Friday, March 28, 2008

Photos of Derby and Derbyshire

http://www.derbyphotos.co.uk/
Old and new images.

Byron Review - Safer Children in a Digital World

http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2008/03/early-reaction.html

From ictopus... "Ewan McIntosh has come out up front commenting on the dilemma of allowing children to take risks without them actually being exposed to any. We have over the last thirty or so years gradually reduced the area of risk taking for our young people until, frightened by the paranoia into not playing out they now seek to risk take in virtual worlds ... if we stop this where will they go next to grow up?"

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Children making websites

I've seen BuzzWebz when Indigo were creating it (creators of Dazzle). Here is a project where they are giving a 5 user licence free of charge, when schools join project, use in a class/club, enter a national competition and obviously write some short feedback. More details at the wiki below. Worth a look if you want easy to use website creation software, and even better if the children are doing it! I think they are after another 10 schools. 3 derbyshire schools already in on it, details also given on link below.

http://ictwiki.dnsalias.net/index.php/BuzzWebz

What do you think?