SchoolParentNet – Building secure communities around our children

SchoolParentNet narrows in on the activities that make up a school and local community.

A offline school community is extremely beneficial and comforting for our children, as well as parents. Providing an online interactive community, I believe, is crucial in a child's life. Social skills I in my opinion are enhanced to a greater level. As well as allowing those children with different or non-traditional learning styles (ie. kinesthetic, internal, introvert thinker) are given a platform to become involved and share at a higher level. I do think that it teaches kids emotional intelligence.

SchoolParentNet aims to offer this as a secure community and starts with a central communication beacon, schools and teachers. I applaude the focus by SchoolParentNet in this area to connect parents, students and teachers in a collaborated and meaningful way, taking the current offline activities and transforming this online.

I also profiled "Chalksite – Expand your classroom" which looked at expanding the classroom further into an online offering encouraging a higher level of learning, collaboration and an informal connection with their teachers. Imagine one day being able to watch your class on maths that evening again to clarify concepts you wanted to understand a bit more..or record your french or japanese and send it to your teacher, receiving comments back before you attend your next french or japanese class.

Using technology to tap into higher learning is really coool. I only wish I was back at school – (just joking).

Exactly how the secure network works and any chocolate sauce (unique feature)? I would love to be able to sign in and give it a whirl, however I need to be part of a school and the site is only providing a US service at the moment, however how incredible if SchoolParentNet could open this out into a global offering and enable a school in Amercia to connect with a school in Africa. Now that would have such a higher global purpose.

I believe providing an online community that includes children, needs to be created with much thought, with a lot of stress testing done on the technology that makes the community secure. More importantly, test the human interaction and potential abuse of the site's technology and community.

On security I would also like to know how this works. All I can gleen from the site is…

The school also serves as a security screen. Network users are connected to a group where there is a high likelihood that others will know them. This ensures that the network can be self-monitored by users. We also enable school security codes, which can create an additional layer of validation. We support Public and Private K-12 schools as well as Pre-K child care centers and family child care programs across the U.S

Great mission, stay tuned to see how this concept of SchoolParentNet evolves.