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Online Class: Internet Safety & MySpace

presented by Beth Gallaway, Metrowest
July 10-31, 2006

Register online by June 15, 2006!

BEFORE CLASS BEGINS, please:

1. Register for a FREE MySpace account | Help with MySpace
2. Register for a FREE LiveJournal account | Help with Livejournal
3. Register for a FREE Neopets account | Help with NeoPets
4. Register for a FREE Amazon.com account | Help with Amazon.com
5. Register for the class listserv at http://groups.google.com/group/mwsafety (click "Join Group" on website or email Beth)
6. Read "Online Classes" posted to the YALSA blog by Jami Lynn Schwarzwalder.

CLASS EXPECTIONS:

1. Participants will follow the Ten Basic Rules of Netiquette.
2. You DO NOT have to read every article. Follow your interests - aim for 50% and leave the rest as resources for later. Expect to pick up some information through hearing what your classmates examined.
3. Pace yourself. Plan on spending 2-3 hours a week on readings and assignments.
4. To get your 10 attendance hours for participating, you must:
   • respond to discussion questions via the listserv twice in each week - once to present your own ideas and comments, and a second time to follow up with a classmates comment.
   • complete the final assignment and share it with the group.

HELP & SUPPORT
Online Office Hours: Mon (7/10, 7/17, 7/24) 1-5 PM EST; Wed (7/12, 7/19, 7/26) 7-11 PM EST

Contact
email: bethg@mmrls.org
phone: 781-398-1819
AIM: rimeswith0range (with a number zero 0, not a letter o!)
Second Life: Cerulean Vesperia
Google Talk: informationgoddess29
ICQ: 311254389 or informationgoddess29
Jabber: ceruleanvesperia
Yahoo!: informationgoddess29>
MSN: informationgoddess29
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/informationgoddess29
Amazon Profile: Elizabeth S. Gallaway

Evaluation for Online Class: Internet Safety & MySpace (please complete an evaluation if you access any of the materials on this page)

~SYLLABUS~

WEEK 1
Recommended Readings:
Abrams, Stephen and Judy Luther. "Born with the Chip." Library Journal, vol. 129, no. 8. May 1, 2005. pp.34 (4).

Center for Disease Control. Middle Childhood (Ages 6-8). Septemeber 20, 2005. http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/child/middlechildhood.htm. June 13, 2006.

Center for Disease Control. Middle Childhood (Ages 9-11). Septemeber 20, 2005. http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/child/middlechildhood9-11.htm. June 13, 2006.

Center for Disease Control. Early Adolesence (Ages 12-14). Septemeber 20, 2005. http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/child/earlyadolescence.htm. June 13, 2006.

Collier, Anne. "Predator Panic?" Net Family News, May 2006. http://www.blogsafety.com/predatorpanic.htm. June 13, 2006.

Kushner, David. "The Neopets Addiction." Wired Magazine, vol 13. no. 12, December 2005. pp. 270 (6)

Finkelhor, David, Kimberly Mitchell and Janis Wolak. "Highlights of the Youth Internet Safety Survey. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children/US Department of Justice. March 2001. http://www.missingkids.com/en_US/documents/internetsafety_surv.pdf. June 13, 2006.

Pillon, Mary. "Anti-plagiarism programs look over students' work." USA Today, May 22, 2006. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-05-22-plagiarism-digital_x.htm?POE=TECISVA

Prensky, Marc. "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants." On the Horizon. NCB University Press, vol . 9 no. 5, October 2001. http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf. June 15, 2006.

Warlick, David. "The New Literacies." Scholastic Administrator. March/April 2005. http://www.scholastic.com/administrator/marapr05/articles.asp?article=newlit. June 15, 2006.

