Monday, May 26, 2008

The Joy of the Walled Garden

Many teachers get very frustrated by school filtering systems. I have lost count of the times I have chosen web based stimuli only to find them suddenly blocked.

Check out José Picardo's excellent summary of the problem, along with the hilarious examples in the comment!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Hello James,

Thanks for your kind comment. I just thought I'd let you know that since I wrote the above mentioned post I have managed to persuade the head and the director of ICT to remove most restrictions for staff, akthough pupils remain heavily filtered.

At least now we can now use YouTube and other streaming media in in our lessons at our discretion.

Just goes to show that if you present the facts and create a bit of a fuss, you can actually effect change.

José