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Classmates.com to Digitize Yearbooks, Reveal Your Painful Puberty

by Caleb Johnson (RSS feed) — Feb 18th 2010 at 4:25PM

Pine for your glory days but hate pulling those dusty old yearbooks from the attic? Well, Classmates.com hopes to provide a solution with some new changes to its site.

According to Tech Flash, the social networking site that just won't die plans on digitizing yearbooks over the next couple years, and charging users to view and customize full-size images from their high school or college days. Along with the digital versions, the company will pay a vendor to produce DVD and hard copies of the yearbooks to sell. It's a move spurred by the growth of other social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Users can view thumbnail images for free, but they'll have to pay a subscription fee for all the site's benefits.

Along with this new model, Classmates.com will partner with Facebook (if you can't beat 'em, join 'em) to offer an application that notifies Facebook users of class reunion news from the Classmates site. While we might be willing to pay for digitized yearbook photos, Facebook has taught us the trials and tribulations of 'reconnecting' with our long-lost middle school classmates. [From: Tech Flash]

Tags: classmates.com, college, facebook apps, FacebookApps, high school, social networking, socialnetworking, students, top, web, yearbook

Web

High School and Porn Site Have Similar Web Addresses

by Kendra Cunningham (RSS feed) — Aug 30th 2009 at 10:54AM

A Florida high school is having serious problems with its Web presence, and it has nothing to do with viruses, spam, or hackers. Both PaceHighSchool.net and PaceHighSchool.com are working perfectly fine; unfortunately, one address is for a public Florida high school and the other is for a hardcore porno site.

Pace High School shares a domain name with a site owned by PimpRoll, the only difference being the '.net' and '.com.' Teachers and parents are terrified for their kids, and frustrated when they find themselves on the porn site PaceHighSchool.com. (The high school students, on the other hand, have probably been joking about it for months.)

Pace High School Principal Frank Lay told the NWF Daily News, "We found out about this site a couple of weeks ago and there is nothing we can do."

Tags: domain, domain names, DomainNames, funny, high school, HighSchool, icann, porn, top, url

Web

Oreo the Kitty Graduates From Online 'High School'

by Leila Brillson (RSS feed) — Aug 17th 2009 at 2:45PM

Oreo, a two-year-old tuxedo cat from Macon, Georgia, may be the very first one in her family to receive a high-school diploma. She can't verify that, though, because she doesn't have extensive knowledge of her family history. As she wrote in the 'Life Experience Essay' portion of her accreditation, she was adopted by Kelvin Collins, the president of the Better Business Bureau of Central Georgia. Collins, seeing Oreo's ambitious nature, enlisted his feline's help in exposing 'diploma mills.' These 'schools' often cite life experience as a qualification, or pose as cheap and easy ways to get high school, Associate's, or Master's diplomas.

Collins did admit to MSNBC that he gave Oreo a little bit of help with her coursework at the online-only Jefferson High School. (The cat, though, did sit on Collins's lap throughout the test.) Fortunately, when Collins got an answer wrong, the program gave him a 'hint,' all but marking the correct answer for him. The cat-and-man team 'graduated,' but that doesn't mean Oreo is going to college. Collins chose Jefferson High because it only cost $200; those 'college diplomas' usually run $800 to $1,200.

Tags: cats, diploma, fraud, high school, HighSchool, online degrees, OnlineDegrees, scam, top, weird

Computers

High School Student Turns to Web for College Expenses

by Warren Riddle (RSS feed) — Mar 18th 2009 at 6:30PM

Rachel Harris, a 17-year-old high school student, has placed her educational future in the hands of strangers. The Muskegon, Michigan senior hopes to attend the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, next year, but the daunting $46,000 annual price tag creates a significant dilemma. Ms. Harris sports a 3.97 grade point average and ranks 10th in her class, but even after submitting at least 10 scholarship applications, she told the Associated Press (AP) "the only thing that is keeping me from possibly going is the financial aspect to it."

Inspired by President Obama and his campaign for the White House, or, more specifically, the $600 million he raised thanks in part to Internet donations, Harris decided to turn to the Web to drum up support for her own university campaign. She launched a Web site, iwanttogotonotredame.com, through which people can donate money to help her achieve her goal.

