Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the school providing all of us with such a nice piece of technology and an advanced method of learning, but it is very frustrating using the device when every other site that I click on is blocked. The most irritating part is that when I am genuinely trying to do something for school, usually my American Literature class, and the website or blog I am trying to visit is replaced by that annoying white box with the yellow strip in the middle telling me why I can't visit that site. It's so annoying.
I can understand blocking certain things like inappropriate sites and things like that, but the amount of sites that are blocked sort of defeat the purpose of giving us the devices and the opportunity to search the web. Sometimes it's even hard to access blogs to comment on that aren't blocked for my lit assignment! Not that I would ever try it, but I can understand why so many students are trying to overpass the firewall.
How are you liking the devices so far? What would you change about them for the students who will use them next year?