1. Balancing Safety and Access: Moving Beyond the Acceptable Use Policy Bill Johnsen Virginia Beach City Public Schools William.johnsen@vbschools.com

4. What Do You Do??

5. 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

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

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

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

9. 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

10. Filtering Responsibility in AUP

11. AUP

12. 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

13. Google Image Search

14. Main flickr site is blocked Specific urls permitted through Content Keeper – Library of Congress – http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress

15. flickr

16. 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 2009-2010

17. 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 2009-2010

18. 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

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

20. And What About Student Email? 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

21. Balancing Safety and Access: Moving Beyond the Acceptable Use Policy Bill Johnsen Virginia Beach City Public Schools William.johnsen@vbschools.com