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Monday, December 29, 2008
23 Things - Thing #6
Technology use gets really complicated when you try new activities in a school setting. Keeping in mind the student's safety and the need to teach good habits I wonder if it is wise to have secondary students use sites that require an e-mail address or other information. Do we need to get parental permission, who in the district do I need to get permission from or do I even need to get permission? Flickr, blogs, wikis, social bookmarking sites etc. all come with privacy issues and monitoring issues. I can spend hours just previewing sites and check out the section of a site that I want to use but it is nearly impossible to check out the entire web site. Any of the sites that have chat sections have the potential to have inappropriate chats going on, this is often the case on Youtube or even on the Image Chef site and on Comic Strip generator. Once I do find a site that I feel I can use with students then I need to get it unblocked which can be another time consumer.
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As a member of the district tech and school improvement team, I deal with policy and pushing the envelope often. As your administrator for copies of district policies dealing with Internet access and sites.
I know a big NO-NO is posting photos of students without parent permission. And depending on the age of the student, comments attached to the photo will have restriction. What we don't want to do is expose our students to dangers through the Internet. But if we don't teach them the safe methods who will?
Search "Isafe" - they have great tools involving the Intertnet and safety!!
Harold, I-Safe is a great program and I use many of their materials along with several other programs, Net Smartz, Net Wise and Wired Safety. I do several small lessons connected to research lessons and I am lucky to get to do a presentation just on Internet Safety to all the students through their PE class. I talk about safety issues with my staff too. As a media specialist in my district I also work on the AUP forms as well as collect and share the information on them with staff. Your right it is a skill that needs to be taught.
One resource I have found is temporary e-mail addresses such as 10minutemail.com or guerrillaMial.com that allow you to sign students or yourself up for an e-mail address that lasts only 10-15 minutes.
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