Mar 23 2008
Safe Social Networking
I am very concerned about turning students loose in social networks. Since I teach high school, I can discuss my concern in more dimensions than with elementary students or middle schoolers. I have been visiting and evaluating a few options. ePals at http://www.epals.com seems to have passed the tipping point in membership to make an interesting, but a safe experience. It has an academic focus. Imbee - http://www.imbee.com - does not yet have the numbers to make it really go….yet. It is more of a social network. Finally there’s ED2.0 - http://www.edu20.org/. It sits between the two in focus, but it has just over 7,000 member (as of 3/23/08). I might be using this instead of Moodle for my online component for my f2f classes.
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You may want to look at Scholar360 - it combines the academic features of an LMS with a secure social network that students love. If interested in a free trial, go to http://www.scholar360.com.
Hi Cathy-
Thanks for the headsup.
-Skip