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Some schools advise teachers to limit networking, SMS social with students

admin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:08:54 +0000

It is prohibited to use cell phones to school, but Preston Miller continues to send thousands of text messages each month. The 15-year-old sophomore at Jerome High School said he sent and received about 4,000 texts in December and he is not alone.
“This is nothing compared to what some people do,” he said. “Some of my friends are like 25,000.”
With teenagers texting so often, some school districts in the region have developed policies aimed at restricting the electronic communication between students and teachers. Meanwhile, two recent criminal cases involving educators Bliss Burley and raise issues of how appropriate it is for teachers and students to exchange text messages.
“With all this technology at our fingertips, sometimes people make decisions and choices and use it inappropriately,” said Cassia County School District Superintendent Gaylen Smyer. “We have policy proposals to address these issues as they arise.”
The communication must not be paralyzed, Smyer said, adding that the school district is working to identify what reasonable limits should be set for teacher communication with students via cell phones and social networking sites URL.
Policies of New School Burley were adopted by the School Board after Cassia County teacher and coach Chad T. Burnett was charged in the complaint filed January 15, amended with five counts of sexual battery of a minor, two counts of rape, and possession of sexually exploitation of a material minor.
The case involves the use of Facebook and MySpace accounts, and would have folded after 16 years old female student and Burnett began sending messages to each other sexual images and text on their cell phones, according to court documents.
On a single day, Burnett and the student would have exchanged more than 250 text messages, and the student told police that the contact began after she received Burnett’s cell phone number in “text him a funny joke, “court records state.
The Cassia County School Board has adopted new policies prohibiting January 26 “sexting” – sending text or images in sexually explicit cell phone – as well as “cyber bullying” on the phones and the Internet.
“The ban (on sexting / cyberbullying) extends not only to actions that occur on school grounds but also actions from a remote location and implemented across all technologies,” the new policy states Cassia County. Violations can result in termination or expulsion.
Burnett is expected to be brought to Cassia County District Court on Tuesday.
Not far away in Gooding County, former Bliss High School social studies teacher Anna Bettencourt became a criminal convicted after confessing to the sexual battery of a minor to have sex with a minor student.
Bettencourt, who had been placed on felony probation, admitted in court records in the solicitation of child sex and “flirt” with him. Since the conviction Bettencourt, Bliss School District has not adopted new policies on cell phones, confirmed Superintendent Kevin Lancaster.
Some parents, school officials and prosecutors say that teachers should not be texting, e-mailing, twittering and instant messaging to all their students, because it can lead to mistakes or misunderstandings.
“I do not think teachers should give them (cell) Student Numbers. He is in a bad situation,” said Twin Falls County Prosecutor Grant Loeb. “You are responsible for the texts you send and receive.”
Stopping to effectively ban the distance communication, the Twin Falls School District does not allow teachers to e-mail to all students from personal accounts.
“We must understand that not only members of the student community, but see what you publish, the district is telling teachers in a Powerpoint-style presentation provided by spokeswoman Beth Pendergrass.” Keep it clean and appropriate. You represent the Twin Falls School District. Comments unprofessional or ‘Digital Dirt’ may negatively affect employees …and constitutes grounds for disciplinary action. ”
The district advises teachers to be cautious when talking with students remotely. The neighborhood itself has joined the social networking boom, with accounts on Facebook and Twitter. Despite the potential pitfalls of sites may show Pendergrass said the district’s Facebook page was a positive for the district to connect free online with the world.
“A majority of our friends at this stage are staff members, some students and some parents,” said Pendergrass. “It’sa way of details out. I still have to encounter the falls associated with social networks. ”
The Cassia County School District discussed joining Facebook last month and received an interactive tour of the site to learn how to use it during a board meeting in recent years.
“We would be foolish to ignore something the majority of our customers use,” said Debbie trustees Critchfield.
Students and teachers can “friend” each other on Facebook, that local school policies do not prohibit the process which allows members to interact with other members and access the content they post.
The Twin Falls School District is taking much of the guesswork for teachers choose to be “friends” with their students on Facebook.
“Keep all conversations with students school-related and generic, the district is telling teachers.” Avoid excess messaging with students. ”
The district uses the example “I missed you in class today” as an example of what not to say, because its meaning does not seem clear. Would be more appropriate to say “Tryouts for cheerleading tomorrow”, as the school district.
In Jerome, Miller said he spoke to some of his teachers on his mobile phone outside the school, especially a coach. “I talk to assures a fair amount outside the school.”
But Mama Miller, Lara, said she believes teachers should try to refrain from sending SMS students and is aware of the communication of his son.
“Mum and Dad can have their phone at any time,” she said about the rule of his family. “Sometimes you have to make sure you read it first before having a chance to remove it.”
And that’s exactly how a father his child protected space against drugs, according to court records that support 21-year-old Kenneth Noakes Jerome possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver.
In this case, the lawyer Joe Rockstahl area called police after confiscating cell phones from her child because he suspected her child was using drugs.
Messages to the child involved Rockstahl “hey I found a little acid, too,” Show the court records.Police used the phone for text Noakes, setting up a meeting in a parking lot where he was arrested, apparently in possession of marijuana, ecstasy and psilocybin mushrooms.
Miller said he had been written there are moments where he received inadequate and said that students may abuse their phones with “other things to tell people they have heard, rumors or pictures, to the ‘before, everything. ”
Some students also use their mobile phones to cheat by sending answers to their peers on cell phones in their pockets. Miller said it happens all the time. ”
Smyer is aware of this mode of cheating and said: “We want policies that are not intrusive and cumbersome that they are difficult to apply. We want to create a deterrent effect.”
Miller mother, Lara, believe mobile phones should not be allowed to board the school bus, and she thinks that teachers should not use their phones in class. “I saw teachers texting right in front of me when I’m in a parent-teacher meeting.”
Officials of the school districts in the region said elementary students toting cell phones at school too, but could not provide figures for how much.
At least for the youngest son Lara Miller, Clayton, 11, the phone has not got much use yet.
“He always lose,” said the elder brother of Preston. “It does not keep track of very good.”

