[Yr7-10it] block it all

[Meadows, Roslyn M]

Lovely Rob!!!! I thought you were serious for a moment there!

 

"Ms Allan said the government wanted to educate students about
responsible use of the internet and ensure they were accessing
"age-appropriate material relevant to the curriculum and their learning
needs"."

 

Yep teach them responsible surfing by blocking everything!! - that way
they will know what to do at home when they come across popups and
inappropriate material. Let's block every intersection because someone
might have an accident driving through it!! 

 

How does one bully via YouTube? - you would have to make a bullying
video and then upload it I guess. MySpace I can understand as a girl I
taught last year had someone writing mean stuff on her space, but at the
same time she also had rude voicemails left on her phone.  But none of
that had happened during school hours. We can't control their lives
entirely. 

 

We are restricted to educache at the moment (although I am working on
changing that!) and today someone mentioned to me that even the Age is
not available to students! 

 

Here is the url as a tiny one - http://tinyurl.com/ypgcxz 

Cheers

 

Roslyn Meadows | Information Technology | Bentleigh Secondary College |
meadows.roslyn.m at edumail.vic.gov.au | ph 03 9579 1044 | mobile 0412 614
062

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Reading about more filtering - 

 

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/youtube-ban-for-victorian-schools
/2007/03/01/1172338754827.html 

 

Personally, I think every student should be satisfied with 24/7 access

to the official VELS site, and maybe the curriculum planning guidelines

 

What more could they ask for? 

 

Google, blogs, email, flickr, and all such web 2 apps should be banned

by decree

 

They might be used to communicate - and the risk of communicating is too

high  

 

I look forward to a world in which every interesting and interactive web

site is finally blocked, and we all have handheld devices, on which we

can access an approved list of 3 sites 

 

Paper and pen might also need banning, as there are reliable reports of

these media being used for obscene drawing and note passing in class 

 

Rob 

 

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