Posted in online safety, web 2.0 learning on Oct 27th, 2007 1 Comment »
I’ve been trying to look at as many presentations as I can from the K12 Online Conference currently underway, and have been enjoying them a lot. I posted earlier about the New Imagery Conference I attended earlier this month, but this online conference also has some great presentations, more focused on technology generally. Each [...]
Posted in online safety on Aug 26th, 2007 No Comments »
The Herald-Sun reported today that Tom Woods, a sixteen year old schoolboy from Melbourne, had cracked the Federal Government’s new $84m internet porn filter in about half an hour.
He then cracked a upgraded filter in forty minutes.
However, what interested me most wasn’t this boy’s prospective career path in the IT industry or his supporting actor [...]
Posted in online safety, videos on Aug 4th, 2007 1 Comment »
I’ve been leading a committee at school called Online Safety and Ethics which consists of a group of students and teachers working together to establish some clear outcomes, and some age-relevant activities for students to undertake during home group time. This YouTube video, against Cyberbullying, might be a resource we could use with Middle School [...]
Posted in blogging, online safety, web 2.0 learning on Apr 27th, 2007 2 Comments »
Following up on the topic I posted about earlier this week, about the connection between self-harm and internet commuinities, this letter in the AGE today:
Don’t dehumanise us
THE concept of cyberspace has nothing to do with the fact that
these girls killed themselves. Being a teenager myself, I feel I
can shed more insight into the truth of [...]
Posted in online safety, web 2.0 learning on Apr 25th, 2007 2 Comments »
The tragic death of two teenage girls earlier this week has re-focused media attention on social network sites like myspace where both girls had online profiles. There’s been lots of talk about the dangers of sites like this bringing together like-minded individuals who might be supported in their alienation and depression by others who feel [...]
Posted in online safety, podcasting on Apr 20th, 2007 No Comments »
I’m usually a couple of weeks behind with getting to listen to these, but I’m always impressed with them when I do. EdTechTalk run a series of educational podcasts but the EdTechWeekly one is my favourite. The focus is educational and there’s lots of links and new sites to check out, all included on a [...]
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