Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Student Wiki's and Internet Safety
We have a very nice engineering program at St. Thomas More HS. One of the problems that we have encountered is how to save or carry on the nice work and projects from one year to the next. Sure, there are portfolios, but let's be honest those can be kind of boring and don't really represent work done on a computer very well. One idea that I had is to have the first year students in the engineering program set up a Wiki page so that they could display their work for anyone to see. I was really excited about it until I thought about the "anyone can see" part of it. Is there danger in student Wiki pages? The last thing that I would want to do is have my students set up something that would reveal too much personal information about themselves. Any thought?
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A wiki page would be a great idea. I bet if you let the students know that you will be periodically reading their responses and that when managing a wiki page you are able to see who is writing and responding they might think twice before they write anything that can get them into trouble.
Sue
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