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Filtering parameters revised on staff computer profiles

The Edmonds School District has recently reevaluated their Internet filtering levels for teachers in the district. Beginning Oct. 12, 2009 online communities, chat, instant messaging, games and newsgroup sites were unblocked on staff profiles. Before new sites were unblocked however, teachers were required by the district to watch a six-minute informative video that reviewed the [...]

February 24, 2010 / No Comment / Read More

Good, bad news online

The system that our district has created to enforce and manage Internet filtering is deeply flawed. When, four years ago, I noted the serious flaws in the decision to block blogs at high schools, the process required to fix the problem was unnecessarily complex. The heavy-handedness of the filtering, combined with hard-to-find paperwork, a vague [...]

June 10, 2009 | Filed under Editorial | Read More