[Year 12 IPM] usb memory sticks
McDonald, Debra A1
mcdonald.debra.a1 at edumail.vic.gov.au
Mon Dec 4 19:20:42 EST 2006
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From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Roland Gesthuizen
Sent: Mon 04/12/06 6:34 PM
To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management Teachers'Mailin=
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] usb memory sticks
hehehe Thanks Margaret ..
Our tech took a different tactic. He did some detective work to identify the=
culprits, quietly talked to some students to figure out their motivation, a=
dded some new software items into the base computer image, gave me a list of=
classes that could better supervise their students, stuck up some notes to=
promote the Friday 'computer games' club and organised some new funny ones=
by students to minimise vandalism. Any 'soft-damage' to an operating system=
with unauthorised 'enhancements' is quickly removed when we reimage any com=
puter room. As he explained .. it takes him longer to eat his lunch.
I was impressed how he understood the importance for students to have a sens=
e of ownership of the college network ... that we are all working together t=
o serve their needs instead of continually struggling with new rules and sec=
urity hacks so that we can better shackle them to a crippled desktop.
Regards Roland
On 04/12/06, margaret.lawson at konstantkaos.net < margaret.lawson at konstantkaos=
.net <mailto:margaret.lawson at konstantkaos.net> > wrote:
USB is the new floppy .... I think that we should just ban students,
afterall we continually have problems with them.
Just like any *new* technology, develop a policy, educate and contain the
risk rather than ban it completely.
2cents
Margaret
> Hello all,
>
> Our network manager has encountered a number of problems with student
> memory sticks ruining computers. He wants to ban memory sticks. I was
> wondering if any list members had any policy relevant to this issue.
>
> Thanks
> Kerrie Hammond
> Trinity College Colac
>
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