At our school, students are not allowed to use email - with very few
exceptions. Those exceptions are: accessing Turnitin.com and those Seniors
needing to access their grades from OSU and ODU. However, they each must ask
permission before they do this.
When a whole class is using Turnitin.com, I reserve two of the computers
that are closest to where I work and that I can see well. Each student must
sign in as usual on the sign in sheet and can only use one of those
computers. If they have other work to do, they sign off that computer and
sign in on one of the others. It is a bit of a pain - for them - but I
can keep a handle on what is going on better and they know the consequences
of not following the rules.
A heads up - if you have exchange students - One year one of ours was
accessing porn sites by using his native language...and since he also had
permission to use his email so he could contact his parents, he used that
to also access some very disturbing sites. And, of course, he shared his
tips. That is when I established the above procedure - and got my
principal's blessing on the plan.
So far, it has all worked.
Toni Koontz
Librarian
St. Charles Preparatory School
Columbus, Ohio
akoontz@cdeducation.org
Carpe Diem
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jaime Meadows" <jaimem@STHELENS.K12.OR.US>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 6:52 PM
Subject: Computer lab caution
> Just a few minutes ago we caught a boy in the computer lab looking at
> some severe por***ography- it was pretty graphic and disgusting. Kind
> of what you would have expected from Hustler 20 years ago. Let's say it
> was some sort of nasty.
>
>
>
> The way the kid got around the filters was that he had emailed the links
> and pictures to himself and was opening the pictures from his email
> account. This kind of thing could be passed around from kid to kid
> quite easily via forwarding emails.
>
>
>
> Yet again, one more thing we need to be alert to and aware of ahead of
> time. They are very creative about circumventing filters.
>
>
>
> The kid will most likely never be able to use the computers at school
> again - and he is a freshman. There will be a consequence for him.
>
>
>
> Jaime Meadows
>
> LMS
>
> St. Helens HS
>
> St. Helens, OR
>
> jaimem@sthelens.k12.or.us
>
>
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