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Frequently
Asked Questions
OUR AFTERNOON
BREAK by Giulia from Italy
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 What
is the purpose
of
Kidlink?
Where is
Kidlink?
How is
Kidlink
organized?Questions
about
registrationIs it necessary for each child
to
register, or can I
upload work on their behalf?How can I participate
within the Acceptable Use Policy of my school district?
Where should I put my student's
work?Can all my registered students
get a KidPage?Is there a place where
teachers can sign into the database to help their students?How can I find penpals
for my students?How do I remove a picture
posted by a student?What do i do if i'm having
trouble with a project?How can I find a partner
class?Where can I find information
on copyrights?I
intend to re-involve my students with Kidlink. Please send me my
logon.How can I communicate
with other teachers?How can I run my educational
project through Kidlink?Data
about my students is published on
Kidlink's
web. Will this in violation of privacy
laws?Our school district blocks all
chats. Is there another way we can participate in these
discussions?We missed a chat. Is there a way
to continue the discussion afterwards?
Your
question |
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| What
is the purpose of
Kidlink? Kidlink is a global educational learning environment. Our purpose is to promote the creation of a global dialog among children and youth around the world. To make their dialog meaningful, we give them challenges that prompt personal growth. We provide a range of radically student-centered educational programs; and want the outcome of our work to contribute to peace in the world. Fpr our contents model, see here.
Where is
Kidlink? Is it necessary for each child to register, or can I upload work on their behalf? Each student must register separately. It may take some time to do this. Our short web-based registration workshop for teachers provides hints and suggestions on how to integrate registrations with your curriculum. Some teachers let students register as part of their work with the Who-Am-I? program's module 1. (Workshop) . Others let them register the standard way first, then join Who-Am-I? to dig deeper. Yes, you can upload work on their behalf. Also, see My students don't have their own e-mail address. Can they still register with Kidlink? Where should I put my student's work? You can put your student's work in KidSpace. Read "How To Administer Student Pages". You can also let your students collaborate with other students through KidCom. Can all my registered students get a KidPage? Yes. Each student must submit an application. Is there a place where teachers can sign into the database to help their students? There are several databases. For privacy reasons, some are only available to children/students, e.g., our private member registration database. To see contents of students' responses, teachers may use our public (abridged) version. Teachers may get a login manage their students pages in Kidspace, and write comments in Kidspace to their and other teachers' students. They can also register in KidCom to view their students interaction with other students, and communicate with other teachers. How can I find a partner class? The information on this page will guide you through the steps of finding a partner class for a joint project. How can I find penpals for my students? The information on this page will guide your students through the steps of finding friend in Kidlink. Where can I find information on copyrights? Make sure that you own pictures or multimedia files that you or your students place on our web site. Ensure that text your students put on our webpages is not copied from someone else. More information about copyright: How do I remove a picture posted by a student? If an image needs to be removed, send the name of the image to Bonnie Thurber. What do i do if i'm having trouble with a project? If you are having difficulty with a project post your concerns to project's KidCom room for teachers,or the mailing list (in this way, others may also benefit from your question and the answer), and/or contact the project's moderator How can I communicate with other teachers? There are several options for communication with other teachers. You may post questions and comments in the KidCom rooms for teachers, or to our public mailing lists. You may take part in a KidSpace chat. How can I run my educational project through Kidlink? If you are ready for our global audience, agree to let your project become a Kidlink project, and agree to let it be run on a Kidlink server (like KidSpace) - rather than your own, follow these guidelines. Kidlink is not a not a "Project Registry" that lists and announces everybody's projects to the world. We are an organization depending on volunteers, and build on educational projects developed by them, among friends, rather than outsiders' educational projects. It is also for this reason that Kidlink usually does not link to external educational projects. (More..) Data about my students is published on Kidlink's web. Will this in violation of privacy laws? Kidlink's privacy statement describes what personal data we collect about participating children. We collect these data to help them make friends with children elsewhere, to identify individuals for the purposes of controlling access, moderating our services areas and educational activities. Your students will be free to honestly express their own views. Foul language or offensive manners are not allowed. Your school or community may have regulations denying children the right to say certain things about themselves in public, be it in private or public emails, in their answers to the four registration questions, in web pages or other types of electronic communication between children or with adults. Kidlink will not control the contents of your students words beyond their use of appropriate language and manners. Making sure that your students' published contents is in accordance with local laws and regulations will be your responsibility. How can I participate within the Acceptable Use Policy of my school district?
Teacher Joy Boehm
from United States
1. The children register and answer the 4 questions using MY school e-mail address. All their information comes to me, and I keep it here at school. Any e-mails they would get, come to me. I login for my students, so they do not need their usernames and passwords. 2. For posting comments I have set up an account called Beelerkids that they all use. It is a Kidspace account, and even if they memorize it to use away from school, it won't give them access to any of the Kidlink chats. We do not participate in any chats at school (my district blocks them anyway). When the children graduate from here, (we are an elementary school - the children leave at the end of fifth grade) I will release their usernames and passwords to them ONLY with a signed note from their parents. This way all of their participation in Kidlink is under teacher supervision, or with parental permission once they graduate. 3. The children provide their first and last names, but no photographs are submitted with their registrations, and no contact information is provided, other than mine. These restrictions allow us to participate without conflict to our Acceptable Use Policy. The parents and administrators feel that will keep the children safe enough to participate. I don't know if this will be of any help to you, but it works for us." Our school district blocks all chats. Is there another way we can participate in these discussions? KidCom is not a traditional chat system. It is more a kind of fast messaging system with supporting file areas using standard web pages. Therefore, chances are that you may use it. Even if you cannot use this system, it may still be possible for your students to take part in the discussion. When you see an announcement for a chat you would like to join, contact the chat moderator and request that you be able to continue discussing the topic on one of our mailing lists, or in some other way. We will accommodate you, if we can. We missed a chat. Is there a way to continue the discussion afterwards? In KidCom, just continue the discussion even after others have left. Invite those who participated in the meeting to come back any time to see your inputs, and make comments. A discussion may continue over a long period of time. Other ideas: Students from the Politechnical College in Azov, Russia wanted to chat, but were stopped by technical problems. Read at the bottom of the chat report how their problem was solved using KidSpace and web pages. |
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says: "By working
with my principal I have been able to come up with a compromise that is
acceptable to my district:
