The Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) has crafted this collection of Civic Online Reasoning assessments intended to help students and the generally curious learn to critically evaluate and "judge the credibility of digital information about social and political issues." These resources address many types of digital spaces where people are likely to encounter assertions that warrant careful...

Bloggers disinclined toward suggestion of Net civility http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/10/BUGH4P5G1S1.DTL Bloggers code of conduct http://blogging.wikia.com/wiki/BCC Blog 100 http://news.com.com/2310-10784_3-0.html BuzzMachine http://www.buzzmachine.com/ Electronic Frontier Foundation: Legal Guide for Bloggers http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/ Internet Scout...

CollectionBuilder is a Jekyll-based static site generator that produces metadata-driven digital exhibitions and digital collection websites. Users create a CSV file that describes the images, documents, and other media to be included on a site. From this file, CollectionBuilder generates a complete static site. In addition to item-level information pages, CollectionBuilder can also produce a...

The New Year is now upon us, and it may be time to find a suitable computer program to organize all of those baubles, bangles, and beads that have accumulated over the past year. Collmate 1.30 may be just the program, as it allows individuals to organize their collection of buttons, Kewpie dolls, carnival glass, or anything else that might need to get in order. With this program, users can...

From the nonprofit organization Common Sense comes this collection of K-12 lesson plans focused on digital citizenship. Originally released in 2010 and updated as of August 2019, this curriculum is "designed to empower students to think critically, behave safely, and participate responsibly in our digital world," which are important skills for any internet user of the 21st century. The lessons...

Started as a germ of an idea back in 1987 (on a real, live bulletin board, as opposed to an electronic one), Conservation Online (CoOL) has been providing online resources for conservation professionals since 1993. As its website announces, it is a "full text library of conservation information," covering a wide array of topics ranging from digital imaging to reprographics, and quite a bit of...

U.S. Withheld Data on Risks of Distracted Driving http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/technology/21distracted.html?hp Should cell phone use by drivers be illegal? http://blogs.consumerreports.org/cars/2009/07/should-cell-phone-use-by-drivers-be-illegal.html Car cellphone ban likely this year http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10585951 Road Phone Bans...

Over the past few years, a number of people have been compelled to search out various email clients that may best suit their needs. With that in mind, the Scout Report is pleased to make note of Courier 3.5, which is one such type of email application. The application offers users the option of turning off the display of HTML mail, and also the ability to harvest email addresses from the Windows...

Data visualization projects serve many purposes: a creative outlet, an information vessel, and often a combination of the two achieved by distilling complex information into fun, digestible infographics. The Scout Report frequently features top data visualizations; perhaps some of these annotations have sparked readers' interest in creating their own project. If so, the Data Visualization Society...

The 03-13-2020 Scout Report introduced readers to Deafverse, the "first-ever American Sign Language (ASL) accessible online game for deaf teenagers." Readers may want to return to the original game to get excited for a new addition launching soon. Created by the National Deaf Center, Deafverse "is a choose-your-own adventure game," designed to provide deaf teenagers with ideas and tools to...