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Dipping One’s Toes in the Social

Networking StreamDoug Johnson

www.doug-johnson.com

ALA AnnualJune 27, 2008

Who am I?Who are you?

Before

After

Handouts

Purpose

• To get an introduction to a wide variety of Web 2.0 tools useful in classrooms and libraries

• Booktalks? Tooltalks?

• Safety, ethics and policy 2.0

• Wiki handouts:https://dougjohnson.wikispaces.com/Dippingguide

The tools

• Wikis

• Web logs (Blogs)

• RSS Feed Aggregators

• Social bookmarking

• More than 4 - 12+ handy tools

1. Wikis

• What are they?

• How might you use one?

• wikispaces

https://dougjohnson.wikispaces.com/Dougj zz

https://dougjohnson.wikispaces.com/Dougj zz

10 Things

1. How to create a wiki

2. Edit your homepage

3. Use the floating tool bar

4. Add a page

5. Add a link

10 Things

6. Add a picture

7. Set up permissions

8. Invite wiki members

9. Subscribe to your wiki

10.Delete your wiki

Ideas for classroom/library wikis?• a resource for all assignments, rubrics,

deadlines and resources to increase home-school communication

• a format for webquests and study guides

• a presentation format to demonstrate student learning

Use a wiki to create thetextbook for the class.

Require each class member to improve a Wikipedia entry.

2. Web logs (blogs)

• What are they?

• How might you use one?

• Blogger

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Ideas for classroom/library blogging?

•a teacher blog to share learning with parents and resources with students

•a classroom blog where all students can contribute but there is one blog to maintain

•individual student blogs linked to a teacher blog to allow individual reflection

http://students2oh.org

I just recently heard about edupunk, the term that’s seemingly sweeping the edublogosphere and causing all these old people to grab their dusty Sex Pistols t-shirts and bust out the black eyeliner… Lindsea

3. RSS feed aggregators

• What are they?

• How might you use one?

• Google Reader

http://www.google.com/reader/view/Doug0077 car

http://www.google.com/reader/view/Doug0077 car

Ideas for classroom/library use for RSS readers?

•Personal Learning Networks – continuous staff development

•Students use to track areas of interest - news topics, etc.

4. Social bookmarking

• What is it?

• How might you use it?

• del.icio.us

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http://del.icio.us/doug0077Doug0077 car

Ideas for classroom/library use for social bookmarking?

•Professional Learning Community support

•Student bibliographies and research tracking

•Setting RSS feed on topic to keep up-dated

5. Social networking sites

• What is it?

• How might you use it?

• FaceBook

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http://[email protected] zz

6. SlideShare

What is it?How might you use it?

http://www.slideshare.net/Doug0077 zz

http://www.slideshare.net/Doug0077 zz

7. TeacherTube

What is it?How might you use it?

http://www.teachertube.com/

http://www.teachertube.com/

8. Flickr

What is it?How might you use it?

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http://flickr.com/Dougj0077 car“all sizes” to download”

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/

9. Motivator

What is it?How might you use it?

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/motivator.php

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/motivator.php

10. ImageChef

What is it?How might you use it?

http://www.imagechef.com/

http://www.imagechef.com/

11. GoogleDocs

What is it?How might you use It?

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http://[email protected] car

12. SurveyMonkey

What is it?How might you use it?

http://www.surveymonkey.com/[email protected] zz

http://www.surveymonkey.com/[email protected] zz

Skype

Free phone calls via computer

Jeff Utecht

More tools!

23 things on a stick - multitype library systems

Cautions?

What do adults think of when they think of social networking?

This?

Dateline

• Spring 2006

• Parents wake up

• DOPA

Predators & cyberbullies: Reality check www.blogsafety.com/ March 16, 2007

McCollam, The Shame GameColumbia Journalism Review, Jan/Feb 2007www.cjr.org/issues/2007/1/McCollam.asp

On the agenda…

• How do Web 2.0 safe and ethical use issues differ from those of Web 1.0?

• How can we make kids safe?• Is there a place for the social web in schools?• How are good decisions made about filtering

and policy - and by whom?

X

What is Web 2.0?• Read only -> Read and write• Horizon Report, 2008• Manifestations include:

– Social networking sites (MySpace, Facebook)

– Blogs and RSS feeds– Wikis– Content sharing (FlickR,

YouTube, del.icio.us– 3D worlds

Randall Munroe http://xkcd.com/c256.html

Web 1.0 to Web 2.0safety issues• Protecting children from predators• Protecting children from each other

(cyberbullying) Protecting teachers from students???

