Wikis and Privacy - A Tale of Warning for Academics


	Wikis and Privacy - A Tale of Warning for Academics

ITedu

7-26-2007 9:43 AM

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wiki, privacy, k-12, academic, education, it, technology, learning, wikis, collaboration

ITedu says:

This opinion piece from the Techlearning Blog details how a great idea (wikis for collaboration) for an 8th grade class, crashed and burned (read the account of events by Ben, the instructor, here).

Be sure to read the comments section on Ben's post, and follow a few of the links, they lead to great opinion pieces such as this one at Weblogg-Ed.

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<P>A parent visited the website and logged a complaint to the Attorney General. 
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students describing their physical features, photos of the school being shared, 
and a comment by the teacher about MySpace that the parent believed encouraged 
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