The use of Internet always has its caveats in the classroom. Fortunately the district has many sites blocks, but it is not all inclusive. Eggbert talks about how students should be trained to become responsible and close unauthorized sites. Of course students should be monitored at all times.
In addition posting songs or videos to your site may have some legal issues if the the author of such media decides to sue in court. Fortunately there are many sites such as Youtube that allow you to re post the videos onto your blog site, just like the ones I just posted. Another way to bypass this is to have students create their own videos or audio files.
Finally the issue of plagiarism must be address. Eggbert suggest the use of sites such as www.plagiarized.com which suggest methods for discovering plagiarized documents. If the essay does not have the same tone as many of the other works that have been fabricated by students, then it was probably plagiarized.
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I agree with Egbert, about teaching our students how to become responsables while searching the Web. I really like the Rules for online safety for younger students (SafeKids.com). Teach our students at at early age the dangers like plagarism, harrasment, knowing how to differenciate reliable information on the web, etc. will help them to become aware and responsable while accesing the Web. Parents and teachers need to consider this issues and monitored them closely in order to obtain a safe technological enviroment for the students.
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