Comments on: Firewall vs Adminwall

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Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:53:56 +0000

[...] out there. So we emphasize the good, make little of the bad (see Jeff’s ThinkingStick post on this), and get people on [...]

By: Sean Martinson

Sean Martinson — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:22:36 +0000

May I suggest looking at the following site when talking with your administration? It’s a much better example of what YouTube can do for education without all of the other videos that come along with YouTube.

http://www.uthtv.com/

Who knows, this may answer your questions and negate the need for YouTube.

Love to hear how your attempts to cross the adminwall come out.

Sincerely,
Sean Martinson

By: Danita Russell

Danita Russell — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:03:16 +0000

Bravo! The ITF’s in my county have recently had this exact conversation. We, as a group, are split. Some of us (guess which one I am?) want to experiment and lessen the reigns and some are steadfast in not trying. It upsets me to think that there are so many wonderful tools that our students are not being allowed to access. We MUST teach our students the difference between appropriate and inappropriate websites. If we don’t, then that is exactly where they’ll go as soon as no one is looking.

I liked your idea of setting up a school youtube account. I am very interested. Would you please email me and let me know who you did that? Will any video that I save to our school account play as long as we access through the school account?

I truly enjoy reading your blog and often visit repeatedly to read a blog I’ve already read. You are an inspiration!

Danita

By: Lnitsche

Lnitsche — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:15:55 +0000

As a classroom teacher I have been comtemplating and creating a list of the top ten tips to engage teachers in integrating technology into their classes. You hit on a critical strategy. Kudos! It’s not bragging, it’s spreading your enthusiasm, and honoring and celebrating the success of your teachers. Their enthusiam will help make the message spread expotentially. Engaging adminstrators is on the top of my tips list.

By: Dennis Harter

Dennis Harter — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:32:07 +0000

This post, a recent Washington Post article, and Medagogy’s latest post got me thinking (ranting?) about how incredibly great our responsibility is to ensure that students are not only safe users, but also responsible ones. In getting my head around it, I got pretty longwinded on my blog.

One of the hard parts that you run into with the Adminwall is the fear of the bad stuff that happens. Much to many schools’ chagrin, this bad stuff, prevents them from using the tools that have such great educational benefit.
What Adminwalls are missing is that these tools NEED to be available to students and schools so that we can help ensure that responsible use is the norm and not misuse. Skills can be learned by the kids without us, but the implications and the ethics of use require conversations and discussion and education…sounds like a school to me. More on this on my blog.

By: mark

mark — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:39:11 +0000

again i think you are bang on. Jeff Dungan, myself and the entire CMS technology team are working tirelessly to develop the trust you speak to; its coming. I see the role of CMS tech facilitators as motivators who continue to push our collegues to the possibilities of technology. We need to continue to push, sometimes hard, confident in the product we are selling.
We are winning over teachers in all sections of the school and i agree one hundred percent that getting the good news out is what we need to do. We publish everything we can in student showrooms, and i really do feel the wind beginning to shift.
Like Jeff U. and Justin I believe vehemently that the best thing for education is for me to become unemployed; when my position becomes obsolete and technology is inherently integrated in everything done then i can return to my true calling…

By: Peter Stinson

Peter Stinson — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 13:52:36 +0000

I learned a hack that works for some Google products (& Bloglines, too), but, alas, I don’t think it works for YouTube, at least yet: try https://. I’m able to access Google mail & other sites @ work which are blocked…

Of course, when the sysadmin figure out what I’m doing…