<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<> [ECP] Educational CyberPlayGround K-12 Newsletter Located on the Blog Educational CyberPlayGround Blog: http://blog.edu-cyberpg.com/ SIGN UP and GET POSTS DELIVERED TO YOUR EMAIL *Subscribe to the ECP Blog Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/EducationalCyberPlayGround *Find your School in the ECP K-12 School Directory http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/schools/ *Link to the Educational CyberPlayGround http://www.edu-cyberpg.com <>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<> Greetings K12 Newsletter Readers, Happy Reading for today. <Karen> 1) Has education reform jumped the shark? A teacher says 'yes' http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/guest-bloggers/has-education-reform-jumped-th.html http://xrl.in/6e50 2) Supreme Court Eyeing RIAA ?Innocent Infringer? Case http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/supreme-court-riaa/ 3) Movie Producers Want Sole Ownership Of Facebook Fans <http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100913/20473110993/movie-producers-want-sole-ownership-of-facebook-fans.shtml> 4) Code That Tracks Users? Browsing Prompts Lawsuits http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/technology/21cookie.html 5) K12 Department of Education Issues, Distance Learning Online Virtual Schools. When reduced to its most fundamental elements, public education is cold, hard business. There is a very thin line between an Economist and a Criminal. http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/k12.html 6) Twitter Rolls Out Fix for Security Flaw Reported hack exploited thousands of accounts http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/tech/Twitter-Security-Flaw-Widely-Exploited-103431764.html 7) News Aggregators: Aggregators: the good ones vs. the looters http://www.mondaynote.com/2010/09/19/aggregators-the-good-ones-vs-the-looters/ the under-investment in technology is publishers? most dangerous mistake. And the gap is widening: if you have a doubt, compare the growth of the HuffPo to what other big online news outlets achieve. With no weight from the past, superblog-aggregators have been free to integrate the best of the marketing and traffic technologies. 8) On September 7, the Department and the National Education Association (NEA) Foundation launched a new program for teachers to identify and solve education?s most pressing classroom challenges. ?Challenge to Innovate? (C2i) enlists teachers to think creatively and implement innovative classroom ideas. C2i also recognizes the urgency of improvement by providing a new model that moves rapidly from idea conception to implementation and evaluation, while simultaneously supplying critical support to educators. The Department?s Open Innovation Portal at https://innovation.ed.gov/ will host the three-phase C2i. Phase 1, through October 19, asks teachers to share their most pressing classroom challenges that can be solved with $500 or less. The five ideas receiving the most votes -- judged by the portal?s community -- will receive $1,000 from the NEA Foundation. In Phase 2, from November 16 through January 14, teachers will post the best solutions to the five winning challenges. Up to 10 solutions will receive a $2,500 implementation grant from the NEA Foundation. In Phase 3, from January 17 through February 4, the NEA Foundation will select up to three solutions to receive a $5,000 planning grant and technical support. These solutions will be posted on the Donors Choose web site at http://www.donorschoose.org/, where teachers will be invited to submit requests to receive up to $500 in implementation costs. The NEA Foundation, with citizen philanthropists, will provide the funding for teachers to implement and test these innovation solutions. https://innovation.ed.gov/challenges/challengetoinnovate/show/ 9) Code That Tracks Users? Browsing Prompts Lawsuits http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/technology/21cookie.html 10) PG&E's secret pipeline map The utility won't release its pipeline locations even to the Fire Department but we managed find the info http://www.sfbg.com/2010/09/21/pges-secret-pipeline-map <>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<> [ECP] Educational CyberPlayGround K12 Newsletters © Set Mailing List Preferences: Subscribe - Unsubscribe - Digest http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/K12Newsletters.html Copyright statements to be included when reproducing annotations from the Educational CyberPlayGround K-12 Newsletter 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 > Educational CyberPlayGround K-12 Newsletter copyright > http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/K12Newsletters.html Advertise K12 Newsletters http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/Subguidelines.html <>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>