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SAFETY & SECURITY limits for obvious reasons, but if female bad stuff. At this point, I'm left driv- students are preparing for the upcom- i ng quite a ways to repair or rebuild ing prom and want to look for lingerie, the home office computer. Examples of the Victoria's Secret Web site is off The Lightspeed software, however, limits. If someone questions this, he allows Scrivano to control what pro- suggested asks: Show me the lesson plan for that. grams are allowed on the equipment; blocked Web What is the educational content? ensure the laptops or computers don't categories It's similar with roughly 40,000 pick up any virus or spyware, which laptops in the Henrico County School keeps them running smoothly; and and sites District's high schools in Virginia, run all traffic through a content filter for schools: where just recently a 24/7 watch was that Scrivano sets up so he can stop implemented over students surfi ng inappropriate uses. So the beauty of Explicit Art: Art sites the Web when they took the laptops this is when some of our employees' that display nudes and out of school. Parents basically kids try to go to Playboy.com they can't disturbing images, wanted a fi ltering solution that was do it anymore, Scrivano notes. And ie, fi neartnude.com, working 24/7 in response to that, teachers themselves can't go home and ravengallery.com says Jason Cope, systems administra- download naked girls at home and Hacking : Sites tor for Henrico County schools. then bring that back to school and put that promote or 8e6's R3000 software, a fi lter it on the school network. discuss unlawful or that can sit at the district site, filters Although Scrivano couldn't talk questionable tools to all Internet traffic and allows schools specifics, he did say that FCAT is gain access to software to chose which categories of sites to pushing for legislation that would or hardware and/or block, such as hate sites and child help them prosecute teachers that passwords, pornography, on campus and off cam- download inappropriate Web site ie, happyhacker.org, pus. Tracking is handled individually information or pictures. phreak.com by each school and administration And the software allows Scrivano team. Students who inappropriately and his team to track the traffic on H a te / D i s c ri m in a t io n : use the laptops face detention or up each computer. The districts that use Sites that relate to to 10 days of suspension from school, TTC have readily available reports discrimination of any depending on the case, Cope says. that track suspicious traffic or can group of people based T he intent of one-to-one initia- pick up on use of a suspicious search on race, religion, t ives is ultimately to dramatically engine. It might show someone search- gender, nationality, improve the teaching environment in ing for drugs or how to make a bomb, etc. k-k-k.com, nazi.org school, says Paul Myer, president and which might not mean anything, Online Greeting Cards: COO of 8e6. And the second goal but it could be deemed non-educa- Such as bluemountain. was to give Internet access to more tiona l, according to Heinrichs. Every com, hallmark.com disadvantaged students. machine is traced via a machine name If a student at the Irving Inde- and IP address, which is given by an VoIP: Sites that provide pendent School District in Texas Internet Service Provider, like DSL, information or products downloads music or movies from his and which identifies the user. We to facilitate telephone laptop at school, he may have to pay know there is a pattern of how people calls using the a fi ne to re-image it. Other students get stuff, Scrivano says. The punish- Internet. using laptops are also monitored and ment can be anything from adminis- Web -based Proxies/ blocked from certain sites. trative leave to being fired, he says. Anonymizers : Sites that But when they take home their Light speed has a list of catego- offer free anonymous laptops, they are pretty much on r i zed sites that are recommended to proxy services, their own when it comes to Web site districts to block, such as adult chat ie, anonymizer.com, searches. They don't have blocks. It's forums, violence and pornography idmask.com up to parents to watch over them. We as well as phishing sites, which are need parents to be partners in this, deceptive information pharming sites Sou rc e : 8e6 Database Internet Filtered URLs, says Alice E. Owen, executive direc- used to acquire personal information Internet Content Filtering R3000 Database tor of technology at Irving ISD. They of users for fraud or theft. can't expect the school to do every- Scrivano says certain sites are off 84 June 2006 District Administration security.w.indd 84 5/15/06 4:16:35 PM http://Playboy.com http://fineartnude.com http://ravengallery.com http://happyhacker.org http://phreak.com http://k-k-k.org http://nazi.org http://bluemountain.com http://bluemountain.com http://hallmark.com http://anonymizer.com http://idmask.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of District Administration - June 2006

Contents
Editor's Letter
Update
Inside the Law
Curriculum Update
Administrator Profile
District Profile
Graduation Woes
The Hidden Downside of Wireless Networking
Cover Story: John Q. Porter: Leader/Pioneer/Secret Shopper
8th Grade Algebra: Finding a Formula for Success
Building a Strong Community Partnership
Join the A/V Club
Big Brother Gets Bolder
Security Trends
The Online Edge
Speaking Out
Problem/Solution
Research Corner
Research Corner
Computer Literature
New Products
By the Numbers

District Administration - June 2006