[MACEP] FW: DANS GUARDIAN

[Theresa Broeren]

Thanks Jim!

Liberty is a truly beautiful NEW school.  Just went to
Singing in the rain a couple weekends ago...loved it!!!

Do you know how much Websense costs?

It would be interesting to do a comparison, google a topic, and just compare
how many sites Websense allows through, and how many our Dans Guardian
allows through.

I may need to stop by, visit and chat with your technology teachers :).

Thanks again,

Theresa




> -----Original Message-----
> From: macep-bounces at macep.net [mailto:macep-bounces at macep.net]On Behalf
> Of Richardson, Jim
> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 4:29 PM
> To: A discussion list for educators interested in integrating technology
> into teaching.
> Subject: RE: [MACEP] FW: DANS GUARDIAN
>
>
> First of all, no filter is going to make everyone happy.......we
> still get complaints from staff that things they want are
> blocked. But if they plan ahead and actually pretest the most
> common sites they want in advance, we can open these
> up.........most do not do this though..........
> We use Websense...........very powerful and can be customized locally.
> But it is not inexpensive. No idea of the actual enterprise costs
> as this is a Central Officve function.
>
> Jim Richardson
> Technology Coordinator
> Liberty High School
>
>
>
> From: Theresa Broeren
> Sent: Thu 3/24/2005 4:11 PM
> To: macep at macep.net
> Subject: [MACEP] FW: DANS GUARDIAN
>
>
>   Greetings from Forest Grove High School.
>
> I teach hs computer applications, and use the internet quite a
> bit in class
> for research projects, particularly for my middle and advanced students.
>
> Our internet access is currently filtered through "Dan's
> Guardian", which I
> believe is provided
> FREE to our district.  Unfortunately, Dan's Guardian, although it has some
> specialization capabilities, where certain websites can be
> blocked/unblocked
> upon request, overall, it is FAR TOO inclusive in terms of all
> the websites
> it blocks.  Time and time again, students will be given a
> research project,
> and will do a search for sites for information, and typically over 50% of
> the sites given may be blocked. They've been blocked from
> NBA.com, CNN, The
> foodtv.com etc....to the point it is almost becoming rediculous
> to even have
> a web research project because it too hard to find sites that
> arent blocked