'What's Your Story' winners point cameras at Internet issues

'What's Your Story' winners point cameras at Internet issues

By Larry Magid One of my favorite activities each year is serving as a judge for Trend Micro’s What’s Your Story video contest, where we get to reward individual and school young videographers with cash prizes. And, thanks to Trend, those prizes are pretty...
Focusing on live social video

Focusing on live social video

By Larry Magid Thanks to some relatively new apps and social media features, anyone can now star in their own live TV show. That’s mostly a good thing, but it brings up some new issues when it comes to safety, privacy and acceptable content. People have been...
New research: Sextortion can ruin lives

New research: Sextortion can ruin lives

By Larry Magid Sextortion usually involves a perpetrator (typically male) getting hold of a picture of someone (typically female) and threatening to widely share those images unless the victim gives them something they want. And that something is often more images...
Time to spring clean your smartphone

Time to spring clean your smartphone

By Larry Magid Spring officially began in March but it’s never too late to do some spring cleaning. I’m not talking about your garage or that home office of yours. I’m talking about your digital devices. Today, I’ll focus on Apple iPhones and...
Can we reconcile the paperless classroom with screen addiction?

Can we reconcile the paperless classroom with screen addiction?

By Kerry Gallagher I believe in two, seemingly opposite, basic concepts when it comes to technology use: Technology has transformed how we learn and communicate for the better. Technology is used as an escape that pulls people away from building strong in person...