I am an ICT Teacher and would like to add make use of a safe chat room facility with access only to the students or teachers. Does anyone use anything like this at the moment? Or haev any suggestions for me?
AnwarOn 10/08/08, Chris wrote: > Hi, > > I am an ICT Teacher and would like to add make use of a safe > chat room facility with access only to the students or > teachers. Does anyone use anything like this at the moment? > Or haev any suggestions for me? > > Many thanks, > > Chris
I teach at a small christian K-8 school and would like to give my 5-8 students an email account. I've googled the idea and browsed some of the options. Epals looks good if I want to connect with another school, but I'm not sure I'm really ready for that yet. Gaggle looks good, but I'm not sure how the parents will feel about the advertising - though I know that is a part of the deal with free anything... Anyway, suggestions? Thanks.
Most school ISP's (internet service provider) will not allow any personal/chat/webmail websites through their proxy filter. Your internal network should provide Microsoft Exchange, if there is a necessity for students to have access to Email services.
Be SAFE.
On 12/19/07, Jean Bullock wrote: > Angela, if you don't mind my asking, why do you want them to have an account > at school? > > > On 12/14/07, Angela Wagner wrote: >> I teach at a small christian K-8 school and would like to >> give my 5-8 students an email account. I've googled the >> idea and browsed some of the options. Epals looks good if >> I want to connect with another school, but I'm not sure >> I'm really ready for that yet. Gaggle looks good, but I'm >> not sure how the parents will feel about the advertising - >> though I know that is a part of the deal with free >> anything... Anyway, suggestions? Thanks.
I have to send out my laptop to have the DVD drive repaired. How do I make sure the technicians who work on my computer do not find my passwords to bank accounts, etc. I heard that even after you delete stuff, its really still there. Rose
I think you will find that most computer technicians have an unspoken oath of security- meaning, that most Renowned repair facilities will have good technicians. Make sure your source is reliable.
In this world, a secret kept, is a secret held by three people. The holder, the knower, and the fixer.
Also, in my experience, having dealt with so many clients and so many computers, I can't remember more than 2 or 3 passwords at a time :)
Anyway, to make you more at ease, a good Tech will be professional and discreet, and have great character when it comes to privacy.
Most of the time, passwords are held on a chip rather than on the hard drive. This means that when you turn your computer off, your password is gone.
Rest easy, I don't think you're in any danger.
Scott
On 1/22/08, Ralph wrote: > This is an interesting problem. My assumption is that you > access your bank through the internet. My experience is with > Microsoft Internet Explorer on Windows XP and cannot comment > on other browsers. Most of my advice is conjecture based on > some knowledge I have on how IE is supposed to work. In > reality I make no guarantees because I may be wrong. > > I also assume you do not have your passwords stored in a file > on your computer unless it is strongly encrypted otherwise > all bets are off. > > First of all make sure that you don't cache encrypted pages. > This setting can be found by clicking Tools | Internet > Options... and selecting the Advanced tab in the dialog that > is displayed. Scroll down to the last section called Security > and you should check the "Do not save encrypted pages to disk" > > Second, go to your banks on-line banking sign-in page. Make > sure it is a secured page. This means you should see a > little lock on you browser's status bar and the address of > the website should start [link removed]
Personally, I don't have the time to try to figure out this. I take many comuters from our school and work on them I, so, am NOT into whatever is on their computer. Frankly, I don't have the time an I doubt your techies do either.
Hello, I am a tech in a large Wide Area Network in Ohio, where we have 6 site buildings, and our own data phone system.
While we rely upon our own Ohio School ISP provider for most of our filtering, we realize that our young adults are SMARTER THAN THEIR GRADES REFLECT. Isn't that a sad statement?
By running security policies and mandatory profiles in Windows 2003 Server Enterprise, we are able to minimize the level of internet 'hacking'. User data is stored on the network server, where "My Documents" is linked to a network share via .VBS script. We also use a software called "Deep Freeze", which locks the hard drives in a permanent state. Upon reboot, anything on the C:\ drive is instantly returned to the original state. To date, I don't know of any way to hack this program. Our latest problem has been kids getting local administrative privileges by physically disconnecting the network cable, after having logged in. This problem has been fixed by disabling "Log Off" using security policies. (it forces them to shut down or restart)
The next big hurdle, is the abuse of "proxy bypass" websites, that allow students to browse an unblocked website, that ports them via a window, to sites that would normally be blocked by our ISP proxy filter.
Any hints on conquering this Proxy Bypass problem would be most appreciated!!! Scott
Our district is using Win Server 2003 Enterprise, and MS Exchange, and we also have MOODLE.
All our workstations are using Deep Freeze, except for Office Personnel and Board Office.
Jr. High and HS Students have their own login and pass, so that they can have private server space. K-6 use a generic logon, ie: school / school
Our district is a WAN with 5 sites.
Our latest fight with net abuse has been this, and I will take you step by step through the abuse process so that you may grasp what the student is doing:
1. Microsoft has unprotected executable files in their Network Admin that can be run by programs brought into the WAN by CDR, or Flash Drive.
2. If you are using Active Directory, all a student needs to do, is log into the network, and then unplug the network cable.
3. When the student logs off, that network profile is CACHED, and after a period of time it will permit the user to log in locally as an administrator.
4. After this time period has passed, and the user gets a local administrative pass, they can then bypass any policy you have set on your network, and even make it possible to use that workstation remotely.
--------------------------- What we have done in our network, is to disable the "LOG OFF" option, in the menu. This forces students to either restart, or shut down. This eliminates the possibility of a 'cached local profile' and stops the process.
If you would like more information on this topic, please write. [email removed]
On 2/15/08, Scott wrote: > Hello, > I am a tech in a large Wide Area Network in Ohio, where we > have 6 site buildings, and our own data phone system. > > While we rely upon our own Ohio School ISP provider for > most of our filtering, we realize that our young adults are > SMARTER THAN THEIR GRADES REFLECT. Isn't that a sad > statement? > > By running security policies and mandatory profiles in > Windows 2003 Server Enterprise, we are able to minimize the > level of internet 'hacking'. > User data is stored on the network server, where "My > Documents" is linked to a network share via .VBS script. > We also use a software called "Deep Freeze", which locks > the hard drives in a permanent state. Upon reboot, > anything on the C:\ drive is instantly returned to the > original state. To date, I don't know of any way to hack > this program. > Our latest problem has been kids getting local > administrative privileges by physically disconnecting the > network cable, after having logged in. This problem has > been fixed by disabling "Log Off" using security policies. > (it forces them to shut down or restart) > > The next big hurdle, is the abuse of "proxy bypass" > websites, that allow students to browse an unblocked > website, that ports them via a window, to sites that would > normally be blocked by our ISP proxy filter. > > Any hints on conquering this Proxy Bypass problem would be > most appreciated!!! > Scott
I am a tech teacher in a K-8 Catholic school. Any ideas of different kinds of Internet filters that work well and are cheap or free. I use cybersitter and I am looking at other options. Thanks for any help!!
On 4/23/09, Will wrote: > You can provide filtering for free using OpenDNS. We have it > set up as a failover in case our Barracuda web filter > crashes. We had to use it last week, and it worked great. > > On 3/24/08, Tammy wrote: >> I am a tech teacher in a K-8 Catholic school. Any ideas >> of different kinds of Internet filters that work well and >> are cheap or free. I use cybersitter and I am looking at >> other options. Thanks for any help!! >