Personal internet safety is a real issue and especially with young and vulnerable learners. Whilst the benefits of the Internet are indisputable, the culture of non-censorship and the ‘primacy of privacy’ protects exploiters at the expense of the vulnerable. One resource that might be of interest is a website specifically designed for people who have learning disabilities. It’s called Common Knowledge www.ckfriends.org.uk/index.html. Offering alternative sites may not help in that it won’t stop her using sites she already uses and you may wish to consider a more traditional filtering programme. There are many filtering programme available. Here is one that is free for personal use: http://www1.k9webprotection.com/26 Aug 2009
Protecting Vulnerable Students
We have a highly vulnerable student who has a learning disability and started with us this term. She has become very sophisticated in the use of chat rooms to make contact with strangers and has actually met up with one or two people in the past. We feel we have a duty of care to reduce the chances of her contacting people in this way, whilst we try to build up her awareness and skills in developing relationships. We have the JANET web-filter but it does not intervene in these circumstances. Do you know of any tool that might reduce the need for constant checking and intervention by staff while we work on raising her awareness?
Personal internet safety is a real issue and especially with young and vulnerable learners. Whilst the benefits of the Internet are indisputable, the culture of non-censorship and the ‘primacy of privacy’ protects exploiters at the expense of the vulnerable. One resource that might be of interest is a website specifically designed for people who have learning disabilities. It’s called Common Knowledge www.ckfriends.org.uk/index.html. Offering alternative sites may not help in that it won’t stop her using sites she already uses and you may wish to consider a more traditional filtering programme. There are many filtering programme available. Here is one that is free for personal use: http://www1.k9webprotection.com/
Personal internet safety is a real issue and especially with young and vulnerable learners. Whilst the benefits of the Internet are indisputable, the culture of non-censorship and the ‘primacy of privacy’ protects exploiters at the expense of the vulnerable. One resource that might be of interest is a website specifically designed for people who have learning disabilities. It’s called Common Knowledge www.ckfriends.org.uk/index.html. Offering alternative sites may not help in that it won’t stop her using sites she already uses and you may wish to consider a more traditional filtering programme. There are many filtering programme available. Here is one that is free for personal use: http://www1.k9webprotection.com/
Does anyone know how to configure a PC so that it shows the mouse pointer in screen shots when using the Print Screen function?
There are a number of screen grab tools on the market that are ideal for writing guides. Screenshot Captor is a freeware (donation requested) product which is great for simplifying and speeding up lots of screen capture processes: http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/screenshotcaptor/index.html
Another option is SNAGIT (from TechSmith). The version I’ve got has CamStudio bundled in, which is a user friendly way of recording screen movement into little video clips that records series of movements on screen and you can add a highlight halo to your mouse cursor to make it even more visible. You may find CamStudio useful for either creating short training videos for your website or perhaps creating screen grabs from your videos. A free download of CamStudio can be found (along with a vast array of other free tools for learning and teaching) through the RSCs AccessApps and scrolling down to presentation tools:
http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk/accessapps/compare.php
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