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Brian Mull |
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Since 1996, the year in which Trevor embraced
a technology rich program that includes one-to-one computing
and ubiquitous connectivity to the Internet, the notion of
Internet safety has been on the minds of administrators,
faculty and parents. As an educational institution, we often
look to experts for guidance. Alan November, an internationally renown
educational technologist, spoke to faculty this fall about
uses of the Internet that will help students learn to safely
get the best out of the new Web 2.0 interactive tools. Very
recently, Brian Mull, Director of Research and Content
Development, November Learning, New Orleans, LA, spoke to
parents, students and faculty about the pitfalls and
opportunities associated with Web 2.0 tools and what they mean
to educators, parents and students. He generally warned
students that once data is posted on the Internet, they no
longer can control it and it never goes away. He said to
students, "I'm on your side," referring to their attraction to
the attractive tools such as Facebook and YouTube. He urged parents to become involved
and ask questions about what their children are doing on the
Internet and asked the students to teach their parents and
teachers to use Web 2.0 publishing tools. As for the faculty,
he stressed the importance of encouraging and teaching
students responsible publishers of information on the Internet
by making them active participants in their own learning
through the use of various tools such as wiki's, blogs and
video.
As part of his presentation, Mr. Mull offered
the four resource pages linked below for his talk. We also
include (in Web 2.0 style) these posted videos of Mr.
Mull's presentations to students and faculty.
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