The Social Web: Learning Together

What type of issues would you worry about in terms of students producing content for sharing with the world via web?
Some issues I see in allowing students produce content on the web are; not appropriate, obscene, not accurate, bias, racist, rumors and gossip. Finding out who published something on someone else spaces. Predators such as kidnappers or child molesters gaining access to children through wikis or blogs.

Identify three practices or "rules" that you believe would be good practice in protecting students on the web. Elaborate on why you have chosen each.
1) Awareness and information on blog and wiki safety for students and staff. Permission forms and Acceptable Use Policy signed by parents, staff, and students. So everyone will be aware of the potential dangers, to inform everyone how to stay safe by using first names and not giving out identifying information.
2) Students must use blog save draft so the teacher can view anything before being published. To do this teacher must have access to each student blog by going under setting tab under blog member administrator allow teacher.
Password login systems for wikispaces any work (who, what, when) changed or editing can be viewed by going history, to prevent vandalism or anyone from being victimized.
3) Password Protected sites and soft security for school, only members and those granted(councilors, authors, other schools or students) permission. This to protect students from predators.

Wikis:Easy Colaboration For All

If blogs are about conversation and wikis are about collaboration/content, which of the following student projects would you use each for? Why?

First I would like to start by saying any of the following could be incorporated into a blog or a wikispace. Since you asked I will try to validate my reasoning on the genera I chose.

Novel study with author participation
Blog, The author can read what the students write and comment a blog is a "collaborative space" in using "connective writing." You do not need to change or add to what the student or author are writing. It would be a wikispace if they were writing a story together.

Students at two First Nation schools on New Brunswick and British Columbia recording and sharing Native stories and music
Wikispace, the project sounds more collaborative both schools can add to or change, with history can view any acts of vandalism.

a daily science journal
Wikispace, start from wikipedia and edit add to content that may not be there and it then be used as a resource. Inspire accuracy.

student creative writing with peer review
Blog, can use word and html it to blog. "Powerful Motivator" knowing what they write will be posted for the world to see. Since it is creative writing for peer review they can comment but they can not change it, otherwise it would be wikispace.

Watch the you tube Power of Ten

I really enjoy watching the "Power 10" You Tube Video. I like how the narrator describes the trip to outer spaces, out to the universe. You begin to realize just how little our globe is. The one where you go back into the picnickers then into the hand of the man, you can see just how the universe and us as man kind are connected.