I know that there are a lot of excellent social networking sites out there for use at home and possibly in the schools. Unfortuneately, I never seem to find the time to get out there and get involved with this kind of technology. I have a lot of friends who absolutely love facebook and all of my nieces and nephews use myspace. They rave about what you can do and how useful it is. These people are using these sites at home and not at school. I have had experience with Flickr and Library Thing. I can't say that I absolutely loved either one, but I can see there usefulness. Do I feel that these social networking sites belong in the schools? I am not 100% sure on how I feel about them, because I don't have a huge amount of experience with them. Now that I am on maternity leave for a couple of months, my neighbor says that I have to get onto Facebook. She absolutely loves it and says she stays connected with a lot of old friends that way. I think I will have more of an opinion when I have time to really use some of these sites.
With anything that is connected to the web, we know that there are risks and even some dangers. You would denintely have to have specific guidelines on how these sites can be used in your school, before you ever implement them. I believe most of them are blocked in our school, but will have to do some research to find out if students can use any social net working sites or if all of them are blocked. It is definitely an interesting dabate.
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This topic would make for an interesting debate Krista. Like you I haven't been able to get into the whole MySpace thing. I mean I have a page, but I only initiated it to keep up with my sons who BOTH have Myspace pages. But as I mentioned in my posting, both MySpace and YouTube have the ability to be so much more useful than how mainstream America has used them both to date. I can see teachers recording helpful mini-lessons online to assist students with their homework and projects. It can also be an outreach tool to bridge the gap between home and school. Videos could be uploaded that help parents help their child(ren) at home. Again there's so much potential for both of these sources.
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