If you are getting something for free, you are not the consumer, you are the product... http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/data_mine_1/2013/09/facebook_privacy_and_kids_don_t_post_photos_of_your_kids_online.html
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > At one of the local high schools they are not only using Facebook but it is > all but required. History is my daughter did the local IB school and many > if not all the teachers created teacher profiles and told the kids their > Facebook account to contact them post school hours with no promise of an > answer before school the next day. The kids were encouraged to create > Facebook groups to assist each other which the teacher was asked to join > allowing the teacher to watch what was said and done. The teachers seemed > to like the out come and knew who was pretty much leading the class and who > was dragging the class. My daughter and her friends/classmates really got > off on using social media to help each other and it seemed to lead to > forming closer bonds within the class. > > Jon > > ________________________________ > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Redirect website > Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 17:39:57 +0000 > > Buy a new filter that is better at AD awareness. Iboss is very popular with > the K-12’s in Ohio for what that is worth. We have an M86 which we are going > to ditch, probably for an Iboss. If you really want to go the dns way you > certainly could deploy a hosts file to student machines to kill > www.facebook.com. User GPP to put the file in there, but that would impact > anyone that uses the computer after a student has logged in. > > > > Get a new filter, you are going down an unmanageable road. > > > > We block Facebook for students also, and it bothers me a great deal. No > legal reason that we have to and they just use their phones anyway. Embrace > the tech and use it is my motto. > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of CSSU NetAdmin > Sent: Friday, April 4, 2014 1:17 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NTSysADM] Redirect website > > > > We are a K-12 school district with 4 K-8's. Two use OpenDNS integrated with > AD to manage who can get to what site. For example, adults can go to > Facebook but students cannot. Because so many sites are providing content > on Facebook, we need to figure out a way to allow Facebook for adults but > not students at the other K-8's. We use Sonicwall for our web > filter/firewall and its AD Connector really isn't great. Is it possible to > redirect the Facebook url to a different website- Google for example- in > Group Policy or can we deliver a host file and based on user either point to > the real Facebook IP or not. (This way sounds real messy.) > > > > Thanks for your help!
