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school firewall whitelist

started by Maggie Tsai on 30 Oct 08
  • Maggie Tsai
    #1 Maggie Tsai on 30 Oct 08
     
    Some schools are treating Diigo like all other SN sites and putting it on its block list. We'd like to prepare something to share Diigo's key features & benefits & how it works to make it easy for them to whitelist diigo and make it available for educators and students in school.

    We'd like to learn what issues are important to them, so we can better address them. If you have some insight, please feel free to share your thought. Thanks!
  • J Yates
    #2 J Yates on 15 Nov 08
     
    It's not been a problem yet, but I've got a couple of groups set up with classes and we're building up a decent set of resources and shared information, so I think I could easily argue the benefits if the techy dept. tried to shut us out.

    I'd suggest you really push the teacher console as a way of keeping some control over what pupils use the site for (I point out that any messages they send are time stamped and I can see them all, they don't try after that). It's not that well publicised, I only stumbled on it after looking around a bit...
  • Mr Burks
    #3 Mr Burks on 17 Nov 08
     
    I am fortunate in that Diigo was not blocked, but when I took my students into the computer lab and had them logged into the accounts I had set up for them, we found out that they could not see the highlights I had made for them on the sites I had set up in my groups. They could not download the Diigo toobar because they did not have the permission rights. When I tried to install the toolbar under my login, it worked more me, but completely killed IE for them. I have reported this to my IT folks and they are supposed to work on it next week.

    Bill


    Maggie Tsai wrote:
    > Some schools are treating Diigo like all other SN sites and putting it on its block list. We'd like to prepare something to share Diigo's key features & benefits & how it works to make it easy for them to whitelist diigo and make it available for educators and students in school.
    >
    > We'd like to learn what issues are important to them, so we can better address them. If you have some insight, please feel free to share your thought. Thanks!
  • Maggie Tsai
    #4 Maggie Tsai on 25 Nov 08
     
    @J Yates - Indeed! Any good idea on how to make "Teacher Console" even more "obvious"? Where and how?

    Welcome input from everyone. Thanks
  • Maggie Tsai
    #5 Maggie Tsai on 25 Nov 08
     
    Bill,

    Have you tried diigolet yet? It should be a lot easier (no download required) - and we'd love to hear more input on how we can approach / work with school IT dept. Thanks!
  • Toby Bradley
    #6 Toby Bradley on 21 Mar 09
     
    Internet Nazi :-) here.

    I just opened up Diigo in our content filter because it's more of what we're looking for ... ie, it's
    building features to sandbox the kids while give them the benefits of social bookmarking.

    From my perspective ... it looks like Diigo is definitely headed in the right direction. Too many developers don't realize what constraints CIPA and other doctrines place on the K-12 users. There are "paid" solutions out there, but those are unacceptable because:
    a) They lock out the "rest" of the world
    b) money (or lack of)

    Keep up the good work. As I explore this more, I'll have some specific suggestions regarding how to
    make things even more content filter friendly.


    Maggie Tsai wrote:
    > Some schools are treating Diigo like all other SN sites and putting it on its block list. We'd like to prepare something to share Diigo's key features & benefits & how it works to make it easy for them to whitelist diigo and make it available for educators and students in school.
    >
    > We'd like to learn what issues are important to them, so we can better address them. If you have some insight, please feel free to share your thought. Thanks!
  • Maggie Tsai
    #7 Maggie Tsai on 21 Mar 09
     
    Great Toby,

    After we roll out the next major release, Phase II of Diigo Education Network will be next - ie. a dedicated education network only for educators and students!

    So, stay tuned and please do continue to give us feedback! Meanwhile, while we're doing our job of making diigo better and better, we'd love to have your help ~ please help to spread the love of Diigo and allow more people to benefit from our robust sets of productivity tools, and help us to grow this powerful knowledge sharing community, so everyone can benefit even more from the community collective wisdom!

    (Note: should we be somewhat "quiet" on the user forums sometimes, don't worry! We haven't taken off to hang out on the beach :-) With your input, we're doing active listening and thinking. Our entire team has been working hard not only on the next rounds of new releases,we are also busy helping the migration of Furl users to Diigo - many are also educators :-) While we really love to be responsive and interact with our users whenever we can, we are a small team (with big ambition :-) , and everyone juggles multiple tasks. Given our limited bandwidth, there are time that we just need to concentrate on getting our work done. Thanks for your understanding and continued support.

    So, keep the conversations & feedback coming. Together let's make Diigo better and better :-)

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