Rubrics,Rubrics October 9, 2007
Posted by Dottie Black in : Teacher Resources, Technology, Uncategorized , add a commentKathy Shrock is a K-12 Technology dynamo. She has been helping the K-12 community with technology for years. She has an email newsletter you can subscribe to and also a fantastic website.
This weeks email highlighted her rubrics page.
Social Networking for Kids October 1, 2007
Posted by Dottie Black in : Teacher Resources, Technology , add a commentLast year one of my teacher friends discovered that there was a “trash site” about her teaching team on Bebo.com. She went to look at it and found that many of her students had profiles on Bebo. Some of them had posted photos of themselves and information like where they went to school, where they lived, and even some phone numbers. Since then, we have had many discussions about how to teach students to use social networking in a responsible way.
A fellow instructional technologist shared imbee.com with me last week so I checked it out.
A teacher can set up a class to use this tool like other social networking sites but with the added security that it is monitored by the teacher and is only open to people the teacher approves. There are imbee sponsored groups the participants can join or they can start their own groups all with the teacher’s supervision. Social networking is everywhere and this is an opportunity to help students understand how to use these tools effectively and ethically.
