After Thanksgiving break we allowed the students to access social
network sites and noticed a 25% increase in throughput on our wireless
network. The firewall CPU load went from 35% to 75% and the student
network was sluggish. Within 2 days our faculty started complaining
about the students spending class time working in Facebook and not
paying attention. =20
As the IT Director of a school with almost 1000 notebook computers I
must look at the logistics of providing p2p, streaming and social
networking traffic on our network. Many Universities have the budget to
provide the right equipment to support the load but most private school
would have a problem with purchasing enterprise level equipment.
We placed a filter on social sites 5 days into the experiment. =20
Jason Hyams
Director of Technology
St. Agnes Academy=20
-----Original Message-----
From: A forum for independent school educators
[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Brian Lee
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 12:36 PM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Facebook question
Our policy for staff is thoughtful of what you post. Their online
actions
also reflect who we are as a school. If there are issues, we will have
a
discussion to best resolve the situation.
On 1/8/09 1:24 PM, "Lindsay Timms" <ltimms@mountdesales.net> wrote:
> I will say that while I think many people use it for personal reasons,
I
> use it a lot for business! I communicate with local business owners,
> alumni and even other staff members. It is a very useful tool...at
> least from the Development Office stand point. I am not sure if we
have
> a policy for staff, I know that we have one for students. Hope this
helps.
> Lindsay
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