What a great class to finally see my fellow classmates present their stuff. I really enjoyed the round of discussion on privacy. It's a very big topic and the ramifications are only starting to be considered. Obviously it's more acute with minors, but adults using Web 2.0 tools indiscriminately are starting to feel the heat. Lot's of stories of mistakes being made, people getting fired for posting to facebook, students finding themselves under scrutiny for what they say online. Cyberbulling has led to suicide, students get their acct's hacked by other students, adolescent angst gets permanently codified. Alex's comment about netiquette was well made. I chatted with my students about it the next day and they said the rules change daily.
Web 2.0 is an evolving organism. New game, new rules, new paradigm. It's fun to be a part of it, or at least to sit on the side an deconstruct it as it's happening. Glad we didn't have cell phones or the internet when I was in high school.
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