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Module VIII Security Issues Ethics and Emerging Technology in Education Digital Media 1. iTunes University iTunes University (iTunes U) is a Web tool designed for higher education faculty, yet it provides a global appeal by providing a centralized repository for storing courses, lectures, activities, presentations, video, audio, and more. Content is mostly tied to specific curricula and courses, but it also contains other general information, which includes broad topics (such as geography, science, and technology) and specific topics (such as global warming and why baseballs have stitches). iTunes University is hosted on the iTunes Store and is devoted to education. Subscribers (enrolling free of charge) are given access to thousands of audio and video files. The popularity of iTunes U has grown exponentially and is a significant contributor to the schools without walls concept. 2. iWeb Teachers are always looking for easy, user-friendly solutions to create Web pages for themselves and their students. Apple’s iWeb, a template-based Web creation tool, is included with the iLife Suite. iWeb allows users to easily create and publish curriculum pages, Web sites, blogs, and wikis. It contains templates and themed design tools for those new to Web site creation, requiring very little upfront learning. Once the theme is chosen, users can drag and drop photos, movies, and other media onto the pages in the placeholders provided. 3. Viruses, Firewalls, and Spyware on Your Computer You must protect your computer from many different security risks such as viruses, unauthorized software attacks, and even spyware. Some programs install spyware when the program is installed, so you may be unaware your computer has spyware programs on it. Different types of spyware exist, such as keystroke recorder spyware and advertising spyware. There are videos on the Web that you can use to learn more about these threats; you also can use these video resources to teach your students about viruses and other programs that can harm computers. 4. Visual Communicator Today students are creating digital media elements and sharing them with classmates in project-based learning environments. Software has become so user-friendly that even young learners can include digital media in their projects by using products such as Adobe's Visual Communicator. Visual Communicator is designed specifically for users who are novices at making videos. There are many ways educators can integrate the software into their discipline-specific curriculum through instruction, student projects, and assignments, such as multimedia video production projects, video booktalks, video science and math projects, video yearbooks, and more. 5. Video Yearbooks Video yearbooks are not a new idea but some schools are trying a new idea this year. At the beginning of the school year, selected seniors are designated as journalists who are asked to record their daily lives and activities their senior year. Using smart phones or small handheld digital cameras, these journals are recorded and uploaded as video blogs or vlogs to a senior class Web site. These informal digital journals are then released to the students who can follow along. At the end of the year, the vlogs are consolidated using video postproduction editing techniques so they can be saved to a DVD for distribution as a video yearbook or combined with the traditional paper version of the yearbooks. 