AISD "Safety"

 Austin Independent School District has a policy regarding the websites students are aloud to have access to while on school property, that is if you run of their WiFi. They block websites that are typically associated with entertainment and not education. The only games that are allowed are on websites like http://www.funbrain.com/. Educational games that test you mathematical equations, spelling, or other academic skill to complete levels. Any sort of nonacademic, social media website is not allowed. The only one, however, that is happens to be http://www.tumblr.com/. Tumblr is an online blogging website that allows you post pictures, text, videos, and music. Other users "follow" your blog and have a news feed they can reblog your posts, or your reblogs. Although Tumblr gets past the AISD criteria, it is an unmoterated website. There policy does not protect against, illegal, mature or even taboo content, where YouTube's policies do include this. Tumblr is a free for all, where YouTube has it's rules. http://www.youtube.com/ is an online video host website that does not get passed the AISD criteria for what is "appropriate" for K-12 students. YouTube also has many safety settings that can be locked from the server, but still is not aloud. YouTube is allowed for teachers to access, and they use YouTube a lot for educational purposes. YouTube beholds many educational videos. Though, it does contain many other things including, Music, Music Videos, Television shows etc. 

YouTube PROS: Safety Settings, Educational Videos, Playlist Settings, Tutorials, News, Live Broad Casts.
YouTube CONS: Users can post comments, Some inappropriate stuff slips by, Music and other forms of entertainment.

Tumblr PROS: You can search online photography, You could maybe find a few educational blogs.
Tumblr CONS: You can look at adult content, You can listen to music, You can watch videos of ANYTHING, You can look at ANY kind of picture, you can send messages, no safety settings, you can create "profiles", you can send anonymous messages to users, you can make and look at blogs.


I don't know about you, but Tumblr make's YouTube look like sesame street.