Differing views complicate cases of students

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:19:48 +0000

A federal appeals court on Thursday issued what may be differing opinions on cases where students create parody profiles on social networking sites.

In a case arising from the Western District of Pennsylvania, a panel of judges from the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a parody of Hickory High School student’s principal was protected free speech.

But in one case out of the East district, another group of three judges of the Court of Appeal ruled otherwise.

If Hickory, Justin Layshock created a MySpace profile of then-Hickory High School Principal Eric Trosch in December 2005. Mr. Layshock filed a lawsuit against the First Amendment Hermitage School District, claiming the administration had nothing to say about the parody online and could not legally punish him for it.

The other case concerns a college student who wrote a profile similar to its main subject, but the court ruled differently.

“I think the big problem is school officials Layshock hoped would clarify the rules in this area, but with these two conflicting decisions, I feel as though there was less information than ever,” said Witold Walczak, legal director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Layshock, now senior at St. John’s, New York, created the profile with his grandmother, outside school hours.

When Mr. Trosch scientists who created it has suspended Mr. Layshock for 10 days. High School graduate was banned from attending all extracurricular activities, forced to attend alternative education and had to blow up his high school diploma.

The American Civil Liberties Union, which represents students in both cases, argued the lawsuit filed by Mr. Layshock original that the surveillance powers of the school does not reach to the house of her grandmother .

In this appeal, the district administration has argued that the profile significantly disrupted the operation of the school.

In a July 2007 decision, U.S. District Court Judge Terrence F. McVerry disagreed, saying: “Public schools are vital institutions, but their scope is not unlimited.”

The Appeal Board, in a 54-page opinion, okay.

However, this decision seems inconsistent with the other, also released Thursday by the 3rd Circuit.

In this decision, written by Circuit Judge of the United States D. Michael Fisher, a 2-1 panel found that a profile created by a 14 year old student at Middle School Central Pennsylvania to his home was not protected speech.

This profile posted by a student of eighth in the District Blue Mountain School, was filled with vulgarity and refers to the direction of the school being a pedophile.

“Because we believe that school authorities could reasonably have expected a significant disruption of or material interference with school because of the MySpace profile … we conclude that the school district did not violate [the daughter] First, the rights of freedom of expression Amendment by subject her to create the profile, “the court wrote.

