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=Meeting - March 18th 2011 at Regent's School Bangkok.=
 * ISTEC (International Schools Technology Exchange)**

A termly meeting of teachers and staff working in international school-children's education

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TIMES and LOCATION Start at 9:00 am ( coffee and snacks from 8:30). The meeting will take place at the new (Rama9) Primary school Campus, opposite the Cambodian Embassy on Pracha-Uhtit Rd From MRT Thai Cultural Centre take a taxi to the Cambodian Embassy- the school is opposite, down a small soi. Please note we have two Bangkok campuses located about a mile from each other. The older school close to Meng Jai cross roads is our secondary (high) school. Link to Google Maps

**Itinerary** 8:30 - 9:00 Coffee and Snacks 9:00:- 9:15 Welcome (Michael Leahy- Head of Primary) & Introductions 9:15- 10:15 Presentation - Frog VLE Tariq Isa 10:15-10:40 Discussion (Ipad/Slates) 10:40-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00- 12:00 Discussion (E-safety) 12:00-12:45 Lunch 12:45- 1:30 Primary ICT- ** Primary ICT agenda / Alternative discussion eg** Wireless Security 1:30- 2:30 Other items for discussion- eg Electronic Textbooks 2:30 -2:45 Transport to CC Secondary Campus 2:45- 3:15 Tour of Secondary Campus (optional) 3:15 - onwards Drinks at LA Restaurant (AKA Narong's) opposte CC Campus

Frog - Initial cost of Frog 21,000-27,000 pounds (Dell Server included) initial cost 5,000-7,000 pounds recurring prices
==** iPads and slates. Are they the 'one to one' device of the future or just a current fashion? ** ==

1. Does your school allow students to use tablets/slates (iPad, Acer, Galaxy etc.) in class and/or outside of class? 1.1 At Patana we allow their use in lesson but the policy is that the student must have a laptop also. Currently they are not allowed to be used outside of lesson, for example at lunch or break. Laptops can be used but in a designated classroom. We are closing down all our labs over the summer as all secondary students will bring laptops, so we will probably have classes where students can go at break and lunch to work and print, rather than having them sitting around the corridors with laptops open.

2. Are you making any plans to support their use? For example, more bandwidth, policy, making peripherals available (keyboards, mice, monitors) for them? 2.1 Patana - Yes, I think we need to.

3. Will you allow students to use them instead of laptops? 3.1 Patana - It is not policy but I expect it will happen.

4. Will your technicians support the various makes and operating systems for student devices? 4.1 Patana - A tricky issue, we don't have an answer for this yet.

ESF ( Paul White )  are using iPod touch and iPads K-3 and in our special school - basically with kids who don't have laptops. For our trial we are using school owned devices synced off a single iTunes account - but as this basically illegal (the US are introducing apps with multi use licenses for schools, but it will not be all apps as developers will have to agree for their app to be included in the scheme - we are planning to move to parent owned -they buy the apps on the appolicious library. We see a move from 1:1 schemes to 3:1 schemes - where students have multiple devices (iphone ipad netbook depending on the task)


 * [|__www.appolicious.com/users/ESFhk/library__]

How do schools manage the security of their wireless networks? Who (and with what devices) is allowed to connect?

What is the latest on sourcing electronic copies of textbooks for students. Has anyone made and deals/arrangements with publishers?

E-book management (free): [] Firefox e-book reader (plug-in EPUB Reader) : []

E-Safety
At Regent's a recent drive has been to increase Esafety awareness in school. We'd like to include a debate about strategies used in other ISTECschools.What do other schools think?

[]- CEOP - Thinkyouknow [] Parental Involvement

 360 Cybersafety [|__wins BETT Award__] ( Paul White ) The 21 English Schools Foundation schools in Hong Kong are looking to move away from an Ad hoc approach to cyber safety towards something more systematic


 * The Generation Safe™ 360 Self Assessment online tool provides a means for schools to review their digital citizenship practices and to develop an action plan to bring about improvements.
 * [|__http://generationsafe.ikeepsafe.org/faq/__]
 * [|__http://www.generationsafe360.org/__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #073763; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">contact <span style="cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">robyn@cybersafekids.com.au

Excellent Cyber Safety / Digital Citizenship site from NSW DoE&T with lesson plans, games and more: @http://bit.ly/cTkh3y

**ePortfolios**

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( Paul White <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #073763; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) ESF schools are using a number different ePortfolio solutions: =====

Cool Websites
I just wanted to mention a great resource for younger students doing **on-line game creation** in a safe environment.<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.gamestarmechanic.com] is a fantastic site that is good for teaching the basic ideas of game creation. It is monitored for content, and there is a free trial version (at least there was the last time I checked). Douglas (KIS Bangkok)

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[] - <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Securely receive files from anyone to your Dropbox. [|__http://packrati.us/__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Diigo/Delicious/Twitter Everytime you send tweet with a hash tag it adds the bookmark to your social bookmarks Livebinders <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|www.edmodo.com] A social network / homework submission site [|www.Weebly.com] - making a website was never so easy ICT for ESL learners <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__ [|simple.wikipedia.com] __  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google - Advanced search (basic reading age) <span style="color: #0e774a; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 15px; white-space: normal;">www.topicmarks.com - condense text [] e doc reader <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[] - Epub reader - add-on for Firefox [] - Free <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font: small/15px arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; webkitborderhorizontalspacing: 0px; webkitborderverticalspacing: 0px; webkittextdecorationsineffect: none; webkittextsizeadjust: auto; webkittextstrokewidth: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">1500 MB Webspace, PHP, free MySQL database, SSI, Full Ftp and more. []- Just email and your blog will be updated

[] - great for making stories
[] - great for comics, digital art and more. [] - for posters [] - posting notes [] - the zooming presentation [] - a brainstorming activity [] - surveys [] - mindmaps and charts [] - Early Years, Year 1 and 2 resources [] - schemes of work

Links to previous ISTEC minutes
Sep 2010 - Patana May 2010 Concordian May 2008

[|Future Meetings]

 * Shrewsbury School - June 2011
 * TechEx2011 October 2011 We want to make it relevant for the teachers in your schools who may want to attend. Could we spend some time brainstorming what you'd like to see at <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|TechEx2011] ?
 * Bromsgrove School- Term 2 (2012)

Possible Future Trade Presentations at ISTEC
**Adobe Educatio**n-
 * HP**