I am writing in response to the Story posted here at Texas A & M, Corpus Christi.

I think that the authors are quite correct in administrative types being scared of new media use. I have run into that at my school. I started using blogs with my kids. I told the administration what I was doing and showed them. One year it was fine; the next I had to hide everything behind a “wall”. I could understand their concern with the kids well being and fearing they might meat some predator if I wasn’t liniting the website to my seniors. Oh, Well. I no longer have the kids writing on blog sites because it is a pain to do.

I think that the writers comments about plagarism are true as well. But this is not a new poroblem. Students will sometimes infringe even without knowing they are doing it. All parties need to pay attention to what is being used and posted. The better response from the admistration would have been to have the student correct the work and send an apology to the offended party. In most cases (especially here since it was a student piece and they are learning) it woulld have resolved the problem.

As far as ownership, I think that online environments does increase student involvement. I have found this out this semester. This is the first time I didnt have to create email accounts for kids to transfer files back and forth from home. I had to show how to attach files but all of them had accounts. This is a big change. It will be interesting to see how it plays out in the future.

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