Yesterday I spent the morning with a member of staff showing them how to login and post articles to the school website, and encouraged her to make a post.
Today she made her first "solo" post - and included two pieces of pupils work in the post as well. I went to her classroom to watch whilst she went through the process of posting (I was invited by her to do this, I didn't just turn up and hover over her shoulder!!). The first problem though was that as she attempted to log onto the school network using one of the older laptops, it would not find her profile - giving her a roaming profile, and as a result no access to the posting side of the school website. Not a problem though, I went and collected one of the "new" laptops and she started again. Same problem though with her profile on the new machine.
This meant decamping to my classroom and using my machine (already logged onto the network) for her to use to post to the website.
I was impressed as she went through the process, and logged in, began a new post, added a title, wrote some text in the main body, and added two word documents as uploaded files, chose a category and then posted. That was it - done!
Just to ensure it had worked, we took a look at the website and clicked on her post. There it was, all present and correct. We clicked on the first document and waited for the embedit.in plugin to load the work on screen...and that's when my jaw hit the floor.
The children had been working on writing persuasive letters, and here was a letter from a child in school with their OWN address in the top right hand corner, and their FULL NAME in the letter, and at the end too. Instantly, my eSafety side kicked in and I went straight back to the post and removed them instantly.
I explained to the member of staff why they couldn't stay on the website in their current form, and then went into the pupils document areas on the school server, found their work, made some alterations (false name and address) and re-saved the work with a different name before loading back onto the school website. I've also added a message to the post too, to explain to the children why their work might look differently to what they had produced.
Of all the weeks to have a [potential] eSafety issue on the website, it had to be this week - anti bullying week where the focus is on cyber safety!
