susan tsairi

The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning. This FREE conference is run by volunteers and open to everyone. The 2009 conference theme is “Bridging the Divide.” - susan tsairi

"if I do a search for [new york] on Google, my best friend's New York blog probably isn't going to show up on the first page of my results. Probably what I'll find are some well-known and official sites. We've taken steps to improve the relevance of our search results with personalization, but today's launch takes that one step further. With Social Search, Google finds relevant public content from your friends and contacts and highlights it for you at the bottom of your search results." - susan tsairi

ZoomIt is a screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations - susan tsairi

Koobface, an anagram of Facebook, is a computer worm that targets the users of the social networking websites Facebook...Koobface spreads by delivering Facebook messages to people that are 'friends' of someone on Facebook whose computer has already been infected. The messages contain innocuous subject headers...followed by a link. Upon receipt, the message directs the recipients to a third-party website unaffiliated with Facebook where they are prompted to download what is purported to be an update of the Adobe Flash player. If they download and execute the file, they will infect their computer with Koobface. Koobface then commandeers their surfing activities and directs users to contaminated websites when they attempt to access search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Ask.com. - susan tsairi

At-Risk Students Make Multimedia A team of college professors and K-12 teachers discovers how building video games can elevate student performance. - susan tsairi