Okay, I'm not going to go on and on about this one - at least not yet - but the latest thing that I have been learning is podcasting. There is such a wealth of opportunity for educational benefit with podcasting. It one of those things that are already out there as the latest buzz words or things. The kids are doing it, PBS does it, you hear about it all the time. It might just be time for us old "fuddy-duddies" to get on the band wagon before it leaves town without us. Besides, this is a way for us and the students to extend the learning modalities.
Everyone got an email yesterday from the DCPS Post Office explaining the new restrictions that have gone in place on what is allowed for users on the Internet. There are numerous reasons for this, but perhaps one of the major ones as it applies to the students is protection (them and us). Also, there was a lot of valuable bandwidth being used up and slowing down the system by people who would use their computers to listen to the radio all day. Students were also going to ITunes and downloading music to their IPods which took up a lot of bandwidth.
So read the memo from the Post Office carefully. There is also information about not worrying too much when you do accidentally go to a blocked site. The Internet Police are not going to come right out immediately and arrest you. You do not have to notify anyone. They understand that this will happen due to the filters that are in place and that it is not your fault. However, if you keep searching for a "suspicious" term or phrase or Web site, over and over again, that might raise some amount of alarm and you may get a visit then. If you have a Web site that you find at home and you know that it is perfectly fine but it gets blocked here at school, there are ways for us to notify the Tech Department and have them lift the block either temporarily or permanently.
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