[Year 12 IT Apps] RE: Disabling student web access

[Robyn Dunn]

Couldn't agree more Ros. It comes down to class room management. I've used the old textbook trick myself.

Ms Robyn Dunn
Director of elearning
Camberwell High School
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>>> "Meadows, Roslyn M" <Meadows.Roslyn.M at edumail.vic.gov.au> 30/04/2008 1:00 pm >>>
Personally I have found that students can become distracted by other
applications (eg Paint, Flash, Gamemaker) as well as the Internet.



So I find the best strategy is to:

1.       Warn them all that if they are doing anything which is not
related to the set task they will be removed from the computer and made
to do written work.

2.       Keep a good eye on all students and what they are doing.

3.       If students are distracting themselves in any way remove them
and give them written work (questions out of an old IT text are fun!!)



I find that once I have removed a couple of kids from their computers at
the beginning of the year the problem never surfaces again. They would
prefer to work on database, spreadsheets or anything on the computer
rather than have to sit and handwrite answers to questions. But it does
take diligence, you need to be aware of what they are doing on the
computers, and this cannot be achieved from a position at the front of
the room.



Hope this helps

Cheers

Ros







Roslyn Meadows
Head of ICT Implementation

Head of Assessment and Reporting
Bentleigh Secondary College

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From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au 
[mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Stephen Digby
Sent: Wednesday, 30 April 2008 10:57 AM
To: 'Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List'
Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] RE: Disabling student web access



My tech can write scripts that remove and replace groups or lists from
the internet-user group on demand.

If you want to offer to all teachers/ classes, you would need to
maintain accurate class lists for all subjects somewhere easily
accessible for the tech script to refer to.

Currently, the Timetabler which we use has very messy data structure and
great difficulty in extracting same...

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	From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au 
[mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Athena SPYRATOS
	Sent: Wednesday, 30 April 2008 10:05 AM
	To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
	Subject: Disabling student web access

	Dear colleagues.

	There are always some students in the classroom who surf the web
during class when they should be doing their class work. Does anyone
know of a simple method of disabling student access to the web during
class time?

	Regards,

	Athena.

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