
things going on in MySpace and other such sites too.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/socialnetwork.html

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PARENTS, TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS, SCHOOL BOARDS
WHO IS COLLECTING AND SELLING children's information?
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/SECURITYprivacy.html
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3)
Risky Web search
 "most dangerous words to search" in terms of bad stuff that gets
downloaded from bad Web sites.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4765199.stm

4)
Technology can harm kids.
http://news.com.com/Is+tech+injuring+children/2009-1041_3-6073730.html
"Some physical therapists and pediatricians are already citing cases of
RSI [repetitive stress injuries] in children as young as 8 years old" and
60% of students aged 10 to 17 complained of neck and back discomfort
while using the PC.
It's not unusual for young people reported spending about 6-1/2 hours
per day occupied with various media" from the Net to TV.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/14/CMGGKIACOL75.DTL

5)
Kids Health
Physical Fitness, Healthy Diet, Brain Based Learning
and Brain Development Resources, Character Development,
Adolescent Pressure.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/NCFR/health.html

6)
The San Francisco Department of Public Health launched
cellphone-based sex and health information for the city's
"sexually active 12-to-24-year-olds,"
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2006-05-07-text-message-health_x.htm

7)
Porn that can be downloaded from the Web
to Sony's PlayStation Portable gameplayers.
http://www.wftv.com/news/9168265/detail.html

8)
Adult movies bought online will copy  to DVDs
and play on any screen, including a TVs
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/services/2006-05-14-adult-film-downloads_x.htm

9)
State Dept. to remove Chinese-made computers from classified networks
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/40811-1.html

10)
Not for sale: Military clampdown on stolen computer drives turns market cold
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20060508-1009-afghan-us-stolenintelligence.html
BAGRAM, Afghanistan - Computer storage devices containing sensitive
military information stolen from the U.S. base here and widely
available in shops last month are now hard to come by.

11)
DATABASE IDENTITY THEFT
Burgeoning wave of identity theft
A 2004 Justice Department study said about three of every
100 U.S. households had been recent victims of identity theft.
What to do if you are a victim of fraud
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/REPORT_INTERNET_FRAUD.html

Thieves steal personal data of 26.5M vets
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1152AP_Veterans_Disk.html

OMB to agencies: Review personal data protections
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/40842-1.html
The Office of Management and Budget has directed agencies' senior
privacy officials to review and correct any policies and processes to
ensure that they protect against misuse of or unauthorized access to
personally identifiable information.


12)
Hurricane Season is coming, be prepared.
Think about what you need to do and get ready.
Your Personal Plan
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/disaster.html

13)
"Net Neutrality Discussed on Capitol Hill"
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/gap.html
Net neutrality -- a principlE that would prohibit broadband carriers from
favoring certain network traffic with fast-lane delivery to
people's computers.  A a new bill introduced, called the Internet
Freedom Nondiscrimination Act, that would make Net neutrality
enforceable under antitrust law.
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6074108.html

14)
American Companies that sold their Censorware programs
to other countries that refuse their people access to information on the internet.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/SECURITYcensor.html
and
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/securitycrisisCENSORSHIP.html

15)
Google Jockey - New Jargon / Buzz Word
A Google jockey is a participant in a presentation or class who surfs
the Internet for terms, ideas, Web sites, or resources mentioned
by the presenter or related to the topic. The jockey's searches
are displayed simultaneously with the presentation,
helping to clarify the main topic and extend learning opportunities.

16)
Commerce signs up for security training
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/40834-1.html
The Commerce Department has awarded a task order to the International
Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, or (ISC)2, to
provide an expanded information security education program for the
department's information security employees.

17)
UWS grad heads for prestigious computer security program
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/local/14627475.htm
Peter Goetsch of Iron River, Wis., will receive his college diploma
today and the opportunity to protect America's computers.
Goetsch, 31, not only graduates from the University of
Wisconsin-Superior with a degree in computer science, but he also has
been accepted into a highly selective national computer security
scholarship program. He will spend two years at the
University of Tulsa in Oklahoma learning to safeguard our country's computers.
In exchange for the federally funded education, Goetsch will work as a
computer security expert for the government for at least two years
after he receives his master's degree.

18)
IM worm installs 'safe' Web browser
http://news.com.com/IM+worm+installs+safe+Web+browser/2100-7349_3-6075401.html
A new instant messaging worm installs a rogue Web browser called
"Safety Browser" and hijacks the user's Internet Explorer home page,
experts have warned.
The worm, dubbed "yhoo32.explr" by FaceTime Security Labs, was found
two weeks ago on the Yahoo instant messaging network and was still
active as of Friday, Tyler Wells, senior director of research at
FaceTime, a seller of instant messaging security products, said in an
interview.
The worm drops the "Safety Browser" on the target's machine. The rogue
browser uses the same icon as Microsoft's IE Web browser and, when
opened, takes users to a site that installs spyware on the PC,
FaceTime said. "This is the first recorded incidence of malware
installing its own Web browser on a PC," the company said in a
statement.

19)
HOPE FOR EDUCATION ESSAY CONTEST
http://www.hopeforeducation.com/cgi-bin/nabc/campaign/hfe/hfe_home.jsp
Closing Date: June 30, 2006
AMOUNT:
$200K worth of Samsung electronics & MS educational software.
ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS:
The contest is open to legal residents of the 50 US states and
Washington, DC. Participants should nominate a public or state-
accredited private school in their community.
SUMMARY:
This program is designed to better educate U.S. elementary, middle and
high school students via new digital technologies and software. Anyone
can enter the contest by submitting a 100-word essay on the question,
"Do you know of an individual student or teacher, or group of school
children, who are missing out on opportunities because they don't have
access to technology?"

20)
Allen's Guide
kids and teen summer camps and travel programs.
http://www.allensguide.com

21)
Autonomous robot does heart surgery. Whoah ...
http://htdaw.blogsource.com/post.mhtml?post_id=329265
Italian robot does heart surgery[foto] World first for technology now
able to work by itself (ANSA) - Rome, May 18 - A robot surgeon has for
the first time carried out a long-distance heart operation completely by
itself .
The 50-minute surgery, which took place in a Milanese hospital, was
carried out on a 34-year-old patient suffering from atrial fibrillation,
or 'heart flutters' .
The operation was initiated and monitored on a PC in Boston, USA, by
Carlo Pappone, head of Arrhythmia and Cardiac Electrophysiology at
Milan's San Raffaele university. Also watching the operation - a world
first - were dozens of heart specialists attending an international
congress on arrhythmia in the American city .

22)
Mellon Foundation Announces Awards for Open Source Software
http://rit.mellon.org/awards/
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is pleased to announce today a Call for
Nominations for the 2006 Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration
(MATC). These awards, to be bestowed for the first time at an
international technology conference in the Fall of 2006, will recognize
not-for-profit organizations that have demonstrated exceptional
leadership in the collaborative development of open-source software
through the contribution of substantial, self-funded organizational
resources to the open-source project for which they are nominated. The
nomination period ends August 15, 2006.

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