Help Desk Report for 23 Aug, 2021 – 29 Aug, 2021
I get several requests a day to unblock a website. For those that do have an educational value I unblock them as soon as I can. Some have no educational value and do not get unblocked. Why are sites filtered? Congress passed the Child Online Protection Act, which became effective in April of 2000. To…
The Internet Firewall/Web Filtering/SPAM Filtering machine has been moved to a faster machine to increase reliability. Since the move (three weeks ago) there has only been approximately 10 minutes total of downtime. I’ve written some software to keep track of downtime of the various servers in the district and Internet connectivity. You can see the…
Upcoming WILD Wednesday classes: January 25th – Using blogs in your classroom February 1st – SPAM e-mail filtering February 8th – Enhancing your computer experience (shortcuts and tips to make your technology experience more efficient. February 22nd – Starting with AppleWorks
