The Alaska Society for Technology in Education held its Annual Conference in Anchorage, Alaska from February 18 to February 21, 2023. It was a busy few days; over the first three days of the conference, I delivered four presentations and a keynote. This has long been one of my favorite conferences and I had a…
Over the last few weeks, I have been working with graphic designer Colin Gliech on a new one-sheet for my education-related lectures. I am really pleased with how it turned out. If you have any graphic design needs, I highly recommend Colin. Here are the core lecture topics covered in the one-sheet (which you can…
In an all-too-rare victory for common sense over prurience, a Utah middle school teacher was recently informed that she will not be fired for her slightly risqué Instagram photo gallery. Mindi Jensen, who teaches at the North Sanpete Middle School in Moroni, Utah, used the pseudonym “minscakes” to post photos of herself working out, posing…
In April, Charles Clay Dawson, a teacher at Wanette Public Schools in Pottawatomie County, was charged with soliciting nude photos from two female students, one aged 16 and the other aged 15. According to the investigative report, the 43-year-old Dawson solicited the photos from the students using standard text messaging and the KIK messaging app.…
It has been difficult to concentrate today, following the horrifying news that 24-year-old reporter Alison Parker and her 27-year-old cameraman, Adam Ward, were assassinated on live television by a disgruntled former employee of WDB7, the local Roanoke news station for which they worked. It has been difficult to concentrate because I have worked as a…
A 15-year-old student at Glastonbury High School in Glastonbury, CT plead guilty on August 14 to two counts of criminal impersonation and was given a two-year suspended prison sentence and two years of probation. In April, Eddie Matos was arrested on charges that he solicited nude Snapchat photos from teen boys and men using a…
I am happy to introduce the new logo for my Cybertraps work. It was designed by Colin Gliech, a graduate of the Stevens Institute of Technology and a freelance designer. Colin also designed the cover for Cybertraps for Educators, and is currently working on designs for various upcoming releases in the Cybertraps series. If you…
On Thursday, Missouri House Speaker John Diehl, 49, abruptly resigned from his leadership post and from the Missouri House of Representatives over a flirtatious series of texts that he exchanged with Katelyn Graham, a 19-year-old Missouri State Southern University student. Graham was one of four MSSU students participating in a Capitol internship program. The intern…
Last presented at the D.C. Federal Public Defenders office in Washington, D.C., on May 5, 2010. This 2-3 hour seminar is designed to aid public defenders, CJA panel attorneys, and criminal defense lawyers in understanding the operation of P2P networks and clients, and the techniques used by law enforcement to investigate the sharing and downloading…
Presented at Computers Freedom Privacy ’08 on May 21, 2008. Click here to download a copy of the presentation [1.1 Mb]
