The document outlines key issues to consider when setting up blogs and wikis for educational purposes. It discusses establishing an action plan with clear purposes and success criteria. It also addresses managing the online community, using appropriate web tools, ownership and privacy of student accounts and work, and teaching students responsible digital citizenship skills like commenting appropriately, avoiding plagiarism, and dealing with inappropriate content or cyberbullying.
14. ACTION PLAN
Set up an action plan with outcomes for students:
What is the purpose?
15. ACTION PLAN
Set up an action plan with outcomes for students:
What is the purpose?
Wiki or Blog?
16. ACTION PLAN
Set up an action plan with outcomes for students:
What is the purpose?
Wiki or Blog?
What is the success criteria?
17. ACTION PLAN
Set up an action plan with outcomes for students:
What is the purpose?
Wiki or Blog?
What is the success criteria?
How will this differ for Junior/Middle/Senior
school?
20. COMMUNITY
What type of community do we have? Walled
Garden? Go For It? Yes, but...?
How are you going to meet your communities
needs/expectations/concerns/questions?
21. COMMUNITY
What type of community do we have? Walled
Garden? Go For It? Yes, but...?
How are you going to meet your communities
needs/expectations/concerns/questions?
How are you going to engage your community and
ensure that they are actively involved in your blogs/
wikis? How are you going to bring people into your
‘space’?
23. WEB 2.0 TOOLS
A number of Web 2.0 tools (Wet Paint, Google,
Facebook etc) have age restrictions. How will you
deal with this if you need to use that tool?
24. WEB 2.0 TOOLS
A number of Web 2.0 tools (Wet Paint, Google,
Facebook etc) have age restrictions. How will you
deal with this if you need to use that tool?
Are all staff aware of how to set privacy settings in
these tools?
25. WEB 2.0 TOOLS
A number of Web 2.0 tools (Wet Paint, Google,
Facebook etc) have age restrictions. How will you
deal with this if you need to use that tool?
Are all staff aware of how to set privacy settings in
these tools?
Who will monitor these? Do they need monitoring?
29. ACCOUNTS
Use school email addresses
Who then owns this account? Teacher? Class? School?
What happens to that account at the end of the year? When a
teacher moves away? What happens to the students work at the
end of the year?
30. ACCOUNTS
Use school email addresses
Who then owns this account? Teacher? Class? School?
What happens to that account at the end of the year? When a
teacher moves away? What happens to the students work at the
end of the year?
What happens if a teacher leaves mid year and no one else
knows the username/password information?
31. ACCOUNTS
Use school email addresses
Who then owns this account? Teacher? Class? School?
What happens to that account at the end of the year? When a
teacher moves away? What happens to the students work at the
end of the year?
What happens if a teacher leaves mid year and no one else
knows the username/password information?
Naming online spaces (eg, Room2Somerset). Who owns this
account? What happens at the end of the year and that teacher
changes rooms or leaves?
32. ACCOUNTS
Use school email addresses
Who then owns this account? Teacher? Class? School?
What happens to that account at the end of the year? When a
teacher moves away? What happens to the students work at the
end of the year?
What happens if a teacher leaves mid year and no one else
knows the username/password information?
Naming online spaces (eg, Room2Somerset). Who owns this
account? What happens at the end of the year and that teacher
changes rooms or leaves?
Are teachers aware that some names can never be used again?
Some can not be reused for months once deleted.
34. OWNERSHIP RIGHTS
What happens at the end of the year to the children’s
work on the wiki/blog or saved in a Web 2.0 tool?
35. OWNERSHIP RIGHTS
What happens at the end of the year to the children’s
work on the wiki/blog or saved in a Web 2.0 tool?
How long is it going to stay online?
36. OWNERSHIP RIGHTS
What happens at the end of the year to the children’s
work on the wiki/blog or saved in a Web 2.0 tool?
How long is it going to stay online?
Do the children get a copy?
39. OTHER ISSUES
Teaching children how to:
Comment ‘well’ - appropriate, relevant and detailed feedback to blog/wiki
work (eg, NOT “that’s cool!”)
40. OTHER ISSUES
Teaching children how to:
Comment ‘well’ - appropriate, relevant and detailed feedback to blog/wiki
work (eg, NOT “that’s cool!”)
What to do with inappropriate content/pop up windows
41. OTHER ISSUES
Teaching children how to:
Comment ‘well’ - appropriate, relevant and detailed feedback to blog/wiki
work (eg, NOT “that’s cool!”)
What to do with inappropriate content/pop up windows
Avoid plagiarism
42. OTHER ISSUES
Teaching children how to:
Comment ‘well’ - appropriate, relevant and detailed feedback to blog/wiki
work (eg, NOT “that’s cool!”)
What to do with inappropriate content/pop up windows
Avoid plagiarism
Use creative commons - using advanced search in Google Images/Flickr
43. OTHER ISSUES
Teaching children how to:
Comment ‘well’ - appropriate, relevant and detailed feedback to blog/wiki
work (eg, NOT “that’s cool!”)
What to do with inappropriate content/pop up windows
Avoid plagiarism
Use creative commons - using advanced search in Google Images/Flickr
How to deal with cyber bullying
44. OTHER ISSUES
Teaching children how to:
Comment ‘well’ - appropriate, relevant and detailed feedback to blog/wiki
work (eg, NOT “that’s cool!”)
What to do with inappropriate content/pop up windows
Avoid plagiarism
Use creative commons - using advanced search in Google Images/Flickr
How to deal with cyber bullying
Understanding about their digital footprint - what they put on the internet
will then be out of their control - deleting is not deleting any more
45. OTHER ISSUES
Teaching children how to:
Comment ‘well’ - appropriate, relevant and detailed feedback to blog/wiki
work (eg, NOT “that’s cool!”)
What to do with inappropriate content/pop up windows
Avoid plagiarism
Use creative commons - using advanced search in Google Images/Flickr
How to deal with cyber bullying
Understanding about their digital footprint - what they put on the internet
will then be out of their control - deleting is not deleting any more
How to respect themselves on line - the ‘would Grandma’ approve test?