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i was sent this link to resources to help raise awareness of mobile phone crime in schools. blurb begins... With the increasing number of children and young people owning smart phones there is a rise in theft of said phones. However, even when a stolen smartphone is blocked, thieves can still connect to the internet using a WiFi connection, access email accounts, social networking profiles and other personal information stored on the phone. A range of resources are for 9 to 16 year olds have been designed to ensure that students are aware of the risks. Saving valuable teaching planning time and whilst also supporting curriculum learning outcomes, we have provided a range of materials for both Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 subjects within English and Drama, Citizenship / PSHE and ICT. Download our Read It! Accounts for real life mobile phone crime stories which help students understand the cyclical nature of mobile phone crime, empathise with victims and wise-up to the motives and tactics of would-be thieves including videos from the perspective of the victim, thief and buyer. Also take Home leaflets: Watch It! Safety Tips Help students take responsibility for themselves by printing this useful pocket-sized booklet full of safety advice. Mobile Phone Crime | FREE Education Resources

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Out of Your Hands? (Please pass this on, there are some good curriculum resources for teachers, kids and parents that can be downloaded.) Free teaching resources from the Home Office and the Mobile Industry Crime Action Forum One in five children aged 8 to 16 has had their mobile phone stolen, often by another child or group of children (Office for National Statistics) With Christmas just around the corner, many of your students will have the latest mobile phone handset at the top of their wish list; download your free teaching resources now from Out of Your Hands? to ensure your students stay street smart and safe from involvement in mobile phone crime. We need your students help for our 2012 campaign! The task is to design a slogan and simple logo to raise awareness of crime risks, winners will receive cash prizes for their school and vouchers for themselves. All information you need to enter - including terms and conditions and support resources can be found on our competition page. Closing date 31st January

I wonder if they'd consider streaming one of the seminars, anyway, I'll keep you in mind as I tweet away, and I'm sure TheScarfedOne will as well ; )

BoredGuy, they are open now to the non support contract holders for £85 so you could still come if your organisation ponies up the dough.

Hi TheScarfedOne, I'm at the Exeter one as well! What will you be wearing? Star Trek (orginal of course) T shirt with Cheezy wotsit crumbs? : ) Or shall we be guided by our tweets...

Kcymer, you make an interesting point, my experience of seminars and events generally is that they go up and down and with regional ones they can even vary region by region! I'm intending to tweet on the event I'm going to using the hash tag #rmtechsems2011 so I'll be happy to let you know how I get on! My twitter username is @innerquest When I spoke to the organisers when booking my space they said it consistently got high marks on evaluations, I guess I'll find out once I get there. As you say, it may have improved since you went and maybe the guy was just having a bad day or looking for some audience participation! I wonder, when you went, were there many teaching staff there, ie senior management team members or was it mainly network managers? Am I right in thinking that there are more network managers, e-learning directors etc on the senior management team now than ever?

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Thanks for the advice, Synack and russ, appreciate your time in answering. : ) I shall map out my day accordingly! I'm hoping to tweet during the day on their offical hashtag #rmtechsems2011 so if I do heckle it will have to be virtually so I don't get thrown out! @innerquest

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I think part of the problem is the filtering. When we were younger [cue hovis music] the main channels for information were the BBC TV and Radio then ITV then Channel 4. These channels were filtered for us so that the "bad" stuff were filtered out. Fortunately living in a democracy we knew the BBC would be reasonably safe. We still live in the good of that and can compare the decent sources we know about and the critical skills we have learnt with the tide of crud flowing our way via the interstella sewer that is the net. Not that is should be an argument about freedom of access to information, but if these children are growing up with no one from an early age saying, this is trustworthy, this is complete fiction, then what can we expect? The other impact is on relevance of information. With the overload that comes down the pipes, Jordan breaking a nail is given as much prominence as a Tsunami. We're used to the BBC and ITV news channels placing things according to importance on terrestrial news as it's a one channel feed. But when you go on websites or visual clip art bytes of news who decides on the relevance of what placed where, it's a cheese platter and you pick what you will. What's the solution? No idea at present accept for drumming it in at an early age that there are a few decent sources and try the rest against those. Wikipedia...LOL

I need some advice. I've booked in to go to this event below in November at the Exeter venue. £85 is good value CPD I think! I'm going as an e-safety assessor hat part of which includes looking at the technical side in a bit of detail but i want to understand it more. However, i want to spend my time wisely at the event. "CPD for Network Managers and Technicians – Essential IT Training Seminars The Technical Seminars are designed for staff with technical or a managerial responsibility for the schools' IT systems and focus on the technical aspects of efficiently managing a complete network. Delivered at nine locations during November delegates will increase their technical skills and knowledge, by attending sessions directly related to their day-to-day roles. Please encourage your technical colleagues to book their places on these essential IT training seminars." So, there are three seminars out of 9 I can go to, the first I'm going to is fairly straight forward and connected to my role: - Network Security: Managing the Unmanaged - about using and managing personal devices using the network - The second I thought I'd go to is: Understanding the Virtual Network - although I don't think it's about Second Life it sounds worthwhile! I'm undecided on the last one though, I under stand one title "The Technician's Toolkit" David Wrightbut but not the other two...I wondered, any chance one of you who knows about this stuff can take a look at the two seminars and see which might have most relevance to someone who is seeking to influence e-safety? The two are: - 64-bit:What's in it for me? Nicola Faulkner - Ultimate Scripting: PowerShell Introduction Michael Oakes It maybe its right out of my comfort zone so perhaps I should just take the time to browse round the stands! Anyway, any advice appreciated. : ) Cheers!

Check out the online link to the local library, if your kids are all members they should be able to access their accounts online and any book collections they have, including audio books. : )