[Year 12 IT Apps] YouTube down the tubes?

[Graham]

G;day

I understand people's frustration, about Educache.  We too limit our  
students Internet access and it is frustrating.  ( A student  
researching brewing for a chemistry project was severely limited.)

However, to state that 200, 000 of 100 million is inadequate seems an  
exaggeration.  I doubt that your school library has that many books.

Using the same analogy, one would argue that, even if one's school  
library has 200,000 books, it is inadequate and it must have must  
have every book in the world.

The Internet is only one resource, not the only resource.  We should  
be teaching our students to use a variety of resources and not to  
depend upon one of inconsistent, and often dubious, accuracy.

If your school library was inadequate, you would not just complain  
about it - you would do something, such as purchasing books, making  
recommendations to the librarian.  If the Educache is inadequate make  
an effort to improve it by recommending sites.




Graham Gales
Bright P-12 College
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On 06/08/2007, at 10:45 AM, Russell Edwards wrote:

>
>> We're banned from YouTube as well. Also, the techs have an  
>> extensive list of
>> "not allowed" words which restricts any site that uses them. Quite
>> restricted.
>
> hehe, I'd love to go back to such a system. At our school students  
> are restricted to the Education Channel whitelist.
>
> 200,000 sites out of 100 million; 99.8% of the internet blocked. No  
> chance of meeting VELS or POLT. Students and staff strongly opposed.
>
> Working on it, hopefully won't last much longer!!
>
> Russell "Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six  
> o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot  
> gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come  
> home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we  
> were lucky!" Edwards
> Whittlesea SC
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