Social Media Stories for Week of February 19

February 19, 2010 by MikeMcMahonAUSD
Filed under: Community Engagement 

Board Members

If you are a GMail user you may have noticed a new feature in your email: Buzz. This maybe a game changer for social media as Google enters the fray.

Schools and the Classroom

Should a school district be allowed to activate the webcam when any of their student issued laptops are reported lost or stolen? A lawsuit in Philadelphia filed this week will begin to decide the matter.

A Wake County middle-school teacher may be fired after she and her friends made caustic remarks on a Facebook page about her students, the South and Christianity.

In the 1983 movie War Games, a young Matthew Boderick gained access to the nation’s defense systems. Did the same thing happen when bored Chinese students hacked into Google? Do you want to a play a game?

Community Engagement

The simple act of asking for others opinion via a survey is the first step in the engagement process. The next step is sharing the results so a conversation can begin around shared values. This process is happening in Sacramento.


 

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