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 Are the students in your district allowed to use social networking sites at school?

Are they allowed to use social networking sites at home using school provided computers?

Which of these does your district allow the use of in school: school provided student e-mail accounts, students home e-mail accounts, You-tube, Moodle, Wikis, Blogging, none of the above?

If your district uses Moodle, check each grade level it is allowed. High school, Middle School 6, 7, 8, Elementary k -2, 3-5, Moodle is not used in our district.

Results: The results of the ACTEM survey were less than momentus. The survey was sent out to 757 members of ACTEM. We recieved 13 responses. We were both disappointed by this response. This could be a result of too much research being done and the the fact that ACTEM members are surveyed too often. As a result, I don't think we can accurately quote statistics, but we did receive some interesting information.

Question 1: What schoool district do you work for? We received answers from various parts of the state. Responses came from northern (MSAD 1,MSAD 41,), coastal (Isleboro, union 91), and southern Maine(Cape Elizabeth and South Portland) as well as others

Question 2: What is the size of your student population? Sizes of the poplulation ranged from 400 students up to 2,000. The survey was also answered by someone from DOE that listed 190,000 students. We feel that the answers from DOE should be looked at a bit separetly.**insert graph**

Question 3: What is the percentage of you rstudetns recieving free and reduced lunch? The majority of answers were in the 51-60% of students in a district received free or reduced lunch. However, as a result of the small number, 23.1% was actually only 3 responses. We don't feel that, because of this small number of respondents, the statistics of this question has any validity and should not be looked as important information for this paper.

Question 4: What filters do you use in your district? Most respondents listed BESS which is provided with the MLTI computers. RSU 14 (Windham Raymond) answered "Too many to know" While Cape Elizabeth listed Watchguard and SAD 4 llisted Cymponix.

Question 5: Are students and staff subject to the same level of filtering? Seven of the people responding do have the same level of filtering between student/staff, while six do not. **Insert graph**

Question 6: Does your staff have a password to bypass filters? Seven of the responses stated that they did have a filter, though one remarked that if used, the filter would disable the filters for 15 minutes. **insert graph**

Question 7: How do you deal with social networking sites? Please check all that apply. This graph shows that social networking is not allowed in most of the schools, but that students are allowed to use the equipment at home. **insert graph**

Question 8: Which of these are your students allowed to accesss in school? Please check all that apply. This data clearly shows that other districts are more open to the tools that the students will need to use in their lives. The use of these applications allow quallity teaching of cybersafe/cybersensible use of the internet. The "teachable moments" for discussion of how to be cyber-safe must take part in the schools and teaching it when using 'real tools" is much more realistic. The other interesting thing worth noting, Augusta does not allow any of the students or staff to have access to any of these tools. I was allowed to use "wikispaces" but Andrea never received access.**insert graph**

Question 9: Check each grade level allowed to use course management systems to communicate and collaborate.**insert graph**

Question 10: What tools are available to your elementary students for collaboration? The answers varied from google aps,google docs, moodle, wikis, noteshare, voicethread, and epals.