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Digital Dialog: The Intersection of Technology, Learning and Faith

Cross-posted to Eyes Right. I'm planning on facilitating a class this fall at our church on Wednesday nights which I'm titling, "Digital Dialog: The Intersection of Technology, Learning and Faith." This will be a 15 week course at First Presbyterian Church of Edmond, Oklahoma, and class will begin (I expect) at… Continue

Added by Wesley Fryer on July 23, 2009 at 12:06am — No Comments

Digital Dialog wiki

I've created a Digital Dialog wiki to accompany this site, and serve as a curriculum portal for a class I'm planning to co-teach with my father in law next fall: http://digitaldialog.pbwiki.com We haven't finalized the class title, but I'm considering something like "Digital Dialog and Digital Discipline: Conversations for Lifelong Learners." We're going to address a variety of topics extending well beyond Internet Safety: digital photography, Face… Continue

Added by Wesley Fryer on April 20, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Thanks for the heads-up on inappropriate content

My apologies we had a spam blog post here on digital dialog, I have banned the member from the learning community. I'm going to still leave the membership to this Ning open and unmoderated, hopefully we won't have more problems like this again. It is sad to see the lengths spammers will go to reach our radar screens with content that is wholly inappropriate for a context like this. :-( Please do not hesitate to contact me directly if you see anything here on our website that is inappropriate… Continue

Added by Wesley Fryer on March 9, 2009 at 10:48pm — No Comments

Discussing profile pictures and avatars with kids

Have you had a conversation with your own children or students lately about their online profile? What's appropriate to use for a profile picture or avatar? What could the consequences be down the road (or right away) of using an inappropriate profile picture or avatar? Some social networking sites use "gravatars" which can be "rated" like you rate movies. … Continue

Added by Wesley Fryer on August 5, 2008 at 12:33pm — No Comments

New Internet Safety for parents resources

I have drafted a new presentation / workshop for parents that I will be sharing twice later this month in the Oklahoma City area. I have titled it "Internet Safety and Social Networking for Parents." http://teachdigital.pbwiki.com/internetsafety At the suggestion of Karen Montgomery I added resources related to instant messaging yesterday. I would love feedback on the content and links. I am also wondering about the best way to share these resources with parents. I am considering writing the… Continue

Added by Wesley Fryer on January 11, 2008 at 4:44pm — 1 Comment

New presentation resources for parents on Internet Safety

I'm scheduled to share two presentations later this month about Internet Safety with parents. 1 presentation will be at a church, another will be at a school. I've updated the resource page (wiki page) with ideas and links that I'll be sharing. It is on:

http://teachdigital.pbwiki.com/internetsafety

I'll be crafting a new handout for parents as well and will link it there when it's done, as well as post a link here to… Continue

Added by Wesley Fryer on January 9, 2008 at 5:04pm — No Comments

Filtering Facts

David Burt's blog site Filtering Facts is a great resource related to content filtering for schools, libraries, and homes. David has posted a thorough review of OpenDNS to his blog, and I've subscribed to his blog with my RSS reader (Google Reader) to stay up on his latest finds. My main recommendation with regard to Open… Continue

Added by Wesley Fryer on January 1, 2008 at 3:41pm — No Comments

Using OpenDNS for home network content filtering

I was delighted to learn about the free service OpenDNS today when visiting our local Apple Store, which can be used to provide FREE content filtering on your entire home network. I posted more details about this to my blog in the post, "Home Internet Content filtering needs: Solved with OpenDNS." If you have had experiences with OpenDNS, g… Continue

Added by Wesley Fryer on January 1, 2008 at 1:51am — No Comments

Myspace Pic Costs Teacher Her Job!

This story has been around for a few months, but resurfaced again today in the New York Times. A student teacher was denied her education degree from Millersvile University because of a photo she posted on myspace.com and she captioned the photo "drunken pirate". The photo can be viewed on this… Continue

Added by Robin Martin on December 30, 2007 at 1:00pm — 3 Comments

It's all at...

scottmerrick.net :) Continue

Added by Scott Merrick on November 2, 2007 at 10:45am — No Comments

It's Elementary!

Join us this Monday at 23:00GMT. Hear a special guest talking about podcasts. Join the conversation by going to this link.
Type the name you want others to see, no password required, and click "Login". Then type in the yellow box asking for where you can hear the live show. Others there will tell you the location of the stream and how to access it. During a show, you will hear live audio and be able to interact in the chat roo… Continue

Added by Durff on August 12, 2007 at 10:43pm — No Comments

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Added by Durff on July 25, 2007 at 10:31am — No Comments

Educating Parents in our districts

Unless we begin to educate the parents in our school districts about dangerous behavior, there will continue to be problems. Well there will be problems anyway; teachers cannot do it all. It is important that we run workshops for parents and teachers about the new tools predators are using. Last year I held 5 workshops for parents in our schools, a local church and a neighboring school. This year there was only a request for one parent program and one staff program. I created a blog for parents… Continue

Added by Robin Martin on April 15, 2007 at 6:31pm — 2 Comments

Internet Safety for Kids

While searching for internet safety information, I ran across this website. It was written in March of 99, so some of the legislation information is outdated, but the links to the safety sites, and safe websites for children are still very good.
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Added by shelly fryer on March 14, 2007 at 9:20am — 2 Comments

Content filtering for home, school and church

Every school in the United States today is required to filter access to the Internet on its network by the Children's Internet Protection Act. Many parents do not filter Internet access in their homes, however, and many churches do not either.

There are GREAT resources available online, but it is sadly very easy for people to encounter objectionable and offensive materials (including images and videos) when… Continue

Added by Wesley Fryer on March 13, 2007 at 12:28pm — 2 Comments