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© The Association of Independent Schools of NSW

Social Networking Tools in EducationThe King’s School Parramatta

Tudor House School Moss Vale

Michael EggenhuizenDirector of ICT


Social Networking Tools in Education

The King’s School Parramatta

Anglican Church School Established in 1832 (177 years) 300 acres in North Parramatta K-12 Boys School with 1450 Students 400 Boarders Multiple Residences on Property



Internet Connection Bandwidth:

2005 – 2.5Mb ADSL/ISDN 2006 – 10Mb Ethernet 2007 – 20Mb Ethernet 2008 – 50Mb Ethernet 2009 – 50Mb Ethernet

ISP – The Somerville Group



All Staff and Students have Assess to:

YouTube, MySpace, FaceBook, ... Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, Gmail, ... MSN Messenger, ... Most if not all Web 2.0 Technologies Changes to filtering (ICT Services) provide staff and students with a real and relatively unrestricted learning experience



Weekly Internet Activity (Average)

URL's Visited - 14,894,550 URL's Blocked due to Virus Activity - 12 URL's Blocked due to Policy Rules - 11,462 Threat Signature Updates - 1,022 Internet Download – 427GB Monthly Internet Download – 1.8TB



THEN – 2005

3 proxy servers

Internet heavily filtered

Low bandwidth – (2.5Mbps)

Limited use of Internet

High frustration levels



NOW – 2009

1 proxy server

Internet lightly filtered

High bandwidth – (50Mbps)

Extensive use of Internet

Low frustration levels



Path to Enlightenment

Removed dial-up router (12 in-dial lines)

Encouraged staff to take up broadband at home

Published ICT Services Newsletters

Highlighted Web 2.0 Technologies

Raised Web 2.0 in Meetings

Opened up the Internet – Provide Resources



What did we OpenUp in 2007?

Web 2.0 Websites including:

MySpaceFacebook

SkypeYouTube

MSN MessengerAll Webmail

Forums/Blogs/Wikis



WORDLEOne of the most useful tools in upper primary has been word clouds (wordle), which is used for all manner of learning, such as reflections, analysing websites and summaries. Its visual appeal and graphic organisational structure has made it a really useful tool. Students have been turning written reflections, information reports and web sites into word clouds, which allows them to see patterns, comparisons and hierarchies, in a new and attractive way.

Ruth Adams (Director of Learning & PYP Coordinator)



WIKISYear 4 has just started their Wiki. This is a developing tool and one that is just being trialled, but it has the potential to be an exciting web page for each class. Pages on different areas of learning can be created and links added. It is the democratic nature of this tool that has the most appeal for me as a teacher. Students are co-creators and co-contributors. The wiki really allows for a differentiated curriculum to be delivered. The quiet kids get to talk! It's early days, but it's exciting!




How Valuable are Web 2.0 Technologies?

Well they are invaluable. The allow us to differentiate learning, appeal to 'where students are at' and generally are another tool in the kit. However, it really is not a matter of doing the same old thing with a new tool. We are having to think about what we are teaching and why we are teaching it. Educating for the 21st century means knowledge + understanding + skills + ability to problem solve + willingness to work cooperatively, etc. Web 2.0 can help develop this.




Anonymizers

Anonymizing Utilities

Criminal Skills

Extreme

Gambling

Hacking

Game/Cartoon Violence

Gruesome Content

Hate Speech

Phishing

Media Downloads

Malicious Sites

P2P File Sharing

Spam Email URL’s

Pornography

Spyware

Profanity

School Cheating Information

Blocked Categories



Top 12 Websites by ‘Hits’ – Mon 18 May 2009

www.facebook.comwww.siteadvisor.comwww.google.com.au

www.nrl.comwww.onemorelevel.com

www.nba.comwww.foxsports.com.au

www.google-analytics.comwww.news.com.auwww.yahoo.comen.wikipedia.org

www.youtube.com



Top 12 Websites by ‘Hits’ – Tues 19 May 2009

www.facebook.comwww.google.com.au

ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.netwww.siteadvisor.comwww.microsoft.com

