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toc =** Issues to consider when working online **=
 * What is age appropriate? **** What are we allowed to use? **** What needs to be administered, blocked? **


 * Introduction: **Schools are becoming more and more aware of what it means to live, work and play online. Issues are prevalent for both teachers and students. For example, what material is suitable to access? What is truth? What is age appropriate? What is morally and ethically questionable? Do students know how to search for material on the web? Do they know hot to evaluate the material they have found? What filtering systems need to be in place, when accessing the internet? What is legal to download, use and share? What about internet piracy? Some considerations when working online, have been unpacked further below.

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** Unpacking the Issues **
The following issues have also been raised by Dorothy and Russell Burt and originally posted in Suzie Vesper's Learning Web 2.0 wiki. The responses in this link are from one school's perspective - Point England. The following tasks invite you to share what course of action your school has taken to address some of these issues.

Place of online tools within the school **  **Introduction:** Ethical issue no.1 - Place of online tools within the school. With access to a wide range of free web based tools, schools will need to consider what this means in the long term. As discussed in  Learning Web 2.0 wiki , how is your school addressing the following issues?

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 * Reflection: ** How has your school addressed this so far? **Leave a message in the DISCUSSION tab above** (this will appear in the thread below).



**Age restrictions in online tools**

 **Introduction:** Ethical issue no.2 - Age restrictions in online tools. Teachers  may have got excited by new technologies, and decided to adopt these into their classroom programmes. As discussed in  Learning Web 2.0 wiki <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">, are your teachers aware of sites that have age restrictions such as [|Blogger.com] where you must be 13 years of age to use the service?

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 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reflection: **<span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">How have you dealt with this issue? **Leave a message in the DISCUSSION tab above** (this will appear in the thread below).

Internet Censorship
//<span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">This area feeds into an on-going discussion originally started in Digital citizenship and cyber safety module //


 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Introduction: **<span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Many schools use internet blockers. They block the dangerous and inappropriate sites that should be blocked, but they also block sites that possibly don't need to be blocked and have real potential educational value - like Youtube, wikispaces, blogs etc. Sometimes you can type a word like 'shag' hoping to find a relevant website on birds, only to find these sites are blocked as well. In issue 24, Interface Magazine ran an interesting article on [|Staying cybersafe in your classrooms]. You are invited to add comments in their website.


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Blocking web sites at school **


 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reflection: **<span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Should we lock our systems down or find another way to manage them using tools like [|Hector's World Safety Button]? What do you think? Please add your comments in the Voicethread application below. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Note: <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">You will need an existing account with [|VoiceThread] to do this. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">

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 * //<span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Anyone interested in this conversation, may also want to respond to NetSafe's [|Filtering in Schools] online discussion. //**

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<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Additional resources to consider:

<span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**<span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Netbasics ** []

This blog post gives you alternatives to open online tools should you need to have in-house solutions that are locked down.
 * Working within a Walled Garden**

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 * <span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Point England School blog - how to manage online spaces when they roll over **

http://www.interfacemagazine.co.nz/articles.cfm?c_id=&id=576
 * Aviary give schools a safer way to get creative**

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 * [|Blogging Safely]**