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Friday, January 18, 2008
Access to blogs on school computers
I have recently had some concerns posted on access to blogs on school computers on another topic. If you have concerns please post them here.
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I did not communicate well the notion of "holier than thou" in my previous comment and want to clear it up post haste. I apologize that it sounded like I directed it at you. In no way was that my intention. I was referring to the district taking a holier than thou attitude towards criticisms of its policies. Further, I meant to insinuate that by arbitrarily blocking perfectly legitimate Websites they were play god of sorts.
I hold you in the highest esteem and have no reason whatsoever to direct such a derogatory comment to you. You are a minority of common sense and a representative of the people on the school board.
In a way, I wish I didn't have to say you are a political hero of mine. After all, I am Goader who much prefers to be contradictory in writing. Stirring the pot is what I do. However, this one pot remains sanguine.
You may feel uncomfortable with the above accolades, but I ask that you publish them anyway. I am not the only one that holds you in high regard, and I do not want your readers to doubt that I am in the group of admirers.
P. S. As of 3:00 PM today, your comments continued to be blocked.
Goader,
Thank you for clearing that up. I did misunderstand and was concerned because I always felt we were on good terms. I appreciate your accolades although I don't know if they are quite deserved. I am just doing the best job I can.
April
Last time I looked (Thursday) The WALL was blocked. That's were I go to read other blog - when I have the time - which seems to be less and less)...Websense blocked it on the grounds that is was "social networking".
As of Friday I noticed that the blog that I started a few months ago was blocked by websense. My blog "A whole new book study" was started for all the art and music teachers in the district to participate in a book study of Dan Pinks book " A Whole New Mind"
With the size of the district and the number of art and music teacher this was the only way for all to collaborate on this book study.
This book study never really worked because the comments have been blocked by the district.
Just in case you can help this is a link to my blog http://elemartbookstudy.blogspot.com/
Does the learning of history, when integrated and applied to the present, change the course of the future?
Just askin'.
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" I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. "
Alexis de Tocqueville, 1805 - 1859, French political thinker and author of Democracy in America
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" ... the media in the United States effectively represents the interests of corporate America, and ... the media elite are the watchdogs of what constitutes acceptable ideological messages, the parameters of news and information content, and the general use of media resources.
Peter Phillips, Project Censored, 1998
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" The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. "
Gore Vidal, novelist and critic
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"As long as people are marginalized and distracted [they] have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know that others have these sentiments. People assume that they are the only people with a crazy idea in their heads. They never hear it from anywhere else. Nobody's supposed to think that. ... Since there's no way to get together with other people who share or reinforce that view and help you articulate it, you feel like an oddity, an oddball. So you just stay on the side and you don't pay any attention to what's going on. You look at something else, like the Superbowl."
Noam Chomsky, American linguist and US media and foreign policy critic
Why do I think that chan's situation is a perfect point to our dilemma: the district does NOT have the money, manpower or moral fortitude to make the distinctions needed in this technological era.
It is easier and cheaper to pull the big switch and turn out all the lights.
The school board is going down a slippery slope that may be visited by the ACLU. It's either all blogs or no blogs. You just can't pick and choose. Here's a better idea. Since we are all for technology, how about you give your fellow members a workshop on blogs and they can all have there own? I can just imagine their looks. Most might refuse beacuse they think a blog is an Eastern European casserole.
Keep up all of the greqat work.
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