can be used as a teaching tool for what to do and not to do when chatting
with random strangers. With Chat Roulette, it is easy to find random
strangers masturbating in front of the camera with the web cam feature.
That part is hard to explain to the parents of an elementary student when
they come across it during school time.
Brian Lee
Manlius Pebble Hill School
> From: Renee Ramig <rramig@sevenhillsschool.org>
> Reply-To: A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:07:26 -0800
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Renee Ramig
> Seven Hills School
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
>
> 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.
>
> 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
>
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