Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged myspace
The good side to Myspace
Feb 27th
My wife sent me this article last week (found it in her RSS feed )
Mourning on MySpace – Via CNN
People often say that being a ‘geek’ and being on the computer all the time must be a lonely life, but with the new interactive nature of the web, it’s the exact opposite.
MySpace avoids deleting the deceased’s profiles unless asked by familymembers, which means the profiles-turned-memorials can stay active foryears. Other social-networking and blogging sites, such as Xanga andLiveJournal, also host memorials tied to deceased users’ pages.
This article is a good one to share with students to show them the power More >
Growing Up Digital Presentation
Dec 15th
A presentation to Middle School parents around technology and their children. Helping parents understand that today’s students are different. Their brains process information differently and the digital world they live in is different then the world we grew up in. Shift happens, and learning to deal with the changes facing our world and how to help your child be successful in it is something educators, parents, and the larger community need to work together on in harmony.
Links for this presentation:
Before viewing and listening to this portion of the presentation please visit The Fisch Bowl and download and watch Did You More >
Help me to understand
Nov 27th
OK so this may sound really stupid to a lot of you but….
What is the difference between us telling a student to use a fake name on their blog or on the web and a 13 year old pretending to be 18 on myspace? We teach them to be safe on the web, to hide their identity to basically ‘lie’ about who they are. But, when they do it on myspace we say how horrible that is that they pretend to be someone else. We then go so far as professionals to put our Biases and Disclosure notices to show how honest More >
Looking into the eyes of our students
Nov 25th
Friday was a half day at school. A little extended weekend for the Thanksgiving Holiday. Our High School took part in a couple different sessions. One of those sessions was by me giving a talk on “The Flat World”. I would have titled it “Your World” but the title doesn’t really matter.
I had 20 minutes with every 9-12th grader at our school I started by saying, “You are very fortunate. You get to grow up in an amazing time in history.”
I then played Karl Fisch’s Did You Know presentation with the follow slides added.
- There are 57 Million Blogs
- 100,000 new blogs created More >
