Site+Organization

The Moodle site will be divided into different courses. Each volunteer will be responsible for creating and maintaining their own course. Maintenance includes tasks like checking that their course's forums are kept appropriate, responding to internally messaged questions from parents (if we want to allow this). Volunteers can invite other volunteers to co-teach the course with them. Topics will be organized into the following categories:
 * General (since courses will be in Moodle, there should probably be some basics about how to get around in the space agreed... maybe a general section about CMS and its widespread use in colleges too? ) This is a great link introducing students to Moodle. https://umconnect.umn.edu/moodleorientation
 * Internet Safety
 * how to avoid Identity Theft / Malware (all a part of it, right?) {i (colleen mcguire) might know someone who does a lot of blogging in this area... maybe I can get her to collaborate} Cyberbullying should be a consideration for this topic.
 * Educational Games
 * Virtual Worlds (Second Life) (you consider this a game?) (parents do)
 * Social Media / building PLNs? (we're doing a workshop on this in November..I could contribute content here) Several excellent resources for building/understanding PLNs are: Jennifer Dorman:  http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/ppln and Sue Waters: http://suewaters.wikispaces.com/ and Miguel Guhlin: @http://www.edsupport.cc/mguhlin/share/index.php?n=Work.Pln and Liz B. Davis-Eight Stages of PLN Development: @http://edtechpower.blogspot.com/2009/01/8-stages-of-pln-personal-learning.html
 * ** For example, blogs, RSS readers, Wikis, Facebook, Twitter (I can help with this, but what is the main topic? It's been deleted.)   **
 * **Interactive Tools**
 * **Such as Animoto, Glogster, Wikispaces, (I (colleen mcguire) would be happy to work on this section) (I can also help with this section) **
 * **Digital Citizenship (Lorna - there is a lot of information on the Ad4dcss diigo group for this - it's an area we want parents to know - the issue will be making it relevant. Most parents will want to learn how to use the tools or at least understand how their children are using the tools. Suggest that we integrate the ideas behind digital citizenship into sections of all of the topics. ) (Tagging is going to be important for all of these resources since they probably fit into different topics--which means we need to provide parents a tutorial about how to use tags for searching) **
 * **Legal / Moral issues (licensing, illegal downloading, etc?) {or is that part of digital citizenship?} Copyright **
 * **Online Communications Instant Messaging Skype Calls (I can help with this) **
 * **Mobile learning using cell phones, BB, iPhone in the classroom and out (Liz Kolb and Tony Vincent are 2 fantastic resources for this topic!!) Sexting should be covered here. **
 * **Proper use of school technologies-this may focus on the AUP and ramifications of misuse.**
 * **Student privacy (or lack thereof) on school equipment**
 * **Research Diigo**

@http://www.cellphonesinlearning.com/2009/02/21st-century-global-acceptable-use.html Tony's Website: @http://tonyvincent.net/ or Blog: @http://learninginhand.com/blog/**
 * Liz's Blog: @http://www.cellphonesinlearning.com/
 * **Social Bookmarking**
 * **Creating audio, video, online presentations and online sharing sites (youtube, vimeo, bliptv, windows movie maker, iMovie,) I would like to do this one Lorna **
 * We could also have a handful of more general courses on topics of special interest to parents, for those who just want some basic training. For example, an OpenOffice course, how to set up a family blog on Blogger, how to upload photos to Flickr, etc. Presumably, if they're already using a web browser, they're at least LITTLE tech-savvy, but these might be useful as well.**

We obviously don't need to design //all// content ourselves - finding videos and asking permission to use them will make this much easier! (why reinvent the wheel?)**