[LM_NET] HIT: guidelines for wikis, blogs, and social networking sites

[Emalee Owens <emalee.owens@GMAIL.COM>]

HIT: guidelines for wikis, blogs, and social networking sites
Thanks for all of the responses!
Here is my original message:

Greetings and salutations!  I am a graduate student in Longwood
University's School Library Media program.   I'm nearing the end of my
master's program.  In one of my classes, we have been discussing the
use of blogs, wikis, and social networking sites in our school
libraries.

I'm a child of the 80s and I LOVE the inclusion of technology.  What
are some guidelines you can suggest that teachers and library media
specialists put in place when incorporating blogs, wikis, and social
networking sites in lessons?

I will make a hit with all of the responses.

Emalee Owens, Kindergarten teacher
Prince Edward County Elementary School, Farmville, VA
School Library Media graduate student
Longwood University
emalee.owens@gmail.com

And the responses:
Good timing!  We had a conference here Friday with key speaker Will Richardson.
http://Weblogg-ed.com
weblogged@gmail.com
http://willrichardson.wikispaces.com

excellent ideas and insights!
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From someone who once worked in a district that was determined people
would not be surfing:
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Start by making sure your district will grant access.  Many are of
those sites are blocked, as they are not seen as relevant to
instruction. There was no way they were going to give anyone access to
a blog, if they could help it. SIGH!
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I would make them password protected so that a student's privacy can
be maintained.
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One deal I had to make with the district was to promise that no one
outside of the district would be a member of my ning.com site that
allows forum discussions and groups to get together virtually to
discuss books. That should be in your policy for sure.
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Although I am trying out wiki's and podcasts our school really doen't have
guidelines yet.  However, I was at a meeting and the one of the
administrators wanted to set up a wiki/webpage so that members of the
community could post questions and have board members answer.  I was a
little hesitant to endorse this because of the nature of the sunshine
laws.
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Educate your TECH STAFF.  My district is totally BLOCKED all WIKIS
(well almost all, Wikipedia still pops up), BLOGS and SOCAIL
networking sites.  Also blocks almost ALL pictures.

So, even though I am doing my professional development on web 2.0, I
won't be able to use it.

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