Social Networking Web Sites Weapons of Mass Collaboration

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Social Networking Web SitesWeapons of Mass
Collaboration
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Iste Standards

• Social, ethical, and human issues
• Students understand the ethical, cultural, and
  societal issues related to technology.
• Students practice responsible use of technology
  systems, information, and software.
• Students develop positive attitudes toward
  technology uses that support lifelong learning,
  collaboration, personal pursuits, and
  productivity.
• Technology productivity tools
• Students use technology tools to enhance
  learning, increase productivity, and promote
  creativity.
• Students use productivity tools to collaborate in
  constructing technology-enhanced models, prepare
  publications, and produce other creative works.
• Technology communications tools
• Students use telecommunications to collaborate,
  publish, and interact with peers, experts, and
  other audiences.
• Students use a variety of media and formats to
  communicate information and ideas effectively to
  multiple audiences.

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Ohio Academic Content Standards

• A C A D E M I C
• C O N T E N T S T A N D A R D S
• By the end of the 3-5 program
• A. Describe types of information facts,
  opinions, primary/secondary sources and formats
  of information number, text, sound, visual,
  multimedia and use information for a purpose.
• B. Use technology to find information by
  applying a research process to decide what
  information is needed, find sources, use
  information and check work.
• C. Use the Internet to find, use and evaluate
  information.
• D. Identify, access and use electronic resources
  from both free and fee-based Internet sources.

• By the end of the 9-12 program
• A. Apply appropriate communication design
  principles in published and presented projects.
• B. Create, publish and present information,
  utilizing formats appropriate to the content and
  audience.
• C. Identify communication needs, select
  appropriate communication tools and design
  collaborative interactive projects and activities
  to communicate with others, incorporating
  emerging technologies.

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Its Not Just About Myspace!

• Myspace
• Facebook
• Xanga
• ConnectU
• Flickr
• Frappr
• Imbee

• My Yearbook
• Tribe
• Classmates.com
• Friendster
• Playahead
• Vox
• Sconex
• Complete List

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What is Social Networking?

• Membership is Free or fee-based
• Users set up accounts
• Web page is provided to set up profile
• Email, blogs, chats, and groups
• Users can post pictures and videos
• Accept or deny friends
• Categories include business, common interests,
  dating and School related sites
• Learning and Leading with Technology September
  2006

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What About Safety?

• Research a site before joining
• Set your profile to private
• Keep personal info personal
• Do not use your real name
• Think before you post

• Think twice about posting your photo
• Do not talk to or flirt with strangers
• Do not meet new friends in person
• Report suspicions to adults
• Rules from the FTC

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What Are the Dangers?

• Out of 300,000 child abductions every year, only
  12 are by strangers
• One-fifth of children have been sexually
  solicited in chat rooms, by instant message, or
  by email
• Most come from other young people
• Only 4 percent come from adults over 25
• Most kids just ignore comments
• Technology Review-August 07, 2006

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What Is The Government Doing?

• DOPA-Deleting Online Predators ACT
• It requires that organizations receiving federal
  aid block minors from accessing commercial
  social-networking sites and chat rooms, where
  they might encounter adults seeking sexual
  contact
• Some feel that it would not prevent predators,
  but instead deprive youth from poor areas of
  their only online access
• Technology Review-August 07, 2006

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Who Is Using These Sites?

• 28.5 million kids between the ages of 8 and 14 in
  the United States
• More than half (55 per cent) of American children
  aged between 12 and 17 use online social
  networking sites such as Myspace.
• 38 percent male/female ages 12-14 use Myspace
• Myspace has 163,084,960 members
• Whyville.net has 1.7 million members
• Imbee.com has 20,000 members
• Tech Social Networking for 9-year olds
• www.MSNBC.com
• www.Deanstalk.net
• www.Myspace.com

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Which Ones Would Be Safe To Use In the Classroom?

• Imbee.com
• Parental Permission
• Teacher can control
• Blogs
• Photos
• Share Music
• Discussion Boards

• ClubPenguin.com
• Kid Friendly Chat
• Design your own virtual world
• Language Filters
• Games

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Which Ones Would Be Safe To Use In the Classroom?

• Tapped In
• Teacher created accounts
• Teacher monitored
• Students invited to join
• Chat chat history mailed to teacher
• Accounts can be deleted
• Discussion board

• Whyville
• Virtual City
• City workers monitor chat
• Language filter
• Message boards
• Mail
• Newspaper
• Its own economy
• Senators
• Teacher can manage

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Why Use Them In The Classroom?

• Provide avenues for creative self-expression
• Students learn about Web design, email, linking
  and uploading files
• Post poems, stories and journal entries
• Develop critical thinking and self-reflection
• Learn about science, art, history and much more
• Increase student involvement
• Most important-they support the standards

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What The Experts Are Saying.

• Donna Alvermann, distinguished professor of
  language and literacy education at the University
  of Georgia, and a specialist on Web literacy and
  adolescence, believes many youth are more
  motivated to read when theyre on the Internet.
  She claims that reading images and glitzy visuals
  on the internet is part of learning to read Web
  sites critically. This is actually a high-level
  skill.

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What The Experts Are Saying.

• Danah Boyd a social scientist from the University
  of Berkeley believes the following
• As the physical world becomes less welcoming,
  online space becomes more vital and appealing
• In virtual spaces teens are free to manage their
  interactions, form networks and shape their own
  identities

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Ways To Incorporate Social Networking Sites Into
The Classroom

• Create a class site using Imbee, TappedIn, or
  Whyville
• Post homework help on a discussion board
• Collaborate with teachers and classrooms around
  the globe
• Publish Poems and Artwork
• Use Problem-based learning
• Motivate students by giving them some control

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More on Safety.

• Purchase monitoring software
• SpectorSoft
• IamBigBrother
• Visit Blogsafety.com for more tips and advice
• Teach the students about Cyberbullying a good
  site for this is Cyberbullying.org

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References

• http//cnets.iste.org/students/s_stands.html
• http//www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/Templates/Pages/ODE/
  ODEDetail.aspx?page3TopicRelationID339ContentI
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• http//www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/17266/
• http//www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/tech/tec1
  4.htm
• http//www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?Arti
  cleID6473
• http//www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/CA
  /777
• http//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17266131/site/newsweek
  /from/ET/
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networ
  king_websites
• http//www.deanstalk.net/deanstalk/2007/01/teenage
  rs_love_.html
• www.myspace.com
• Books and Magazine
• Collier, Anne and Magid, Larry. (2007). Myspace
  Unraveled A Parents Guide to Teen Social
  Networking. Berkeley, CA Peachpit Press.
• Tapscott, Don and Williams, Anthony D. (2006).
  Wikinomics How Mass Collaboration Changes
  Everything. London, England Penguin Group.
• Barrett, Joanne. (September 2006). My Space or
  Yours? Learning Leading with Technology, pp.
  14-19.