I would like to incorporate a web site design piece to the curriculum for my Technology courses. The curriculum would follow some of the pedagogy by Junior Achievement. WWW.Zooloo.com could be such a site for student use. It is still not acceptable on a broad spectrum, district level through parents, for minors to be accessible by the general public. So, any sort of web publishing would need clear scope and sequence, purpose, and responsible work ethics. The advertising is a continued issue, as well. Zooloo doesn't appear to have outside advertisers, and publishing can be private or public, according to the owner's control.
The use of a web page site could also be used as an instructor's site where students would access content information for instruction. This could be a site that a teacher creates to manage online content. For example, a teacher could use Screen Capturing for lessons and upload classes onto the web site.
Zooloo.com could be used as a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) by being a place where students could "bring all of (their) interests together: news, entertainment, social networking, shopping, messaging, photos, and more..." What I particularly like about this site, so far, is that it could be controlled so that access is only through invitation. This would work well for a classroom setting, but involves students to be responsible with their choices and postings.
Zooloo (n.d.) Retrieved on 10/17/09 from http://www.zooloo.com/
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