Sharon Peters has posted an excellent podcast interview with Meg, her 14 year old daughter, that provides good insight into the ways some teens are using digital social networking sites and being safe/smart about the information they share online. Meg agrees with the idea of NEVER sharing your correct age on MySpace. She also is a VERY enthusiastic author, writer, and contributor to fictionpress. I had previously heard of fanfiction, but not fictionpress– so I’ll be checking that out. Great to see sites like this where authors of any age can publish their work and receive feedback in safe ways! The website description of fictionpress is:
FictionPress is a growing network of over half a million writers/readers, and home to over 900,000 original works. As a writer, this is a place to showcase your creativity and for a reader, FictionPress is an opportunity to feast to your heart’s content.
Meg also mentioned the website and software service iLike, which I hadn’t heard of before. I’m particularly interested in the feature to discover artists that create and freely share music similar to what you like and already have in your iTunes library– but are sharing their music freely (and legally) through Garageband.com. This ability to make recommendations for new artistic works based on your preferences reminds me of both NetFlix and Pandora. The important difference, however, is that while NetFlix recommends commercial videos and Pandora recommends commercial music, Garageband.com and iLike recommend independent artists who may or may not have been yet “discovered” by a commercial label.
Thanks to Sharon and Meg for sharing these insights and recommendations!
On this day..
- Oklahoma Educators, EduLeaders, and Edu Organizations on Twitter #EdCampOKC - 2011
- iPhoneography Apps for Capture, Editing and Upload / Sharing - 2011
- Misunderstanding Information Abundance at Oklahoma State University - 2011
- CSS Global Worldview Survey – Please help out! - 2010
- I Need My Teachers To Learn 2.0 - 2010
- Contrasting recent Oklahoma City and Winnipeg morning radio coverage about education - 2009
- Lessons learned about podcasting microphones - 2008
- Political Fireworks in Oklahoma City Public Schools - 2008
- Blog widow? - 2007
- Say YES to creativity in 2007 - 2007



























