Saves me
the time and effort. Thanks, EFF.
EFF
Introducing a Compendium of the Released NSA Spying Documents
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on December 1, 2013
EFF
– “The ongoing NSA leaks, Freedom of Information Act lawsuits and
government declassification continue to bring vital information to
the public about the the ongoing efforts of the NSA and its allies to
spy on millions of innocent people. What started out as news
detailing the agency’s collections of users’ calling records,
phone calls, and emails now includes NSA’s attack on international
encryption standards and breaking
into the data center links of companies like Yahoo! and Google.
The news reports will continue to come and are often grounded in
documents like PowerPoint slides, pictures, and internal government
reports. Because of the flood of information, we’ve decided to
compile
the documents in a
chart that will serve as part of our NSA
Spying resource. The chart attempts to compile all of the
documents released by the newspapers and the government, with the
exception of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court orders. It
lists the date of publication, the original source and a short
description of the contents. The key documents will also be
toggled on our timeline
of NSA spying. Our NSA
Spying resource was created last
year and is intended to serve as a comprehensive public resource.
It links to EFF’s lawsuits
challenging
the spying, includes an understanding of the NSA’s domestic
surveillance programs, provides an interactive timeline, and
discusses word
games the intelligence community uses. As EFF’s litigation and
public advocacy continues, we will keep these pages updated and
expand the information included. Our compilation will complement
similar efforts by the ACLU
and Cryptome.”
This complies with
their policies? Does it comply with law? Logic?
Nancy Townsley report:
Last
Friday’s arrest of a Brown Middle School eighth-grader sparked a
right-to-privacy furor after cell phones belonging to students who
recorded the teenager’s outburst were confiscated by district
staff.
Read more on Hillsboro
Tribune.
[From
the article:
Five or six students
used their cell phones as recording devices “despite being asked
[by staff] to put their phones away, disregarding behavior
expectations” at Brown, said Graser. District policy states that
students are allowed to have personal communication devices at school
as long as their use does not disrupt the learning environment.
In this case, Graser
said, Principal Koreen Barreras-Brown and her staff were concerned
about the “glorification” of the arrested student’s behavior if
video snippets started showing up on Facebook or other social media —
while at the same time wishing to preserve the student’s dignity.
“Any kind of student
discipline is a private matter,” said Graser.
… Students
complied when asked by staff for passwords to unlock their phones so
their phone activity could be reviewed, she added, and none of them
were disciplined.
Do you
have to be honest? If so,it will never work.
New
on LLRX – UsBook: Toward a family-friendly Facebook alternative to
preserve your memories and help future historians
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on December 1, 2013
Via LLRX.com
- UsBook:
Toward a family-friendly Facebook alternative to preserve your
memories and help future historians–while respecting privacy
David
Rothman’s commentary focuses on how the Digital Public Library
of America is still on track to be a mostly academic creature despite
the P word in its name. But David supports innovative, creative and
value-added goals that with proper focus, can bolster the DPLA onto
the level of a world-class academic digital library system, as
opposed to siphoning off badly needed resources and other forms of
support from public librarians who should be forming their own
e-system.
Does I write right?
A
Few Tools That Make It Easy To Analyze Your Writing
One of the traps that
many student writers fall into is overusing favorite phrases and
adjectives. I've edited and graded enough essays over the years to
confirm this. There are a couple of tools that can help students
avoid overusing the same phrases and adjectives.
WordCounter
is a simple tool that writers can use to identify the words that they
use most frequently in their text. To use WordCounter simply copy
and paste text into Wordcounter then select how many words should
appear in your "frequently used" list. To improve the
utility of your "frequently used words" list you can tell
Wordcounter to ignore small words (like it or the) and to use only
root words.
StoryToolz
offers a few tools to help you edit your work. The Cliché Buster
analyzes your work to find clichés that you have used in your
writing. The Readability tool analyzes your text to estimate a
reading level on several scales.
Last spring at the
Massachusetts School Library Association's conference Pam
Berger presented the idea of using word clouds to help students
analyze documents. Wordle
is the "old reliable" of word cloud creation tools. Some
other options for creating word clouds are Tagul,
Tagxedo,
and ABCya's
Word Cloud Generator.
This could be very
useful.
MathDisk
- Create and Share Interactive Math Worksheets
MathDisk
is a service that teachers can use to develop interactive mathematics
worksheets. Through MathDisk's "Math Builder" tool you can
design mathematics models that your students can use online. The
models and worksheets you develop online can also be downloaded to
use offline if you also install the MiBook software on your desktop
or on your Android device.
If you don't have time
to create new materials, the MathDisk
gallery has pages of models and worksheets that you can choose from.
Everything in the gallery, like everything you create through
MathDisk, can be downloaded and or embedded into your own website or
blog.
The video below offers
an overview of the MathDisk's
features.
MathDisk
offers an extensive playlist of tutorial videos for new users. That
playlist is embedded below.
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