[Year 12 IT Apps] an apology for American colleagues..KentB

Mon May 12 12:33:28 EST 2008

Hi Kent,
I have a very basic handout that I give to my students (current or
future teachers) who are doing a multimedia for learning class here at
La Trobe. You and others are welcome to use it.

I usually start off with explaining principles of cartooning and then
get them to create the simple bouncing ball animated gif that is shown
in the handout I've attached.

Hope it is useful.

Pam 

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Pam Wright
Lecturer
School of Educational Studies
La Trobe University
Bundoora
Vic 3086
Australia
Ph: 9479 2765
email: p.wright at latrobe.edu.au
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kent Beveridge [mailto:kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au] 
Sent: Sunday, 11 May 2008 2:38 PM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] an apology for American colleagues..KentB

Being one prepared to take his lumps....
It appears my choice of words in my filter post upset a member of our
list community. I have directly sent my apology to that member off list
as that is how I was informed of their 'disgust'.
To any other American members who were also offended by my recent post's
wording, please accept my apology as I was just echoing the wording of
my techie and I personally, am not 'anti-american'. It was not a 'dig',
just a typically Aussie slapstick choice of words, but apparently not to
the taste of all. 
Disrespect is not my intention.
Why write this? Simple..
The error occured here, so this is where it should be corrected!

Thankyou.

Kent.

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

|<3|\|7  b3\/3r1D93 ?  ;-)

Wishes and Eggs, one you make and one you break!  A bit like
promises.....
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intended recipient.  If you have received this email in error, please
notify us immediately and delete the email and all copies.  The School
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directly or indirectly from the use of the attached files, whether
caused by the negligence of the sender or not.  The content and opinions
in this email are not necessarily those of the School."

________________________________

From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Kent Beveridge
Sent: Sun 5/11/2008 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

|<3|\|7  b3\/3r1D93 ?  ;-)

Wishes and Eggs, one you make and one you break!  A bit like
promises.....
"This email and any attachments may be confidential.  You must not
disclose or use the information in this email if you are not the
intended recipient.  If you have received this email in error, please
notify us immediately and delete the email and all copies.  The School
does not guarantee that this email is virus or error free.  The attached
files are provided and my only be used on the basis that the user
assumes all responsibility for any loss, damage or consequence resulting
directly or indirectly from the use of the attached files, whether
caused by the negligence of the sender or not.  The content and opinions
in this email are not necessarily those of the School."

________________________________

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

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

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