-tictech message:
That's weird ... from my CWS, I can print to almost every room in the
building. It's easier than sending an e-mail but I do consider it an
intrusion so I don't do it often. I do have to use special CWS permissions
to make a connection to any ethernet printer, but your CWS support person
can do that.
I can install software, unfortunately, on everyone's CWS. Fortunately,
there hasn't been a lot of call for it. I did attend all three of the CWS
trainings so that I had the skills and permissions to do it.
I access my local servers, all of them and I've got a lot of them, all of
the time. And that doesn't take any special permissions as far as the CWS
is concerned. I just right-click on "My Computer", "Map a Drive", tell
what account to use that I have rights to on another server, and get a
connection just like I was on that computer.
I don't mind the auto lock after 10 minutes. At my site, I require all
administrators, including myself, to have locking screen savers with 3
minute delays. So, if you walk away without locking your computer, it
locks itself.
I also have most of the computers in the building doing additional Internet
Filtering. Each time the computers are restarted, they update the list of
filtered sites. That site that the Librarians were upset about yesterday,
it was blocked first thing this morning. Oddly enough, "Hobbohotel.com"
still isn't blocked in Seattle. Whenever a teacher gives me a site to
block, it shortly is blocked shortly after I receive it and the computer is
restarted. the teachers' computers are not blocked.
Most of this all is "unofficial". It doesn't come from the CWS team or
from IS. I created my own Printer Server and File Servers after not
getting any info back from the CWS people on using their equipment. But,
then, I also don't setup anything for SeattleSchools.org except for the
administrators. Unfortunately, I bought most of the infrastructure myself,
the Ethernet-to-Fiber Transceivers, the JetDirect Ethernet-to-Parallel
printer converters, etc. another thousand bucks worth. Part of the joy of
teaching.
I haven't seen much traffic here of late. The last time I shared
something, all I got was slammed with everything that was wrong with
it. It works great for us.
-Wes Felty
wfelty@gte.net
At 06:31 PM 4/28/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>-tictech message:
>
>Hi all,
>Just in case anyone cares about this sort of thing, my teacher workstation
>(CWS) hasn't been used in a few weeks. Administrators tracking this are
>certainly aware of whose machines have been on and whose have not, so I
>figured it might be a good idea to let people know why, at least in my
case:
>
>1) I cannot print to the printer in my classroom from it.
>2) I cannot install or upgrade any software on it.
>3) It cannot access our local server, student work, launcher web pages,
etc.
>4) It logs me off every ten minutes.
>
>Each of these reasons is worthy of a much longer discussion, but I'll spare
>you. Those using their CWS machines regularly have certainly had their
>computer use and teaching behavior shaped and modified by these
limitations.
>I only hope the above issues are being addressed by those setting policy.
>And, more importantly, I hope the impact of these policies on classroom
>teachers (and their students!) is being closely watched and evaluated.
>
>I have a personal laptop on my desk which gets the job done just fine.
>
>Mark Ahlness
>mahlness@attbi.com
>Arbor Heights
>
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