Social Networking

I think that social networking is a good resource to use in schools. It allows the students to interact with one another outside of school. Schools should filter social networks because there are too many things out there the students do not need to be exposed to, especially if this is in an elementary school, middle school or high school.
Some pros to social networking are it keeps the students connected with the other students and faculty. It allows for group work to be done when it is not possible to meet outside of class. Another pro is that it can be filtered and not everyone will have access to the network. A lot of young people are already involved in face book or my space and this allows them to have friends and choosing to socialize with some but not all. So I look at face book and my space as a form of filtered social networking.
I know at the school my children attend they have to sign in to get on the computer and there are only certain places they can go. Someone that is not in their system would not be able to sign on. It is also like this at the elementary school where I am doing my clinical. Maybe this is a form of social networking.



Social Networking Resources


Willard, Nancy (2006). Schools and Online Social Networking. Education World, from http://www.education-world.com/a_issues/issues/issues423.shtml

Snyder, Tamara (2007). Social Networking: Their Space. edutopia, from
http://www.edutopia.org/whats-next-2007-school-social-networking

Cava, M (2009). Boomers Zero in On Social Network. USA Today, from http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2009-03-26-boomer-social-networking_N.htm

Andrews, R (2007). Don't Tell Your Parents: Schools Embrace MySpace. WIRED, from http://www.wired.com/culture/education/news/2007/04/myspaceforschool

Paton, G (2009). Twitter is put on new primary school curriculum . Telegraph.co.uk, from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/twitter/5050261/Twitter-is-put-on- new-primary-school-curriculum.html

Podcast And Podcast Script

Had a little trouble with my Podcast. I used sound recorder to record Podcast, but with three children in the house it had to be done late at night. I decided to read a book. The lesson was to teach practicing of writing age appropriate vocabulary words, and picture to word recognition. I added my lesson plan and assessment sheet files also.

http://sites.google.com/site/sdavissite/podcastscript.doc

http://sites.google.com/site/sdavissite/podcast.wma

http://sites.google.com/site/sdavissite/Veryhungrycaterpillarlesson.doc

http://sites.google.com/site/sdavissite/SCAN0001.JPG

Who am I??

I still haven't found out anything new. I am finally starting to get the hang of doing these blogs. So here is all about me.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcd2x6hz_2fkt6g8fx

Reading Assignment #1

Was not sure what I was doing here. I viewed a couple other blogs to get info. Found Dale's Cone Of Experience and finally finished the assignment. Here are my thoughts.......



http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcd2x6hz_1c76fqpd8

FTP

This is a test I made for another assignment. It focused on the students knowledge of nouns.
I had to go through 3 computers to find one compatible with Fairmont State's Library. Well anyway here it is.




http://www2.fairmontstate.edu/users/sdavis14/Test.doc

Blogger

I thought this was done with my starting a blog page, but I think I should have commented about it. I have not done much with my blogging but I'm trying to get the hang of it.