Re: [LM_NET] Target: Internet Filter Override Policies

[Paula Yohe <paula_yohe@YAHOO.COM>]

Not here
A request comes to my desk immediately and I evaluate
If it is questionable - I contact the supt.
Doesn't happen very often.

If I am not at my desk
I have another staff member who has to be at their
desk.

it is a pain -- but let me tell you - go sit in a
meeting with law enforcement, lawyers, etc.
and you will appreciate someone trying to take care of
you.

no fun at all.. dealing with that kind of stuff..

Being a librarian -- I have as little blocked as
possible
 and the I changed systems three times before I found
one that I could customize the way I wanted it.

it is Lightspeed - and it is awesome





--- Anne Coughlin <acoughli@REVERE.K12.OH.US> wrote:

> The Revere Local School District, as well as all the
> districts connected
> with our DA site, has upgraded to Web Washer as our
> internet filter. 
> With the previous internet filter a number of our
> high school staff
> members had override capabilities, i.e. to show a
> clip of Queen
> Elizabeth*s Christmas Day speech from YouTube which
> is blocked.  
> 
> We have been told that no override passwords would
> be issued to staff -
> for our own protection, given the emphasis on
> accountability with strict
> consequences being considered for teachers in Ohio,
> and for the
> students* protection.  
> 
> I am distressed.  I consider it part of my job to
> evaluate web sites,
> to create subject specific web pages for our library
> web page and to
> teach others how to evaluate sites.  I have used the
> override to do my
> work at work.
> 
> What is happening in other school districts?  Are
> other staff members,
> librarians, permitted overrides to their internet
> filtering systems? 
> 
> Anne Coughlin
> Revere High School Library
> 3420 Everett Rd
> Richfield OH 44286
> 330-523-3213
> acoughli@revere.k12.oh.us 
>
http://www.revere.k12.oh.us/school_pages.aspx?schoolid=1&deptID=70
> 
> 
> **When the going gets tough, the tough get a
> librarian. 
>          Best Foot Forward by Joan Bauer**
> 
>
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Paula Yohe
Director Of Technology/Library Media Center
Dillon School District Two
405 West Washington Street
Dillon, SC 29536
Phone: 843-841-3604 Fax:843-774-1214
paula_yohe@yahoo.com


      
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