28th May 2008

Podcast252: Effective and Appropriate Use of Text Messaging with High School Students (Digital Etiquette)

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This podcast features an interview with Rhonda, the drama teacher at Yukon High School in Yukon, Oklahoma. This past year, for the first time, Rhonda has shared her cell phone number with her high school students with clear guidelines about the hours when she checks text messages. She receives over 1000 text messages per month from her students, and they respect her boundaries for having her cell phone number. Rhonda has been able to significantly increase her communication with students before and after class as well as rehersals, and makes a compelling case for teachers (in at least some contexts) sharing their cell phone number with students and helping them learn how to appropriately and respectfully utilize a teacher’s cell phone number.

 
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Show Notes:

  1. Yukon Public Schools - Yukon, Oklahoma
  2. Cell Phones for Learning (my wiki presentation links)

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  1. 1 On May 28th, 2008, Grant Mudge said:

    Hey Wed, good podcast. Many of my DRAMA students also have mine.
    Thought you responded very graciously to probably excessive feedback last week—hence I put your blog into my aggregator.

    What’s relevant here is that you and I selected EXACTLY the same music of late for two very different web projects—I just wondered, what’re the odds? I pulled the piano bit you used into an ANIMOTO slideshow, which I learned about from David Warlick. Take a look/listen: http://tinyurl.com/54b4ox (Slideshow-video is only 30secs) For a longer video on the company, visit its beta page: http://www.richmondshakespeare.com/video.asp

    Where’d you find the music (top of your podcast)?

    Cheers,
    -Grant Mudge
    Richmond, VA

  2. 2 On May 28th, 2008, Grant Mudge said:

    *Wes, of course. Finger-fatigue!

  3. 3 On May 28th, 2008, Wesley Fryer said:

    Grant: The piano music for that transition is from royalty free loops included with Garageband software. The opening piece is also from Garageband, it is one my son made, but it may just be a straight loop from the library, I’m not sure.

    I checked out your video, don’t you just love animoto?!