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Maintaining your online privacy on Facebook

11 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

Our social video networks

We've got pages on youtube.com and wordia.com. Find us and use our video content or share with us any videos you may have that could be of interest to teachers and teacher wellbeing. Continue Reading

Cyberbullying and ratemyteacher.com

30 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 Online

12 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



 

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