Cassie’s Laws

I’ve been having a few problems with spam comments on my children’s individual blogs. They’ve been really inappropriate and they have discussed things that you would not want 9 year olds discussing.

I know that during my placement Margaret had this problem with learnerblogs and this is why we changed everything over to edublogs. Although this was quite straight forward it was time consuming. Problem solved we thought? Until now obviously and the problem is happening again.

The girls’ blogs are all under the CShore blog which is an ‘Edublogs Supporter’ – however, this only promises no ads.

Margaret has moved the class blog over from edublogs to primaryblogger. Primaryblogger promise to help in any way they can and it’s great having someone to discuss issues with, it make a big difference. I think I will move the girl’s blogs over to this as well and then hopefully I’ll be able to sleep easy for a little while longer.

Changing the host means that I can also change the email address and hopefully also the person responsible for them. Again, going back to a previous point, I do have some regrets in giving the children individual blogs as I should have thought about what happened when I left. I think this is one of the reasons eportfolios (thanks Margaret) would be a great idea. I think the logic behind eportfolios, that they move with the child, makes a lot of sense. It would however, involve a lot of staff training!