Dilemma 1
Here’s a dilemma I can write about and would love to get some feedback.
A high school student in my blogging group found a thought-provoking article entitled “Cheating Gets You Nowhere”.
Click on student papers.The article was written by a college student (T. J. Dougherty) and it
is listed on a page with numerous other articles. Some of the titles
may be inappropriate for students to read. I haven’t read all the other
articles but just the titles will be enough to cause concern. I
can’t get the link to go directly to the one article. If someone knows
the answer to that, that could solve the problem. I guess I could make
the paper into a pdf but then there are copyright issues, etc. A lot of
these articles would be of high interest to the students in the
blogging class. Some great discussions and blogging could result. And we are going to constantly come up to the problem
of periphereal inappropriate items (does that make sense?). How do we
pull some out and still not be right in the midst of other links that could cause uproars?
And we have to think about younger students who will be reading the high school student posts. What to do?
I’ve tossed the problem back to the school to see what they think. Just thought I’d toss the issue out for comment and ideas.
As I continue this blogging process, I’ve decided to make a dilemma
category. Wonder how many I will have by the end of the year?
November 15th, 2005 at 4:26 pm
Hi Anne,
Wow!! The titles of some of those papers are not nice! I can’t imagine submitting a paper like that for a college composition class.
I am on a PC. I right clicked on the link to the paper in question and then selected “open in new window”. The url for the paper is:
http://pages.cabrini.edu/hhalbert/eng101/2001/writing/unit2/new/DoughertyJ2.htm
I haven‚t been on a MAC in some time and don‚t know how it might work with that operating system.
Best,
Lani
November 15th, 2005 at 8:29 pm
Hi Anne,
On a mac hold down the control key and then click on the link. A new pop-up menu will appear; select [Copy Link Location]. Generally speaking whenever the PC users “right click” we mac users “control click.”
November 15th, 2005 at 9:02 pm
Anne — I see your dilemma. Interesting collection. I’d probably link to the paper in question in a post that contained a disclaimer about what students who head in that direction might find. (Of course, that disclaimer might encourage the high school students to visit that site more than if you didn’t mention anything about some of the other papers.)
I enjoyed reading about your elementary adventures last year — but I’m really learning form you as you work with high school students. THe group you’re working with sounds so much like mine in many ways — I’m looking forward to learning more.