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school website yourself. What will you write today's school news to be?Video frightens parents
Video frightens parents
I've been discussing schools including You Tube uploads on their site with Sue, the heroic techie at Moorside and Waterloo in Tameside. She'd added a few to the Moorside site, parents had seen it and she'd been 'requested' to take them down.
Apparently, You Tube has a reputation. Parents are worried that children may click through to You Tube and see some video nasties.
Now, I know that there's no porn on You Tube. They screen it for such. But there is violence and language.
This is an education problem. Parents and children. Back to basics. Children need to be watched on-line. Guided and monitored. And it's parents who need to do this. Here, with my children, I'm close by to their on-line activities. I don't think that they'll actually go looking for xxx and violence in You Tube. I don't even think they'll click through to You Tube.
Still, Moorside's parents are right. Customers are always right.
Question: what to do about it?
I and Sue, and the children she's talked to love videos. The streaming and functionality of You Tube is great. (Sure we could use Google Video, or any one of a plethora of similar companies, but they're essentially the same problem.)
The only thing that would be acceptable is to duplicate the functionality here. Internal videos would, apparently, be acceptable.
Apparently, You Tube has a reputation. Parents are worried that children may click through to You Tube and see some video nasties.
Now, I know that there's no porn on You Tube. They screen it for such. But there is violence and language.
This is an education problem. Parents and children. Back to basics. Children need to be watched on-line. Guided and monitored. And it's parents who need to do this. Here, with my children, I'm close by to their on-line activities. I don't think that they'll actually go looking for xxx and violence in You Tube. I don't even think they'll click through to You Tube.
Still, Moorside's parents are right. Customers are always right.
Question: what to do about it?
I and Sue, and the children she's talked to love videos. The streaming and functionality of You Tube is great. (Sure we could use Google Video, or any one of a plethora of similar companies, but they're essentially the same problem.)
The only thing that would be acceptable is to duplicate the functionality here. Internal videos would, apparently, be acceptable.
