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A Sticking Plaster Mentality to Open Web Access in Schools

01.11.2012 · Posted in Google, YouTube, access, blocking, copyright, filtering, internet, open, web

Just before Christmas Google announced the YouTube for Schools platform, which runs through a schools Google Apps for Edu account, allowing students to access selected content. In a week where the focus is on the changes of ICT curriculum I am concerned that the wider debate around open web access in schools will be once again ...

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Internet Speed Test

11.04.2011 · Posted in bandwidth, internet, online, speed

Bandwidth Place Website Bandwidth Place provides an Internet speed test with the aim of examining actual broadband connection speeds - upload and download. What do you think of Bandwidth Place? ...

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Copyright Cops

According to the most recent EU Kids Online research over one third of 9-12 year olds and three quarters of 13-16 year olds who use the internet in Europe have their own profile on a social networking site. I discovered this wonderful film from Julio Secchin which not only depicts the way that our youngsters ...

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The Internet in Society

05.10.2011 · Posted in Blogging, Featured, animated, filter, internet, networks, society

After the recent successes in Scotland by the SNP in using social media tools and the internet as part of their historic re-election, this lecture by Evgeny Morozov is an interesting exploration of the wider debate around society and the internet. Does the internet actually inhibit, not encourage democracy? In this new RSA Animate adapted ...

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