NEIT2011+OpenSpace1+E


 * Social Media Policies – Open Session #1**
 * What is your policy on Facebook? Other social media?
 * Guidance counselors should be the ones to teach about online behavior/social media activity? There actually needs to be multiple policies:
 * Mental Health Policy
 * Technology Policy
 * Privacy Policy
 * Intellectual Property Policy
 * Etc…
 * We should focus on issues of sharing, communicating, other related topics.
 * Meet with students bimonthly on social media (Erik Mandl) topics: discuss recommendations, educational uses, etc.
 * Give workshops for parents on online safety, continuing ed (social media).
 * Check Prezi – Do not be afraid Web2.0. Wendy will share her presentations for parents.

Social media policies

What are schools’ policies -

This stuff is out there--let’s build around it and use it effectively, instead of demonizing social networks.

What are acceptable use policies -- gave up in terms of acceptable use policies

The feedback on what the views are for social media in school...very relevant Solomon Schecter School has several Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, have to come up with some kind of balance

Up until recently, Lawrence Woodmere Academy had FB open, but students were violating acceptable use policies to play games In MS - there is a class for social media tech lab--use FB there to demonstrate how to use it There is a site for [|9 elements of digital citizenship]-- LWA adapted this to create a "[|Digital Citizenship Guidelines]" policy but it is fairly generic.

At Bank Street - kids seem to be using FB (asking to use it, actually) to access their own material--photos, mostly Teachers maintain wikis, password protected, but do allow for families/parents to download images/videos/etc. --- want parents to use the wikis, but not share beyond the wiki.

Examining the “teaching” of FB - why technology teachers, perhaps guidance counselors should be the ones One school (don’t know which one) said that is exactly what they are trying to do Several schools do not have any filtering

There are mutliple uses of the technologies and types of learning Social/emotional <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Educational

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Privacy issues are major concerns <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Policies on

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Eric Shettinger - public school NJ - How do you control/address when people make public negative comments <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He welcomes it because then he knows that he has something to respond to.

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Robin Wilensky - Parent access to Moodle? This is an ongoing debate at LWA. Middle School parents ask their students for their password to access assignments. Upper School students do not give the passwords and parents are upset. We are trying to encourage open dialogue. Will using social media limit the conversations around subject matter between students and teachers? <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At Bank Street - teachers restricted parent access so they couldn't see certain student discussion groups on the wiki, to allow students more freedom for expression of ideas. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Erik @ Solomon Schechter - meets with student group to talk about the benefits & uses of social media--what would they use it for <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students were thinking of social media as a larger networking tool--as a peer-to-peer or intranet, almost

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Description of “What’s in your pocket” project. -> Using Wiki's with another class to try to learn about each other. Each student takes pictures of items they carry around with them and then they write a description about their paired student in the other class based on these items. The teacher then explained about primary sources and how they are used to uncover historical truths and how we need to evaluate sources. This was in preparation for the NYS 5th grade Social Studies exam.

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Are parents generally supportive? <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Consensus was yes. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And in difficult situations, you manage the case-by-case situations

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Is there a solution? <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Must be able to “tease” out the different constituencies and the areas in which policies need to be addressed <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Must be wiling to have the conversations with the whole school community <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cannot have 1 person or 1 department managing a social media policy or social media use