What happens on your web site on a snowy morning?
In this episode, I offer thoughts on MySpace that are going to make me unpopular. Listen carefully, though--it's not MySpace that's the problem. It's our institution. Also, some realizations about my school district's website: how can its evolution bring change in the organization at large? We use Mambo, which forced us to do some things differently.
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posted by J. P. Moore @ 7:51 AM
2 Comments:
Wow,
Great podcast. Our district looked at our eChalk.com static 1990's website and tried to convience our tech team that we need to transition to a Mambo (content management) district site, and basically got shot down. We use our web page service to provide email.
I passed the link to you podcast to our tech director in hopes it will give him a better way to approach our district.
You are right about MySpace.
We had one day this "winter" that we had to have what we call late arrival. This was because there was a slight chance of snow. Our has a daily announcement section, but we have not sight statistics available on the school level. This info is only available for our district director to see in eChalk. So, I have no clue if we even had a single hit on that day.
J.P., just finished listening to your MySpace commentary. I found your word choice, "industrial school," interesting, and your description of what that means to ring true for a lot of schools I have seen/attended.
I think working with MySpace in many schools is a tough proposition right now because the media, parents, administrations and faculty have branded the product itself as negative, and not the behavior as much.
We certainly need to address our students' choices, and participating in these spaces with them is a good start. I am at a school that does use Moodle, wikis with faculty and students, blogs and more, but I still see my school as somewhat of an industrial model. I am working on some curriculum using Flickr, MySpace/Facebook and others, but cautiously. I don't want the school to be seen as the enabler of poor student decision-making on these sites.
More to come on my blog...keep up the great podcasts.
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