Safe+Use+of+Social+Networking

http://wiki.odysseyk12.org/vss2007

Charter school - Odyssey Charter Online school in Clark County, Nevada http://odysseyk12.org/

Premise Showed the social network Commoncraft video
 * Students are already using it
 * If blocked, they will get around
 * If we don't show how to use it appropriately, who will

Premise 1 - showed a video from YouTube

Video of their kids on YouTube about the social networks they use and their thoughts of sexual predators online Showed that kids were using them. Went around what parents said about using them. Use it 30 hours per week...had up when should be doing school work.

Referred to NSBA study

Use of blogging for writing. Provides means for commenting on blogs. Use class blogs as a project site.

Since a charter school is not under the same regulations as public schools.

Premise 2 - if you block it they will get around it. cited the iPhone hacker did it with his social network

Premise 3 - teach to use appropriately - cite examples of MySpace and how it can impact you later

Google docs....can edit the document at the same time the student is.

Youtube video the way we do it now.

FlickrVision website