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Category: eSafety

  • Usernames – Should they identify a pupil?

    Completely forget about this post over on my blog on EduGeek. Thankfully, this site now this pulls in all my posts from any possible blog I use so I thought I would send this one out anyway … from November 2009. In a discussion about student IDs I got a tad frustrated by the take…

  • Filtering and the Nirvana of your own connection!

    In a recent article by Miles Berry, over on Merlin John’s site Agent4Change, Miles raises a number of really good points about saving money in this year of austerity … but there are a few points that still get me about Open Source and an almost blind faith that it can solve nearly all our…

  • Safeguarding student email – Safermail and Exchange

    Original article posted at https://learningpossibilities.lpplus.net/Pages/safer-mail.aspx for LearningPossibilities I’m pretty sure that most people know my position on the use of technology to routinely lock down and block what people can access or can do. Basically, I think that not enough thought goes into it, it takes control away from the teacher and that it puts…

  • Sharepoint Articles

    This week will see a few blog posts go up. First will be one already writte, exploring a bit more about sharepoint and web 2.0, next will be talking about why we filter emails and what impact the management of it can have, then finally I will be asking around about how different people feel…

  • Why do people want to start fights?

    A recent tweet (or rather a retweet) had the following URL (in which we see ten commandments from a technically savvy teacher to technicians) – http://bit.ly/dpdjFO – and whilst I can understand the intention I just find it opens up the can of worms that is techie/teacher bashing. On places like the TES forums you…

  • How do you share the joy and share the pain?

    A thread has popped up over on EduGeek.net about setting up user groups in schools … quite a step forward to have more input into how IT is set up at your school, but it is more than just about sharing a few ideas. This isn’t too disimilar to one of the learning conversations at…

  • Didn’t we have a lovely time…

    Yesterday down at InfoSec / IT Support Show. After getting down there via a later (and cheaper) train I met up with Tom Newton from Smoothwall. A quick dash into infosec was completed and a lovely, chilled Innocent Smoothie was quaffed! Why did I go down to is clearly not an education event? Actually, it…

  • The Promised Post – how to annoy teachers, techies, LAs and RBCs in one go!

    I’ll be honest and say that there will be something in this post for everyone … something positive and something that will knock you down so that it makes you re-examine a few of your preconceptions and practices! I make no apologies for this and have done it purely to get people to think all…