This site is no longer blocked by Websense. Lessons learned — they don’t do much over the weekend and they seem to have even been off on MLK day.
I’ve learned a lot from the experience, and I am going to share some of it with my students.
I am not a big believer of censorship. I would like that our network be set up so that students cannot get to pornographic materials, but that is as far as I would like it to go. I think it is up to the individual to determine what they should have access to.
If my students get their assignments done early, I don’t have a problem with them checking email or doing research for another class. I would just as soon they didn’t play games, but I’m not going to get onto the kid that has a chapter for playing a computer game.
In other words, I think Websense goes too far.