"Now, anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter what you do later. Want to close your account? Good for you, but Facebook still has the right to do whatever it wants with your old content. They can even sublicense it if they want."
I thought we wouldn't see this for a couple of years, and that it would appear in online courseware applications, but here it is. Advertising in Education..the old fashioned way...on tests
To keep kids safer online, are educators making it easier to target advertising to their students?
"The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood is demanding that McDonald’s immediately stop advertising on children’s report cards. Last week, students in Seminole County, Florida received their report cards in envelopes adorned with Ronald McDonald promising a free Happy Meal to students with good grades, behavior, or attendance. The advertisement appears on report cards envelopes for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. The envelopes are used to transport report cards to and from home throughout the school year."
New! Improved! It’s School!In an age of media saturation and ubiquitous advertising, some schools are trying professional marketing campaigns to sell the notion that 'school is cool.'
His idea: Turn educational achievement into a brand and market it to minority students as successfully as sneaker companies, video-game makers, and hip-hop clothing labels have marketed their stuff.
Archive of print ads for absolutely everything
"Budde reaffirmed the importance of online news for the expansion of press freedom. Currently, online news portals like Yahoo, MSNBC, AOL, CNN or Google are all crushing the web traffic of US newspapers, led by the NY Times, leading to widespread diffusion of news...On the other hand, Budde also underlined that 90% of all available online news comes from three newswires, Associated Press, Agence F