One thing we didn't notice while perusing the site was any mention of employment, although in this economy you can't really hold that against her. At least she's being honest, and not claiming to be the missing daughter of a Nigerian prince who needs help claiming her inheritance.

So, take a look at her site, and afterward, if you're still feeling the spirit of giving, check back with us in a few days. We're beginning construction on our own site, and even though we haven't settled on a name yet, we're working on procuring the rights to wewanttogotothecaribbean. [From: AP/FOXNews.com]

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Tags: business, college, education, high school, HighSchool, internet donations, InternetDonations, notredame, obama campaign, ObamaCampaign, students, teens

Teen Blackmails Classmates With Nude Pics on Facebook

by Peter Mychalcewycz (RSS feed) — Feb 6th 2009 at 4:55PM

Kids! Teens! Whomever! Don't send nude pictures of yourself to anyone on Facebook or any other site (or via your cell phone, for that matter). It will come back to haunt you. We guarantee it.

Anthony Stancl, an 18-year-old Wisconsin boy, is accused of posing as a girl on facebook and convinced 31 classmates to send him nude pictures of themselves. Don't worry, it gets worse. After the boys had sent him their pictures, he blackmailed them, threatening to spread the pictures online unless they performed sex acts with him, according to the criminal complaint. Police found over 300 pictures on Stancl's computer. Seven of the 31 boys involved in the case actually performed sex acts with Stancl. Stancl allegedly took pictures of the encounters with his cell phone camera. He faces up to 300 years in prison if convicted on all charges.

These news stories just get creepier and creepier, don't they? [From: Foxnews.com]

Tags: crime, facebook, high school, HighSchool, sex, sexting, social-networking, teens, top, web

Cell Phones, Cameras, Computers

Parents Sue School in Nude Cheerleader Photo Scandal

by Terrence O'Brien (RSS feed) — Dec 9th 2008 at 6:45PM

What is it about the combination of high school cheerleaders and digital cameras that always leads to something stupid?

Despite several high profile cases of girls getting booted from cheerleading squads and expelled from school over revealing photos, teenagers keep snapping pics with their cell phones and digi-cams and landing themselves in hot water.

A pair of teens at Bothell High School in Seattle are just the latest to fall victim to their own poor judgment. What makes this case unique is that after the girls' photos made the rounds with the football team and the girls were punished by being suspended from the cheer leading squad, their parents came to their defense. Sort of.

Tags: cheerleaders, high school, HighSchool, law, lawsuit

Computers, Celebrities

Teen Kicked Off Student Council for "Douchebag" Blog Post

by Terrence O'Brien (RSS feed) — Jun 3rd 2008 at 8:32AM

Blog posts and social networking sites have cost people jobs, relationships, and freedom. But it's rare that high school students get blatantly censored and reprimanded for using for using foul language on said online outlets outside of school.

Avery Doninger was the class secretary at Lewis S. Mills High School in Burlington, Connecticut, but was barred for running for re-election her senior year after she referred to school officials as "douchebags" in posting on her personal blog.

The trouble began when the school repeatedly delayed a battle of the bands the student government had organized. After being rescheduled twice already, the school wanted to reschedule again because a particular teacher could not make the event to work the lighting equipment. When the student government suggested hiring a professional or letting a parent work the equipment, the school balked.

Tags: blogging, censorship, high school, HighSchool, lawsuits, social networking, SocialNetworking

Cell Phones, Computers

Scholarship Gives Cash to Teens who Help Seniors

by Terrence O'Brien (RSS feed) — Sep 26th 2007 at 2:11PM

Calling all technologically inclined high school seniors! Memory maker PNY launched its Seniors Helping Seniors college scholarship contest in which high school seniors (either individually or in teams of up to five) are invited to put together projects to help teach senior citizens about technology.

Submissions are being accepted until December 31, and a $2,500 scholarship will be handed over to the winning team. There are also three prizes for honorable mention (a PNY-branded USB flash drive and a flash memory card) and undisclosed rewards for simply participating.

Teaching seniors about the latest in computer technologies -- and how to utilize them -- is something we can all get behind. One caveat: The contest has a head-scratching requirement that all entrants be public high school students.

From Gear Log

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Tags: college, high school, HighSchool, scholarship, senior citizens, SeniorCitizens, seniors

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