Thursday, August 3rd, 2006...7:56 am In order to build community
support for technology use in the classroom, we must make the
community aware of the technology, but we must also educate the
public on all sides of the issue. A lot of parents seem deathly
scared of social networking mostly because they don’t understand
what it is. If we inform them, guiding them through the more
technical aspects of web 2.0, then they would be more likely to
support any use of these social elements in our classes (linked
blogs, uncensored wikis, etc.). I think that this could be done
by holding meetings at local schools in order to address the
myspace/internet safety issues. There should be a place where
parents can ask as many questions as they want and learn about
the educational benefits of moving beyond pencil and paper based
classrooms. I would like to set something like this up at my
school. These are the resources that I have so far. Let me know
if I need to include anything else. I am still working out what
this meetin