Privacy with Free, Foreign, or Shared IT Services
It’s amazing how quickly the menu of IT services has filled out. I remember back in 1992 when I was asked to connect my employer of the day to the Internet. I wasn’t quite sure what that meant or where to turn to do it. It was difficult, expensive, and slow… 18 years later, the Internet is the underpinning to everything we do. We have many teachers and students that use free Internet services such as for encyclopedia, for finding info, people, tools, and storing / sharing documents, for instant messaging, storing documents, networking, for access and storing / sharing educational videos, for screen casting lessons, for professional networking, to host their blogs, and to write collaboratively. I am interested in what steps teachers or Districts take to address privacy concerns with free services. I know in our District it’s not a formalized process. Teachers learn from others and use their own good judgment to take certain precautions. T...