Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts by Will Richardson

Important points to consider from the first chapter: All of these points are taken from Will Richardson's ( 2009) Blogs, Wikis and Podcasts and other powerful tools for classrooms, 2nd edition, pp. 1-16

• we are creating what author Dougls Rushkoff calls a "society of authorship" (p. 4)
• students are building social networks with little or no guidance from adults. (p. 5)
• the fastest growing age group for using the Internet is 2-to 5-year olds (p. 7)
• students have developed hypertext minds- they leap around...today's students may not be well suited to the more linear progression of learning ( p. 7)
• it's our obligation to teach them what is acceptable and safe and what isn't. (p. 11)
• First step for having children publish online is to make sure we get parental approval (p. 12)
• Have students use just first names, pseudonyms or complete anonymity by assigning a number (p. 13)