Here's why I fully support sending this miscreant to jail:
If someone picks the lock on the door to my house and shows me how it can be done, it's still breaking and entering.
If someone unlocks my car door and dumps all my CDs on the ground to show that it can be done, I'm still calling 911.
If someone spends a little time in my home and then proceeds to tell me all the problems with my marriage and my family, I'm still kicking the meddling asshat out.
It's ILLEGAL to misuse a network like this, and regardless of intention doing so is a crime. If the sysadmins did anything less than call 911 they would be irresponsible, and worse yet they would be encouraging other asshats to do the same thing. Even if this results in a more secure network, it's wrong, wrong, wrong.
I'm an instructional technologist for a large university, and your concern here is one I find myself discussing with a lot of faculty lately.
Here are some precautions and some ideas: * Be careful how much you require your students to learn in order to use the tools you choose -- frustration with technology will overcome any benefit from the tools. * Identify and use 'peer experts' in your class to help you teach the basics. * Using Blogging in a writing class is a fantastic way for your students to gain ownership of their writing online, but you'll have to work hard to encourage anything like collaboration, peer reviewing, or even quality. This is a good use for a detailed syllabus. * An easy way of supplementing a Blog is to require the students to build a web-based portfolio on which they can post edited 'highlights' from their blog. * Be precise about your requirements. I recommend giving seperate credit for 'participation' and 'attendance' online. This means that they have to do something meaningful to get the 'participation' points, but by simply posting anything they'll earn the 'attendance' points. Sounds hokey, but it really works to show students how to go beyond just posting to posting something worthwhile.
Okay . . . enough edu-speak. Let the technophiles sound off, because I'm curious to hear what these creative minds will offer as alternatives to blogging.
Who would run an LCD that big at 1024? Although I am all in favor of bigger and better geek toys, I think a careful examination of the practical longevity of a display device requires more features, not more inches.
I'd like to see display manufacturers spend as much time on usability as developers do (or should!)
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Here's why I fully support sending this miscreant to jail:
If someone picks the lock on the door to my house and shows me how it can be done, it's still breaking and entering.
If someone unlocks my car door and dumps all my CDs on the ground to show that it can be done, I'm still calling 911.
If someone spends a little time in my home and then proceeds to tell me all the problems with my marriage and my family, I'm still kicking the meddling asshat out.
It's ILLEGAL to misuse a network like this, and regardless of intention doing so is a crime. If the sysadmins did anything less than call 911 they would be irresponsible, and worse yet they would be encouraging other asshats to do the same thing. Even if this results in a more secure network, it's wrong, wrong, wrong.
I'm an instructional technologist for a large university, and your concern here is one I find myself discussing with a lot of faculty lately.
Here are some precautions and some ideas:
* Be careful how much you require your students to learn in order to use the tools you choose -- frustration with technology will overcome any benefit from the tools.
* Identify and use 'peer experts' in your class to help you teach the basics.
* Using Blogging in a writing class is a fantastic way for your students to gain ownership of their writing online, but you'll have to work hard to encourage anything like collaboration, peer reviewing, or even quality. This is a good use for a detailed syllabus.
* An easy way of supplementing a Blog is to require the students to build a web-based portfolio on which they can post edited 'highlights' from their blog.
* Be precise about your requirements. I recommend giving seperate credit for 'participation' and 'attendance' online. This means that they have to do something meaningful to get the 'participation' points, but by simply posting anything they'll earn the 'attendance' points. Sounds hokey, but it really works to show students how to go beyond just posting to posting something worthwhile.
Okay . . . enough edu-speak. Let the technophiles sound off, because I'm curious to hear what these creative minds will offer as alternatives to blogging.
--- Brian Richard
Who would run an LCD that big at 1024? Although I am all in favor of bigger and better geek toys, I think a careful examination of the practical longevity of a display device requires more features, not more inches.
I'd like to see display manufacturers spend as much time on usability as developers do (or should!)