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YouTube adverts - an update

Yesterday I posted about my concerns over YouTube suddenly adding adverts to the school channel and, as I later discovered, also appearing before and over the top of the 'Welcome to Porchester' video. After lots of digging and work by Kevin McLaughlin (@kvnmcl), (please note that that is appreciated greatly), it looked like the ads were appearing because the school was showing a video with copyrighted material.

One step forward, one step back

Anyone who has read the articles I have posted on this site over the years will now how I feel about the filtering service that schools are subjected to when they go online. It's no secret that I think it's draconian and too rigid.

It's been one of those days today

It has been. It's been one of those days that teachers have - occasionally - where you leave school, and you can say to yourself "That's why I became a teacher".

Making Google Apps safer?

I've been sat in front of the computer cursing, typing, cursing, fuming, scratching my head, cursing, tutting and generally getting annoyed over the past 24hours. Why? Because I'm trying to make Google Apps better -and safer - for the children to use in school.

Reviewing our journey

Back in June 2009 I posted an article that would be the start of a fascinating journey that myself and the school would embark upon. It was an article about the wonders of the VLE / MLE that all schools were being told to set up.

Collaborating, the 2Simple way

I've just been playing with the '2Investigate' program within 2Simples PurpleMash creative online learning package that we use in school, and in particular the new 'collaborative' feature of 2Investigate.

A few tweaks...

With the school being closed as a result of the weather at the end of last week, I have had chance to tinker with, and to tweak, the school website.

It's that time of the year again

The temperature has dropped drastically. The snow is falling and settling. Winter has well and truly arrived in the UK this week. And it's just in time too. We're on the verge of moving into December, and that means just one thing...

A crackin' day of ICT

There are days you like to forget, there are days you like to remember. Today has been one of the latter types of days.

More on usernames and passwords

Earlier in the week I posted how our pupils access the online services we use in school. I mentioned Google Edu Apps, Typepad and PurpleMash in particular, and how we had set up accounts so that the pupils only needed to remember one unique username and password.