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//High School Videos// Your high school Spanish students have been extremely excited about a recent project in your class. Students have been writing scripts and acting out “commercials” in Spanish for imaginary products. You have recorded the commercials on a digital camcorder and uploaded the videos to YouTube. The response has been very positive to these videos, and several students have uploaded them to their personal MySpace pages and blogs to share them with friends. However, one of your students, Olivia, just forwarded you a comment written in response to one of the videos in which she participated and asks for help translating. The comment is in Spanish and contains several sexual references and curse words. When Olivia clicks on the commenter's username to find out more about the person, she sees videos with sexual content. What do you tell your students about the comment and what Olivia saw, and how do you advise them to respond?

=﻿__**Responses:**__= 1) I think it would be important to inform Olivia's parents and school officials. 2) Explain to the students to not get defeated due to the negative response. Most individuals will give positive remarks 3) I would ask the technological department at the school and see if they could track who left the message. If the child is a minor and the offender is an adult, the police may need to be notified. If the offender is a student, his/her parents as well as school officials should be notified. 4) I would be sure to reinforce the fact that Olivia did follow the correct procedure by letting me, the teacher, know about the incident. I would comment on this with Olivia and the class. 5) An alternative to publishing a video on YouTube could be a more closed environment using VoiceThread where students could comment on one another's work. 6) This incident should be made into a "learning moment". Students could make posters or powerpoint presentations on 'what to do" and "what not to do" if something like this happens again. (I thought of this after completing 7-D1 and 7-D-2) 7) Have a discussion (blog or in class) on the assignment itself. What was good? what was bad? Elicit ideas on how to change the project to make it better. Have a discussion using filters to intercept unsolicited or inappropriate replies. Stress you are in control of your internet activity. 8) Have a discussion or survey about how many others had comment left that were inappropriate. Reinforce that Olivia did the correct procedure, contacting the teacher and not responding to the comment. Remind the students that inappropriate messages may occur and they should all be reported to the teacher. This can be done in person, by a note, or email.