• Protecting children from themselves (making inappropriate and personal information public)

…old fears

…from predators

…from each otherwww.cyberbully.org

…from themselves

…from themselves

Stacy Snyder aka“Drunken Pirate”

…from themselves

It’s never really gone

That darned free speech thing

Common sense

The danger to kids in Web 2.0 comes not from what they may find online, but from what they themselves put online for others to access.

On the agenda…

• How do Web 2.0 safe and ethical use issues differ from those of Web 1.0?

• How can we make kids safe?• Is there a place for the social web in schools?• How are good decisions made about filtering

and policy - and by whom?

X

Let’s just block it all!

• DOPA, 2006 - passed the House with 96% in favor - requirement to filter out all interactive websites

• Today - DOPA Jr.

This unnecessary and overly broad legislation will hinder students’ ability to engage in distance learning and block library computer users from accessing a wide array of essential Internet applications including instant messaging, email, wikis and blogs. - Leslie Burger, ALA President, 2006

Blocking formats not content.

For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. H.L. Menken

Why filtering is ineffective

• Best filters not 100%

• Can’t filter what goes out

• Access from outside school

• Proxies

• Mobile devices

Who do filters really stop?

Education is imperative

• Dangers are real• Schools must be proactive• Schools must reach out• Good resources on the web

– NetSmartz (movies)– iLearn

• “Safe mistakes”

Tracking Teresa

What activities teach ethical behaviors?• Articulate and demonstrate values• Reinforce behaviors• Discuss issues• Principles rather

than rules• Assessment• Low temptation

environments• Chance to practice

ScenariosLisa posts photographs from recent party that involved drinking on the FlickR website along with a really funny video of kids making out on YouTube.

1. What is the unsafe or unethical action?

2. What harm might it cause?

3. How would you counsel/guide Lisa?

4. Similar incidents?

ScenariosAdele “meets” Frank, who shares her interest in figure skating, on MySpace. After several conversations in the following weeks, Frank asks Adele for her home telephone number and address. Adele likes Frank and gives him the information he asked for.

1. What is the unsafe or unethical action?2. What harm might it cause?3. How would you counsel/guide Adele?4. Similar incidents?

ScenariosBob feels his teacher treated him unfairly and creates a “Kill This Teacher” blog that invites other students to submit “creative” means of harming teachers in his school.

1. What is the unsafe or unethical action?2. What harm might it cause?3. How would you counsel/guide Bob?4. Similar incidents?

On the agenda…

• How do Web 2.0 safe and ethical use issues differ from those of Web 1.0?

• How can we make kids safe?• Is there a place for the social web in schools?• How are good decisions made about filtering

and policy - and by whom?

X

Education can be enhanced with the social web resources• Social networking

• Blogs

• Wikis

• Game environments

Classroom blogs

<areallydifferentplace.org>

School library blog

Youth services in MySpace

Wiki textbooks

Teen Second Life

Full participation?The school system’s inability to close this participation gap has negative consequences for everyone involved. - Henry Jenkins, Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture

…it is not the tools that are inherently good or evil but rather the use of the tools.

– A hammer can kill someone but it can also build a house.– A nail can be driven through a hand but it can also hold the

roof over your head.– A fist can hit but a fist can also be clasped in your hand in love.

We do not outlaw hammers, nails, or fists -- we teach people to use them properly.

So should we do with blogs, wikis, podcasts, Skype, and any other tool that becomes available for use in the human experience!

-Vicki Davis, Cool Cat Blog

On the agenda…

• How do Web 2.0 safe and ethical use issues differ from those of Web 1.0?

• How can we make kids safe?• Is there a place for the social web in schools?• How are good decisions made about filtering

and policy - and by whom?X

Making good decisions

• Balance

• Current AUPs– “high-quality,” – “inapropriate,” – “reasonable”

• Open to interpretation?

Love and balance are the two most important wordsin the English language.- John Wooden

District Advisory Committee• Small• Wide representation• Few, but important, meetings• Good agendas and minutes• Defined responsibilities

– Budget– Policy– Goals– Assessment

Due process for blocking• Block the minimum required by CIPA• Require that any request for blocking as

site goes through reconsideration process

• Unblock any site at professional request• Keep one unblocked computer in each

library• Make educators, not techs, responsible

for safe and appropriate use

The fleeber filter

On the agenda…

• How do Web 2.0 safe and ethical use issues differ from those of Web 1.0?

• How can we make kids safe?• Is there a place for the social web in schools?• How are good decisions made about filtering

and policy - and by whom?

The Ngong Hills

Questions?

Dipping One’s Toes in the Social

Networking StreamDoug Johnson

www.doug-johnson.com