Wednesday, August 5, 2009
AGENCY FOR ICT
Becta, the Government's lead agency for ICT in education, suggests that schools should never place names next to photographs of children and that only group photos should be used, not those showing just one or two children. 'Schools must ensure that no individual child can be identified or contacted either via, or as a result of a visitor using, the school website', says Becta. In addition, never use pupils' full names on your website. For more advice on Internet safety, visit Be Safe Online.
ICT SKILL IN OUR SCHOOLS
The sky's the limit: creating a school website
This truly is the Age of the Internet. Now that increasing numbers of people have Internet access, we are ever more likely to turn to it for shopping, research and information.
This development has not been lost on schools. Not only are many in the UK now using the web to reduce the costs of, for example, staff recruitment, but they are also using it as a tool to market the work they do and the success they achieve. In fact, the latest figures from the DCSF show that in 2003, 57 per cent of primary schools, 82 per cent of secondary schools and 50 per cent of special schools had their own website. Yet it's not simply about getting a website up there for all to see; it's as much, if not more, about regular and effective maintenance.
This truly is the Age of the Internet. Now that increasing numbers of people have Internet access, we are ever more likely to turn to it for shopping, research and information.
This development has not been lost on schools. Not only are many in the UK now using the web to reduce the costs of, for example, staff recruitment, but they are also using it as a tool to market the work they do and the success they achieve. In fact, the latest figures from the DCSF show that in 2003, 57 per cent of primary schools, 82 per cent of secondary schools and 50 per cent of special schools had their own website. Yet it's not simply about getting a website up there for all to see; it's as much, if not more, about regular and effective maintenance.
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