IrritableTech

My Gran had one for a long time. Used it a fair bit. They use them in my local Costco to cook the free smaples too.

I think the discussion was probably based on this research which came out today..... 11th December - new sexting research out today - UK Safer Internet Centre I haven't had time to read it fully, but the biggest issues seem to be that parents and professionals are not approachable enough. Yes kids will make mistakes despite us trying to teach them right and wrong. Support is what is currently lacking. The SWgFL recently developed a fantastic resource on what to do when things go wrong. A new, and desperately required direction. South West Grid for Learning Trust - So You Got Naked Online The Amanda Todd tragedy seems to have highlighted the issue to many. Hopefully many of our young people will learn from those sad events. eSafety in all it's forms is something that educators need to keep chipping away at. It's no good having a yearly assembly and an ICT course in year 7 (most schools current provision). New technologies are developing daily, but the same old messages generally work. Think before your post. I've run eSafety sessions with pupils and staff, it is sinking in.

You could develop the technology (or just make current technology available) to those that want it, but it's gone beyond MMS. Kids are using BBM, WhatsApp and the horrible SnapChat. Data is cheaper than MMS/Text. As soon as you give them a phone that allows apps, you're control has gone. Much better to educate your children and be open enough that they feel comfortable to approach you when they make mistakes.

We built a 19" rack on wheels in which we put a CD player, Mixer, PC (wireless network), fixed boom mic, two wireless receivers and a lockable draw. We then got our DT department to build a lovely lectern around it, and mount a monitor within it. Users just need to plug a VGA cable, power and two xlrs into the lectern to get it going. They grab a key for the drawer from the office, which gives them access to the projector remote and the belt packs.

I've just run a monthly check to find that my school (1300 pupils) printed 63,599 pages (79% of a tree) in the last 30 days. We moved to papercut three years ago. It wasn't a popular decision, but a necessary one! We started charging departments @ 3p per sheet mono, and 10p per sheet colour. These figures were based on toner, paper and maintenance/replacement costs. It has proven to work out fairly well over the years with our printing budget staying stable. When we started it had a big impact on the amount people were printing. However it has creeped back up now. We have started adding a very small watermark to prints. It means anyone is able to trace a print back to the user, without bothering us.

We've put in Unifi into three of our schools. School 1: 3 x Standard APs - Windows 2008 controller. School 2: 3 x Pro APs - Windows 2008 controller. School 3: 14 x Pro APs & 3 x Standard external APs - Ubuntu controller. We were advised to go down the ubuntu route for the larger deployment, for reliability. However, on the smaller windows deployments, we've never had an issue. Unifi is superb for the price. If you run radius, it can do nearly everything the bigger names can do too.

But I'm pretty sure that would resolve. That's how shared hosting works. Try it!

Can't you make a record that points to the websites public IP in your dns?

Thanks for the update @zag. How does talk talk system deal with monitoring? If a pupil hits a block, is it recorded, flagged?

I'm a great believer that it matters less which platform you use, and more how you encourage staff and students to use it. Perhaps changing your VLE so often, is part of the reason why it doesn't take off? All that said, many see VLE's as a bit long in the tooth these days. There are lots of handy websites and services which may prove a better fit in todays education arena. Currently we use Moodle, with single sign-on and automated scripts which integrate into Sims.

Twitter takes time & effort to find useful people. With a bit of searching, you can soon find interesting people & organisations to follow. Following football players, celebrities and the lead singer of the latest boy band is probably going to get very boring, very quickly unless you enjoy celeb gossip anyway. I set up a 'professional' twitter account around a year ago when I became more interested and involved with eSafety, our digital footprints and trying to teach students responsible net use. I was worried about the negative side of twitter, but couldn't honestly say I knew enough about the site on which to form my negative opinion. I attended a conference with presentations from award winning teachers, eLearning and eSafety experts. One thing (I think all) they had in common, was that they all used twitter, to connect to other teachers, and experts. I started following these people (still do) and looking at who they followed and connected with and started following some of them too. I'm grateful for the fact that today, I may only have 350 ish followers, but I believe they include some of the worlds top eSafety organisations and experts, the best teachers in the country, and some of the most helpful techies twitter has to offer. In return, I follow many of them back for their insightful, useful and interesting comments, thoughts and most crucially, links. Technology is not bad. Twitter is not bad, although it does have it's fair share of bad users. Facebook probably has the same percentage of bad users posting horrible status', but facebook is set up to be (or users have made it) a more closed community. You hide your stuff from people on facebook, most users broadcast it on twitter. If you don't befriend people who say horrible things in real life, you're less likely to see it on facebook. Following the #xfactor hashtag on a Saturday night is not always very pleasant viewing. People can be horrible, and perhaps the 'non real name' culture of twitter has helped people say things they might not otherwise. We need to somehow reach out, and educate the people abusing the technology to help reduce this negative side. But if you follow things like #UKedchat, #EduTech, #eSafety and #Edugeek you will find lots of great people sharing wonderful things all for free. Sorry, I've gone on a bit. You all switched off after the first 140 characters didn't you?

This might help. Or there is the apple configurator on OSX? iPhone Configuration Utility 3.6 for Windows

I rarely use facebook or google+, and I've only just recently dipped my toe into Linkedin. My personal twitter account has a handful of followers and is mainly pictures of the cat, however my professional account (@IrritableTech) is very different. I've connected with so many people within the industry, education and eSafety. I can't possibly convey just how useful it is in my line of work. Work at twitter for a week, and it will reward you for months.

