Tag Archives: safety

Geo-blocking on Glow Blogs⤴

from @ Glow Blog Help

Like many other sites on the internet, Glow Blogs is subject to hostile traffic from bots and hackers. We are now blocking access to some countries outside the UK. This should improve the resilience of the Glow Blogs service.

The rules we use follow the ones already implemented by RM on the Glow Login Screen and Launch Pad. The rules have been tested to ensure that legitimate UK traffic is unaffected.

In addition to their rules, Glow also uses other bot protection measures to keep the service up and running.

I like Instagram but..⤴

from @ John's World Wide Wall Display

I’ve seen this linked a few times recently, finally clicked.

– […] we may keep, use and share your personal information with companies connected with Instagram. This information includes your name, email address, school, where you live, pictures, phone number, your likes and dislikes, where you go, who your friends are, how often you use Instagram, and any other personal information we find such as your birthday or who you are chatting with, including in private messages (DMs).

from: A lawyer rewrote Instagram’s terms of service for kids. Now you can understand all of the private data you and your teen are giving up to social media — Quartz

I’ll be sharing this with my pupils soon.

    viewing the solar eclipse⤴

    from

    We spoke about the eclipse in class today.  It’s really important that you follow advice for watching the eclipse safely to avoid permanent damage to your eyes.

    You can buy eclipse viewing glasses online.  They look like this

    eclipse_glasses

    and only cost a few pounds per pair.  Make sure any glasses you buy have the CE mark on them.

    Here is one UK retailer of eclipse viewing glasses who still has them in stock.

    Although we’re not in the totality (100%) zone, Thurso is well placed to get a good view.  Here is a simulation for Orkney, our view will be very similar.  Click on the picture to start to animation.

    Kirkwall_United_Kingdom_2015Mar20_anim

    Dark corners of the Internet⤴

    from @ John's World Wide Wall Display

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    How do we redirect seemingly inane goals of “connecting” beyond upping friend, follower, and subscriber counts towards notions of community and care and concern for each other, especially in places and conversations that are fraught with anger, frustration, and deep, deep potential for harm?

    from: What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Connectedness by Bud The Teacher
    Great Question, greatarticle gives no glib answer except some more good questions. I am sure I can’t answer it either but I don’t think the answer is to turn if off or ignore it. Children face danger in real life too, I wonder if we can learn from that?

    Education Modern Learners is behind a membership wall, some articles like this one can be read with my free membership.