mind that the easy workaround for Facebook is to go to its secure
equivalent:
https://www.facebook.com/, the students will figure this out pretty
quickly.
Do you think the Facebook folks set this up so that students can
workaround filters? Naw.....
To my knowledge you can only block all https sites (port 443), which is
just not practical.
Wondering how other schools are handling this?
Jeff Dayton
Director of Technology
The Madeira School
703-556-8342
jdayton@madeira.org
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[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Amy Brudin
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 9:00 AM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Limiting access to certain websites at certain times of the day
Here's the scenario:
Students are asking us to restrict the use of Facebook during the school
day
(really, they are - ok, some of them are). But since we have boarding
students, we'd like them to have access after school hours and on
weekends.
Is there some sort of software that can be implemented at the school
level
to control this sort of thing? All I've found so far is software
intended
for home computers or software that turn the internet on or off entirely
(no
granular control.)
Our school has never used any type of blocking/monitoring software
before,
so I am new to the whole concept. Is anyone doing this or have
experience
with software that does?
Thanks!
Amy Brudin
St. Anne's-Belfield School
Charlottesville, VA
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