[LM_NET] HIT: K-12 Internet Filtering Survey

[Mary Ann Bell <drmaryannbell@GMAIL.COM>]

Several weeks ago I enlisted participants in a second annual survey about
Internet filtering in K-12 schools. Last year I had around 600 participants,
and this year over 400. I am working on an article that describes results,
and will let people know when it comes out. Right now, I have a lot of
information at my wiki. Here is the link:
http://forwhomthebelltold.pbwiki.com/Gatekeeper-Tear-Down-These-Walls
I purposely made the pages text-heavy in the hopes that some educators could
use the information to build cases for more reasonable filtering. I also
have four articles about filtering in Multimedia&Internet@School, which are
accessible through several databases. Finally, my wonderful colleague, Dr.
Holly Weimar, has posted a great PowerPoint via SlideShare. The URL for this
is: http://www.slideshare.net/hweimar/mr-gatekeeper-tear-down-those-walls

I wish I could say that there has been a great deal of progress since my
2008 survey, but that is not really accurate. There has been some progress,
and there are some great things going on with Web 2.0 resources, but far too
many students and educators are still without the access they legally should
be allowed under CIPA. Thanks to all who helped out by participating in the
survey. Keep on keeping on! Cheers, mabell

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"Try Curiosity!"--Dorothy Parker
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Dr. Mary Ann Bell
Associate Professor
Sam Houston State University
A Member of the Texas State University System
Department of Library Science
lis_mah@shsu.edu
drmaryannbell@gmail.com

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