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  • Free Home Internet Filtering option (OpenDNS)

    I answered a question for one of our teachers today at school and emailed this to our entire staff in case it’s of interest. Here’s a slightly modified version of what I shared via email: With more wifi devices than ever and kids getting online (sometimes) in their bedrooms and not just in “the family…

  • Configuring FREE Home Content Filtering with OpenDNS

    Following today’s fortuitous find of an Apple Airport Extreme Router for $40 at a local pawn shop, I needed to configure it for home content filtering as well as videoconferencing. After resetting the router to factory defaults, I turned it on (after power cycling my cable modem) and configured it to create a wireless network…

  • Successful New Home Router Configuration for Videoconferencing, Dynamic DNS and OpenDNS Content Filtering

    I’ve used H.323 videoconferencing units from home before, but since there tends to be long spaces of time between these configurations it seems I always have to “relearn” several things to get all the equipment working properly. I spent five years as a university director of distance learning working extensively with videoconferencing, and then used…

  • Reflections on home content filtering and OpenDNS after a year of use

    Do you use content filtering on your home network? (This free PollEverywhere survey will permit 30 people to vote on this question.) Create your own sms poll at Poll Everywhere I’ve written in the past about how draconian the content filters are in most of our Oklahoma public schools relative to countries with fewer legal…

  • Adware blocked by OpenDNS

    I’m a big fan of using OpenDNS for home content filtering for many reasons, and tonight I ran across another one. I was watching a YouTube video on my iPhone of some pretty amazing guitar play, and noticed in the video description the alleged author wrote: http://websiteaddress.com I learned to play guitar with http://websiteaddress.com…. Thinking…

  • The Value of OpenDNS (free) content filtering at home

    Having a tech-saavy ten year old with his own laptop in our home, we’ve known for quite awhile that we would eventually have conversations about “inappropriate content” online with him, and how we need to handle/respond to that content. We’ve had some conversations about this in the past, but until this past week hadn’t encountered…

  • Home Internet Content filtering needs: Solved with OpenDNS

    My quest to find an inexpensive or free way to provide a safer and content filtered Internet browsing experience for my family over our home high speed Internet connection has been solved! The answer? OpenDNS. Today while I was enjoying a visit to the Oklahoma City Apple Store, I misspelled a website address I was…

  • Chromebook and Home Computer Advice for Parents (Dec 2018)

    As a school director of technology as well as a known “tech geek” at other places we frequent like our church, I’m often asked for advice about purchasing computers for kids at holiday time. I’m also frequently asked about Internet filtering, Internet safety, and topics falling under the general topic of “digital citizenship.”

  • Learning about Digital Citizenship with Carl Hooker

    The past two days, Carl Hooker (@mrhooker) shared a series of outstanding presentations on digital citizenship with students, parents, faculty and staff at my school (Casady School) in Oklahoma City. I have known Carl for many years, and had a chance to participate in his amazing iPadPalooza conference in Austin in 2014. I attended his Miami Device 2015 session…

  • How Much Minecraft is Too Much Minecraft?

    Do you have kids at home who love to play Minecraft? Our (now) 12 year daughter definitely fits into that category. This past summer we paid for her to participate in Connected Camps’ “Summer of Minecraft,” and Rachel really enjoyed it. Last night we recorded a 20 minute podcast, in which she reflected on her camp…