I NEVER do a blind image search at school in front of students. The filters
are not 100% effective, and you never know what is going to show up. If I
search at home I have a 50-50 chance of being able to access that site at
school. What I do is to save what I want to share with students on my jump
drive and then pull it up on the computer to share, or I print it out on
transparancy film and put it on the overhead (depends on the classroom and
technology access on what I do). It is not necessarilly illegal to be
showing those images - school filters are more focused on blocking
inappropriate content, and they aren't always accurate. If there is a
website that is blocked at school and I have reviewed it and want my
students to access it at school I ask our tech guy to unblock that site.
~Michal
K-12 Kansas Art Teacher
http://www.geocities.com/theartkids
>I am at the hs level and I am admittedly spoiled by
> the image searches provided by google and others. I
> use them all the time for reference, ideas,
> brainstorming, comparison, locating sites, etc. Is it
> too much to say that as a visual learner I think
> better with them? Anyway, as my school filters more
> and more of these out (for obvious good reasons) I
> have less and less to use. I wondered if what I am
> doing is somehow illegal--and how others are dealing
> with school filters.
