Senate passes bill letting states tax online sales...

AP News: Senate passes bill letting states tax online sales:

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Is this good or bad?  Why?
What will the states use the money for?
How will this affect Alabama's economy?

Facebook, MacArthur Foundation, Mozilla, and the Family Online Safety Institute Launch Project:Connect - Facebook Newsroom

According to the article below, what are some of the ways Facebook is promoting digital literacy and protecting your privacy?



Facebook, MacArthur Foundation, Mozilla, and the Family Online Safety Institute Launch Project:Connect - Facebook Newsroom:

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Protecting Your Privacy in Graph Search - Facebook Newsroom

According to the article below, what are some easy ways to protect your privacy?  Why is this important?



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Why is your privacy so important?

Read the following articles on the importance of privacy:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/02/why-does-privacy-matter-one-scholars-answer/273521/

http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461/

http://digitalanalytics101.com/2012/02/why-your-online-privacy-is-important-an-offline-analogy/

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/security/why-you-really-should-care-about-privacy/3874

http://lifehacker.com/5904966/why-you-should-care-about-and-defend-your-privacy

http://privacypolicyexamples.com/bonus%20content/why-is-privacy-so-important-to-users-despite-the-fact-that-they-seem-unwilling-to-go-out-of-their-way-to-protect-and-inform-themselves/




Now, in a comment below, explain what these articles were about and share your impression of the role privacy plays on the internet today.

The sad state of Social Media privacy...

Web browsers consider limiting how much they track users

"It’s often hard to tell which is the Web’s priority: helping you learn about the world or helping the world — and especially advertisers — learn about you..."

1.  Read the article above about privacy and tracking.  

2.  Now read the following two articles below on Twitter and Facebook privacy settings: 

• http://blog.privacychoice.org/2013/03/20/todays-privacyfix-enable-twitters-do-not-track-setting/

• http://blog.privacychoice.org/2013/04/04/todays-privacyfix-clear-your-facebook-searches/

3.  Finally, examine this infographic: 

Infographic by MDG Advertising

4.  In a comment below, share your responses to these three questions:

• Which one of these resources did you find the most informative, and why?
• Why is privacy on the internet an issue that effects everyone?
• What actions do you plan on taking to protect your privacy online in the future?

What really happens when you navigate to a URL...

What really happens when you navigate to a URL:

'via Blog this'...from the the blog of Igor Ostrovsky, a software developer at Microsoft's Parallel Computing Platform team.

Before you read the article, think about how you envision the internet working when you get online to check your mail, post a picture, message a friend, or like a post in your news feed.  It seems like you just clicked a few links or punched a few keys and voila, like magic you are instantly communicating with someone.  What is actually happening - behind the scenes - to make all this work so effortlessly?

1. Write a sentence or two explaining what you know of the process of how the internet works in a comment  below and post it.  
2. Now read the article.  Once you are done, and feel you understand it well enough to discuss it, return to your first explanation in the comments below.
3. Reply to your original comment with an updated explanation of what you now understand about how the internet works.  Try to be as clear as possible.  You may want to look back to the article to check your facts as you go.
4.  Lastly, check your writing to see if it will make sense when someone else reads it.  Before you post, correct any embarrassing grammatical errors you may have overlooked.

College Admissions...

Disappointing College Admissions Results? Read On!

• Why is it important to re-apply if you don't get in the first time?
• What are some additional strategies Dr. LaScala recommends?
• What colleges are you planning to apply to, and what will you do if you don't get accepted the first time?

Tuition Costs...

Kids and Money: Students should keep eye on soon-to-rise loan rates - Business - Modbee.com:

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-What will this mean for you, and how might it affect your plans for college?