EXCUSE ME!!!!!
The objective is to keep middle school students OFF of the social networking
sites until they are the age where they can register - which is 13. This is
an outrageous idea for a middle school. Facebook and MySpace do not want
these young people until they are 13. So you are teaching them it is okay to
lie about your age online. Not good.
ALL schools need to have their own web 2.0-like system. You can use this to
develop a professional community for teachers. You can easily create library
pages that students can access through the Internet. Each student needs
their own "profile" or storage area on this system so they can start a
project at school, work on it in the library, then access it from home to
complete it - and then send it via email to their teacher. It would be nice
if this system also allowed students to send their work produce to a blog or
a wiki - where students could collaborate.
Teachers should not "friend" students on the entertainment social networking
sites. This may create liability for the school if you failed to see
something - like a threat or suicidal thoughts.
Nancy
> Hello everyone...
>
> There was a recent discussion about using Facebook in the library and there=
> were some interesting responses to those who do and do not use FB at schoo=
> l.=A0 Based on all those discussions and some links provided, I decided to =
> approach my principal with the idea of creating a FB page for my 5th/6th gr=
> ade library.=A0 I want to create an information page - new books that have =
> come in, events going on in the library, movie tie-ins, that sort of thing,=
> and just get the message out to the kids.=A0 I knew it would be met with s=
> ome resistance.=A0 He thinks it's a great idea, but is afraid for me - of b=
> eing accused of becoming involved with the kids, witnessing something inapp=
> ropriate, that sort of thing.=A0 He wanted permission slips, but that would=
> be too difficult.=A0 I thought if a student wanted to friend me, their par=
> ent had to friend me as well, this way there is nothing the student is seei=
> ng that the parent does not know about.=A0 I think that covers the inappro=
> priateness issue.
>
> For those of you who have FB pages, would you please share some of the obst=
> acles you encountered and how you were able to manage them?=A0 Or those of =
> you who thought about it, but didn't do it, what did you come across to pre=
> vent you from pursuing the idea?=A0 Any comments are welcome, and I'll post=
> a hit if there is interest.
>
> Roxana Caivano
>
> Lincoln Roosevelt School
>
> Succasunna, NJ 07876
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Nancy Willard, M.S., J.D.
Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use
http://csriu.org
http://cyberbully.org
http://cyber-safe-kids.com
http://csriu.wordpress.com
nwillard@csriu.org
Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats: Responding to the Challenge of Online Social
Aggression, Threats, and Distress (Research Press)
Cyber-Safe Kids, Cyber-Savvy Teens: Helping Young People Learn to Use the
Internet Safely and Responsibly (Jossey-Bass)
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