Received: from tegan.swt.edu (tegan.swt.edu [147.26.10.12]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e66Dxev22625 for <nifl-technology@nifl.gov>; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 09:59:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from swt.edu (heidi.ci.swt.edu) by swt.edu (PMDF V5.1-9 #20823) with ESMTP id <01JRFW8PJ2U499E9G9@swt.edu> for nifl-technology@nifl.gov; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 08:59:39 CDT Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 09:04:35 -0500 From: Eileen Trainor <et02@swt.edu> Subject: Re: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:1147] regulating internet use To: nifl-technology@nifl.gov Message-id: <396491F2.2A110225@swt.edu> Organization: Center for Initiatives in Education X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: <39641B69.4F6E1C8F@earthlink.net> Status: O Content-Length: 1708 Lines: 40 Fortress software will protect your system. Net Nanny will also work--I'm not sure of price of Fortress. Net Nanny is about $34 Shawn Usha wrote: > Hi; > > I've just had a depressing day after returning from a short vacation. > All Internet browsing and email software has been removed from the > computers in my ABE/GED classroom because of students abuse of Internet > access. A teacher in a different session has had difficulties > monitoring and controlling the students browsing adult sites and > spending time in chat rooms. > The Administrators making this decision are very supportive of > technology. It is very ironic that a school recently wired with a fiber > optic system has Internet access denied to students. While this is a > problem limited this to this teacher, I know from previous interactions > that addressing this as a training of that teacher will not work. Yes, > I feel it is unfair that all should suffer because on one staff member's > unmoveable barrier to improving their lack of skills. > Once I recover from how upsetting this, I would to rationally approach > to the administrators involved and get access back. My instinct is > telling me is that unless I present some pretty convincing way of > foolproofing Internet access so it is restricted to educational > activities I will not get it back. > Any suggestions? > Shawn Usha -- Eileen Trainor, Grant Coordinator Project Inter-ALT http://cie.ci.swt.edu/interalt Texas Crime Stoppers http://www.spotlight.swt.edu/crimestoppers Center for Initiatives in Education Southwest Texas State University 601 University Drive, #1002 San Marcos, TX 78666 512 245 9047 (desk) 512 245 8151 (fax) 877 798 8324 (toll free)
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