Re: site servers
Joe Kern (kern@pps.pgh.pa.us)
Mon, 31 Mar 1997 08:42:35 -0500 (EST)
Alan,
One of our technology schools has had the students pick up the burden
of pc maintenance and new wiring. This involvement has
worked quite well. The school has even toyed
with the idea of giving the students complete administrator
access. The big problem that I see with giving complete
access, is the ability to maintain control, privacy, confidentiality,
etc. If you can sub-divide tasks to let the students perform
"safe" functions, I think student admins are a great idea.
At one point, one of our previous student admins was involved
in an incident were a server was maliciously attacked. Although
the student may not have been the perpetrator, it was acknowledged
that he was involved in the incident. This incident could
have had more serious effects if more access privileges were given
to him....
jk
sys admin, ckp
On 27 Mar 1997, Alan Feldman wrote:
>
> Another related issue -- we have had much success in helping teachers see new
> roles for students in the area of tech support. So far, this is confined to
> the use of applications; one fifth grade class, for example, has become the
> experts in Hyperstudio and will teach it to any teachers, students, or
> classes. We are looking at extending this -- at least for middle and high
> school students -- to sys admin tasks as well. We are aware of some models
> for this; does anyone in our group have experience with this?
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