Assignments:
1. Evaluate a few of the following websites:

• Bonus.com. "Playing It Safe." June 15, 2006.
• CyberSpacers. http://www.cyberspacers.com/home.html. June 15, 2006.
• Internet Safety.com. http://www.internetsafety.com/. June 15, 2006.
• Neopets Internet Safety. http://www.neopets.com/safetytips.phtml.
• US Department of Justice. "Are You a Good Cybercitizen?" May 2002. http://www.cybercrime.gov/rules/cybercitizen.htm. June 15, 2006.
• Tagged.com. Online Safety. http://www.tagged.com/safety.html. June 15, 2006.
• WiredSafety. Teen Angels. http://www.teenangels.org/safety.html. June 15, 2006.
• Web Wise Kids. http://www.wiredwithwisdom.org/. June 15, 2006.
• WiredSafety. Internet Superheroes. http://www.internetsuperheroes.org/. June 15, 2006.

2. Listen to Larry Magid's "Internet Child Safety" from Larry's World, February 11 2005. http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail488.html

3. Setup a Neopets account. View the Flash Tutorial.

4. Respond to the following discussion questions via the listserv:

• Developmentally/socially/technologically, what is going on with children and adolescences that might make them susceptible to poor cyberethics and inattention to Internet Safety Issues?
• Which Internet Safety sites for kids do you like? Which are comprehensive? How can they be improved? Are they other resources you've discovered that you would like to share?
• Describe your experience with Neopets. What kind of information does the site collect? How is it a social site? What concerns does it raise? What values does it have?
• David Warlick states: "As a daily part of their instruction, students must learn to respect not only the accuracy of information but also ownership and the infrastructure that the information rides on." What are some ways to teach information literacy and safety together? Can you think of any projects or examples?

WEEK 2
Recommended Readings:
Electronic Frontier Foundation. Student Blogger FAQs. http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/faq-students.php. June 15, 2006.

Carver, Blake. “Is it time to get blogging? Blake Carver explains why librarians need to keep up with web logs - and consider producing them as well.”  Library Journal vol. 128 no. 1 (January 2003) pp. 30-33. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA266428.html. June 15, 2006.

Nielsen, Jakob. "Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes."Alertbox. Ocotber 17, 2005. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/weblogs.html. June 15, 2006.

National Middle School Association. NMSA Research Summary: Young Adolescents Developmental Needs. 1996. http://www.nmsa.org/Research/ResearchSummaries/Summary5/tabid/257/Default.aspx. June 13, 2006.

Schwartz, Greg. “Blogs for Libraries.” WebJunction. February 22, 2005. http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=767. June 13, 2006.

The Search Institute. 40 Developmental Assets for Adolescence. 1997. http://www.search-institute.org/assets/forty.html

The Search Institute. 40 Developmental Assets for Middle Childhood. 2003. http://www.search-institute.org/assets/MiddleChildhood.html

Stephens, Michael. "Recent Research on Virtual Communities." Webjunction. August 30, 2005.
http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=11258. June 15, 2006.

Vara, Vauhini. "Some Students Find Themselves in Principal's Office Over Blogs." Wall Street Journal. November 26, 2005. http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113268572534704333-kl_gh5uVNgDPNPepwznr7DnkfW8_20051204.html?mod=blogs. June 15, 2006.

Assignments:
1. Take the NetSmartz Blog Beware Quiz.

2. Setup a FREE LiveJournal account. Friend your classmates!

3. Join Amazon.com, if you haven't already. Friend your classmates. Explore, looking for social software within this popular website.

4. Respond to the following discussion questions via the listserv:

• Developmentally/socially/technologically, what is going on with children and adolescences that might draw them to journals, creating lists, writing reviews, etc?
• How did you do with the Blog Beware Quiz? What concerns or issues does it raise?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages to setting up a personal/professional/institutional blog? To banning blogs?
• How can the NJ and NC situations highlighted in Vauhini's article be prevented in your community?
• Using Technorati, can you find individuals from your school/town/community? Are the individuals you sought bloggers, or blog content? Is s/he following the terms of service? being a good Internet citizen?
• Using Google, what kinds of infomation can you find about individuals from your school/town/community?
• Find and share an example of blogging in libraries/colleges/schools that demonstrates a model program or good implementation of technology.

WEEK 3: MYSPACE

Recommended Readings:
Abram, Steven. “What Can MySpace Teach Us in Special Libraries?” Information Outlook v. 10 no. 5 (May 2006) p. 34-5

AP. “MySpace Rises as a New Online Star.” MSNBC. February 13, 2006. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11328357/from/RSS.  June 7, 2006.

