Wesley Fryer's Blog (9)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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