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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Location: James Joyce's pants
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 Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Just for the record, every job I have worked at had limitations, restrictions and monitoring of how their computers were used by staff. Thats to be expected and really it is their (employer) equipment, their connection... |
I agree, but I was just shocked at how they know what is appropriate and what is not. As another poster said, I guess they have words that are flagged and the pop-up shows once those words are noticed. My focus is on how absurd it is to flag a Simpsons episode. As I mentioned, I got it anyway through a Naver.com site, however, I don't want to be restricted when trying to find teaching materials!
All third grade teachers (middle school) are starting to prepare for D-day after the students take their final exams, and in an Eng dept. meeting we discussed movies to show. Per the suggestion, my co-teacher was trying to download "School of Rock" and he got a pop-up for that. That movie is not offensive at all; I've used it in past lessons and there's no swearing, nudity, violence, etc.
Maybe the gov't is just trying to discourage illegal downloading and are using the warnings to scare people. I've noticed the "I'm A Good Downloader" commercials that encourages legal downloading are running again on TV.
http://www.gooddownloader.com/ |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 12:08 am Post subject: |
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| download your movies at home and if some are good to show to classes, go for it... |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:33 am Post subject: |
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| MollyBloom wrote: |
| PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
| Just for the record, every job I have worked at had limitations, restrictions and monitoring of how their computers were used by staff. Thats to be expected and really it is their (employer) equipment, their connection... |
I agree, but I was just shocked at how they know what is appropriate and what is not. As another poster said, I guess they have words that are flagged and the pop-up shows once those words are noticed. My focus is on how absurd it is to flag a Simpsons episode. As I mentioned, I got it anyway through a Naver.com site, however, I don't want to be restricted when trying to find teaching materials!
All third grade teachers (middle school) are starting to prepare for D-day after the students take their final exams, and in an Eng dept. meeting we discussed movies to show. Per the suggestion, my co-teacher was trying to download "School of Rock" and he got a pop-up for that. That movie is not offensive at all; I've used it in past lessons and there's no swearing, nudity, violence, etc.
Maybe the gov't is just trying to discourage illegal downloading and are using the warnings to scare people. I've noticed the "I'm A Good Downloader" commercials that encourages legal downloading are running again on TV.
http://www.gooddownloader.com/ |
I understand your reaction molly. I have faced this situation at most of my jobs and do so at my current job at a far higher degree!
Here (public service) I work at the managerial level and have projects running all the time. The IT service has its own security restrictions that are usually imposed department wide and sometimes things get blocked for what we, at the micro level, consider to be an odd reason. The thing is, the security screening is not all that flexible so it is usually not applied on a case by case basis. It can be adjusted.
Bottom line is that it depends on your IT section and on school policy. Downloading a movie should not be a problem if the movie is d-loaded from a legal service and you paid for it. Downloading a movie illegally via a torrent on a work computer would and should get blocked immediately as there are potential legal consequences...just an example.
If you want no restriction...do your teaching research on your home laptop on the connection you pay for. At work you will sadly have to deal with and accept certain restrictions. What you CAN do is TALK to I.T. and have certain sites you use for teaching unblocked. If you have a good reason it should not be an issue. Bring a Korean co-worker along if you are not confortable enough in Korean.
However, I think asking for the IT or the school to unblock a torrent site for illegal d-loads will be denied and from an institutional perspective it has to be that way.
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Location: James Joyce's pants
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:02 am Post subject: |
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| PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
However, I think asking for the IT or the school to unblock a torrent site for illegal d-loads will be denied and from an institutional perspective it has to be that way.
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Well, I always try to stay under the radar and never attract attention to myself at work; because of this I will def. not bring it up to anyone, esp. the IT dept. As you and others stated, I'll just have to work from home downloading stuff if I need to. However, I sort of have an "in" with the 부장님 of the IT dept because of a rather unsavory event: he was laughing and spit out his food on my tray, and was so embarrassed he ran out of the teacher's lunchroom. Poor guy lost so much face and I felt bad for him. This was a while ago, and while I feel comfortable and completely undisturbed by it, I think he's still a little embarrassed. Because of this event, he's always more than willing to help me, and my work computer is the best one I have ever had at a job in Korea! I have all new equipment, a bad-ass speaker system, and the computer is super fast. He also gave me my own printer and laminating machine. I love my classroom. |
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