Regan, Tom. "What if civics class were an online game?" Christian Science Monitor. (June 14, 2006) pp. 17 http://csmonitor.com/2006/0614/p17s01-cogn.html

Carlson. Scott. “Brooklyn College uses MySpace mainly as a way to stay connected to students.” The Chronicle of Higher Education 52.37 (May 19, 2006): pA33(1). (access via Infotrac)

Kildegaard, Nis. "MySpace.com is their space for island teens." The Martha's Vineyard Times. (March 9, 2006). http://www.mvtimes.com/news/2006/03/09/myspace.php. June 13, 2006.

“MySpace, Facebook, and Other Social Networking Sites.” Managing Technology. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/1463.cfm. June 7, 2006.

Stay Safe.org. In the News: Police on MySpace. May 28, 2006. http://www.staysafe.org/getnetsafetour/news/2006-05-28.html. June 215, 2006.

Whelan, D. L. “Schools Crack Down on Teen Social Site.” School Library Journal vol. 52 no. 4 (April 2006) p. 18

Assignments:
1. Setup your own MySpace account. Friend your classmates!

2. Take the MySpace Terms of Service Quiz. (answer key)

3. Visit “MySpace & Teens” on Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki at http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=MySpace_%26_Teens and take a look at some library MySpace pages.

4. Listen/View Michael Stephens'. "Ten Steps for Staff Buy-In." OPAL/Alliance Library System. June 15, 2006. http://www.opal-online.org/Stephens200606buyin_files/frame.htm. June 15, 2006.

5. Respond to the following discussion questions via the listserv:

• What are the advantages and disadvantages to setting up a myspace or facebook account? To banning myspace and facebook accounts?
• How can the Edgartown situation be prevented in your community?
• Can you find anyone from your school/town/community on myspace? How long did it take? Is s/he following the terms of service? being a good internet citizen?
• What do the stats from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children mean?
• Find and share an example of social software in libraries/colleges/schools that demonstrates a model program or good implementation of technology.

FINAL ASSIGNMENT:
Please do ONE of the following:

• Create a pathfinder of resources for parents, administrators or colleagues about Internet Safety that covers any of the topics or sites used.
• Build an Internet Safety or Ethics component into an annual assignment that students come into the library to research.
• Develop an proposal for a 45 minute session on Internet Safety or Internet Ethics. Don't forget to consider developmental needs, characteristics of digital natives, and the new literacies as you develop your agenda.
  

Further Resources:
ALA. ALA: CIPA and Libraries: The Children's Internet Protection Act. http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/WOissues/civilliberties/cipaweb/cipa.htm

Child Safety Network. http://www.csn.org/index.jsp.

FCC. FCC Consumer Facts: Children's Internet Protection Act. January 12, 2006. http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/cipa.html.

Gaston, Jim. "Reaching and Teaching the Digital Native." Library Hi Tech News, vol. 23 no. 3 (May 2006) pp. 12-13

Harris, Frances Jacobson. I Found It On the Internet: Coming of Age Online. Chicago, IL: ALA, 2005.

Internet Safety Foundation. Get Net Wise. http://www.getnetwise.org. June 15, 2006.

iSafe. http://www.isafe.org/channels/?ch=ed. June 15, 2006.

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Online Victimization: Report on the Nation's Youth. http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/ResourceServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=869.

Oblinger, Diana. and J Oblinger. Educating the Net Generation. Educase, 2005. http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?PAGE_ID=5989&bhcp=1. June 15, 2006.

Stay Safe. http://www.staysafe.org/. June 15, 2006.

Wired Kids Inc. http://wiredsafety.com/. June 15, 2006.

Wolfwater, Meredith, et al. Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki. http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=MySpace_%26_Teens. June 15, 2006.

Evaluation for MySpace and Internet Safety Online Class (please complete an evaluation if you access any of the materials on this page)

For questions or comments, contact us metroweb@mmrls.org

Copyright 2006 by Metrowest.

This page updated: August 15, 2006