Search results for: “opendns”
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Benefits of Updating a Home WiFi Router to Apple’s Time Capsule
This weekend our family finally made the jump to upgrade our home wifi router. For the past three years, we’ve been using a second generation AirPort Extreme wifi router which I stumbled upon at a local pawn shop. Prior to that time, we’d just used “el cheapo” Linksys (now Belkin, formerly Cisco) and Netgear routers…
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A Story about Web Accountability and Club Penguin
Today I learned that over a year ago, one of our children was “banned” from the Club Penguin website for 24 hours for using profanity. I learned about this when I was checking out the “Ban History” on my Club Penguin “Parent Tools” page. Obviously that isn’t a “web history” page I visit very often.…
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NetPotential 2011 Conference Notes
These are my notes from the NetPotential 2011 conference in Oklahoma City on October 21, 2011, sponsored by OneNet. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Opening comments from Glen Johnson, Chancellor of Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education: Initial funding for OneNet came from legislation in Oklahoma in 1992 5th significant increase in…
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Internet Safety and Digital Citizenship Presentations for Students, Parents and Teachers
At the request of several school leaders in Oklahoma and Texas, I’m putting together a series of updated presentations this year for K-12 students as well as parents and teachers focusing on Internet safety, privacy, cyberbullying issues, digital footprints and digital citizenship. (Contact info is available on my “speaking” page.) photo credit: cotaro70s Using video…
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iPhone / iPod Touch Parental Controls, Digital Ethics, Open Access, and Apple as App Gatekeeper
Controversy continues to brew over Apple’s ability to “gatekeep” applications which are or are not approved in the official App Store for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Writing for TechCrunch yesterday in the article, “Steve Jobs Reiterates: ‘Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone,’” MG Siegler cites an alleged email from Steve…
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Debunking Myths of SextCasting
Thanks to a Diigo friend request I learned about “The Institute for Responsible Online and CellPhone Communication” and the “SextCasting is Stupid” site. On the page, “Don’t Be Stupid” organization leaders list the following myths related to SextCasting: Myth: Deleting a picture or video from your webpage deletes it forever. Myth: Deleting a picture or…
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An evening when DNS knowledge came in handy
I’m staying in Stilwell, Oklahoma, for a Celebrate Oklahoma Voices digital storytelling workshop this week, and my hotel provides free WiFi. I was able to connect to the wireless access point fine, but my web browsers wouldn’t resolve any URLs (websites) for some reason. I noticed that Skype seemed to show my status as online,…
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Setting up a basic content filter for free at granddaddy’s house
Yesterday was a first, but this was a situation I’ve anticipated for many months. My 11 year old son was at his grandparents house, and was using the Internet independently. He typed in a URL directly into a web browser and was accidentally forwarded to a pornographic website. Later in the day, he told me…
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A holiday lesson in ethics via Webkinz
Like a large number of North American households with Internet access and elementary age children this holiday season, our home was the scene of many hours logged on both Club Penguin and Webkinz the past couple weeks. After Christmas, we made a momentous purchase for our five year old: A new Webkinz Penguin she’s named…
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Neighbors on my WiFi? False Alarm?
This evening after I removed wireless encryption from our home network to accommodate our new XO laptop, I started reviewing the wireless router logs on our Airport Express router and access point to see if any previously unknown or unwelcome visitors were attached to and using our wireless network. Using the Airport Utility application on…