The section of my Confident and Connected keynote dealing with things for schools to consider before jumping into using online spaces.

1. Considerations when working
online
Adapted from a discussion forum post by Russell Burt

2. What do you feel are the
most important issues to
consider when beginning to
use online spaces in
classrooms?
What is your school doing
right now in relation to this?

3. Considerations when working online
Online spaces begin to appear in the school
The
standard
school
approach

4. Considerations when working online
Schools use Netsafe to help develop a cyber
safety policy
The
standard
school
approach
Netsafe kit for schools

5. Considerations when working online
Forms are sent out to parents asking
for them to agree to:
First names only
The
Photos with permission
standard
school No other personal details
approach published
The End!

6. but is this really the end???

7. Working online brings up other
complex issues that need to be
considered!

8. Start with the ‘Why?’
Reference - http://manaiakalani.blogspot.com/

9. What do you hope to achieve?
Action plan
Always 1. Learning outcomes
start with
the
purpose!

10. What do you hope to achieve?
Build it and they will come?
Always
start with
the
purpose!
Image - Crowd@Memorial Stadium by IAN RANSLEY DESIGN + ILLUSTRATION on Flickr

11. What do you hope to achieve?
To moderate or not to moderate?
Always
start with
the
purpose!

12. Consider your
community
Reference - http://manaiakalani.blogspot.com/

13. Consider your community
The ‘Walled
Garden’
community
that want
everything
locked
down
Image - Garden gate by niznoz on Flickr

14. Consider your community
The ‘Go for
it’
community
that are
happy for
most things
to go
online.
Image - So excited! by Andrew Nielsen on Flickr

15. Consider your community
The
‘Yes...but’
community
that have
concerns
but are
open to the
idea of
online
learning.
Image - 268/365 Default State by Helgasms! on Flickr

16. Consider your community
Start
You have to
start from a
point the
community Education
is
comfortable
with and go
from there.

17. Consultation with management before
staring online spaces in classrooms

18. Consulting with school management
Scenario -
enthusiastic
teacher
returns
from
conference

19. Consulting with school management
A blog is
set up Learning on the computer This is the blog of
a class of Year 4
without students at
Learning School
discussion
with
management Monday 12th June
Johnny
or Today I wrote a story on the
computer
Kate
Peter
community Jane

20. Consulting with school management
A
concerned
parent
complains
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21. Consulting with school management
The school
management
say the blog
needs to be
shut down.
Community
is
distrustful.

22. Consulting with school management
Senior staff
The use of
online
spaces Awareness
needs to be Monitor Communication
part of a Consultation
deliberate
school
strategy. Teachers using
online tools

23. Checking age restrictions on online
tools

24. Checking the age restrictions for tools
Scenario -
enthusiastic
teacher
sets up wiki

25. Checking the age restrictions for tools
Teacher account
Each
student is
set up with
an account
in order to
have an
individual
Account Account
login
Account Account
Account

26. Checking the age restrictions for tools
Many tools
have a 13
13 years +
year age
restriction
due to the
Children
Online
Privacy
Protection
Act.
http://www.coppa.org/coppa.htm

27. Checking the age restrictions for tools
Wiki
accounts
have to be
closed and
work is
lost.

28. Checking the age restrictions for tools
Possible
solution -
Use only Teacher account
when
logged into
a teacher
account

29. Checking the age restrictions for tools
Possible
solution -
Use a tool
that doesn’t
have an age
restriction

30. Checking the age restrictions for tools
Possible
solution -
Get a
Google
Apps
Education
account

31. Maintaining control of online spaces

32. Maintaining control of online spaces
Scenario -
teacher
sets up a
blog
through
correct Purpose
procedures Community
Management consultation
Age limits considered

33. Maintaining control of online spaces
Teacher Learning on the This is the
blog of a class
leaves of Year 4
during the
year. Monday 12th June Johnny
Today I wrote a story on Kate
the computer Peter

34. Maintaining control of online spaces
Login
The blog
was set up details
with the
?
teacher’s
own email
address and
password

35. Maintaining control of online spaces
Two years
later, the Learning on the computer This is the blog
of a class of Year
blog is still 4 students at
Learning School
online with
comments
accepted Monday 12th June
Today I wrote a story on the
Johnny
Kate
and no computer
Peter
Jane
monitoring

36. Maintaining control of online spaces
Solution -
all school Account
online
spaces to name@learning.school.nz
be set up
with school
based email
addresses.

37. Maintaining control of online spaces
Solution - Learning on the This is the
have a blog of a class
of Year 4
school
account or
other staff Monday 12th June
Today I wrote a story on the
Johnny
Kate
member as computer Peter
dual
account
holder

38. Ownership and life span of online
material

39. Ownership of online content
That’s our That’s my art
class blog. and writing.
Do you
need
permission
from
students to
keep work
online or
delete it?

40. Length of time work remains online
Should
work be
deleted at
the end of
the year/
end of time
in school/
never?
2010 2011 2012 2013 ?

41. Length of time work remains online
Solution -
have a
discussion as
a staff to
decide but
ensure that
the school is
able to
remove
content on
request.

42. Establishing naming conventions for
online spaces

43. Naming online spaces
http://mrsvesper.blogpost.com
Will the
blog ‘travel’
with the OR
teacher or
stay with
the class?
http://room2school.blogspot.com

44. Naming of online spaces
School http://room2school.blogspot.com
wide
conventions
can make it http://room3school.blogspot.com
easier for
the
community
to find each http://room4school.blogspot.com
blog and
engage.

45. Naming of online spaces
However,
teachers
become
very Learning on the computer This is the blog of a
class of Year 4
students at
attached to Learning School
their class
blogs and Monday 12th June Johnny
Kate
Today I wrote a story on the
may be computer
Peter
Jane
loath to
hand over if
changing
rooms.

46. Naming of online spaces
It is also
difficult to
reuse a blog
or wiki
address
should
another
teacher
want that
URL in the
Image - Recycled logo by TheTruthAbout... on Flickr
future

47. Naming of online spaces
http://mrsvesper.blogpost.com
Solution -
there is no
‘correct’
way to go
but schools OR
need to
have
discussed
this and
come to an
agreement http://room2school.blogspot.com

48. Preparing our students to work in a
digital environment

49. Respecting others
Learning on the computer
This is the blog of a
How to class of Year 4 students
at Learning School
comment
on blog
posts or in Johnny
Monday 12th June
wiki Today I wrote a story on the
Kate
Peter
computer
discussions Jane
I really liked the
story you wrote.

50. Making sensible choices
What do
you do if
you find
inappropriate
material
online?

51. Respecting the work of others
What are
you allowed
to reuse
from the
web?

52. Protecting yourself
How do
you deal
with cyber
bullying?

53. Respecting yourself
What
should you
put online?
Would it
pass the
‘would
grandma
approve’
test?
Image - Dna. Marina by Levy Carneiro Jr

54. Consider what your school needs
to focus on in relation to the issues
raised today. What support do you
need as an educator to be able to
work in online spaces effectively?

55. Risk
Con s
fide Issues
21stC nt
Connected