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>Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:54:47 -0500
>From: Barbara Sawhill <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Language Lab Unleashed #15: (Edu)Blogging best Practices and Policy
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Language Lab Unleashed #15 will begin broadcasting this Thursday evening
(11/16) at 8:30 p.m. East Coast time. (note slight change in start time)
As edublogging (that is, blogging for educational purposes) begins to
take shape and form at our schools, many administrators are becoming
increasingly concerned about students' rights, privacy issues, and an
institution's liability when students' voices are"out there" as a part
of their academic coursework (vs behind a password).
Many schools around the country are trying to form policies on this
topic. Some schools are just banning blogging altogether. LLU #15 will
hopefully help bring people together from a wide variety of schools and
jobs within those schools in order that we may talk about the
educational mission that edublogging may serve, but also, in this age of
FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) and DOPA (Deleting
Online Predators Act), what we need to know before we ask our students
to blog. Indeed, we hope to work together and take some first steps in
establishing some "best practices" and "guidelines" that can be shared
in and amongst ourselves and our institutions (and others!) on this topic.
Simply put: how --do-- schools create policies for the use of these
tools that keep students (and institutions) safe and yet do not limit
the creativity, communication, and expression that these tools can provide?
We'll be checking back in with Mike Baker, IT Evangelist of Polaris
Career Center (Cleveland Ohio), Brian Alegant, Professor, Oberlin
Conservatory of Music, and Barbara Ganley, edublogger extraordinaire
from Middlebury College (all of whom participated in our somewhat
chaotic LLU #12 show on September 28, 2006). We will also be joined by
other colleagues from around the country (perhaps the globe?) who are
teachers, registrars, deans... each of them with a perspective and/or a
concern about using these tools for teaching.
PLEASE join us! This promises to be a very animated conversation and we
welcome your comments, thoughts, etc...be they via voice or via the
chatroom. For information as to how to join in, please go to:
http://www.languagelabunleashed.com/join-us-most-thursday-nights/
If you cannot be there, please send your questions to
[log in to unmask] and we will ask them to the group.
The podcast of the show will be available by November 18 at
http://www.languagelabunleashed.com
Cheers!
Barbara
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Barbara Sawhill
Director, Cooper International Learning Center
Lecturer, Hispanic Studies Department
Oberlin College
Oberlin, OH 44074
Voice: 440-775-8595
Fax: 440-775-6888
http://www.oberlin.edu/ilc
President-elect, IALLT
http://www.iallt.org
http://www.languagelabunleashed.com
Skype ID: barbarasawhill
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