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Last week, two much loved teachers at our school, Todd and Virginia, got married in Queens Gardens. The whole school wishes them well

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Bwgcolman   school   kids are    learning    computer and social skills with what may  be  a  ‘first’  through their   very   own   online social networking site.

The Department of Education does  not  allow  students  to use  commercial  sites  such as  Facebook,  MySpace  and Twitter  while  at  school  as these  sites  can  be  “subject to   attack”   from   computer hackers and other less savoury members  of  the  community at large.

But  because  our  kids  love using sites like this, especially as  they  get  older,  Mr  Perry, the  School’s  IT  coordinator, has created a site purely for the use of the kids attending the Bwgcolman school.

It is called My SpaceBook and has  most  of  the  features  of commercial sites.

Users can chat, share photos, write  up  notes,  join  blogs and  do  all  the  normal  social networking activities.

It  is  completely  safe  from hackers   and   will   prove   a learning  place  where  each student can “own” his or her own site and practice all the
skills  they  will  need  to  use Facebook   type   sites   when they are older.

PLUS it provides a place where Mr  Perry  and  their  teachers can  discuss  the  good  things about  sites  like  this  as  well as problems and other issues such as online “identity theft”.

Students and staff are already excited  about  the  site  and joining up quickly so they can access its many features.

from PI Voice issue #42