MySpace or Yours?
Presentation for Parents
Judy O’Connell Catholic Education Office
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possibilities & pitfalls
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Ten Years Past
Few or no experiences with....
websites, email, spam, phishing,
computer viruses
mobile phones were rare and expensive
a Sony Walkman was state of the art

The Digital Generation Gap

Pandora

“There has been an explosion of interactive
communications: the internet is the biggest
thing since the invention of the printing
press, and is having a tremendous impact on
our society, our institutions and our kids”
........Real Wired Child:What Parents Need to Know About Kids Online.
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based on communities, collaboration,
Harnessing Collective
Intelligence
reading, writing, and sharing

Video

i’ts all about seeing

online tools are
abundant
• Blogging
• Sharing music, videos, photos
• Messaging and Social Networking
• Gaming and Teen Life
• Commenting on others’ sites
• Personalising their own pages

games
• Connected
worldwide with
thousands of
other players at
once.
• Detailed virtual
worlds with
sophisticated,
potentially
addictive
gameplay.

music
Peer 2 Peer file sharing
Apple iTunes
Mp3 download sites

social networking
• Friend of a
friend
concept
• Profiles
• MySpace,
Bebo,
Facebook,
Piczo

social publishing
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self publishing & sharing
Blogging
Wikis
StartPages
YouTube
Flickr

self publishing & sharing
http://heyjude.wordpress.com/

leading learning
a new angle?

Definitely!

virtual learning
In short Mike's Mum had threatened to
cut off his Internet access. Her
perception was that Mike was wasting
his time playing 'silly computer games'.
She wanted him (according to Mike) to
go and get a job at Kentucky Fried
Chicken. Imagine that - the best second
life developer I have seen giving it all
away to go work in a fast food joint!
Ahhh
Edunation! Skoolaborate!

What are the issues?
• Keeping tabs on
where your kids
go
• Privacy
• Inappropriate
content
• Bullying and
predators

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Think before you post

it’s about digital natives

and digital immigrants

oopsanger

common misconception

Finding information

Finding information
http://www.pandia.com/index.html

school tools
blogs
wikis
podcasts
videos
images
voicethreads
social networking
and cybersafety!
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RSS browsing

What can we do?
Understand!
• Public spaces for
computers
Trust!
• Open dialogue
• Negotiate use and
purpose
• Monitor behaviour
• Set limits
• Listen to
understand

What can they do?
• No personal details
Private!
• No meeting
strangers
Grow!
• No sharing
passwords
IM
• Agree on limits
• Combat
cyberbullying!
• Keep safe!

The Internet
is
the human network
Welcome to the human network

Information Overload 13
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Introduction to Social Bookmarking

Learn more…
Useful sites for information
Stop Cyberbullying stopcyberbullying.org/
StaySafe.org www.staysafe.org/teens/default.html
NetAlert www.netalert.gov.au/home.html
Education Programs www.netalert.gov.au/programs.html
Cybersmart Kids http://www.cybersmartkids.com.au/
Learn about Web 2.0
Judy’s Web 2 Notes www.judyoconnell.wordpress.com

it’s just a rollercoaster
ride!
Thank You.
With thanks to Graham Wegner and Sue Waters