Any luck @FN-GM ? I did guess at that code a bit.

We've mounted a handful of the casio short throws on the Sahara short throw wall bracket. Like this... 1150030 Sahara Short Throw Proj Wall Bracket We did have some trouble though, if memory serves one of the screw points on the projector is almost in the centre. This makes it harder for any universal bracket.

Your private ranges are wrong. 192.32.*.* is a valid public IP range for example. I'd be changing these bits... if (shExpMatch(url, "*172.*")) { return proxy_no; } if (shExpMatch(url, "*10.*")) { return proxy_no; } if (shExpMatch(url, "*192.*")) { return proxy_no; } if (shExpMatch(url, "*127.0.0.1*")) { return proxy_no; } To something like this... if (isInNet(host, "10.0.0.0", "255.0.0.0")) { return proxy_no; } if (isInNet(host, "172.16.0.0", "255.240.0.0")) { return proxy_no; } if (isInNet(host, "192.168.0.0", "255.255.0.0")) { return proxy_no; }

Not at all, thank you. Glad you found it useful @zag

I hoped as much

If it was directed at me, our controller too links to AD and generates a unique PSK on the fly. It's the Ruckus Dynamic PSK feature.

We are on the verge of launching a second attempt at BYOD. Our first attempt with our sixth form failed mainly because many users found the LEA proxy server a struggle to deal with. Entering details, constantly authenticating, blocked services slowing down devices etc. Our second (yet to be launched) system will utilise a non-authenticating transparent proxy. Users connect to a SSID for their year group, which is in it's own VLAN. Our captive portal authenticates them onto the network and logs the device MAC and user details. Each device is given it's own unique pre-shared key. These subnets are filtered at the standard LEA filtering level for their age. Devices are isolated using access lists, and can only communicate with our DHCP, DNS and Moodle servers, and of cause the gateway. I will be happy for users to use phones, tablets, laptops or anything else. If it's got a browser in it, it's all right with me. If they are using devices in the wrong place or time; It is a behaviour issue, rather than a technology issue. If the technology is causing an otherwise compliant student to become disruptive, we could obviously revoke keys and disable further access. @GrumbleDook Students are already bringing these devices into schools. Banning them, just puts them under the desk rather than on top of it. Devices still in use but the educational potential lost. Bullying, sexting and all the other online activities which do harm children could already be happening within the school fence. Education is key to stopping these activities, however monitoring internet use will also identify when students go off the rails. Schools can not monitor 3G connections. So to my mind, allowing BYOD should help reduce these risks rather than increase them. Before launch I hope to get various members of the school community together to write a suitable user policy. It is my belief that if we involve students in the decision making, they will more likely stick to its outcomes.

Someone once said to me, create policy that stops people losing their job, rather than stops them doing their job. Really important to remember that. The technology or the social networks themselves are not bad, they are just sometimes used badly. It's usually a behaviour issue, not a technology one. I think that works for both sites that should be blocked, and ways of transporting data off site to be honest. Training is key, backed up by a sensible, and workable policy.

Thanks danbuntu I did touch on the requirement to open up, or rethink document storage to allow BYOD devices to connect. I happen to believe that the most powerful 'app' on any platform is the web browser. I'd hope most schools understand that BYOD is not a replacement for traditional ICT suites, and the higher end software packages. Mobile devices compliment traditional computers rather than replace them in my opinion. I think you make a very good point regarding admins. Network managers are often fairly protective of their systems. For some, it's a big step to allow untrusted devices onto the network. However this really shouldn't be an issue as long as security is regulary audited, and vulnerabilities actioned upon.

NEN - The education network have asked for thoughts and opinions on BYOD in the classroom. Their consultation will include industry, and interested parties such as schools, colleges, RBCs etc. BYOD - What do you Think? - The National Education Network I have created a blog post which I have also submitted to the consultation. It probably doesn't cover everything, and therefore I'd be grateful if you could read it, give feedback, but perhaps most importantly submit something to NEN yourself. You can find my thoughts here... BYOD: NEN Consultation « Irritable Tech As a systems manager who has been trying to implement a scheme, (and trying to get our LEA on board) I think it's really important to get some feedback from us non teachers. So please if you can spare five minutes, put something together. @GrumbleDook rightly pointed out to me on twitter that the consultation should include feedback on 1:1 schemes, as many lessons could be learned from organisations who have looked to this approach. However that isn't the line my school has taken, and therefore I didn't really factor this in to my response. If wireless isn't the correct place for this, sorry mods...

Great to see you here Rebecca And can I just say, anyone interested in eSafety should follow @esafety_officer on twitter. Rebecca has a talent of finding all the best resources and information. Sounds like an interesting event yesterday @GrumbleDook. My invite from the powers that be must have been lost in the post. Next time...

Androids download a .apk file (or at least the default browser in my ICS tablet does, dolphin downloads a zip). It installs an app called WifiAutoConf4.0 which your users then need to open. This app, has a button which installs the SSID settings. A bit of a faff. It's on my list to test it from a Mac. I suspect this is the only platform that might automatically jump networks once installed. Our PAC and WPAD files are served from an internal web server which we've allowed access to through the ACLs. It's also our moodle server, so we wanted all that traffic to stay internal.