ACPE Session 5 - Video Solutions

Video Solutions - A case study of vid hosting at Umatilla-Morrow

Goals

• provide hosting for large files
• economical solution with room to grow
• data redundancy
• cross platform

internally hosted, no coaxial anywhere

ACPE Session 4 - Social Media in the Classroom

Social Media in the Classroom

First reaction - LOCK IT DOWN!!!!

Why do we consider social media?

Sutton' s Law - that's where the $$$ (students) are

We are not int he information age, been through past and exited

now communication age

BYOD (bring your own device)

ever changing landscape- everyday is different

What tools can we use outside of Facebook?

edmodo

schoology

delicious.com/cmcquinn/acpe2011social

ACPE Session 3 - Digital Forensics

cyber crime = anything committed w/ the use or assistance of a computer

intrusion is a broad term used to refer to exceeding granted permissions on a "protected computer"

ic3.gov

only secure network is unplugged

best practices for seizing electronic evidence v3

http://www.forwardedge2.com/pdf/bestpractices.pdf

http://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/ccmanual/appxb.html

ACPE Session 2 - Minimizing Administrivia in IT: Policy v Responsibilities

http://goo.gl/l4IFF

Minimizing Administrivia in IT: Policy vs Responsibilities

Thursday, May 5, 2011 - 1:30–2:45 p.m.

http://goo.gl/l4IFF



Areas for discussion will include topics such as:

• filtering specific Internet sites
• Challenges
• Who decides what sites get blocked? Is it an instructional or a technical decision?
• Do we take control just because nobody else is stepping in and taking control of the decisions?
• Not a problem because we are able to look and see if it’s appropriate or not. Tech folks can tell?
• Where is the gray area - is it getting broader.
• Teachers may not use the best judgement - South Park social site.
• No advanced notice on getting something unblocked.
• Are we overblocking and how do we solve that.
• Teachers often only look at the first page and deeper in the site there is inappropriate material.
• Sometimes we end up being in charge because it’s easier to deal with the individual exceptions than go through the process of designing the process.
• Best Practices
• CC the curriculum side to see if blocks are the best instructional practice. Let them make the final decision to block or unblock.
• Can we filter out portions of the site?
• Send URL to curriculum manager, or administrator to make final decision.
• IN deciding which filter to use, go through a process to select the product and establish a process on how the decision is make to block or unblock a particular site. This takes time to establish.
• We’ve changed the whole premise. We allow teachers to go anywhere that is not adult. Teachers and students have different profiles of filtering. This has brought the complaints way down. If a student wants to get to a blocked site, the teacher can override the filter with their authentication.
• The majority of the districts present allow teacher override of filter.
• How do you handle students who bring their own device with their own Internet capable device
• Responsible use of device rather than acceptable use of device.
• Why not let students on with their own devices. As
• What problems are seen.
• Filter wireless at the higher level.
• They need to login to the district with their own credentials. - Filtered on own credentials. If no login, filtered like a KG level student.
• We have had open wireless for a couple of years. other than the bandwidth hogs, we are trying to get students to use the network so at least they are being filtered.
• Who does the evangelism for the use of this?
• Happens by accident
• Advocate within the Tech Department
• Advocate among the teachers
• Have had some security breaches to servers through the wireless network. Done through a personal device attached to the network.
• DMZ needs to be established to protect as much from the INSIDE as well as the OUTSIDE. Firewall inside and out.
• Tunnel a specific SSID specifically for personal devices.
• EMail for all students
• Challenges
• How do you allow students to choose?
• Opt in and Opt Out?
• Some boards have insisted on Opt In.
• Takes lots of time to get forms returned.
• Decision made on basis of fear.
• Student, “They wont arrange kegger via email, but rather by texting.”
• Opt out is part of student handbook.
• When you make form, make sure that you also deal with posting of images as well.
• Students don’t want to use the district account, instead they use their personal account
• We collect paper about permissions and teachers ignor. Changes the liability though to district to teacher. It becomes an actionable personnel item.
• Shouldn’t we be providing the tools to help the teacher avoid violation of these rules.
• Professional development issue.
• Personnel decision in many cases instead of a technology decision. We find ourselves in the middle often.
• IT gets caught in the middle.
• It should be a partnership between IT-Administration-Teachers-Parents
• Parents need to be aware of the consequences of opting in or out.
• ParaEducator.com
• Way to get PD for staff. Technology staff gets caught running the program/software/etc.
• Examples
• Textbook management
• Online tests on paraeducator.com
• Best practices
• Edmonds - created “tech points” with the job of offering general technical advice at the building level. Heads off some requests before it’s escalated to technology
• Advanced agreement that people who are getting the system control the system. We can keep it running, but they manage it.
• Difficult to maintain the separation rather take it over.
• VersaTrans is an example.
• Service level agreements to document definition of roles for all parties involved.
• Created a project form to outline questions to define responsibilities, TCO, etc. Works to keep control of rogue projects and systems.
• End user misunderstanding on when IT needs to be involved. How do we explain it?
• Constant communication.
• Clear communication
• Be approachable
• Healthy and clear boundaries
• How many or our decisions are about protecting the district instead of educating students.
• student and staff investigations that involve technology
• Challenges
• They happened and it tends to fall to the technology department to do the investigations. How is this handled in other places.
• Who can tell you to do an investigation?
• Human Resources - staff
• Student investigation comes from Principal
• Written procedure
• different levels.
• Full on forensics
• “Who accessed building on a given day” can come from principal
• Always get requests in writing
• Who spot checks?
• What do you do if you find something when going about your other duties?
• Make it clear to all staff that email and files are not private.
• If found, forward to HR.
• Let people know that you can see everything. Everything gets logged, yet it’s always a surprise when it becomes an issue.
• Are there any proactive measures being put in place:
• Boundary policy and training established in Washington.
• Policy #5253
• Professional development is critical and often needs to be repeated.
• Important to try to get it cabinet level of awareness.
• Twitter may be a good choice because it’s available to everyone to look out. Athletic departments often use. Better alternative than text messaging
• How often are AUPs sent out for staff to resign?
• When updated. Is that often enought
• Part of handbook and must be signed each year.
• When staff member first comes is signed. Then comes each year from HR department and not Technology
• Flashes on login screen and they need to “agree” before they move forward.
• New laptops deployed and instead of just an asset tag, added a reminder about who owns the computer and policy that must be followed when using the device.
• Best Practices
• building security
• Challenges
• Best Practices
• use of district technology by outside agencies.
• Challenges
• Best Practices

