http://www.newsome.org/2006/07/myspace-law-is-good-thing/ Kent Newsome on technology, music and life Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.newsome.org/2006/07/myspace-law-is-good-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-4506 Mike Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:36:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3050#comment-4506 I don't care whether or not schools block certain sites from the students access, but I don't think that is a decision the government should be making. What if some teacher wanted to use some site like myspace to organize a class participation project. To just blindly block something like myspace because bad things happen to a handful of kids just seems knee-jerky to me. I don’t care whether or not schools block certain sites from the students access, but I don’t think that is a decision the government should be making. What if some teacher wanted to use some site like myspace to organize a class participation project. To just blindly block something like myspace because bad things happen to a handful of kids just seems knee-jerky to me.

]]> http://www.newsome.org/2006/07/myspace-law-is-good-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-4507 Marshall Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:11:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3050#comment-4507 Lol, I think that the student organizing for the rallies against the most recent anti-immigration legislation that went on via MySpace was a good thing. Some presumably went on during school ours and the step taken by that organizing was...a school walk out - gasp!No, I can hear what you're saying, but there are MANY educators who think that social networking sites online are very important. I haven't even done it yet, but I'm guessing that a Technorati search for blogs tagged eLearning or Education2.0 would bring up lots of teacher blogs who disagree with you.Furthermore, and the point that most people are emphasizing - it's not just about MySpace but has the potential to impact a much wider list of sites, many of which you would presumably support your children using. Or maybe not, I don't know. Ultimately you're right, I wrote that post from the perspective of a person primarily interested in web apps. I don't have my own children, so to some degree my opinion is all in the abstract. But there are many people, some with brain cells even, who agree that DOPA stinks.Nice cross blogging with you! Lol, I think that the student organizing for the rallies against the most recent anti-immigration legislation that went on via MySpace was a good thing. Some presumably went on during school ours and the step taken by that organizing was…a school walk out – gasp!No, I can hear what you’re saying, but there are MANY educators who think that social networking sites online are very important. I haven’t even done it yet, but I’m guessing that a Technorati search for blogs tagged eLearning or Education2.0 would bring up lots of teacher blogs who disagree with you.Furthermore, and the point that most people are emphasizing – it’s not just about MySpace but has the potential to impact a much wider list of sites, many of which you would presumably support your children using. Or maybe not, I don’t know. Ultimately you’re right, I wrote that post from the perspective of a person primarily interested in web apps. I don’t have my own children, so to some degree my opinion is all in the abstract. But there are many people, some with brain cells even, who agree that DOPA stinks.Nice cross blogging with you!

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