Section 6 - Discussion questions for your school
What do you think?
- How will class blogs contribute to our overall strategic plan or vision for use of ICT?
- How and when will we evaluate the blog’s contribution to educational outcomes for students?
- Do we have sufficient input and appropriate consent from students, parents or caregivers to publish student work, images and videos?
- Do staff and students know what is effective and acceptable use of learner centered blogs?
- Who will address inappropriate use? What are the consequences?
- Will parents and caregivers be invited to view or contribute to classroom blogs? Will the wider community have access to our blog?
- Does our current Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) need to be revised to reflect the use of Web 2.0 tools and blogs?
- How will we manage and monitor blog posts? Who will have administrator passwords?
- What is in place to ensure student and teacher safety online?
- Do students, teachers and parents know what to do if something on a school blog upsets or worries them?
- Who will choose the blog platform(s) or tools and on what criteria?
- Will we allow blog contributors to link to personal blogs, flickr accounts, other blogs?
These evaluation questions need considerable discussion. They also prompt even more questions about wider issues of digital citizenship. A highly recommended list to initiate staff PD on this topic. Thank you, I know my faculty will benefit.