“Hello 65427! How are you today?”
“Great BrianSmith. What about you?”
As schools in North America are starting their school years and picking back up in Quest Atlantis, this is a great time to start talking about the best ways to get students logged in to the program. Do you see what might be wrong with the usernames above? Most people can see that BrianSmith is sharing a little too much personal information, but 65427′s account doesn’t encourage proper online behavior either. This may seem counterintuitive to many who think that protecting a child’s anonymity is the most important aspect of online interaction, but it is possible for people to be
too anonymous on the internet.
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on Mar 21, 2011 in
In The News,
Kid Voices One of our main goals with Quest Atlantis is to position students to be actively engaged in the learning process and not just passive recipients. This still requires quite a bit of intervention and scaffolding from our part and the teachers’; but students still have one place where they have free reign – QVille. And the [...]
We started a great project over the summer and hopefully some of you have already noticed a few of the changes. Quests are the main means of assessment for teachers in Quest Atlantis, but they appear quite static compared to the dynamic 3D environment. Kids love doing the missions but are sometimes not as enthusiastic about [...]
on Aug 6, 2010 in
In The News We’re quickly approaching one of my favorite times of the year. There is nothing better than when the US and Australian school years overlap. Kids get such a great experience to make friends all over the world. In late March and the month of October, we average over 10,000 lines of chat a day in [...]
on Mar 1, 2010 in
Kid Voices It’s been hard to avoid Olympic fever these last two weeks. Certainly the kids have gotten in to it with the cheers for their countries. The Olympics provide an opportunity for people around the world to come together and highlight their talents. The students in QA are going through some of the same experiences; while [...]
As I’m sure anyone who has been in the OTAK Hub in the past couple of days knows, there are some new changes in QA. We were really excited to see that some of the first people to log in were teachers and that the changes were met with enthusiasm. The students had some mixed-reactions [...]
