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Tag: Digital Responsibility

  • Le Devoir – Personal Piracy Permitted (in Canada)

    Hat tip to Wade… According to the paper (translated): … the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) had given up for several months, was told Le Devoir. It now closes its eyes to this type of criminal behavior. “Piracy [music over the Internet or other media] for personal use is no longer targeted,” said in an…

  • Lockdown Browsers – Cheating on Demand

    Today, I was testing the Respondus Lockdown browser for the central eLearning guys and girls and as comments were going back and forth on different issues, something interesting came up… students can still cheat if the are at home by calling a friend, using another computer (just think about the number of computers in the…

  • Quick tips for managing online persona

    C|Net has cribbed together a good collection of points. I think overall, you can sum everything up as follows – view everything that you have posted out there through the eyes of everyone else who would want to use it for good or bad. That being said, you can’t live in fear of what might…

  • Let your fingers do the walking on the interweb

    With Facebook opening up their member profile pages to the search engines shortly, it is very possible that these sites will effectively become the phone books of the ‘web. This prospect must certainly get advertising types in a tizzy – what if we can get more ads in FB or MyS? Hopefully the sn sites…

  • Protecting one’s own image

    One of the thoughts that bounced around the noggin this weekend was about how the new term is going to bring a whole host of new people back to campus and schools in general. This is nothing new, It’s happened for more than a century (at least the September return), but as we enter the…