[Year 12 IT Apps] filtering software overkill!..fireworksMX qn.

Sun May 11 09:48:10 EST 2008

Does anyone else use 'surfcontrol' (it gives a big white box with red or blue lettering when banning stuff).
Our school does and its driving me batty! I aint the techie as you know, but it NOW blocks teacher tube, god tube(yes that exists too) and all video on the google link.(we already had youtube, myspace and facebook banned for 'social software link reasons' and I coped with that before...but now...
My school is going backwards. 
Apparantly its an american program..shoulda guessed!

Its basically killing my classes now...so much for moving forward and embracing technology.
I desperately want to promote use of multimedia at my school and have just finished some intense HTML programming which uses links to this stuff for creating pages at the middle school level but now it seems all that effort might be for zilch.

Yes, I sent an email to the techie about my concerns, but so far, no responses.

For others in the Catholic system reading this, what filters do you use, and could you email me a list of their names please so I can pass it on to my principal...its gone too far for me not to speak about it now I think.

About the fireworks program..we have the MX version...has anyone got any nifty starter level stuff they could email me please. I have no resources for this one and would love to use it..oh, I also have never used it so will be learning it too. Targetting years 8/9 level...but have some smart cookies in that lot.

Kent.

Kent Beveridge,
I.T. co-ordinator
St. Brigids Catholic Sec. College
Horsham
email.. kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au

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From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Roland Gesthuizen
Sent: Sun 5/11/2008 2:09 AM
To: eLearning mailing list; Year 7 - 10 IT Mailing List; Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] Privacy fears over student register

As you know, I am an passionate advocate for schools to make good use of learning technologies in the classroom and ICT to assist the school administration. 

Last week, I briefly discussed with a departmental Ultranet representative, some of my concerns about the privacy issues regarding the construction of the student registry. Perhaps this was an unfair question but I was surprised that nobody had been briefed in detail about this. On previous occasions, I have tried to raise this with the AEU but the emails seem to have spiraled off and into the ether. Perhaps the mandated  requirement that all state school leaders adopt Ultranet as a performance goal, it's deep embedding into our schools and bundling with several different initiatives has confused things.

I harbor some genuine fears that this student registry could put students' privacy at risk. 

You can read the full Herald Sun newspaper story about the pending legislation or the attached printable version: 
    http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23661243-2862,00.html

Despite the wishes of former governments, the Australia card was rejected on very much the same issues and more recently an updated Medicare card. 
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_Card

Now is a good time to explore this whole new area and give consideration to the implications of what is being planned or the legislation that is before the Victorian parliament.

Now is a good time to ask questions.

Regards Roland

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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au <http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au/> 

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