Judge Fisher has tried to differentiate between the case Layshock and saying in a note that, in his second appeal, the Hermitage School District abandoned the argument that the profile of Mr. Layshock may have disrupted school

Mr. Walczak said he was considering asking the full 3rd Circuit to hear the Blue Mountain

Blogging U.S. teen bitten

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:50:33 +0000

U.S. teens are turning back to blogging just as they are wirelessly connected than ever before, a study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project showed Wednesday.

The report revealed that only 14 percent of teens said they blogged in 2009, down 28 per cent in 2006.

The number of adolescents who reported having commented on blogs in communities of online social networking has sunk to 52 percent from 76 percent three years ago.

“Youth in May to an exchange of macro-blogging” for micro-blogging with updates of state, “the study authors said, referring to the popularity of sharing updates of life in terse text messages.

Devotion to the blogs did not disappear in adults, with about one in ten adults keeping online journals or blogs in a report that has not changed since 2005, according to the Pew report.

But the number of people aged 18 to 29 blogging has fallen to 15 per cent in 2009 against 24 percent two years ago.

Meanwhile, 11 percent of people aged 30 or older said they were blogging in 2009 compared to seven per cent in 2007.

Social networking has gained popularity among teenagers, with 73 percent claiming to online communities. However, adolescents reported that they reduced the sending daily messages to friends via social networks.

Music-based social networking service MySpace has attracted a younger crowd, while Facebook is more popular with older people, according to Pew.

The teenagers were also found to be the main users of nearly all applications online, except for the microblogging service Twitter.

Only eight percent of Internet users aged 12 to 17 reported using Twitter, but nearly two thirds have used SMS to communicate.

Young adults were heavier users of Twitter, including one third of people aged 18 to 29 viewing or reading the “tweets”, according to Pew.

MySpace suffers further declines listings

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:38:44 +0000

Profit at News Corp. digital media group fell $ 32 million during its latest quarter that bleeding MySpace search and advertising revenues.

News Corp. did not break the total revenues of digital media, but the segment “Other” operations to which it belongs has announced a net loss of $ 73 million, compared with net income of $ 34 million during last year.

CEO Rupert Murdoch said MySpace has seen signs of “recent stabilization of traffic”, which he credited to undermine the management last year-up. Besides MySpace, the digital media unit houses IGN Entertainment, Jamba, Photobucket, and society Hulu joint venture with NBC Universal and Disney.

Digital photography has been Rosier Newspaper Division of the company, where the operating results were driven by robust growth of 17 per cent of ad revenues Digital Network The Wall Street Journal.

Murdoch: 3D is the future

Of course, the biggest News Corp recent success has nothing to do with newspapers or advertising revenues. Twentieth Century Fox picture “Avatar” last week became the highest grossing release of box office of all time, and remains the draw in the galleries beginning seven weeks after its release.

Proud of this success, management announced the next generation of 3D technology to the consumer – and the onslaught of programming that they believe will happen soon benefit from this technology.

“You will see more 3D movies, but more fundamentally, there will be an exponential growth of the 3D programming over the next two years,” said Rupert Murdoch during the conference call the company with investors.

He noted BSkyB, in which News Corp. holds an equity stake, will soon launch a 3D chain, and has already started experimenting with 3D programming.

Not everyone is optimistic about the technology. Chris Allen, director of innovation in video Starcom USA, suggested ClickZ excitement generated by the release 3D Avatar has yet to prove itself as more than just fashion.

“That’s fine if you are a hardcore gamer who wants to be immersed in this experience,” he said.“I do not see it as catching up on the actual consumers.”

Allen said many customers have inquired as to whether they should start producing commercials in 3D. He said that Starcom is not advice, “unless someone is using a seat in a theater environment as the primary point of delivery”.

Overall, News Corp. reported net income of $ 254 million in the second quarter, which ended December 31, 2009, compared to a net loss of $ 6.4 billion a year earlier.

Digital Distributor RouteNote Goes Live With 3 retail partners New Music

admin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:20:40 +0000

RouteNote has expanded its coverage of the distribution, which now deals with three other online stores to great music, hot new streaming service Deezer, Stalwart industry and Napster Mobile content provider Thumbplay. Artists can download music in stores and more with the service RouteNote, without prepayment or subscription fees for 10% of revenue comes from online sales.

