Identifiable? Panic!!

March 22, 2008 at 10:34 am (Reflections)

After our discussion Wednesday night with Sue Waters and others regarding the identifiability of students on-line I panicked. The students working on the Cochrane Voicethread project are for the most part adult ed. students but I have two that are in grade 12. I completely forgot to get these two students to fill out a media release form. So of course I worried throughout the night (just my personality!!) and as soon as I got to school the next day I phoned the parents and got verbal permission to post their pictures in the project. I went back and deleted another Voicethread because one of the parents of the boys posted had not submitted a form and I couldn’t get hold of anyone. I tried to delete the picture and substitute a Loonie Toons avatar but I ended up deleting the Voicethread. Oh well, live and learn. I’m hoping that this group of students will have the time to redo their voicethread when we get back. Our course blog is going fairly well however, it’s still the students who enjoy writing that are contributing to the blog. I’m still looking for other ways to engage students. I have two students working on an Animoto based on cars. We’ll see how that turns out. It’s been a busy two weeks. I’m sure glad it’s Easter Break. I hope to spend some time visiting other blogs and researching a few other tools. Happy Easter everyone!!!

2 Comments

  1. rdrunner said,

    March 22, 2008 at 11:04 am

    It’s very complex, isn’t it?
    It makes me wonder how we can both support and engage all teachers in these social learning tools. Working with the tools ourselves first is helpful, but as adults we are making the choices about our own digital identity, so it’s easy to miss that we must engage students and parents in that conversation and not default their choice to our personal perspective.
    And as we’ve learned from the ongoing discussion about Al Upton’s blog, the answers, even within the edublogosphere, are neither clear-cut nor unanimous. We clearly are on the frontier!
    Cindy

  2. Dave Bircher said,

    March 22, 2008 at 12:14 pm

    I know our students had previously filled out a release form that involves basically all media. I think I will have a look at it soon to see if it needs revision.

    I am glad I have my students use a nickname for blog posting. I want top use Voicethread, but have not figured out what to use for the pic. part. I will continue to ponder.


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