Cathy's Thoughts: How to establish legal, safe and ethical guideline...

Cathy's Thoughts: How to establish legal, safe and ethical guideline...: Once again, thanks to my learning buddies I have learnt a great way to ensure students are aware of the legal, safe, and ethical guidelines while engaging with ICT's in the classroom. After joining Mark Hodges's Manual Arts Forum, I saw that he had a page set up displaying the netiquette rules of using the sight. This I thought was a very good idea, as just like you would do in the classroom, before learning online takes place the teacher should firstly discuss with the students and establish the rules and responsibilities of using ICTs for learning purposes. By including the students in setting the rules and consequences, it is more likely that they will take them seriously. I have dedicated one page on my Wiki to display these rules as a permanent reminder; as a teacher I would also display them on a wall next to the computers in the classroom. 
Jess's Comment:

I agree Cathy! As teacher's it’s our duty to keep our learners safe and using ethical guidelines! So by having rules for the students to follow we can minimise behaviour that can lead to unsafe actions. For instant: what information they can include about themselves. And what they shouldn’t include. We should make sure we explain why we put information and why we don’t put information onto the internet, so they can understand and be clear about this issue. Also to keep those using ethical behaviours make sure they are acknowledging their sources!

Reflection on Commenting on other's blog's:

When trying to comment on Cathy's blog I found it wouldn't work because the university computer's have settings that don't allow specific windows to open and it makes you sign in then you lose what you wrote and when you retype it closes and makes you sign in again and it takes you round in circles. As a teacher many frustrations can occur with technology and it can take some time to fiddle around and try making it work. After trying and trying, I located a new way to comment on someone else’s blog. I clicked on the blog this button which allowed me to save Cath's thoughts to my own blog! From here I could edited her blog entry and I typed my comments under hers! I though this was awesome! However now Cathy cannot see that I commented on her blog unless she accesses my blog. This is a downfall to these blogs!