I will be answering Question #2

According to our school districts policy in relation to accessing Web 2.0 content is that all district or building web sites shall have a staff member who shall monitor and be responsible for approving the content of the information, which is accessible on each web site. The content of the information shall be in compliance with the Millard Public Schools policy/rules including, but not limited to, the rules for Journalism: Prohibited Expressions (6605.1) and Internet Safety Filtering (7310.1). From what I understand our district blocks out much of the web 2.0 content, the only website that students can access is YouTube, and even than it must be accessed with direct teacher supervision. After speaking with our schools tech person he further went into detail why the district has chosen to block out such websites like, face book and twitter. Biggest reason which came as a surprise to me was the available bandwidth and that access to the sites had to be restricted by our deepnines technology because computers were freezing up in classrooms. Another reason was that many administrators felt that the content of such websites were inappropriate and should fall under the internet safety filtering. This does make sense considering the content of what can be found on these pages, some of it can be flagged as inappropriate other content just might not be education based. I think the district’s policy is correct; access to social networking websites should be restricted because of just simple productivity and speed. Inappropriate material should not be seen in school (or anywhere for that matter) but access to some Web 2.0 content should be allowed as long as it is under the direct supervision of a teacher or administrator.