Myspace or Yours: Possibilities and Pitfalls

Slide 1: MySpace or Yours? Presentation for Parents Judy O’Connell Catholic Education Office image source

Slide 2: possibilities & pitfalls image source

Slide 3: 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

Slide 4: The Digital Generation Gap

Slide 5: Pandora

Slide 8: “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

Slide 9: based on communities, collaboration, Harnessing Collective Intelligence reading, writing, and sharing

Slide 12: Video

Slide 15: i’ts all about seeing

Slide 16: 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

Slide 17: games • Connected worldwide with thousands of other players at once. • Detailed virtual worlds with sophisticated, potentially addictive gameplay.

Slide 18: music Peer 2 Peer file sharing Apple iTunes Mp3 download sites

Slide 19: social networking • Friend of a friend concept • Profiles • MySpace, Bebo, Facebook, Piczo

Slide 20: social publishing !\"#$%&' !' ()*+\"#*,-'./%&%0*#*,+0

Slide 21: self publishing & sharing Blogging Wikis StartPages YouTube Flickr

Slide 22: self publishing & sharing http://heyjude.wordpress.com/

Slide 23: leading learning a new angle?

Slide 24: Definitely!

Slide 31: 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!

Slide 32: What are the issues? • Keeping tabs on where your kids go • Privacy • Inappropriate content • Bullying and predators

Slide 33: ` Think before you post

Slide 34: it’s about digital natives

Slide 35: and digital immigrants

Slide 36: oopsanger

Slide 37: common misconception

Slide 38: Finding information

Slide 39: Finding information http://www.pandia.com/index.html

Slide 40: school tools blogs wikis podcasts videos images voicethreads social networking and cybersafety! photo source

Slide 41: RSS browsing

Slide 42: What can we do? Understand! • Public spaces for computers Trust! • Open dialogue • Negotiate use and purpose • Monitor behaviour • Set limits • Listen to understand

Slide 43: What can they do? • No personal details Private! • No meeting strangers Grow! • No sharing passwords IM • Agree on limits • Combat cyberbullying! • Keep safe!

Slide 44: The Internet is the human network Welcome to the human network

Slide 45: Information Overload 13 45 Introduction to Social Bookmarking

Slide 46: 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

Slide 47: it’s just a rollercoaster ride! Thank You. With thanks to Graham Wegner and Sue Waters