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What I'm involved in these days...
Formation SAWI: Spécialiste en médias sociaux et communautés en ligne.
Rédactrice en chef et auteur
Quote Me- "Time flies and the photos I’ve taken get left behind."
- "People always think getting dressed is about putting clothes on. It’s not. It’s a spell..."
- "I was outside, and the rain and the fog smelled nice. They smelled of hope, I think. They smelled..."
- "On apprend toujours mieux de ses propres erreurs que de celles des autres."
- "It’s like watching a train wreck and hanging around to see if there are going to be any..."
Tag Archives: Education
Comment j’en suis arrivée à m’intéresser aux blogs d’adolescents
[en]The story of how I took an interest in teenage blogging, and from there, teenagers and the internet. It involves a difficult first year of teaching and a naked bottom on one of my students’ skyblogs.[fr]// Entrée en matière possible … Continue reading
Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth, Livre
Tagged adolescents, anecdote, Anecdotes, blogs, Digital Youth, digitalyouth, école, Education, Enseignement, General, histoire, introduction, Livre, Online Culture, skyblog, story, teenagers
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A Book on Teenagers and the Internet
[fr]Malgré l’excellent travail de danah boyd et le livre d’Anastasia Goodstein (“Totally Wired”), je pense que mon projet de livre sur les adolescents et internet tient encore la route. Une petite argumentation à ce sujet.[en]// After complaining for weeks that … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Youth, Livre
Tagged anastasia goodstein, book, Cyberspace, danah boyd, digital, Digital Youth, digitalyouth, Education, internet, Livre, onlineculture, parenting, teenagers, teens, totallywired, web
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Diving Into Something New
[fr]Pour se familiariser avec un sujet nouveau, il faut lire, et même si on ne comprend pas tout, continuer à lire. Au bout d’un moment, les choses commencent à tomber en place, et on peut reprendre avec plus de succès … Continue reading
Posted in Stuff that doesn't fit
Tagged agile, Education, experience, Geek / Technical, learning, method, Practical, read, reading, Theories, Thinking, understanding
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Parents, Teenagers, Internet, Predators, Fear…
[fr]Conseils aux parents (après mon interview à la BBC ce soir au sujet des “sex offenders” bannis de MySpace): pas de panique, les prédateurs sexuels tels que nous les présentent les médias ne sont pas légion, votre enfant ne court … Continue reading
Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth, Social Media and the Web
Tagged advice, anastasiagoodstein, bbc, children, ciao.ch, Cyberspace, Digital Youth, Education, Essay-Like, fear, internet, Media, myspace, offline, online, Online Culture, panic, paranoia, parents, predators, Press, Psychology / Sociology, schools, security, Social Software, socialnetworks, talks, teenagers, teens
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MySpace Banning Sex Offenders: Online Predator Paranoia
Update: If you’re a parent looking for advice, you’ll probably find my next post more interesting. MySpace has removed profiles of 29’000 registered sex offenders from their site. In a statement, MySpace said: “We’re pleased that we’ve successfully identified and … Continue reading
Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth, Technology
Tagged children, Citations, Cyberspace, Digital Youth, Education, Essay-Like, fear, Media, meganslaw, myspace, offenders, online, Online Culture, paranoia, Politics / World News, predators, Psychology / Sociology, registry, Research, safety, sex, sexoffenders, sexualpredators, Technology, teenagers, teens
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De la “prévention internet”
[fr]Thursday evening, I went to listen to a conference given by a local high-ranking police officer who has specialised in tracking down pedophiles on the internet. His presentation was titled “Dangers of the Internet”, and I was expecting to hear … Continue reading
Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth, Livre, My corner of the world
Tagged action, annecatherinelyon, arnoldpoot, blink, Blogger musings, cluetrain, conversation, danger, Digital Youth, digitalyouth, discussion, écrire, Education, internet, jeunes, lefameuxlivre, Livre, malcolmgladwell, Online Culture, onlineculture, parenting, pédophiles, police, pornographie, prédateur, predators, prevention, Psychology / Sociology, sexualpredators, suisse romande, thecultureoffear, Theories on Life and the World, thetippingpoint, Thinking, vaud
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Reboot9 — Ewan McIntosh: Are We Ready For the Citizens of the Future?
Here are my notes, unedited and possibly misleading, blah blah blah, of the Reboot9 conference. Talk stuff is be on Ewan’s blog. Technology is everywhere but is not necessarily the main thing in everybody’s life. Have schools and workplaces adapted … Continue reading
Posted in Stuff that doesn't fit
Tagged Education, Events, ewanmcintosh, notes, reboot, reboot9, talk
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Video: BBC Interview (Teenagers, Facebook)
[fr]Une interview que je viens de donner à la BBC sur les parents qui jouent aux détectives privés pour “surveiller” leurs adolescents sur internet. Dialogue, dialogue![en]I was contacted this morning (thanks, Suw!) to appear in a short interview on the … Continue reading
Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth, My projects
Tagged bbc, bbcnews24, Digital Youth, Education, facebook, freshlimesoda, internet, interview, Online Culture, parents, stephaniebooth, teenagers, video
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Teenagers and Spelling
[fr]Pour moi, la dégradation constatée de l’orthographe des jeunes a principalement à voir avec le fait que leur pratique d’écriture a maintenant le plus souvent lieu dans des espaces “non normés” (c’est-à-dire en-dehors du milieu scolaire et “des adultes”, où … Continue reading
Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth, Language Geekiness
Tagged cellphone, Digital Youth, Education, evolution, grammar, language, Languages / Linguistics, linguistics, mobile, Online Culture, school, sms, spelling, teenagers, text, Writing
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D’où vient cette idée de livre?
[fr]An attempt to start book-writing. How I came to the field of teenagers and online culture, and what questions the book will try to address.[en]L’obstacle majeur pour l’accomplissement d’une tâche est souvent simplement de se mettre au travail. Il en … Continue reading
Posted in Connected Life, Livre
Tagged adolescents, blogs, chat, conference, Culture, Cyberspace, école, Education, enseignants, internet, Livre, médias, Online Culture, parents, Pieces of Me, Psychology / Sociology
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