[LIT] Face-Book Report

[Jaime Mendelis]

Think.com is another great site.  Someone will have sign up to be the "manager" for your school, but it creates personal pages with individual passwords and everything.  It monitors everything the kids put on their pages, including language.  You can even look at other students' pages from around the world.

>>> "Mohrhauser, Sarah" <smohrhau at sowashco.k12.mn.us> 2/14/2008 2:19 PM >>>
Have you thought about using an online school site like Moodle?  Moodle
is a free, shareware program.  I don't know how to do the set up, from a
technological standpoint; however we use it in district to create a
discussion board/chat room for both teacher groups and student groups.  

I don't know if it would be enough like a face book or my space setting
as, I must admit, I haven't gotten my feet wet there yet.  But it might
be worth looking into.

Sarah Mohrhauser
Literacy Coach/NJHS Advisor
Cottage Grove Junior High
9775 Indian Blvd
Cottage Grove, MN 55016
651.768.6850
 
"Through literacy you can begin to see the universe."  Grace Slick
 

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Subject: [LIT] Face-Book Report

We complete a couple "book reports" per school year and I was thinking
about how to set a project up that would be authentic. While thinking
about character traits, I began to wonder about how a character may
present themselves in a social networking environment. My kids love
this idea and already have created the format. They are chomping at
the bit to get going. Where could I safely launch it? I thought about
using Pages, Publisher, Keynote or Imovie as a sort of faux site. But
I want the kids to be able to respond to the message boards on a
site... Keith...can it be done through our lit site somehow? I
obviously cannot use myspace or facebook because they are blocked. Are
there any thoughts on what we could add to this project?

-- 
Tena

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