[ECP] K12 Network Newsletter Headlines and Resources
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Stack, from Digg Labs
http://labs.digg.com/stack/ .
an evolving graph of what's popular at digg. In
the default configuration 100 stories at a time
march across the screen as small vertical lines.
Way cool Animated Periodic Table of the Elements
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/IEC/elementsong.html
New Database of Civil Rights Court Records
http://clearinghouse.wustl.edu/
Washington University in St. Louis has created a
new database of materials related to civil rights
courts cases, including settlements, court orders,
opinions, and case study research. The "Civil
Rights Litigation Clearinghouse" contains
documents related to over 1,000 cases.
LOOPT LAUNCHES SOCIAL MAPPING SERVICE
http://business.bostonherald.com/technologyNews/view.bg?articleid=167307
Start-up company Loopt Inc. is launching a social mapping service in
conjunction with the Boost Mobile brand of Sprint Nextel. With the
service, users can see on a map where other users are and can contact
those people, either by phone or text message. The service, which is
free for the rest of 2006, uses GPS technology in the Boost phones to
locate and track users who have agreed to let their locations be
monitored. Users can include notes that accompany their locations, such
as that they are in class or at the laundry, and they can disable the
feature whenever they want, preventing others from seeing where they
are. Most of the 3.8 million customers of the Boost brand phones are
under 25 years old, and officials from Loopt said this is a key
demographic in such location-based services. CEO Sam Altman noted that
among under-25 cell phone users, one of the most common text messages
is "where are u?"
"China Welcomes Back Wikipedia"
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/censor.html
Wikipedia: Unlike companies like Microsoft,
Yahoo, and Google, the open-source encyclopedia refused to alter
any of its content to appease Chinese censors.
CHINA UNBLOCKS WIKIPEDIA
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6154444.stm
On the Net: outraged bloggers and blog aggregators turned the
fracas at UCLA into nationwide news.
The video, which was posted almost immediately on YouTube, shows an
officer repeatedly shooting the student (identified by the Los
Angeles Times as Mostafa Tabatabainejad) with a Taser as he
screams in agony and rage and other students try to intervene.
What appears to be an outrageous use of a "taser" against a
proposed UCLA student in Powell.
YouTube Video clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyvrqcxNIFs
UCLA's response:
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=7513
press release by the police themselves:
http://www.ucpd.ucla.edu/ucpd/zippdf/2006/Taser%2011-15-06.pdf
Amnesty International estimates Tasers have caused 120 deaths
and there are known long term health effects.
The student appears to have retained a high profile lawyer that intends
to file charges against the police
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2006/171106Taser.htm
"Attorney Stephen Yagman said he plans to file a federal civil rights
lawsuit accusing the UCLA police of "brutal excessive force," as well as
false arrest. The lawyer also provided the first public account of the
Tuesday night incident at UCLA's Powell Library from the student,
Mostafa Tabatabainejad, a 23-year-old senior."
make your voice heard:
UCPD Chief of Police, Karl T. Ross (310) 825-1633 kross@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
UCPD Captain, John Adams (310) 825-4406 adamsj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
UCLA Campus Police (310) 825-1491
Mr. Naples, Dean of Students (310) 825-3871
See: The Emergence of Citizen's Media
http://mitworld.mit.edu/play/392/
News, Information and the Wealth of Networks
http://mitworld.mit.edu/play/394/
Philadelphian Ed Bradley: - Journalist and Jazzman aka Jazzbo
Find the etymology of Jazzbo
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/irish.html
February 2004 article about the "passion for jazz" held by this "60
Minutes" television journalist who died in November 2006. Discusses
Bradley's work early in his career as a radio DJ who played jazz music
and his recent hosting of "Jazz from Lincoln Center" on NPR.
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=1073
Music From The Inside Out Movie
http://tinyurl.com/ydtknz
PBS: The education program for MUSIC FROM THE INSIDE OUT, designed for
both general and music educators, is targeted particularly at schools
where funding for music has been reduced or eliminated. Visit the site
to find out about the curriculum, which will be available this fall.
Also, get information on how you can bring the film to your community
with "town hall"-style workshops led by top arts and music educators.
The Philadelphia Orchestra
At the official Web site of The Philadelphia Orchestra find the
orchestra's history, information on orchestra radio broadcasts,
individual concerts and touring schedule.
Sacred Heart Movie http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/SacredHarp.html
The documentary offers a glimpse into the lives of modern shape-note
singers, who still sing from The Sacred Harp, a 160-year-old hymnal
first published in Georgia in 1844.
Sacred and Secular Shape Note Singing
Traditional Musics of America - New England, Pennsylvania, Alabama,
African America Seven Shapenote Singing. Learn about the basic history
of 7-shapenote in the US
CHINESE COURT CLEARS BAIDU
A court in China has cleared search engine Baidu of wrongdoing in a
case brought by representatives of the recording industry. The IFPI, an
international media organization, filed the lawsuit on behalf of EMI
Group, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony BMG Music
Entertainment, alleging that Baidu facilitated copyright violations by
linking users to sites that allowed them to download pirated music
files. In a decision that IFPI Chairman John Kennedy characterized as
"totally out of step with Chinese law," the court held that Baidu bore
no responsibility for the copyright infringement of its users. The IFPI
said it would appeal the ruling.
CNET, 17 November 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-6136529.html
"The Pros and Cons of Turnitin"
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/plagiarism.html
``Plagiarism software and Turnitin are now part of how education works.''
Philadelphian Ed Bradley: - Journalist and Jazzman aka Jazzbo
Find the etymology of Jazzbo
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/irish.html
February 2004 article about the "passion for jazz" held by this "60
Minutes" television journalist who died in November 2006. Discusses
Bradley's work early in his career as a radio DJ who played jazz music
and his recent hosting of "Jazz from Lincoln Center" on NPR.
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=1073
ReputationDefender.com,
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72063-0.html
will act on your behalf by contacting data
hosting services and requesting the removal of any materials that
threaten your good social standing.
For $10 to $16 a month, "we scour the Internet to dig up every
possible piece of
information by and about your child [in social sites, media-sharing
sites, online game sites, and on "the open Internet"], and we present
it to you in an interactive monthly report. If there's something
embarrassing or damaging in the report, you can flag it and, for an
additional $30, the service will "use an array of proprietary
techniques developed in-house to correct and/or completely remove the
selected unwanted content from the Web." If they can, that is.
Mashable.com
http://tinyurl.com/yaalr3
Wink.com "Chief Executive Michael Tanne said the goal
is to be able to search all social networks from one place,
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