witch

Mine too

..or those who need to duck under cover

Done

There's already been a toucan joke Yours has been wren-dered unnecessary

I am a trained radio engineer for the merchant navy so I spent three years at college very near to very big transmitters, aerials, and, surely worst of all, radar... There's no hope for me

Pedantic much? Not my call to set the filtering so it is what it is Better?

Hellooooooooo to all

My school is a junior school. I do not think that the level of filtering we have is at all inappropriate for the children. I'm not arguing any more. It is what it is. Ofsted were happy with our systems. User-level filtering will come, I am sure, but until then I am fine with it as it is. *oh yeah, as if I have any power to switch anything

Apollo 11 Brilliant film. Real footage, no fictionisation to be seen Only critiscm? some of the background music made it hard to hear the somewhat fuzzy communications from the astronauts. Probably OK if you are American but a bit more difficult for us to decipher Still Brilliant though

planet..

RM do dig behind the scenes. We have had meetings with the local Police depts which liaise with such as RM SafetyNet. Our filtering is draconian - anything and everything is filtered. Perhaps this is why we are as we are. User-level filtering is not cheap. And who is going to run the reports? Not this bottom-of-the-pile tech BTW some third party companies ARE proactive and do the best they can

RM Safety Net have all sorts of ban lists - much like those mentioned in the Safer Internet Centre document - which was written in conjunction with SWGfL which is who we speak to when we want to change something about the filtering....

Reading all that, I think the essential thing to take away are the words: "appropriate filtering" These are junior school children. Allegedly our filtering is quite good enough at this level. I would also call your attention to the fact that Ofsted have never deemed our filtering to be not fit for purpose I did mention that we have user appropriate filtering in that the children have no access of any kind to YouTube or any dodgy content - the list of blocked stuff is extensive and I keep an eye on the edugeek threads for anything new. Even staff have to use a password to gain access to anything other than very basic and bland stuff. Perhaps this is what enables our risk assessment to decide that we do have appropriate filtering.

My thoughts exactly

That is such a lovely article and almost brought a tear to my eye

Ours just got put up with names etc. I carefully removed my picture and nothing has ever been said.

I'm told that the official advice is foggy and not very specific. If someone could point me to the more specific stuff I would be very happy

cyborg

He is right I am sure but the phrasing was...well anyway...we dont get any reports like that.

Porteus looks good but I think they want more than just web browsing - or maybe not...who knows I want the "lite" version of anything - the very litest so the little beast can cope. There are SO many versions out there - I am very confused Just for fun I am going to download Porteus and Lbuntu and put them on two other netbooks just to compare. I do have a lot of work on but nobody is giving me any of the stuff I need to do it so...

So come on guys - which distro???? Porteus, Lbuntu or what?

Amphibians

Ring rather than email

We have RM Safety Net. We dont have user-based filtering. RM tell us that they can, if necessary, identify users when issues arise. We have age appropriate filtering in that staff have access to a staff proxy which unblocks contents, and students do not. I find Safety net very good and very responsive if there is a problem.

It's actually quite fun to fiddle about with it on one side of my desk in between the mundane tasks I have going on at the moment