Thursday, May 27, 2010

Re: ISED/ Web Filtering for Students and Adults

I'd be interested to hear how many schools are using OpenDNS for this
service.

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Jack Hardcastle <
jwhardcastle@jwhardcastle.com> wrote:

> Dear ISED Colleagues,
>
> First, per the signup e-mail, my name is Jack Hardcastle and in a month
> I'll
> take over as director of technology at the McDonogh School outside
> Baltimore, Maryland. We're a private co-ed K-12 college prep school with
> about 1300 students and 250 faculty and staff. :D
>
> Second, I have been searching the ISED archives for information about this
> topic, but I find nothing more current than messages from 2000. How do you
> accomplish web filtering? The product we purchased several years ago went
> from $5,000 to $30,000 after several acquisitions, and we're looking for
> other options.
>
> Do you use a software solution? Do you use an appliance? Do you do
> named-user licensing (expensive) or do you have one filter for your whole
> institution (students AND faculty), and if so how do you deal with allowing
> productivity for faculty while protecting little ones from the dark alleys
> of the net?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jack Hardcastle
> jwhardcastle@mcdonogh.org
>
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