It is important to know how your students can get around the school safety networks on the computers.
Here are a few examples:
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How to get around Internet Blocks | AskStudent using the windows Calculator
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Get around it using "https" instead of "http"-https://myspace.com
3.
Using Command Prompt (the black box with text) to "ping WEBSITE.COM" to get the IP address which students will then type in to a web browser instead of the web address. This will only work for an exact page, but it does work.
4.
Google Translate offers another solution, especially if the language of a website is not essential to whatever the student wants to do on a particular website (use your imagination). If you go to Google Translate and type a URL in to the box and make it so the language is say, English---> Spanish. The website will most often work.
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Another method is to try a proxy site. These are always changing and always popping up. This fact makes it hard to block them all, all the time. They tend to have names that may "sound ok" to a teacher. These are sites where you enter a web address in to a little box, press go, and it takes you there using their servers instead of the local ones.
6.
There are many programs that a student could download and run off a USB drive that could aid them in their "quest" as well. Be cautious letting students run programs from USB drives.
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There are many more, but these are some of the biggest. At my school, the current favorite is #3.
Peace!
