InvolverSome 2,600 schools in London are set to get e-safety software though the London Grid for Learning (ITPro reports).
Online and computer safety software is set to help protect a million London students from inappropriate content and cyber-bullying.
The London Grid for Learning (LGfL), a group of 33 local authorities which provides a common learning platform to schools, announced at the BETT conference in London today
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Mark
“Email is a great way to communicate with our stakeholders but too many charities are sending emails from their PC software or Webmail such as outlook and hotmail (writes CharityeMail). These emails lack design, personalisation and are liable to get blocked as spam as well as potentially breaching the Data Protection Act. This article explains the tools we need to send good emails to our supporters and details the things we should look for in an ASP Email Broadcast system. ” more
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Mark
So, I just got back from the BETT (British Education and Training Technology) Exhibition. It was crazy with 1000’s of exhibitors and 10,000’s of visitors. It was impossible to see everything, but I did chat to some interesting people with fascinating products. Everyone was ‘welcoming me to the future’ and telling me to ‘Make IT better’.
Matt
Jess and I had a meeting with Esmée Fairbairn this morning and they grilled us about our vision, i.e. where do we want to be in 5 years time? Whilst we have strategies and an overall vision for school councils, we need to have an organisational vision and interim points of reference.
Olivia
The government has allocated another £1 billion to children, schools and families over the next three years.
While the plan does not have direct impact on the rest of the UK it is likely that it will lead to pressure for action in similar areas in Wales, Scotland and N Ireland – not least in its approach that states that the school should be the centre of the community
It is a huge package of measures, and difficult to make overall sense of. But Tony Attwood from Hamilton House has done his best.
Nothing explicitly mentions school councils, but I’ve italicized sections that I think we could have a particular input into – Asher
Article for VB – possibly write some advice in an email and put in a resource in VB
just a few of the emails from students where they are asking for help:
hi, i am on the year 9 council and also on the overall school council (there are only 10 of us on the school council) we have decided to try and bump up the toilets, …
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Mark