I can understand how it happens. I had a student assistant use the
circulation computer to go to some pretty obscene sites (at 50 I thought
I had seen a lot but this was beyond me). When I found this web site and
clicked on it the porn site came up. I hit escape another site came up;
I hit to logout another site came up. Each one getting more obscene. OH,
MY, I WAS GOING BLIND IT WAS SO NAUGHTY. I believe this is called
mousetrapping. It took less than 30 secs to reach behind the computer
and unplug it. Our tech guys came and took the info as evidence and
cleaned up the machine. They also gave me a lecture on not turning off
the computer by unplugging it. Needless to say, student assistant when
she came back from out of school suspension, was no longer a student
assistant. I think the court case was a travesty. However, I know that
it is not good for the computer but it takes nothing to pull the plug.
Becky Vasilakis
Library Media Specialist
Amanda Clearcreek SD
Amanda OH
bvasilakis@amanda.k12.oh.us
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From: School Library Media & Network Communications
[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Dawn Sardes
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 6:35 AM
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I wonder if the school had one of theose classroom management systems
where attendance and the number of kids buying the hot lunch v the cold
is logged and messaged vuia the network.
I was doing some subbing back when these were first coming out and
remember having a teache rlog me in and tell me to not, under any
circumstances, turn it off.
As a sub, too, I was, in most schools, instructed to be out in that
hall during class changes time. This often meant that I'd be out there
while students would be coming into the classroom, getting into
mischief, playing "let's get the sub in trouble."
I subbed in one high school and while I was out in that hall, one day
some 10th graders took a print the teacher was particularly fond of off
the wall and hid it, probably in a bookbag.
I never even noticed it missing. I had never even noticed it to begin
with. The next day, I was asked to come in, the teacher was upset, I
was accused of stealing it. It was found propped behind a boys toilet
somewhere a few days later, I'd heard, but I was never apologized too
and the incident was treated as if it were my fault and I was dropped
from the sub list.
I read one article that stated that when she came into the class,
several kids were already around the computer.
It only takes a second or two for someone to type three w's, a few
periods and some filthy word.
I wouldn't be surprised if one of these poor innocents had done it him
or herself.
About three years ago, at the reference desk of my library, an elderly
patron asked me to get the contact info of the Swedish embassy. As soon
as I clicked on the homepage, all these filthy pop-ups began coming up.
It was like niagara Falls. I immediately clicked off the monitor and
then held in the power button until the machine turned off. We even HAD
pop-up blockers and anti-spy and virus ware. I guess someone had hacked
into the embassy site.
But, when I turned it on again, they began again and I had to call our
techie dude to come take it and give it a good cleansing.
How sad all this is for that woman. I know my own hubby often panics
when the computer suddenly goes haywire. I can see this happening to
him, knowing he NEEDED that pc during the course of the day, was told
not to turn it off, etc.
Dawn Sardes
Teen Services Librarian
Euclid Public Library
Euclid, OH
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