I forgot to mention that we will be going away from in-house server data
storage next year for students. We have a google ed. domain now and will be
using that 100% next along with other sources.
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>>> "Brad Kruse" <bkr...@manson-nw.k12.ia.us> 2/4/2010 5:19 PM >>>
1 - At what grade do you start giving students Internet access?
Our elementaries would like to not have to log in to computers as "special"
internet accounts, they just want the Internet to work for them. Our current
practice would require someone to log the computer in with an account that
would have Internet access. I assume that whatever your situation is, you
expect the teacher to still supervise their use.
all of our district computers are set to connect to the Internet after desktop
has been loaded.
2 - At what grade do you start giving kids their own personal
login, with a home directory and internet access. We are doing home
directories at 5th grade, and Internet access at 7th grade.
grades pk-3 get a shared home folder -- grades 4-12 get home folder
3 - Facebook. We have 3 interested groups ready and wanting to
create a Facebook group or a Facebook Page for their specific group. We have
talked about privacy, and what kids post about themselves there and how we as
District employees are mandatory reporters. From my limited playing of
Facebook, I cannot limit access to specific facebook site, it is either give
them (staff only, not students) access to Facebook or not. All or none. Their
thinking in wanting to create a Facebook page is because that is what the kids
are doing, when they aren't at school. My concern is the privacy and lost work
time with people maintaining their personal Facebook, Mafia War or Farm Town
creation. Give me your thought, the discussions you have had, and we can kind
of go from there.
we use lightspeed to define groups/time schedules and do some periodic release
on some sites also but it is all getting to be quite a pain -- i don't know the
answer to all of this -- i only know that the web is full of useful information
and also so full of garbage that i don't know how one can open it all up or try
to lock it down
i wonder how many of the "great" speakers you hear telling us to open things up
actually have been in a classroom full of 30 teenagers or have had to listen to
complaining parents
Manson Northwest Webster-Home of the Cougars!
Brad Kruse ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._
Tech. Coord. `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`)
1601 15th St. (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-'
Manson, IA 50563 _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,'
712-469-2245 (li),' ((!.-'
Cell: 712-830-9665 Fax 712-469-3131
