A few words on blogging, the internet, our "safety"

Before we get further into our class blogging experiment we need to familiarize with the risk-reward trade-offs of the internet. It is a powerful tool not only for learning but for many other things (if not everything else). In the immortal words of "uncle ben": with great power comes great responsibility. We can't always assume that everyone on the internet will be responsible; we even have a hard time understanding what that is(i say "we" because i find it difficult too).

We need to explore our safety on the internet and blogging path and yet learn as much as we can from it too and have as much fun as we can along the way. So, let me be the "mother goose" (big smile) on this post (hopefully the last mothergoose post from me).

Over at Educational Origami is useful information on internet safety (and the like), specifically, cybersafety and the 3 i's of internet safety. I hope you read them.

It would be great to read about your thoughts on internet safety. That would give me indication if you would like to have a few blogging rules for bamboo grove and your class blogs just like what the Room 9 Nelson Central kids have(click here for their simple blog rules).

We will discuss this when we meet in class next week. Perhaps a short talk after "Show and Tell Asia!"

The Freakonomics blog posts about wikipedia and uncyclopedia (click here) will also give you an idea of why this important. Apparently, wikipedia has credibility issues, hence, the appearance of sites that poke fun at it. If you think wikipedia is really a great source of information, maybe this will make you think twice about what you get from there.