The launch of the Loughborough College eSafety course in February 2014 saw over 500 students complete the course in its first month with a number of those achieving their gold badge. After releasing the course as an open resource, over 100 colleges have now downloaded it to date – including …
We recently posted our stats of how many students had completed our new esafety resources. Previous stats showed that 154 students had got involved with 115 gaining the Silver badge and 11 gaining the Gold badge after completing all the resources on the LearnZone page. However, as of today those …
As you may know, the eSafety resource went live yesterday, just in time for the National Safer Internet day campaign today! As part of the day, students were asked to get involved in the Safer Internet Day quiz, via the stands in A and B block. So far, 154 students have got …
After much stumbling across the internet for resources on using social media in the classroom, I came across this blog which explains the reasons for ‘doing’ social media in the classroom. This concise guide (with relatively little use of jargon- which is surprising in any written passage relating to technology) …
Have a look at this Facebook infographic, courtesy of Webpage FX, that aims to show current trends and opinions about recent Facebook privacy settings. How do you feel about Facebook privacy settings? Do you trust that what you put online can only be seen by the people you want it to?
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Staff at Loughborough college are getting involved in Safer Internet Day on the 11th of February. This is a national day aimed at students to promote awareness of the safer use of the Internet, social media and online platforms. Throughout the day there will be plenty of opportunities for …
Today the team has kindly been mentioned by JISC RSC in regards to the current eSafety work we have been doing within Loughborough College. It has been a rather splendid project to work on and we are all very pleased with the result. The next stage is the version aimed at the teaching staff, which will …
Spoofing: is falsifying the origin of an internet communication in order to mislead the recipient. For example: It is widely used to create scam or bogus emails in order to steal money, passwords or banking details.
A recent article entitled ‘We post nothing about our daughter online’ struck the eLearning team as it highlighted just how much of our private life we give up to the online world without too much of a second thought. The article gave a specific example of pictures of young children …
