E-Security

Couldn’t resist posting that when I went to the Australian Government’s site on E-Security Education Modules: Budd:e, you get this message in Explorer and Chrome: Kind of makes you worry that if they can’t get that right, what the resources will be like, doesn’t it!

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Student cracks internet filter and then says sensible things about net filtering!

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 [...]

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Stop CyberBullying: Video

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 [...]

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Don’t Dehumanise Us

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 [...]

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Dangers of social networking

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 [...]

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EdTechWeekly #21

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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