So, for 2008

The time has come to look to 2008 and what we would like to achieve. We have already done the Hardware Audit and know what we are purchasing for 2008. We will end up with 220 Desktops, 56 School owned Laptops, and probably 50 -100 students with laptops. I cant see any changes to the current filtering protocols, and I would like for us to do some “trials” with a group of students. I sent the following to twisted for her to dwell upon.Ok, so I’ve been thinking (which has often proved to be very dangerous) and if you want to present at ELH 2008 on “TFT” we could approach it in the following way.

1. Create a wish list of what you’d like to be able to use (blog’s, twitter, etc.) and what you’d like to achieve with them.
2. I will then investigate and create (as best we can) these for you to use.
   • This may be hosted locally or remotely depending on how we go.
   • This may need a certain class/classes to be set up with different filtering options (I’ll explain how we can do this at some stage) which may need a submission to the powers that be and parental acceptance etc.
3. Teach to your hearts content using these new options and glean (isn’t that a silly word) as much info on the pro’s and con’s of what you’ve found in doing this.
4. We then do 2 presentations, to both teachers and techs, about what we wanted to achieve and how we achieved it by being united in what we wanted to do.

Just my early thoughts…… Lets see what we can do with this. If we can get LG with 2 classes in the same area we could use the original methods with 1 and the new and improved with the other. Though using this as a comparison may not be suitable depending on where they are to start with, but you’d get to see how students respond to the newer approach.Let me know what you think about this? Are there any issues I’m not covering here. Cheers,TFT.