Art Lader

If you don't want students visiting Myspace, you make a severe punishment for students who do so, and you enforce it a couple times, and it won't happen again. If you don't want teachers visiting porn sites, you do the same.

Yep, that would be my approach, too.

The rules are there and the consequences too, you can follow them, or you can choose not to. That's it. But it is not my business to control what people do before they even have the chance to make a choice themselves.

Again, I agree 100%. One of the most important things we can teach at school is that actions have consequences.

But I should not complain too much. The community I live in is pretty paranoid about the Internet. It's nothing personal or malicous directed at me.

As Roseanne Roseannadanna said, It just goes to show you. It's always something. If it's not one thing, it's another. (For you youngsters, here's a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseanne_Roseannadanna.)

-- Art

Well, we just found out today that sites where purchases can made will be blocked next year. The way it is being presented to us, that would include sites like amazon.com and similiar legitimate sites through which we obtain books, software and other necessary supplies.

I am hoping, of course, that this turns out not to be the case. I think there is a good chance that it will be re-thought over the summer break.

But, yeah, that certainly would send a strong message of distrust to me.

Life goes on...

-- Art

Well... Maybe this is a good time to let you know that your blog at http://nihonbunka.blogspot.com/ is a resource one of my courses. You are really a terrific observer of culture, Tim, and this is something I want my students to learn.

The blog is blocked at school (the entire blogspot.com domain is blocked), but the students can get to it from home.

Hope that is okay with you!

-- Art

A soda? You bet! One for Geof, too, if he prefers that to beer.

Very much looking forward to the new FAST plugin.

-- Art

Is that something I could do with a simple search and replace?

-- Art