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Comment on SEN Students Excluded From Web 2.0 by Alex

Alex — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:32:45 +0000

You could set up a password free wiki, that your students wouldn’t need to log on to. When you finish, you as the admin can lock it away from prying eyes.

Comment on SEN Students Excluded From Web 2.0 by antjessop

antjessop — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:45:35 +0000

They don’t have their own network login because the same problem applies. Also, mass network logins trigger a security feature in google where a code has to be typed in. Finger print scanners might work though!

Comment on SEN Students Excluded From Web 2.0 by benannett

benannett — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:41:23 +0000

Do they have their own network logins? If they do they probably set them up so that they are automatically logged in to google docs etc.

Comment on SEN Students Excluded From Web 2.0 by antjessop

antjessop — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:31:01 +0000

Excellent idea Michael, I’ll give it a whirl once we get personal document folders.

Comment on SEN Students Excluded From Web 2.0 by Michael Place

Michael Place — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:25:28 +0000

If they have a secure log in onto the computers with there own document folder on a shared drive can they not have a text doc with a list of passwords to copy and paste?

e.g.

…………………………..
GOOGLE LOGIN

user: googleuser@gmail.com
password: ABCDERF
…………………………..

You say they can read better than type so they should be able to recognize the google bit and they should be able to copy/paste if they’re savvy as you say.

Still a long winded way around, would take a while to set up too

Comment on School? FUN?! – An Estonian’s View by antjessop

antjessop — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:31:42 +0000

Thanks for your comment, it’s good to get a balanced view! I have been to Estonia a few times and I’m spending most of my summer holidays there (it seems that you get the better deal when it comes to school holidays). In my limited experience of Estonian schools it appears that, although most of the country is bang up to date, the education system is still a bit old fashioned. Of course, I haven’t done extensive research so I may be completely wrong, but it seems that Estonian teachers are under paid and under valued, as careers that are perceived as more cutting edge are given preference. People often forget that nearly every ‘high-flyer’ went to school for quite a big proportion of their life!

Comment on School? FUN?! – An Estonian’s View by estonian student

estonian student — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:14:37 +0000

What can I say – that must’ve been a really ignorant Estonian. Finnish education is regarded as one of the best in the world. I have nothing bad to say, especially considering the fact that more than 90% of the Finnish students actually LIKE going to school, while the same per cent here is about 2%. Yes, there actually have been such surveys. Not that we would have bad schools – no, our students get really good education, but the system itself is not humane and the students are more like workanimals. Work, work, work, a huge test, a huge test, work, work, work.

Grts

Comment on First forays into Second Life by antjessop

antjessop — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:37:39 +0000

@hillsidestaff Cheers David, it would be great to meet up in SL over the holidays. I’ll be in Estonia most of the summer, but they have the most wireless hotspots per capita in the world or something so it should be easy to get online at just about any time of the day!

Comment on First forays into Second Life by antjessop

antjessop — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:34:34 +0000

@benannett I work with some children on with ‘Autistic Tendencies’ and two children who are actually officially ASD. I checked out your blog but only breifly. Looks good, I’ll have more time for a proper look next week hopefully.

Comment on First forays into Second Life by hillsidestaff

hillsidestaff — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:19:22 +0000

Cheers

David Noble