[Year 12 IT Apps] RE: OC2 Rural Rescue Flights Draft1..KentB

Mon May 19 09:12:18 EST 2008

G'day Kent,

Are you providing this OC so that it may be used by teachers? I am a graduate teacher still getting a hold of the ropes and would appreciate using this OC in my ITAPPS class. Our schools (I'm from Balmoral HS) are in partnership but please let me know if there are any copyright issues.
Thanks and Regards

Joseph McAleer
ICT Co-ordinator 
Balmoral HS

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From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Kent Beveridge
Sent: Sun 11/05/2008 3:15 PM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: OC2 Rural Rescue Flights Draft1..KentB

Rural Rescue Flights for 2008 is here!
Here is the first draft.

I would appreciate any feedback and comments from you guys about the quality and content of the document.

The environment content of the OC has been updated, the questioning and task requirements section has been adapted from a task on the VITTA site. This version is more a hybrid of the two, but is significantly more detailed than last years version.

The criteria is mostly what I used last year with a couple of minor adjustments.

THIS IS ONLY MY FIRST DRAFT. I will be scrutinizing it during the next week for any shortfalls I can see. 

The final version will be posted to the VITTA site with the criteria.

To those still developing tasks for this OC...I strongly recommend reading the assessor report from last year and re-reading the study design for guidelines.

I have given to my students the OC titled 'Virtual Teams' from the VITTA site which is by Mr Walkerden (sorry, first name and school not remembered just now) as our prep lead in task. It is this outcome that I used to make my hybrid RRF task for '08.   Thanks Mr W!

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 Nash, Peter N
Sent: Sun 5/11/2008 10:58 AM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] RE: filtering software overkill!..fireworksMX qn.

Kent further to this - I am at a government school with similar issues in respect to filtering websites. 

Our school in their wisdom whether to cut costs - do not know why this was done, decided 12 to 18 months ago to only use education channel and associated firewall filtering. This caused some issues that were slowly overcome, but in some VCE units and the need to review search engines other than Education Channel caused major problems. I have unblocked a number of sites for my students to use but there are always those sites you need that are filtered out - in theory it is not too bad as it made teachers think about sites that are most appropriate for students although for senior students it is quite inhibiting. 

I am a prolific user of wikis (Wikispaces) and other social networking applications to support student learning. Most of these sites I have created are private, secure sites using SSL / encryption technology. In the last 2 months due to issues with some proxy bypass applications used by some students at my school to bypass the education channel that use sites with https: prefixes the decision was made by those in at DEECD and those who control our internet and education channel decided to block all https: sites to students at our school.

What are the consequences of this? The students no long can access my on-line wikis at school. The curriculum is on them - fortunately they can access them at home. My plan to use them for collaborative on-line group work for year 11 can not be done effectively and it has caused more frustration to students who are trying other inappropriate tools to bypass the firewall.

The point being - if the wikis were not "private" or unsecure they would work. But we privacy and the need to provide a safe on-line working environment for students and by blocking these sites is compromising the learning of students. 

History:  I contacted Russell Blackie at DEECD - who controls the content of Education Channel he is aware of the issue but it is the company that controls the servers are the one that controls the firewall to block sites. To me it was easier to block all https: sites and they communicated back to me through our technicians that they can not unblock specific site - I find this surprising. 

I am writing this out of frustration - and in some way it is similar to what Kent is experiencing. If the department is committed to using more Web 2.0 technologies effectively in the curriculum then issues such as this needs to be resolved. I would like to think within the next month or so.

Have anyone else on the list had similar experiences? How were they resolved? 

>From a frustrated IT teacher with ideas in using social networks, wikis etc in the curriculum I am interested to resolve this issue for myself and my students

Kent thanks for initiating the topic "Filtering software overkill"

Regards

Peter Nash

IT Teacher and Daily Organiser

Galvin Park Secondary College

Shaws Road, Werribee, Vic. 3030

Tel: (03) 9741 4911

Please consider the environment before you print this page.

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From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Kent Beveridge
Sent: Sunday, 11 May 2008 9:48 AM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: filtering software overkill!..fireworksMX qn.

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
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