Re: [school-discuss] Nancy E. Willard Audio Interview on Internet Safety

[Shane Coyle <shane@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 14 November 2006 09:58, Steve Hargadon wrote:
> http://educationbridges.net/k12opensource/wp-content/uploads/NancyWillard.m
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>er the last several months, I've watched
> Nancy's<http://www.csriu.org/about/bio.html>consistent, warning voice
> on the educational technology email lists. I'm
> sure this is not an easy role--at a time when the read-write web is
> challenging educators to find creative ways to take advantage in schools of
> technologies that have become so engaging to our youth outside of school ,
> Nancy keeps talking about hard topics of safe internet use, filtering,
> online predators, disinhibition
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinhibition>, and cyberbullying
> <http://www.cyberbully.org>.
>
> Arranging an interview time with Nancy was difficult--she is the parent of
> three children, and working on finishing two books--but we finally caught
> up last week. I was particularly interested in her concerns about how
> online sexual predation is taught, which she says is often based on the
> myth that the youth who go to meet an online predator are unaware of what
> is actually going to take place. Nancy is also appropriately harsh on the
> inappropriate marketing of sexuality to young women, and she agreed with my
> concerns (we both have thirteen-year-old daughters) about how the movies
> and media have really promoted aggressive sexuality by young women in the
> last decade. And she discusses cyber-bullying, which I hadn't really had
> any direct experience with, but which she describes as very real and very
> serious.
>
> My wife generally has not had a great deal of interest in my interview
> series (c'mon, isn't everyone excited about educational technology?), but
> she listened to this interview from start to finish. Our thanks to Nancy
> for caring.
>
> EdTechLive.com Interview
> Series<http://edtechlive.wikispaces.com/Recordings+List>
>
> <http://educationbridges.net/k12opensource/wp-content/uploads/NancyWillard.
>mp3>Listen to the WebCast in MP3
> format<http://educationbridges.net/k12opensource/wp-content/uploads/NancyWi
>llard.mp3>
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> * *Listen to WebCast in Vorbis OGG
> format<http://educationbridges.net/k12opensource/wp-content/uploads/NancyWi
>llard.ogg> *Subscribe to this
> AudioCast:<http://feeds.feedburner.com/K12opensourcesmp3>
> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/K12opensourcesogg>*<http://feeds.feedburner.co
>m/K12opensourcesmp3?format=pcast>
>
> <http://www.videolan.org/vlc>Not sure how to listen MP3/OGG files? Use the
> free VLC Media Player <http://www.videolan.org/vlc>--works on Linux,
> Windows, and Mac.

I submitted to digg, if anyone wants to vote.

http://digg.com/tech_news/Open_Source_in_Education_Interviews_Series_Internet_Safety

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