Journal 4 It's Time To Trust Teachers with the Internet: A Conversation with Meg Ormiston

Schaffhauser, Dian. (2010). It's time to trust teachers with the internet: a conversation with meg ormiston. Classroom Technology | Q&A, Retrieved from http://thejournal.com/articles/2010/12/01/its-time-to-trust-teachers-with-the-internet-a-conversation-with-meg-ormiston.aspx?sc_lang=en

Journal 4

It's Time To Trust Teachers with the Internet: A Conversation with Meg Ormiston

It's Time To Trust Teachers with the Internet: A Conversation with Meg Ormiston addresses the most common fears so many parents and teachers have with Internet use. Pornography, viruses, gore and even writings can be viewable without even meaning too. Meg Ormiston has the solution for these issues as she opens the doors for social networking and communication via the World Wide Web. With the constant and never ending budget cuts, YouTube can serve as a free user-friendly way to access rich and inspirational learning materials through video feeds. Yes, there are many inappropriate videos on the site, but by teaching students how to steer clear of unwanted information, it better prepares them for their future Internet encounters.

Question #2 What is a site that exemplifies the web based communication between teacher-student, teacher-parent, student-parent, student-student?

Blogspot.com! This software in which I have learned to navigate helps teachers, students and parents communicate via the web. A blog is personal site and online log sorted in chronological order with the most recent entry at the top of the page. Each entry is dated and stamped and then electronically sorted. This feature of the blog keeps the site organized and user friendly. Sidebars border each members page or at the bottom where older entries are archived by year, month or even week. Once clicking on these links you are instantly brought to specific posts for certain time periods.

Question #2 How can we insure students wont use sites like facebook when they should be doing school work? There are always ways to cheat the system. Each teachers computer will have the ability to monitor each students work by accessing what is on their computer at any point in time through the main (central) computer.

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