Tapped In Reflection
The Tapped In Tips & Tricks session offered some interesting suggestions on how to use the Tapped In professional community in order to meet teachers’ needs. Within the site, teachers can converse with others in various forums about numerous topics. My favorite tip from the Tapped In leader was setting up a virtual classroom for students to use in which the teacher can monitor student discussions and choose where students can and cannot go. As a future middle school teacher and current middle school sub, I have seen how students of this age inevitably end up in places where they should not be while using the Internet, regardless of the blocks that the school system places on their network. It is nice to know that I have the ability to exert this type of safety control in my classroom while allowing my students to experiment and learn through technology.