Promise from Webwise
Today is Safer Internet Day and across the world a number educators and organisations will work with students to explore the theme of ’Online Rights and Responsibilities – Connect with Respect’. To coincide with the day, the Irish association Webwise…
eSmart Libraries
On Monday 27 August, 2012 The Hon Julia Gillard MP officially announced eSmart Libraries – a 8 million dollar partnership between The Allannah & Madeline Foundation and the Telstra Foundation to address cybersafety through public libraries. Given that over 54%…
Cybersafety Summit 2012
Today’s post comes from regular contributor Catherine Hainstock of Vermont Secondary College. Catherine tells us about her experiences at the recent National Cybersafety Summit. On June 12th, I attended the National Cybersafety Summit in Canberra with two students from the…
Should we be teaching Facebook?
Today’s post comes from a new regular contributor to Bright Ideas, Tony Richards. What an interesting week we have just had in relation to movements around cyber safety. Recently we saw splashed across the traditional media a principal’s ultimatum to…
We love learning – feature blog
Classroom teacher Nicole McMahon at St Luke the Evangelist School in Blackburn has developed a blog for her Prep class. It would be great to make connections with others through our blog. In the Prep Classroom, we have commenced a blog…
Sweet search
This is an incredibly useful search engines for teachers to use with students at every level. In fact it is more than once search engine, as you can see in this screenshot: Sweet search has been developed carefully: ”It searches…
OLMC Facebook Fan page update
Bright Ideas featured Our Lady of Mercy College Heidelberg Library’s Facebook Fan page three weeks ago. As most readers would know, Facebook has had some serious fallout due to privacy changes (or more to the point, lack of privacy) and…
Safer Internet Day
Today is Safer Internet Day. The Victoria Police have just released this statement about the day: Victoria Police are taking the opportunity on Safer Internet Day to engage with young people about cyber crime. The annual international event aims to…
The Wizard of Apps
If anyone doubted the absolute brilliance of US teacher librarian Dr Joyce Valenza (as if they could!), then this presentation and accompanying information will make them join us believers. Dr Valenza has produced a creative and engaging presentation for the…
