Managing Other Provided Technologies Software provided by the school, including secure social networking sites (Edmodo), if used responsibly both outside and within an educational context can provide easy to use, creative, collaborative and free facilities. However it is important to recognise that there are issues regarding the appropriateness of some content, contact, culture and commercialism. To this end, we encourage our pupils to think carefully about the way that information can be added and removed by all users, including themselves, from these sites. At present, the school endeavors to deny access to social networking sites to pupils within school All pupils are advised to be cautious about the information given by others on sites, for example users not being who they say they are Pupils are taught to avoid placing images of themselves (or details within images that could give background details) on such sites and to consider the appropriateness of any images they post due to the difficulty of removing an image once online Pupils are always reminded to avoid giving out personal details on such sites which may identify them or where they are (full name, address, mobile/ home phone numbers, school details, IM/ email address, specific hobbies/ interests) Our pupils are advised to set and maintain profiles on such sites to maximum privacy and deny access to unknown individuals Pupils are encouraged to be wary about publishing specific and detailed private thoughts online Our pupils are asked to report any incidents of bullying to the school
Managing Other Provided Technologies Software provided by the school, including secure social networking sites (Edmodo), if used responsibly both outside and within an educational context can provide easy to use, creative, collaborative and free facilities. However it is important to recognise that there are issues regarding the appropriateness of some content, contact, culture and commercialism. To this end, we encourage our pupils to think carefully about the way that information can be added and removed by all users, including themselves, from these sites. At present, the school endeavors to deny access to social networking sites to pupils within school All pupils are advised to be cautious about the information given by others on sites, for example users not being who they say they are Pupils are taught to avoid placing images of themselves (or details within images that could give background details) on such sites and to consider the appropriateness of any images they post due to the difficulty of removing an image once online Pupils are always reminded to avoid giving out personal details on such sites which may identify them or where they are (full name, address, mobile/ home phone numbers, school details, IM/ email address, specific hobbies/ interests) Our pupils are advised to set and maintain profiles on such sites to maximum privacy and deny access to unknown individuals Pupils are encouraged to be wary about publishing specific and detailed private thoughts online Our pupils are asked to report any incidents of bullying to the school
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