Ok well finally after two weeks they finally setup our school webpage for my students to go on and start posting their blogs. However, once my TRT told me that it was finally setup I had to go through and set up a new profile page for myself, then I was sent a spreadsheet that I had to put their login names and passwords into, which wasn't too bad because I made them all similar and just changed the number.
I don't know if this is how it is in other counties or school districts, but it just seems when you get a new idea and want to put it into play they make you jump through hoops in order to do it. If you aren't totally bought into the idea, or stubborn like me, you could really get discouraged and not want to do it anymore. So is this really how it is in other counties or just in Stafford County?
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Wiki's/Twitter in a Primary Classroom
Now after reading Chapter's 4,6,9 in Will Richardson's Blog's, Wiki's, Podcasts and other Powerful Web Tools for Classroom I have many of the concerns that Richardson talked about in the book. My main concern is with the fact that in so many schools the focus is on privacy and with the younger students with the idea of keeping them away from online predators and information that is not appropriate for them.
Though I see many of the benefits that both these tools can bring I am not sure I see uses in the primary grade level. I see how using this tool allows them to collaborate with many different people across the globe to help define certain areas of interest. However, knowing the population that I work with at my school I can see many parents putting up a huge stink about their child posting things on the web. It was hard to convince even my principal about the idea of blogs due to this and she has told me that if parents complain or raise any concern she is taking the blogs down.
I would love to use these tools and the benefits I feel would be astronomical for my students in helping them develop more advanced, detailed writing I do not see anyway around the many issues that surround my principal and parents in my county. Does anyone have any suggestions of how I could get around this issue and/or convince the people in my county of the benefits of using these tools?
Though I see many of the benefits that both these tools can bring I am not sure I see uses in the primary grade level. I see how using this tool allows them to collaborate with many different people across the globe to help define certain areas of interest. However, knowing the population that I work with at my school I can see many parents putting up a huge stink about their child posting things on the web. It was hard to convince even my principal about the idea of blogs due to this and she has told me that if parents complain or raise any concern she is taking the blogs down.
I would love to use these tools and the benefits I feel would be astronomical for my students in helping them develop more advanced, detailed writing I do not see anyway around the many issues that surround my principal and parents in my county. Does anyone have any suggestions of how I could get around this issue and/or convince the people in my county of the benefits of using these tools?
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