A Safer (Apple) Internet
Symantec published a report on how long children spend online. Included in the study was a look at how long parents thought their children were online in a single month. Read more
Content Filtering comes to iPhone
One of the most commonly forgotten connections to the internet in schools has to be the mobile device. Schools and parents invest money, and a fair bit of time ensuring the internet is kept free of inappropriate material yet their children have an internet hotline. Read more
Safer Internet Day 2009
Yesterday marked yet another successful Safer Internet Day. This year the focus was on the issue of online bullying via instant messaging and social networking websites. As part of the day a special one minute video produced by the European Commission has been created to raise awareness of cyberbullying. Read more
Ten E-Safety Tips for Twitter
I was asked where Twitter fell with general e-safety guidelines and unlike most social networking services twitter can offer a mass of very public information and although the content can be limited to text and images. Read more
Securing Moodle and Reducing Spam
If you use Moodle you probably do everything possible to lock down who as access to the courses on your server both to protect the content but also to protect your students from outside visitors. There are quite a few steps you can take to ensure your VLE is protected ranging from the total lock down of administrator account creation only right down to email authentication.
