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Of the subjects I proposed in my previous post, Writing Workshop received the most #1 votes. Google Docs rubrics received more votes if you count #2 and #3+ votes, but since I technically didn&#821…

Over the past two weekends I have attended regional conferences where teachers that teach the sciences and that teach academically advanced students, gathered for professional development. On both...

From forming a hypothesis to reporting findings, these apps and web-based tools support budding scientists.

Own the key to your privacy online. | Check out 'Don't Snoop Me Bro Tunnel' on Indiegogo.

Schools across the country are looking at new online ways to integrate and analyze information about their students. But privacy advocates remain wary.

October is Connected Educators Month and that means things are working, probably even faster than usual. With this much great stuff happening in schools, there’s really no time for shutting down.

The overwhelming amount of information will surely impede learning for many students in the absence of teaching grounded in good curriculum.

Coalfire surveyed 400 individuals working in a variety of industries across North America who are not affiliated with their company's IT department.

Nearly 30% of employees are using personal cloud services to store work-related documents, according to a survey conducted at recent technology trade

Twelve cases of unauthorised surveillance documented in letter from NSA's inspector general to senator Chuck Grassley

By Jacob Sullum - President Obama claims he welcomes the public debate over government surveillance programs that track personal information about millions of innocent Americans. But if it were up to him, the debate never would have happened, since the programs would have remained secret. Furthermore, his administration is treating the whistleblower who made the debate possible as...

The difference between privacy and anonymity, Internet freedom and NSA surveillance, and the future of the web - at RT’s Google Hangout, Rick Falkvinge answers the most pressing questions that concern all Internet users in their everyday lives.

From time to time I like to pick up useful advice intended for people in business, and apply it to education. One of my favorite sources is the New York Times feature “The Corner Office.&#822…

We know from the Snowden documents (and other sources) that the NSA taps the Internet backbone through secret agreements with major US telcos., but the US government still hasn’t admitted it. In late August, the Obama administration declassified a ruling from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Footnote 3 reads: The term ‘upstream collection’ refers to NSA’s interception of Internet communications as they transit [LONG REDACTED CLAUSE], [REDACTED], rather than to acquisitions directly from Internet service providers such as [LIST OF REDACTED THINGS, PRESUMABLY THE PRISM DOWNSTREAM COMPANIES]...

Most software editing apps are fraught with "feature creep," which become major distractions during the writing process.

A perfect place to think and write: OmmWriter is a tool which makes it easier for you to concentrate on writing. Based on a natural setting, it effectively insulates your mind from distractions and sets up a direct line between your thoughts and your words.