Deezer is a French company, running agreements with all 4 major labels to stream ad-supported music to their 9 million registered users in 35 countries. During the three years since its launch, iLike was voted the most innovative website of 2007 by readers of 01Net, before Facebook and Dailymotion. Deezer also won the 2008 Red Herring Europe for corporate Web’s most innovative, among various other prizes. Proof of their success is really in the number of people listening to music through their service, which continues to grow. In addition to their music service streaming, iLike also offers:

- Access to radio channels: Hip Hop, Rock, Electro, Jazz, Live, French Scene, disco, etc.
- Surf Smart Online radio
- Information on artists, albums, tracks, introducing new music to subscribers
- Sharing playlists, chat and musical tastes with friends in the community “Deezernautes”
- Watch videos

Napster was the first cat among the pigeons with his digital peer to peer service, but they have come a long way since their inception rebel, and now offers both subscription service with unlimited streaming and a number of free downloads DRM per month, available online and on smartphones in Europe and USA.

Thumbplay is the leading provider of mobile content in the United States operating both Web-based and mobile services, including licensed music, video and games. They have deals with all majors, and several independent labels and artists, and now you can get access to their services through RouteNote. Hundreds of millions of cellular phones in the United States are waiting to download your music.

SOILWORK listing Webstream From The Studio

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:34:12 +0000

Swedish modern metal godfathers SOILWORK recently announced a series of Mars Special Live Webstream-in-studio throughout the month of February, covering the process of recording the new album, “The Panic Broadcast”.

In collaboration with uStream.tv, Soilwork will become the second band on the Nuclear Blast label to publicize its efforts in the studio in real time to fans worldwide.

The live stream first to be held Thursday, January 28 at 10:00 pm EST, which is 4:00 am CET.

Throughout the month of February-March, keep an eye on Soilwork Twitter page, Facebook page or MySpace page for up-to-the-ads a minute on what day and time of the live stream next will be.

Watch the live streams there.

Anyone who misses the live stream will be able to watch a replay of each stream on channel uStream.tv group and the group’s YouTube channel.

Fans are invited to post their questions on the Facebook group or MySpace page. Just look for the new ad that asks fans to ask questions in the Comments section. Fans can also ask questions in real time via the social current of the canal uStream.tv Band.

SOILWORK vocalist Björn “Speed” Strid said recently on “The Panic Broadcast”, “If any of you missed some of the riffs SOILWORK complex that makes it so unique, you will not be disappointed. I find these songs very fun and because we ‘re not shoot on anything – no “too much information,” not “less is more’ – they are just pure happiness without musical boundaries. and that to me, is that this group is “Of course, it ‘ll be some surprises, as always, and giving each of us the freedom to go apeshit will undoubtedly give a heavy-as-fuck album and of course catchy.

“Solos More? Check. Check Insane riffs?. Melodic vocals? Vocal Screamy? Keyboards Progressive? Best metal drummer in the world? In Flink while recording his bass tracks as if nothing had happened? Check!”

The drums for “The Panic Broadcast” are recorded at Echo Mountain in Asheville, North Carolina while the rest of the record to be held in Tampa, Florida and the mixture Fascination Street in Örebro, Sweden.

The long-awaited follow-up to 2007’s “Sworn To A Great Divide” is produced by guitarist Peter Wichers and mixed by Jens Bogren (Opeth, Katatonia, Paradise Lost, BLOODBATH).

SOILWORK new album will be the first to be equipped Wichers since returning to the band in 2008 and the debut studio with guitarist Sylvain Coudret (Scarve), who also joined in 2008.

Wichers left a few strip festival shows in Europe last June because he and his wife expecting a baby boy. His temporary replacement for Sweden Rock Festival and Sauna Open Air was David Andersson.

In an interview with SuicideGirls.com, Wichers talks about what direction the group could take musically with his next album. “We talked about maybe taking a little more than a different approach for the next record,” he said. “Having me and Sylvain back in the band, I think we’ll probably try to do things which could be a little more technical. We want to keep the element of catchy choruses, but at the same time, maybe have a little more guitar solos on “Sworn to a Great Divide ‘and leave Dirk [Verbeuren This is one of the things that I think it ‘Sworn To A Great Divide’ lacked a little. It’s a good record but I think with musicians as talented next album should absolutely have more performance.

