Internet Filtering

Video Filtering - Parental Controls for Online Video

Parental Controls for YouTube - Watch Only the Best YouTube Has to Offer!

YouTube is filled with entertaining and educational videos, but it's also filled with videos that contain inappropriate content for kids—including pornography. While most video filters only block YouTube, Safe Eyes filters out the bad videos and lets your kids enjoy the good ones.

What do you want to protect?

Protect Your Children!

An open Internet is unsafe for children and parenting in this digital age is difficult. We provide tools for parents to control unwanted content and provide a safe Internet for your family.

K9 Web Protection is a free Internet filter and parental control software for your home Windows or Mac computer. K9 puts YOU in control of the Internet so you can protect your kids.

Information Literacy for the 21st Century

Information Literacy is the adoption of appropriate information behavior to identify, through  whatever channel or medium, information well fitted to information needs, leading to wise and ethical use of information in society.
7 key aspects of 21st century information literacy:                                                                               

Why is Information Literacy Important? The definition of an information literate person extends beyond school and application to academic problems--such as writing a research paper--and reaches right into the workplace. Information literacy is also important to effective and enlightened citizenry, and has implications that can impact the lives of many people around the globe. http://www.philau.edu/infolit/why_students.htm

Open access

Open access is so helpful for researchers because it allows to know other peoples' thoughts and also allows an increase of knowledge to the viewers or researchers, an open mind. Since we learned about the QR code, when I see the sign I know what does it mean. Last time I was travelling with the train then I saw somebody with Mr Price plastic bag with a QR code sign on it. I was so impressed, really it is good to learn because sometimes you are sitting with something what you do not know exactly what it is.

Open access is the future for Africa’s science media

By Marc McIlhone – AfricanBrains Editor

Brains Network editor Marc Mcilhone backs open sharing in the second article on how to support online science journalism in Africa.

The physical publishing of books, newspapers and magazines is as outdated as the concept of notebook journalism represented by Clark Kent — instead of Superman giving us our daily dose of news, we are now just as likely to receive it online from “citizen journalists” with no formal training.

Read, http://africanbrains.net/2013/04/29/open-access-is-the-future-for-africas-science-media/

Podcasting

ICT is a very interesting module, it only needs to practise a lot to understand what has been taught in the lecture's time. Concerning the classmates we do not have time to know each other the time is to short and after lecture everyone must rash home. This week we learnt about "podcasting" , it is a very good technology because it allows you to still have updated news or any information that you would like to hear.

What's podcast?

Podcasting is a simple means of distributing audio content over the Internet, taking advantage of the power of RSS. Content consumers (end-users) can subscribe to a feed of a producer's audio content and receive automatic downloads of new content as it is made available online. A more comprehensive discussion of podcasting can be found in the Wikipedia entry on podcasting.

Podcast in public libraries

Everett Public Library Podcasts: http://www.epls.org/podcast/

Twitter

I am so motivated to join twitter and other social media tools because they open somebody's mind, and you get to know what is going on  around you so quickly.

What is Twitter?

Twitter is microblogging. Twitter, and 'tweeting', is about broadcasting daily short burst messages to the world, with the hope that your messages are useful and interesting to someone. Conversely, Twitter is about discovering interesting people online, and following their burst messages for as long as they are interesting. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hoCZm1IinU

Blog

The first day the lecturer asked the class to create a blog it was a little bit challenging me because in class we didn't finish to do it. Then I didn't know how to proceed but at the end I managed it. With technology you have to keep learning. It is a petty that we don't have  enough time to practice it with the lecturer so when you stuck somewhere then you can get helped.