but that the school could control IF anything needed to be controlled. Why?
1. Current website's limitations and labor issues: this was a quick way to
get media up and out while we work on a web redesign. 2. Kids, parents,
staff, alum (and anyone who is just interested at watching our community
interact) can all be in there together without having to Friend. 3. Fun.
Our biggest hope is for kids to start uploading materials with their
teachers and even on their own. Storytelling is an intrinsic piece of
Baker's curriculum through toddler-8th grade, and that is fundamentally what
FB and Twitter both are: narratives. We also want our kids to be critical
thinkers who can find new ways to use old tools/arenas if it works for their
purpose more effectively. So they will probably teach us how to use these
tools more effectively. So an authentic veriosn of the program and internal
school culture will be authentically reflected and I'd say our curve as a
community will move from ealry adaptors to a general culture we cannot
predict-I bet it will be more interesting than if we try to control it oo
much at the onset.o
Other groups start conversation out there and this is a way for us to cast
out ideas and starting points and see what latches on. We can drive folks
to new site content, or send reminders, or make a safe place for anyone to
upload media of an event (eg a Great Horned Owl got stuck in our soccer net
last spring, was rehabilitated and released last week).
Our school is in evolution and so I am doing it-as openly as possible for
now. In some schools it might seem odd for the admission office to kick off
this sort of thing, but I am fundamentally one of the school's primatry
narrators to the public, and I like it, I follow how other schools are using
social networking, and am willing to do it! So that is our very
unscientific set up for now! I hope the community will end up driving the
direction it takes and maybe other groups will start their own pages and
that is ok. The migration of the narrative will be an interesting
record/portoflio of our own learning process on FB.
Twitter we use to : 1. send reminders 2. announce major news or new online
media 3. broadcast sports scores Again-we are thinking about how to best use
it, and for now the parents who already use those tools are enjoying just
having a presence.
Deirdre
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Luke Michael <
lukemichael@thefirstacademy.org> wrote:
> I am curious as to what your schools are doing with Facebook and Twitter
> (and other social networking sites) on two levels:
>
> What involvement should the school and its staff have or not have in
> this arena?
>
> Should a student be penalized for objectionable behavior etc seen in
> this arena?
>
> Thank You,
>
> Luke Michael
> The First Academy
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