Maintaining your online privacy on Facebook11 May 2010—Thousands of teachers use Facebook. It's a useful tool for keeping in touch with friends, meeting people and is part of many people's daily web routine. However, Facebook's new privacy settings may be putting more of the information you thought was personal in the public domain. Here are some ways of keeping your personal life from appearing on your students' web browsers. Continue Reading Cyberbullying and ratemyteacher.com30 July 2009—Although cyberbullying frequently occurs on more familiar social networking sites, it is often at its most vitriolic on the site ratemyteachers.com. As long as the site is operating, you can take some measures should its anonymous poison pen authors target you. Continue Reading Should teachers Twitter?28 May 2009—A recent story by the BBC has highlighted the possible hazards of using social networking sites, particularly during work hours. The article, published on the 22 May, discussed the recent case where a teacher in the area of Argyll and Bute is understood to have posted up to 38 updates a day on the Twitter site. Many of the posts featured information about her classes and students and were posted during school hours. Continue Reading Be Safe Online12 February 2009—Safety risks exist wherever we are – at school or home, in the shopping centre, in the playground, or on the internet. They are, however, increased in the online environment by the fact that we can't usually see who we are communicating with and probably don't know who provided the data we are accessing. Continue Reading Social NetworksYou can find us on Twitter and Facebook. Get the links here. Continue Reading |
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