[K12OSN] thoughts on web browsing....

[Bert Rolston]

Hi Scott,

A tight usage policy will prevent a lot of abuse.

The habitual / perpetual abuser will get caught eventually. When that
happens a big song and dance (without mentioning names) helps to
publicise the misdemeanor.

The librarian I used to work with would phone me if she suspected
internet abuse. Then I would VNC onto the machine to verify. If abuse
was occuring I would take control of the machine, log the student off,
and the librarian would advise that student they had been caught. The
grapevine would do the rest.

None of the students required special counseling, or treatment. They
knew they were in the wrong, and accepted the ban. 

We used the 3 strikes approach. Contract is strike 1, first abuse a
short term ban (1 week to 1 term) strike 2, second abuse permanent ban
for current year (reviewed at the begging of the next academic year).


HTH
Bert


On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 09:30, Scott Sherrill wrote:
> >On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 05:10, Scott Sherrill wrote:
> >
> >>  Once in awhile, students will share their accounts with their
> >>  friends.  If for example Johnny loses his privileges he will borrow
> >>  Sally's account and surf as her.
> >
> >
> >I would make it clear that intentionally  subverting any access
> >mechanism would result in *instant* and *permanent* account termination
> >for *all* concerned - and *then* see if Sally would so keenly offer her
> >account for illicit purposes (illicit because there is probably good
> >reason that Johnnys' account was revoked.)
> >
> >Kids need to be aware that ;
> >
> >1.)  they are monitored
> >2.)  abusers get their account zapped
> >3.)  abusers will get *your* account irretrievably zapped if you loan it
> >4.)  access is a privilege
> >
> 
> 
> I agree with you 100% Steve, but the only way they are currently 
> getting caught is if I am actively looking.  That's why I'd like to 
> give classroom teachers more tools to look for that abuse.
> 
> I did some further looking and it doesn't look like the banner idea 
> is going to float.  There are very few references out there for that 
> solution using Squid and an auto-added banner.
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
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