[MACEP] Internet Search "Horror" Stories

[WADE Carla]

At home  -- mom and dad quickly added a few words and blockers to our
own filtering system!

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From: macep-bounces at macep.net [mailto:macep-bounces at macep.net] On Behalf
Of Mike Ely
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 8:57 AM
To: macep at macep.net
Subject: Re: [MACEP] Internet Search "Horror" Stories

And you weren't using a browser with popup blocking because?

WADE Carla wrote:
> Beware of Latin foods . . . If you do not put it in quotes you get all
> things related to "Latin".  It's not only the pictures -- it is the
> loops that you link into.  Close one window and up pops another . . .
> And another . . . And another!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: macep-bounces at macep.net [mailto:macep-bounces at macep.net] On
Behalf
> Of Len Otto
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 6:19 PM
> To: macep at macep.net
> Subject: Re: [MACEP] Internet Search "Horror" Stories
> 
> macep at macep.net writes:
> [Image]
>>
>>
>> Greetings to all!
>>
>> Does anyone have a good, or rather great, horror story about doing a
>> search on the Internet and coming up with a wild response, especially
> in
>> front of a class? Something innocent like searching for the "White
> House"
>> and coming up with whitehouse.com vs. whitehouse.gov?
>>
>> I'm doing a presentation on Internet searching and am looking for
some
>> examples that would result in inappropriate search results.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Deb.
>>
>> Deb Postlewait
>>
>> VIVID Technology Solutions, Inc.
>> 8940 SW Crystal St.
>> Portland, OR  97223
>>
>> www.vividtech.net
>>
>> deb at vividtech.net
>>
>>
>> 503.257.6991  v/f/c 
>>
> 
> 
> I had a pair of rock solid 4th graders innocently type in the search
> term
> "Barbie" several years ago, and were amazed to find a site where
Barbie,
> Ken, and perhaps other unnamed males, were to be found in rather
> compromising positions. They had the brains to immediately get out of
> the
> site and tell me, fortunately.
> 
> I had another student, 5th grade at the time, want to research the
> American beaver. Her mother was particularly appalled at what that
term
> yielded from their home computer. I counseled them to, in the future,
> use
> the scientific name for best results.
> 
> I fortunately have not had the experience of searching in front of a
> class
> and being wholly embarrassed. Phew!
> 
> Len
> :-)=
> 
> It's not about learning the technologies but about using the
> technologies
> to learn!
> 
> Len Otto
> EdTech TOSA
> Reynolds School District
> 1204 NE 201st Ave.
> Fairview, OR 97024
> 503-661-7200 x3246
> len_otto at reynolds.k12.or.us
> 
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