Facebook lets teens broadcast every conversation, photo, and thought. But if they're not careful, the whole world could have access. Common Sense Media shows you how to set (link) Facebook's privacy controls and help your kids protect their online identity.

If you’re getting scary, mean, rude, or bullying texts from someone, you can report these messages to your mobile phone company. Or if you are with Vodafone you can block that number yourself. Other phone companies can send a warning message to the bully and even cut them off the network.

At the recent (link) Interface Xpo conference, I saw a lot of vendors talking to schools about the advantages of cloud based computing. With this in mind I thought I'd put together a couple of cloud pieces that I've seen around the place.

Changes to the copyright laws in September, have left internet account holders responsible for any infringing file sharing that occurs on their internet connection. But how do you know what sort of traffic has been registered to your account?

From Netsafe, these resources offer a  "system of policies, procedures and acceptable use agreements is one of the key components of a school cybersafety programme". Click (link) HERE to access the resources.

Changes to the copyright laws in September, have left internet account holders responsible for any infringing file sharing that occurs on their internet connection. But how do you know what sort of traffic has been registered to your account?

A recent report (November 2011) from Symantec highlighted that 15% of teachers have experienced cyber-baiting, and 25% of teachers have formed friendships with students via social networks. There has been quite a bit of media attention around the issue, so I thought it would be a good time to highlight some work that NetSafe did last year with a group of educators around some guidelines for the use of blogs and other social media tools.

As part of the re-vamp of our (link) NetSafe Kit for Schools we are taking a look at acceptable use agreements, and how they are used in NZ schools. We are aware that many school use our use agreement templates as the starting point for their own use agreements, but what do they look like when they are finished.

More schools will be encouraging BYOD (bring your own device) so here are some tips for iPads at school.

September 1st will see changes to the copyright act. The changes could have significant implications for schools.