Balancing Safety and Access: Moving Beyond the Acceptable Use Policy Bill Johnsen Virginia Beach City Public Schools

What Do You Do??

Filtering in VBCPS Use Content KeeperContent Keeper Implemented 2 years ago – Initially too restrictive for instructional program – Made changes to settings – Permitted Help Desk staff to block/unblock with audit done by Computer Security Specialist Developed profiles for students and adults

Filtering in VBCPS Filtering Profiles – Administrator – Instructional Staff – Non-Instructional Staff – Guests and Volunteers – Students (7 different) – Restricted

Filtering in VBCPS Block by category – About 30 possible – Between 6 and 10 are blocked Staff – Gambling – Dating sites – Malicious – Lingerie

Filtering in VBCPS Students – Gambling – Chat rooms – Dating sites – – Violence – Malicious – Lingerie

Unblock/Block Site Requests All staff can request through Help Desk Help Desk staff can unblock/block with review by Computer Security Specialist Questions referred to Computer Security Specialist Consult with Department of Curriculum and Instruction as needed

Filtering Responsibility in AUP

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Images and Image Search Permit Google Images in a forced Strict SafeSearch mode – Content Keeper will filter most inappropriate images Most other image search engines blocked

Google Image Search

Main flickr site is blocked Specific urls permitted through Content Keeper – Library of Congress –

flickr

What about Blogging? Division provided blogging site through Edublogs for staff – Staff post with moderated student comments – Investigating permitting students to be added as “users” to a class or teacher blog site 21Classes – Safe, secure environment for students – Managed by teacher SharePoint/MOSS2007 in

What About Wikis? Permit sites such as Wikispaces, PBWiki, and Wet Paint for use by staff and studentsWikispacesPBWiki Wet Paint Wikis are “private” for use with students Teachers manage access for students SharePoint/MOSS2007 in

Video Conferencing Anyone? H.323 capability in distance learning labs Mobile H.323 units for checkout Desktop video conferencing – Windows Live Meeting – Windows Live Messenger

Social Networking, Really? Ning Twitter Facebook/MySpace PageFlakes – Filter out inappropriate “flakes” Delicious IM

And What About Student ? Need – 21 st Century Skill – Access to many web 2.0 applications – Communication with teachers – College applications Solutions – Gaggle.Net Gaggle.Net – Microsoft Exchange Labs Microsoft Exchange Labs – Google Apps for Education Google Apps for Education

Balancing Safety and Access: Moving Beyond the Acceptable Use Policy Bill Johnsen Virginia Beach City Public Schools