At some point we need to understand and realize that we are not in a
corporation but we are a public service institution paid for by public
money. With the proliferation of wireless devices - and wait until
Christmas this year when almost EVERYONE will have either a smartphone
or some kind of wireless Internet device - the public will expect to
have access when they attend school events. We can't just hid behind
our conservative, staff-only, policies. We need to adjust with the
times and give the public what is expected. Even USAC realizes this now
with their new rule changes which allow public access to school networks
paid for by E-Rate funds. (Be sure you understand those rules before
giving public access to E-Rate funded Internet. At this time we don't
use E-Rate to pay for our Internet so we are not governed by those rules
even though our public access does fall under the new rules' scope.)
Heath Henderson wrote:
We have a similar stance but have to allow people such as tri county special ed
doing IEP work and visiting student teachers etc on at some
Point. I don't like it but really what is stopping them from jacking into a
port on the network and getting physical access that way. Lesser of the unhook
of a cable is easier for me to deal with.
-Heath Henderson
On Oct 21, 2010, at 7:17 AM, Dan Ragen <dera...@gmail.com> wrote:
While I don't have a District wide or School wide wireless system the
access points i do have a re for
District personnel only. I think that you may run into trouble
letting others in. Think of it this way, Would you let
some one in on one of your desktops? I usually take a very
conservative approach to this type of situation.
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Michael T. Bendorf
<bendo...@a-ccentral.us> wrote:
Now that my wireless is installed (last AP fired up this afternoon) I have
had requests for the password to get on.
I have not provided that to anyone, but rather explained that things were
not ready for public access yet...
All of my district owned equipment has the PSK and can connect as though
they are hard wired...but I wonder what other districts do for public
access. For instance I had a student from the neighboring district want to
get online here to do some homework before practice (we co-op with this
other school.) I really felt bad saying not yet - but that is the truth of
it.
We have an active directory and we push out browser proxy settings via GPO.
Everyone must firs sign our current AUP and then they must authenticate with
our CIPAFilter before egressing to the Internet. I want to provide "the
public" access to a filtered Internet experience. I do not want visiting
mobile devices to access anything other than the public Internet. This seems
pretty strightforward, but something I have not set up before.
Even more than just the config of my HP ProCurve MSM APs/Controller my real
question is how do you address this from a policy point of view? Do you have
a separate document? Do you ask guests to sign something? Click on
something? Is it part of your general AUP? etc?.?.?.
--Michael T. Bendorf--
Technology Administrator
A-C Central C.U.S.D. #262
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A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for
others.
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flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers using
poor adaptations of incomplete ideas."
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