www.onemorelevel.comwww.news.com.au

www.google-analytics.comwww.foxsports.com.au

en.wikipedia.orgwww.nba.com

www.youtube.com



Top 12 Websites by ‘Hits’ – Wed 20 May 2009

ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.netwww.facebook.com

www.onemorelevel.comwww.google.com.auwww.siteadvisor.com

www.google-analytics.comwww.nba.com

www.news.com.auen.wikipedia.org

www.youtube.comwww.microsoft.com

www.foxsports.com.au



Top 12 Websites by ‘Hits’ – Thurs 21 May 2009

ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.netwww.facebook.com

www.onemorelevel.comwww.google.com.auwww.siteadvisor.com

www.google-analytics.comwww.foxsports.com.au

www.nba.comen.wikipedia.org

www.youtube.comwww.smh.com.auwww.news.com.au



Top 12 Websites by ‘Hits’ – Fri 22 May 2009

www.facebook.comwww.onemorelevel.com

www.google.com.auwww.siteadvisor.com

www.nba.comwww.google-analytics.com

www.foxsports.com.auwww.news.com.au

en.wikipedia.orgwww.youtube.com

www.nrl.comwww.smh.com.au



Summary

www.facebook.com (Web 2.0)www.google.com.au (Search)

www.onemorelevel.com (Games)www.siteadvisor.com (Safety)

ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net (iPhone)www.google-analytics.com (Analysis)

www.nba.com (Sport)www.foxsports.com.au (Sport)

www.news.com.au (News)en.wikipedia.org (Research)www.youtube.com (Web 2.0)

www.nrl.com (Sport)



Facebook fixation harms student grades(The Australian - Monday 13 April 2009)

US research has found that Facebook is having a detrimental effect on university results. 68% of students who used Facebook had a significantly lower grade-point average than those who did not use the site.

This week The King’s School ICT Steering Committee discussed the blocking of Facebook during Boarders’ Prep (study). A decision was made to leave Facebook open but to educate students about the positive and negative aspects of prolonged exposure to websites like Facebook. The School will monitor Facebook use during Prep time.



Positive Approach to Policies and Rules

Many Schools take a negative approach to policies and rules (don’t do this, don’t do that) … at TKS (as far as ICT Services is concerned) we have turned these negative policies and rules into positives. EG:

Educating all rather than punishing all Dealing with students as individuals Moving from fixed capacity home drives to

unlimited home drives (explanation follows) Moving from heavily filtered Internet to lightly

filtered Internet (explanation follows) Dealing with problems like accessing pornography

in a more positive manner (explanation follows)



Dear XXX XXXX (Year 10),

Please note:

The King's School monitors all school Internet traffic. Recent Internet activity indicates that your network account has been used to view a number of pornographic websites.

The School's 'Student Computer Use Policy' found in the Student Diary and on the School Intranet makes it very clear that this type of activity is against the School's rules.

Please ensure that your network account is secure by changing your account password on a regular basis.

Due to the seriousness of this matter, any future activity of this type will be reported to the Headmaster.

XXXX, please reply to this email as soon as possible so that I know you have read it. Please contact me should you have any concerns about your network account.

Thanks XXXX.

Regards,



Hi Mr Eggenhuizen

I am sorry about what has happened, it was actually some other boys using my account. I am sorry about this matter sir and will try make shore that it does not happen again. I have changed my password so they cannot access my account anymore.

Sorry all about this Sir

thanks for the note, i'll change my password.

yes i will change my password because i havet done that thank you

Thanks for the heads up. My password has been changed.Regards,



Lego Sculptureshttp://www.brickartist.com

Social Media Cityhttp://www.searchenginepeople.com

Social Media Bandwagonhttp://blog.kyanmedia.com

Wordlehttp://www.wordle.net/

Belonginghttp://hscbelonging.wordpress.com/

Storylineshttp://storylines.edublogs.org/


Michael Eggenhuizen

Director ICT

The King’s School Parramatta

Tudor House School Moss Vale

PO Box 1 Parramatta NSW 2124

Phone (02) 9683 8650 Fax (02) 9683 8565

www.kings.edu.au

www.tudorhouse.nsw.edu.au

[email protected]

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