ACPE Session 1 - Cloud Computing and Where to Draw the line

Portland Public in the cloud

Cloud originated in the idea of moving data off the local network and out to the "cloud" but definition is a moivng target

• Multiple logical systems on fewer physical (virtualization)
• dynamic
  
  
  
• SAAS - software as a service
• IAAS - Infrastructure as a service
• PASS - platform as a service

questions to ask

• percentage of user pop that need the functionality
• need/want high redundancy
• low risk data

costs

• low implementation/upfront code
• higher maintenance
• don't need less staff to manage service
• support
• hidden cost

risks

• downtime (see Amazon)
• data security
• investigate support
• long term viability
• feature requests at vendor discretion

Integrations

• authentication method
• data availability
• automation of data export
• does it work with software in your environment today?

NWRESD - Google Summit session 3 - Google Ninja bTricks

Google Ninja Tricks

presented by Steve Prull

https://sites.google.com/a/pinetreeschools.org/googlesitesclass/

• language tools
  translate
  translate bot 4 chat
• Bodyworks (http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/) the invisible man google style
• PDF OCR on the fly
• url shortener (goo.gl)
• self grading quiz
• google docs with auto data import
• Google Art Gallery - virtually tour famous museums around the world (http://www.googleartproject.com/)
• Google Voice

and more. Time to go now, 2pm wrapping it up and the battery is gonna balk any second.

NWRESD - Google Summit session 2 - Google Sites

Google Sites

Presented by Virgina Pettit

and ya gotta love the cloud didn't save my post from this session, not mch there though.

https://sites.google.com/a/pinetreeschools.org/googlesitesclass/

off to lunch and then session 3