Woman accused of attacking MySpace knowledge pleads guilty to sex charges

admin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:25:54 +0000

A woman accused of sexually assaulting another woman she met through the website MySpace social networking will be sentenced Feb. 4 to impose sexual assault.

Markita L. Harper pleaded guilty to January 21 before Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge AJ Wagner. Four other charges, including kidnapping, attempted aggravated sexual imposition and two counts of unlawful restraint, were rejected.

Harper, 20, of Dayton, went to the apartment of the victim to watch movies with her when the assault took place December 11, police said. A friend of the victim showed up at the apartment and shot Harper away from the victim, police said.

Harper has been in jail in Montgomery County since his arrest December 18.

Alice Almost Songs To Premiere on MySpace

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:53:56 +0000

Music is pleased to announce the exclusive first single from the album long awaited Alice Almost. Currently, users can listen to the song “Follow Me Down” by 3OH! 3 via a chain of music social networking site. In the coming weeks, MySpace Music will continue to Premiere songs Almost Alice and hosting the full album stream leading to the “Alice in Wonderland” film output.
The MySpace Music First to come are the following: Avril Lavigne – “Alice” (February 4), All Time Low – “Painting Flowers” (February 19), Almost Alice stream the full album (February 28).To listen to “Follow Me Down” by 3OH! 3 visit: http://www.myspace.com/music.

Almost Alice boasts an eclectic array of recording artists with original songs based on some of the most charismatic literary history as “In Transit” played by Mark Hoppus and Pete Wentz.Other artists The All-American Rejects, Shinedown, 3OH! 3, Franz Ferdinand and All Time Low.“Very Good Advice” performed by Robert Smith is the only song from the 1951 animated film Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland” which appears on the collection.

From Walt Disney Pictures and visionary director Tim Burton is an epic fantasy adventure in 3D “Alice in Wonderland”, a magical and imaginative touches on some of the most beloved stories of all time. Stars Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter and Mia Wasikowska as 19 years, Alice, who returns to the fantasy world of his first meeting as a young girl, reuniting with his childhood friends: the white rabbit, white hat and cap White, the Dormouse, the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, and of course, The Mad Hatter. Alice embarks on a fantastic journey to find his true destiny and end the reign of Queen Red Terror. The all-star cast includes Anne Hatthaway, Helena Bonham Carter and Crispin Glover.

Search teams the band with missing SoundExchange for MySpace

admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:57:34 +0000

Today, with America on MySpace MidemNet collection body SoundExchange announced a partnership. Both companies will work together with bands who are receiving outstanding money by SoundExchange, but the body is not getting.

CEO said Owen Van Natta already 25,000 artists to MySpace SoundExchange – which request is why some of those names is found Earth MySpace search engine already was not typed.

“We use the MySpace platform and take those connections are going to take money in safe hands, it was” Take the deal Van Natta is.

In the mood because he believed van Natta one keynote took the stage for the interview. He told more than 180 million users to MySpace Music Playlist created by using the site, and claimed that the music service MySpace Music now supports the largest Web advertising (as opposed, perhaps, to advertise to customers Music services supported, Spotify like).

MySpace is the key to the future? , Van Natta “We believe that the future of content distribution through people, no portals being” said. “We think that we have a forum … for one platform gives content delivery.”

Though traffic stats MySpace to prevent their sliding parts can change. The latest figures show 7.2% of the ComScore using MySpace increase the number of people last month, for example.Meanwhile, MySpace Music has 92% year, but years.

He also denied that Van Natta is true that many music artists to your Facebook are social networking and marketing focus is worried about. MySpace might be more open, to allow artists to post once and for all other social network push

He said, “about a garden wall, it’s really out there all the various platforms is not about profit” said.

Police: MySpace account used to receive 11-year-old girl

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:45:04 +0000

Florence Police say a man who used a MySpace account to send his 11-year-old neighbor, ask him his check images are clear.

For that stock markets for the girl’s parents suspects on the computer and log a 38-year-old man saw the message from Florence Police Major Carlos Raines happened Sunday after the police have been notified.

Victim’s parents recognized the suspect as he lived in her neighborhood and called police, Raines said.
Taurtagius Shilow, 38, 604 Irvan Court a small, Florence County Detention Center booking reports show crime is charged with solicitation.

Thursday was released from jail in Effingham Shilow. Bond information was not available.