Myspace or Yours: Possibilities and Pitfalls

MySpace or Yours? Presentation for Parents Judy O’Connell Catholic Education Ofﬁce image source

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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. image source

based on communities, collaboration, Harnessing Collective Intelligence reading, writing, and sharing

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

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self publishing & sharing Blogging Wikis StartPages YouTube Flickr

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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

` 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! photo source

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 45 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

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by Judy O'Connell on Nov 17, 2007

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