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The Department of Education and Training provides a level of content filtering with its basic black list service. This is a list of sites that have been identified as unsuitable for the education market.

Users can a request for sites to be added to the list or for a blocked site to be reviewed and reconsidered. This is done by emailing the DET Customer Service Centre. [CSCInbox.CSC.CO@det.wa.edu.au] or telephoning Customer Support on (08) 9264 5555.

Please include the following details in your message:

• Site URL and Title
• Teacher’s name, ID and contact details
• Educational purpose for site

For more information about Content Filtering visit the CMIS page Educational Implications of Filtering.

Also relevant are the  following CMIS pages:

• Student Safety Online
• Developing School Policy
• DET and School Content Filtering
• Student Responsibilities and Acceptable Use Policies
• Protecting Student Privacy
• Safe Surfing Strategies
• Cyberbullying
• Combating Net Nasties in Your Classroom

The purpose of the research was to inform policymakers and schools on the potential benefits of Web 2.0 technologies and how their use can be effectively and safely realised. It shows that young people are attracted to many of the Web 2.0 developments, some of which may also be appropriate to use in schools. It also found that, when used effectively, Web 2.0 technologies had “a positive impact on motivation and engagement through involving students in more participatory learning.”

5.00pm Friday 26 September

and

7.00am Tuesday 30 September

2008

due to a planned Central Office power upgrade. During these periods, all centrally delivered online services including email, internet portal and web access will be unavailable. Services provided by the ICT Customer Service Centre will also not be available.

Readers of the CMIS blogs will be unable to access the CMIS website and Resource Bank. Blog links to resources hosted on the DET WA portal servers will not be available during the upgrade.

Times stated are for Perth, Western Australia (GMT+8). Use The World Clock - Time Converter to calculate your local time.

We are proud of our community.
We are proud of our history and our present.
We are proud of our children, and our artists, and our songmen,
we are proud of our whole place.
Because we are proud of all these things,
we are sharing them with you.

from Inside Film

…Twelve Canoes is a website which paints a compelling portrait of the art, culture, history and place of the Yolngu people whose homeland is the town of Ramingining and the Arafura Swamp of north-central Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.

The high-end site is a work of art in itself; honouring the people of the Arafura swamp, and built around twelve filmed “visual poems” describing and illustrating many aspects of Yolngu history, life and culture from Creation, Our Ancestors, The Macassans, First White Men, Thomson Time, The Swamp, Plants and Animals, and Seasons, to Kinship, Ceremony, Language, and a slice of contemporary life in Nowadays.

Other features of the site include galleries which showcase Ramingining art and artists, music and songmen, language and common terms, and photographs that capture the essence of life in the region. More…

The Australian National Film and Sound Archive is hosting the Twelve Canoes website.

The CMIS Resource Bank Help pages will assist you in using the Resource Bank to locate resources suited to your specific curriculum needs and your students’ phase of development.

Through My Window is a simple and engaging email activity designed to allow students to communicate about their world through words and images. Descriptions are posted on the website and students from around the world may email their artistic interpretations back to the authors. Students may then evaluate their descriptions to see if the wording they have used has provided an accurate picture of their scenario.

In the Task Section at Step 3: Connect teachers can register with the Through my window coordinator who controls the posting of descriptions.  The activity model on the website could easily be used without registering to take part, although by registering children are given the opportunity to see their work published online (permission required).

In the Description Section examples of student work can be viewed by clicking the Stage 1 and Stage 2 buttons.  In the Archive section work from students can be seen at Stage 2 and Stage 3 including an interpretive view from another school.

Schools across Australia are invited to contribute to this on-going project and its companion project The Adventures of Ebenezer Q. Emu.

This is a creative activity in which students in the Early years of schooling use a story wizard to create an adventure using their own words, digital pictures and sound effects.Students also have the option of recording their words in English and another language. The story may be viewed on the computer and/or printed out for use in classrooms or school libraries.Completed adventures may be submitted to the website project manager for subsequent inclusion on the website.

The site includes ample planning and assessment assistance for teachers. Proformas are available for students to prepare their stories, children are encouraged to use sound files and clip art and there is a Library where completed stories are published.

Although both projects relate particularly to NSW Syllabus outcomes, the activities can be readily applied across several WA Learning Areas outcomes including English, The Arts, Technology and Enterprise, Mathematics, Languages, and Society and Environment.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has adapted the online game, initially developed by UK-based child advocacy agency Childnet International,  for use in Australian schools. In the scenario, children play the role of a school Deputy Principal concerned about the welfare of a new student, who may be being bullied by someone they have met in an internet chat room. Guided by a series of clues, children work collaboratively in teams to solve the mystery of what is worrying the student, and why.

‘Cybersmart Guides’ respond to the questions and theories posed by the students, and guide the teams through each of the ‘clues’. As the scenario unfolds, the children discuss the risks of certain online and offline behaviours, and ways of managing those risks.

• Australian Communications and Media Authority: http://www.cybersmartkids.com.au

• Netalert - the Australian Internet Safety Advisory Board: http://www.netalert.gov.au

1. There has been a modification to school bandwidth allocations which is effective immediately. Details of the allocation formula changes can be found on the Intranet Some schools may find their allocation decreased whilst others will have increased. Generally schools will have a “per student” mb increase.
2. Improvement in Anti-virus protection for the Department’s Network should result in safer Internet browsing for DET users.

 For further information, please contact the Customer Service Centre on 9264 5555, regional callers 1800 012 828 or via email.

If you’d like to follow up by continuing to use the Internet to read some of the research, try The New York Times Web Extra:  Further Reading on Reading. And as a thought to ponder: “What do we as teachers need be doing to teach our students how to read online resources?”

Want to explore how others are using ICT to help students learn better? Want to be able to inspire and motivate students in the 21^st Century. Then the ECAWA conference is the place to be!

Some of the presentations that may be of particular interest to educators of students in the Primary and Middle School years include:

More information about the ECAWA 2008 State Conference, Keynote Speakers, presentations and workshops, as well as a registration form can be found by following the link from http://ecawa.wa.edu.au/

Draft program and presenter information now available

ECAWA Annual state conference 2008

ICT Connect

Canning College, Marquis St, Bentley

Thursday 17th July and Friday 18th July 2008

Cost $100 per delegate

http://ecawa.wa.edu.au/conferences/conference08/

Your Year 10 students can shape future safety in the cyberworld.

Schools are invited to nominate up to 6 Year 10 students to attend the Cyber Friendly Student Summit to be held at the Sheraton Hotel, Wednesday October 22, 2008.

Participating students will take part in interactive activities, facilitated discussion groups and will have the opportunity to cast their vote about issues and actions relating to cyber bullying via electronic voting technology.

To increase students’ knowledge of key cyber bullying issues before they attend the Summit, nominated students are required to create and send in an original multi-media submission in any format up to 30 seconds long. Students are NOT required to present their submission at the Summit, but a selection of multi-media submissions will be shown during the Summit program. Students who participate in preparing a multi-media submission for the Summit or who attend the Summit may count these hours as contributing toward their Community Service requirement.

The CMIS Cyberbullying webpage provides links to resources to support cyber safety teaching and learning programs.

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