So I’ve been getting tweaked by filters again and the amount of stuff that many schools block and try to keep away from kids and, to a depressingly large extent, teachers as well. I know this is just a repeat of the same basic issues that have been floating around here for a while, but [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Filter Fun", url: "http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/filter-fun/" });

If this article in Innovate (registration required) didn’t keep hammering the “N-Gen” meme and all the requisite star-struck statistics and high-fallutin description so hard it would have been a lot more fun to read.  But the bottom line thesis is still important for all educators to consider: Much in the same way that Rudolph Flesch’s 1955 [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "“Why Johnny’s Professor Can’t Read”", url: "http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/why-johnnys-professor-cant-read/" });

Just testing you can guess what… Sure wish I had smaller thumbs! SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "iPhoneblog", url: "http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/iphoneblog/" });

Awesome session by Konrad this morning. We had about 50 people in the room from around the world, and it was streamed into Second Life as well. (Here is the chat.) It was just so much fun to be in a packed room of people who were into not just the tool but the pedagogy [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Konrad Glogowski’s Blogging Session at NECC", url: "http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/konrad-glogowskis-blogging-session-at-necc/" });

That’s what it’s going to cost you to excerpt in your blog any content published by the Associated Press under it’s new pricing structure. According to a pseudo FAQ on copyright that the AP has published: Don’t use your browser to cut, copy, and paste content. It is wrong and, in most cases, illegal. That right [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "$12.50 for Five Words", url: "http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/1250-for-five-words/" });

Just a quick pointer to a post by Jeff Jarvis who has some interesting observations about blogging ethics in the context of linking and quoting from other sources. Seems the Associated Press has attempted to get some bloggers to stop using pull quotes (even as short as 35 words) from its stories and, somewhat understandably, [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Blogging Ethics", url: "http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/blogging-ethics/" });

From the “Do We Really Want Our Daughters to Learn This on Their Own?” Department comes this excerpt from the cover article of the Sunday Times Magazine this week titled “Blog Post Confidential“: Of course, some people have always been more naturally inclined toward oversharing than others. Technology just enables us to overshare on a different [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A World of Oversharing", url: "http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/a-world-of-oversharing/" });

From the “Circling the Wagons Department” it seems the New York City Department of Education has laid down the law about employees referencing their blogs in their e-mail signatures. For some reason, letting others know that your are a blogger is highly problematic, and the city is providing disclaimer language for anyone in the department [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "And No Blog Tattoos Either", url: "http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/and-no-blog-tattoos-either/" });

From CNN: On his way to the police station, Buck took out his cell phone and sent a message to his friends and contacts using the micro-blogging site Twitter. The message only had one word. “Arrested.” Within seconds, colleagues in the United States and his blogger-friends in Egypt — the same ones who had taught him the tool [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Student ‘Twitters’ His Way Out of Egyptian Jail", url: "http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/student-twitters-his-way-out-of-egyptian-jail/" });

What, me worry? Two weeks ago in North Lauderdale, Fla., funeral services were held for Russell Shaw, a prolific blogger on technology subjects who died at 60 of a heart attack. In December, another tech blogger, Marc Orchant, died at 50 of a massive coronary. A third, Om Malik, 41, survived a heart attack in December. Other [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "On The Need for Blogging Balance", url: "http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/on-the-need-for-blogging-balance/" });