Sunday, January 20, 2013
Reading Reflection Ch.3&4
There were some interesting calls for the use of wikis and blogs in the classroom in chapters 3&4 of Richardson's Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms, (2010). The chapter spoke about the positive use and safety features with these technology tools. My question is on organization of the wikis and blogs in regards to parental approval. It is hard to present a tool like this to parents who do not want their children "out there" on the web. One parent does not allow her daughter anywhere near the internet because of an identity theft nightmare when she was only five. Any thoughts? How do we include students on wikis or blogging for which there is no support from the parent? These tools are not mandatory but more of an enhancement to learning and not necessarily written in the curriculum in which they are required to follow.
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You can create a class blog and create the posts and let students reply. On occasion, you can allow students to serve as guest writers on the blog. Also, if you were to implement a program like KidBlog, have students use fictitious names, though they can know who is who in the class, or just keep the blog private. I suggest keeping blogs private when first doing them in the school setting, especially if parents are jittery.
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