pressure to use a specific technology just because it is "in", even if
it isn't the most appropriate?
With Drupal, Moodle, even Google docs, I wonder about choosing something
with so many possible land mines as a public social network. Our AUP
excludes Facebook at school (not academic use) but we have set up
Live@edu school e-mail accounts for our students, and they are very
happy with the social aspects - "wall", chat, photo posting, shared
documents, etc. (OK, that's not academic either, but it is part of their
e-mail). The wiki, forum, and blog components of Moodle provide a very
nice set of tools for teachers, and setting an RSS feed from them allows
students to set those feeds in their email, so they learn another part
of Web 2.0 I think we need to teach the current technologies, but I'm
not sure that means they are always the best tools for instruction.
Judith Claire Robison
St. John's Catholic Prep
Director of Technology=20
Judy Robison
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Fitzgerald
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 7:58 PM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: not using Face book for classroom projects
You can also use Drupal to create a fully featured, fully private
learning common on your own infrastructure. Unlike Ning, Facebook, or
other hosted "solutions" of a similar ilk, you retain complete control
over the conditions within which people learn.
Cheers,
Bill
----- Original Message ----
From: Bill Ivey <bivey01370@gmail.com>
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Sent: Fri, December 4, 2009 9:59:29 AM
Subject: Re: Using Face book for classroom projects
Hi!
I teach 7th graders, and some are too young for ning (they'd need to be
13
and up). We use pbworks wikis to mimic aspects of a social network when
doing collaborative projects with other schools (Hi, Steve and
Ellen!!!).
You can password-protect it and, if you want, you can also set up
accounts
for them that don't require email addresses.
Take care,
Bill Ivey
Stoneleigh-Burnham School
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