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Archive page for Tuesday, 15 May 2007

 Tu, May 15, 2007
Chores
Today, I've been cleaning up some of the schools' posts. Taking out some of the extra bits that come along sometimes when you edit an email-to-weblog—nothing too difficult, just a little too much for a teacher. I see it like brushing up after the children :-)

And, cropping out an 'up-skirt' shot. This was probably quite a normal, innocent view for the photographer. It may have been a bit Victorian of me, but, I felt a little uneasy, so out it came.

(Note: all I needed to do was download the big version, crop and edit the thumb, so as to write over the original. As we use short cuts, every version was then updated.)
# Posted by Steve Hooker at 15/5/07; 9:28:28 AM to the Walsall Schools business dept.
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Proud
My two children have been riding for nearly a year.
Brad pulls a stupid, chuffed smile.
Brad pulls a stupid, chuffed smile.


We go every Sunday, for a half hour, sometimes more often in the holidays. They've done the lot, saddling up, grooming, and being lead around.

The past four weeks they've been on and off the leader. That is, they've been driving these beasts on their own. To see such small children on such large animals and controlling them, well, I get all bleary eyed, and they chatter like mad ones in our debriefing afterwards. I think it must be good for the soul. (Me? I've never been on a horse—can't see the point :-)

Over on my personal blog you can follow their adventures on horseback.
# Posted by Steve Hooker at 15/5/07; 9:18:41 AM to the dept.
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50% have an unwanted experience
BBC: Web safety warning for children: A survey of over 2,000 children found that over half have suffered from bullying, being threatened or sexually harassed while online."It also suggests that almost 60% of children used the websites to help combat loneliness, while 53% used them to share their problems."

I'm wondering if there should be a section, or facility or something, on a school's site where such children could go; either to say that they're being bullied, or for some comfort to their loneliness? But I guess there'd need to be a teacher looking at this stuff and paying attention. Sadly, there'd be zip resources for such.

"Previous research by the NSPCC has suggested 46% of children have given out personal details about themselves to people they have met online, such as photographs and phone numbers.The charity's website advises children to never reveal personal details, including their real names."

This should really be drummed in to primary school children—get them young! When you're protected by your barriers of anonymity you feel safer, and enjoy yourself more.

# Posted by Steve Hooker at 15/5/07; 8:51:39 AM to the Psychology dept.
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Keep clean
BBC: Google searches web's dark side: "Drive-by downloads are an increasingly common way to infect a computer or steal sensitive information."

My advice? Don't go to these places, if you do you should have a malware/spyware detector. My current fav is SpyWare Doctor but there are plenty to chose from.

# Posted by Steve Hooker at 15/5/07; 8:35:26 AM to the How tos dept.
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Keep clean