11 tips for social networking safety from Microsoft

11 tips for social networking safety

Social networking Web sites like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and Windows Live Spaces are services people can use to connect with others to share information like photos, videos, and personal messages.

As the popularity of these social sites grows, so do the risks of using them. Hackers, spammers, virus writers, identity thieves, and other criminals follow the traffic.

Read these tips to help protect yourself when you use social networks

Simple Tips to Improve your Public Speaking Skills

When you think about having to speak in public or delivering presentations how do you feel? If you are one of those lucky people who loves it and will take every opportunity to address an audience and hear the sound of your own voice consider.......

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Projectors without bulbs launched

Casio has launched a laser-based, hybrid, bulbless projection system capable of more than 2,000 ANSI lumens, which it suggests is a 'world first'.

Casio lists the price of the lower power, 2,000 lumens projector at just under $800 (about £500). Other options will be available up to 3,000 lumens brightness, which should be adequate for most smaller lecture theatres and school halls.

Original Becta article

Casio press release

44 interesting ways to use your interactive whiteboard

"Tom Barrett has produced this wonderful Google Docs slideshow outlining, as the title suggests, 44 interesting ways to use your interactive whiteboard."

Toms slideshow on GoogleDocs

If you like what you see you can follow Tom in his blog Toms Blog

New ‘Green Cross Code’ for internet safety ‘Zip it, Block it, Flag it’

The News Centre at DCSF has reported on an unprecedented coalition of Government, industry and charities as they today launch the first UK internet safety strategy, to help children and young people stay safe online.

The first ever internet safety strategy, ‘Click Clever Click Safe’ , was drawn up by the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS) and will be launched by the Prime Minister at the first UKCCIS Summit in London today.

News Centre : Department for Children, Schools and Families

UKCCIS

Google brings auto-captioning to YouTube videos

Becta has recently published this little article:

"Watching online video can be frustrating if you cannot hear the audio (due to background noise or physical disability), or when you do not speak the language.

Google has launched a new automatic captioning service which it intends to gradually roll out across its YouTube service."

To see the full article on the Becta website: Becta Emerging Technologies website

New LED Pocket Projector from Samsung

This looks interesting.

The ultra portable Samsung LED Pocket Projector opens up a world of entertainment.

Simple plug & play USB connectivity means you don't even need a laptop.

And with a lamp life of 30,000 hours you can watch whatever you want wherever you choose.

Samsung website