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A new e-safety feature is now available on Facebook.

From today young users of Facebook and their parents can add the ClickCEOP ‘app’ to their profile. Through this they can access advice and support from the CEOP Centre.  They will be able to report instances of suspected grooming or inappropriate sexual behaviour directly from their profile to specially trained investigators. Users aged between 13-18 will see an advert on their profile page inviting them to add the app.

The link for the app is http://apps.facebook.com/clickceop/

There is also a new CEOP Facebook page (www.facebook.com/ClickCEOP) which will look at topic relating to online safety.

Every young person on Facebook needs the ClickCEOP app – this is why

If you work with teenagers, then you’ll know most of them will be using Facebook.  You might even be using it yourself…  if so, you will want to know about a new, free application in Facebook that is designed to keep young people safe while they are having fun networking online.

ClickCEOP is a new ‘app’ launched today (Monday 12 July) which links the young user directly from their Facebook profile to help, advice and reporting facilities of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre – the police agency set up to tackle child abuse.

By adding the app, young people and parents can get support from CEOP on a range of issues – viruses, hacking, dealing with bullying online and they can report someone who is acting inappropriately towards them online.

If you have a Facebook profile, app and bookmark the app.  If children in your care are on Facebook, get them to search ‘ClickCEOP’ in Facebook and give them to chance to be one click away from help – if they should ever need it.

www.facebook.com/clickceop

 e-learn, we learn conference 2010

We are delighted to announce that an exciting conference will be taking place at Pavilions of Harrogate on 25th of November 2010.

The conference is free to attend and will feature a keynote speech by Tim Rylands (see http://www.timrylands.com). The keynote will be followed by a varied programme of  workshops and seminars from which delegates can select three. The workshops/seminars enable delegates from all phases, including special schools, to personalise the conference to suit their interests and needs, and will include input from local, regional and national presenters. There will be an exhibition of hardware, software and e-learning products alongside stands where local schools will show how they are using ICT and e-learning in their provision.

Please register through the Learning Net - http://www.n-yorks.net/tools/training/database/index.html?_Id=8998&_Action=viewrecord&_Constraint=17

Further information and details of workshops will shortly be made available through Fronter and an update will then be posted on this blog.

Your Justice, Your World

Originally from YHGfL on May 20th, 2010

Dear Teacher,

The Royal Albert Hall has an active and busy Learning & Participation department. In January this year, they released a brand new, free resource for secondary schools based around Functional Skills called Showtime.

Showtime explores the work of the Royal Albert Hall through English, Maths and ICT and demonstrates how the topics learned in the classroom are applied in the world of work, and specifically within the context of the Royal Albert Hall. It contains approximately 90 hours of teaching time, teachers’ notes, extension activities and worksheets. It can be used through an interactive whiteboard or networked around an IT suite so that students can work in small groups or individually.

Each activity or task is introduced by a member of the Hall’s staff and explores the different roles of people within the mounting of a production at the Hall.

Showtime is free to download and use and installation takes around 20-30 mins. It covers English, Maths & ICT with all the activities mapped to the new functional skills requirements.

We are also very interested in your feedback – both positive and negative, as we want to continue to be able to improve Showtime and add new functionality.

Showtime can be downloaded from:

http://www.royalalberthall.com/showtime.aspx

Testimonials:

http://www.royalalberthall.com/explore/showtime/testimonials.aspx

Let us know if you use this and what you think. Feedback to

george.tyson@northyorks.gov.uk

E-associate, Graham Parry, shared these websites with us…

Safe Kids Song - http://www.safekids.com/safesong/
E-safety song

Teachers Love Smart Boards - http://www.teacherslovesmartboards.com/
A blog all about the interactive whiteboard!

The latest issue is now available on the Learning Net - click here.

Fronter UK have started up some community rooms.  School staff from North Yorkshire schools (and other LAs using Fronter) can apply for access to either the Primary Community or Secondary Community rooms.

A help sheet and further information is available in the North Yorks: Fronter Support room.

New Features Released at the Fronter UK User Conference

These are:

1. change the page background colour

2. easy to use container properties option

3. copy page function

4. new languages

Please click here to read all about these!

Please also note that pages can now be copied within Fronter!  This means that pages can be copied between rooms without images being lost.  This is very easy but watch out for a helpsheet appearing in the Support Room.

Congratulations to staff and pupils from Sessay CE Primary and South Otterington CE Primary!

Katie Harrison and Jessica Brown accepted the joint award in the ‘Primary’ category of the Fronter Implementation Awards 2010 for their community cohesion and collaboration project work on Fronter.  Both schools have been working on similar projects with pupils working collaboratively with link schools in Milton Keynes (Sessay) and North Yorkshire (South Otterington).  Katie teaches a Y5/6 class at Sessay and Jess teaches a Y1/2 class at South Otterington.

This builds on the North Yorkshire success at the 2009 conference when Bolton-on-Swale CE Primary placed second in this same category.  It is hoped that North Yorkshire schools will enter for the awards in 2011!

Click here to read South Otterington’s Case Study

Click here to read Sessay’s Case Study

Click here to read the secondary winner’s case study (Nottinghamshire).

Well done to the North Yorkshire Seminar Leaders

Each year Fronter invites a range of school colleagues to present at the conference.  This year three North Yorkshire teachers took part and did a great job of showing how Fronter is being used successfully in their schools:

Chris Sharples from Lady Lumley’s spoke about developing a VLE in a secondary school.

Katie Harrison and Jessica Brown gave a presentation about their project work (see above).  Work by Lucy Ridyard and Foundation Stage pupils at Glusburn Primary School was also demonstrated as part of this presentation.

You can read the whole conference magazine by clicking here.

An exciting photographic competition has been launched to encourage schools to help create a giant mosaic image of North Yorkshire, using photographs taken by pupils.

‘The view from my window’ is being run by North Yorkshire schools’ ICT and is open to all schools.  Pupils are asked to take a picture of a typical view from a window in North Yorkshire.  The possibilities are endless but the only stipulation is that the picture must not contain any identifiable people.

All photographs submitted will be included in the mosaic, but each school is asked to choose a ‘best photograph’ from each of the five age groups for entry into the competition.  These are:

◘ Early Years and Key Stage 1
◘ Key Stage 2
◘ Key Stage 3
◘ Key Stage 4
◘ Key Stage 5

Entries will be judged by a panel of three experts including a professional photographer.  The overall winner in each age group will be awarded with a compact digital camera and their school will receive a digital SLR camera.

To enter the competition or for more information email jon.farley@northyorks.gov.uk

The competition closing date is 30th June 2010 and winners will be announced in July.

The Fronter Conference is taking place at York Racecourse today.  The North Yorkshire ICT team are there along with some staff from North Yorkshire schools.

You can follow the twitter feed by clicking here.

Click here to download the conference magazine.

Watch out for Fronter updates in the North Yorks: Fronter Support Room!

Katie Harrison from Sessay CE Primary and Jessica Brown from South Otterington CE Primary will be presenting on their community cohesion and collaboration project (see http://shareit.yhgfl.net/northyorks/bears) at 11.50am!