Social Networking Week
Students and teachers have just recently participated in the Social Networking Week at Grant High School. The week involved students meeting with teachers in their own time and showing them how to use FACEBOOK. The teachers got to make an account, make friends, send messages, write on walls, play games and even throw potatoes.
Most of the teachers had a blast, but Facebook and Social Networking websites are not for everyone as we found out. It was a great experience and very worth while, but not everything ran smoothly. There were a few ‘behind the scenes’ mistakes and hiccups, like not having much time to meet or not having enough time to teach. Even with these hiccups, Social Networking was a good experience and definitely a good idea to do again next year.
We have interviewed some teachers and students who were involved. They included Mrs Kaethner, Shauna, Mrs Nicholson, Mrs Wheller, Chondelle, Mrs Hill, Mrs Roachock, Mr Phillips and Mr Ravi. Mr Ravi said, “It was good and I’m going to keep my account, because a family member of mine is going to Adelaide and this way I can talk and play games with him at the same time.” Mrs Nicholson said, “It was a great idea for the students to teach the teachers”. Crystal said, “The online safety video was a good idea because it might help kids of all ages to learn what really happens in the real world and then they don’t have to find out the hard way”.
Overall, it was a great experience and we think we should do it again next year.
CRYSTAL, LEAH and LAUREN
On behalf of the Social Networking Student Team
More information about Social Networking Week here
Labels: facebook, internet, IT Matters, networking, safety. cyber safety, social, SOCNET
posted by Wara @ 12:13 PM
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This is a great idea. I love the way you have been able to tap into student expertise in the social networking area and pass that back to your teachers. I also like the way you have decided to get to terms with the implications of social networking and look at it sensibly, rather than simply pretend it does not exist. This is a much better approach. I'm very pleased to see a school like yours actually proactively doing something positive in this area rather than just banning it completely.
Thanks for that Chris. As the students wrote, it was worth doing. A week is too short as the students found it hard to make enough contact within the busy schedules of teachers. There are lots of educational opportunities lost through filtering. Education is more likely to help people learn to be safe than filters.
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