Build a Faraday cage around each classroom. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage ] Embed wire mesh in all walls, remove all windows, replace wooden doors with steel. Your financial people will look askance on this, and future technologist who are now required by the faculty to ensure high wireless signal levels in every square centimeter of campus (especially classrooms) will curse the day you were born, but you will have provided a solution within the limits you've requested.
Seriously: you can't really talk with faculty about the ubiquity of wireless signals and the need to have a workable strategy and classroom discipline technique that allows for proper use of those signals? This is really the conversation that needs to be happening. As the saying goes, you need to win the hearts and the minds. Faculty need to win their students' hearts and minds on this front. Otherwise, you will have set the stage for a perpetual guerrilla warfare. John Rodkey Associate Director of IT Westmont College On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Urrea, Nick <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m compiling research to give to our Faculty Technology Committee. > > My question is has anybody successfully implemented a solution that > restricts access to wireless internet in classrooms? > > Also if you have tried and were not successful in restricting wireless > access in classrooms let me know. Why didn’t the solution work. > > No opinions please about how students can just go buy a mobile broadband > card from a cellular carrier, or installing microwaves in the classrooms, or > that teaching techniques should improve. > > > > > > ---- > > *Nicholas Urrea* > > *Information Technology * > > UC Hastings College of the Law > > [email protected] > > x4718 > > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
