sense. We still need to TEACH appropriate use to Students AND TEACHERS,
but kids don't need open access either.
"The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is a federal law enacted
by Congress to address concerns about access to offensive content over
the Internet on school and library computers."
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/cipa.html
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Director of Technology & Operations
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From: Renee Ramig [mailto:rramig@sevenhillsschool.org]=20
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 8:07 AM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Warning about more Chatroulette Wannabe's
Blocking will never stay ahead of these sites. We need to do our best to
be aware of these sites. (Thanks for sharing.) We need to continually
talk to our students, teachers and parents about appropriate use. We
need to supervise our students and our children.
Blocking gives teachers and parents a false sense of security, gives
students an "opportunity" to find tools to get around the blocker, and
gives techs a headache trying to manage what is blocked and unblocked.=20
Let's spend time on talking about why these sites are not good choices
rather than blocking them and making them more "enticing" for students
to want to use.=20
Renee Ramig
Seven Hills School
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From: A forum for independent school educators on behalf of Doug Fodeman
Sent: Fri 2/19/2010 6:20 AM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Warning about more Chatroulette Wannabe's
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Dear Colleagues,
Many of you are already aware of Chatroulette.com and omegle.com as
sites designed for visitors to chat with strangers, and sites we
probably want to block at our schools. A writer of a recent article
about Chatroulette, which is random video chats with strangers, said
that after spending a few hours on Chatroulette he estimated 1 in 5
video chats were of men who were exposing themselves.=20
I wanted to let you know that two similar Chatroulette-wannabe's have
just appeared recently and I'm sure there will be more.
http://next.tinychat.com/
Similar to Chatroulette, you can be thrown into a room with strangers
and conduct video chats with random people. When you tire of a
person,you can simple move onto the next available user in TinyChat's
"Lobby".
http://www.popjam.com/
PopJam also released a Chatroulette-like platform, except that is uses
Facebook Connect to randomly send you into a Facebook IM chat with a
total stranger.
Never a dull moment,
Doug
ChildrenOnline.org
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Douglas Fodeman
Director of Technology
Brookwood School
Manchester, MA 01944
http://www.Brookwood.edu
(978) 526-4500 X6233
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