Comments on: another blocked site? feeling stifled? what can you do?

By: shana

shana — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:30:28 +0000

m fed up of this blocking of sites…… plz help me to unblock d site

By: nam

nam — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:27:28 +0000

i found read in another blog that using https worked and it worked for me lol

By: This is IT « Teacher Friendly Tech

This is IT « Teacher Friendly Tech — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 04:10:54 +0000

[...] read a great post by Alex Miller on another blocked site? feeling stifled? what can you do? and it was great to read the comments and see the support that is being built up around the globe [...]

By: flairandsquare

flairandsquare — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:39:43 +0000

The discussions continue with this great fairytale about access for large educational institutions... Check out this story from Harriet Wakelam; You Tube and Social Networking sites - The issues for large scale educational access

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» This is IT Teacher friendly tech! — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:50:15 +0000

By: Andrew Dickinson

Andrew Dickinson — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:39:09 +0000

Thanks for your comments Alex.

We are discussing this at our ICT Committee meeting tomorrow, so I imagine there will be some heated debate.

I am the Systems Administrator at our campus, but am answerable to the Director of ICT for the whole college (we have 5 campuses). The committee is cahired by our ICT Learning coordinator K-12 who is an anti-blocking and lets teach advocate (see her blog at http://lgwilliams.edublogs.org) and will include our heads of schools (junior, middle, and senior) teaching representatives, college executive, and technical staff.

I’ll keep you posted on how we go. I’ll also point a few friends to your blog. I’m sure they will enjoy what you have to say, and will add to this discussion further.

Cheers.

TFT.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:44:14 +0000

Some of the pictures were rood.

By: phoebe

phoebe — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:37:00 +0000

We have been on youtube before and some of the things will not go on our class blog. It is really hard trying to get our blog better in 31 days but it is still worth it. Please can you if you want to go to our blog at al.upton@glenelgsr7.sa.edu.au.

Cheers Phoebe

By: Keeping up with Sue Waters

Keeping up with Sue Waters — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:15:27 +0000

[...] few times throughout this blog and her content often inspires me to write a post in response. Like this post I wrote in response to Sue’s article about innovation being challenged by all the constraints [...]

By: Dean Groom

Dean Groom — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:29:18 +0000

Im HOD IT, so I get to rule the firewall and proxy. As someone whos been fighting the war of the proxy, take it from me – the DET etc., cannot block much of anything. Proxy’s rise and fall daily, and the kids find them. So they are looking at Bebo, MySpace and Tube. SL requires a port setting, so perhaps not that one.

I’ve installed a super new firewall system. Its organic and highly responsive with easy install and removal. It is called a ‘teacher’. Get ‘em off thei chair an around the room and the problem goes away! IT rooms all to often are ‘just an easy lesson’.

I opened up YouTube et al, posted YouTube stuff on the intranet and embraced it. For a week the kids hit it hard, now a term later, they don’t really bother with it. Kids are smart, they know what the right and wrong thing is.

Make the lessons interesting, personal and challenging … then it really isn’t a problem. You can’t legislate creativity, and you cant beat the proxy war. Face it and move on I say.

I now have far less ‘moans’ about student activity … if they are on the ‘wrong’ site then guess what – log them off and move ‘em on.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:39:54 +0000

Thanks for that link Steven. What a hot topic! Also, your flickr photo’s from Ireland are fabulous! Thanks for sharing.
Alex

By: sparkered

sparkered — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:46:12 +0000

Alex

Check out the Federal government iniative
Netalert.gov.au and
http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/cyber-safety-hotline-goes-live/2007/08/20/1187462133791.html

It’s an important issue. To give the choice for parents to download and install filters and talk to their children makes sense. I think that educating colleagues parents students mitigates the potential for govt iniatives to regulate what we access on our private connection. Have heard Labour wants to filter at the ISP hmmm not a good idea.