An interesting blog post on the subject of how, with today's technologies, we are more connected but also more alone.

Read the article here.

A useful site that lists many of the most common socialmedia sites, with direct links to the areas to delete your account.

One person's experience of a posthumous tweeting service. Read the article here.

The e-Safety Policy is vitally important in school for a number of reasons, including:

To ensure there is a clear and consistent approach responding to incidents.

To ensure that every person responsible for the children is fully aware of his/her responsibilities.

To set boundaries of use (goalposts) of any school owned IT equipment, or personal IT equipment used in the school.

The following is a short "10 top tips" for creating your e-safety policy in school. There are many more, but these are some of the common ones that schools miss:

Read the full article here

What is the connection between Social Networks and Being Lonely?

Inspired and Based on the wonderful book by Sherry Turkle - Alone Together.

An essay on privacy, sharing and why we as a society are ill prepared for social media. Read the essay here.