Ballyboughal.net

I found this over at Darraghs site and it was also at Ricks site and at pixies site… too so I decided to jump on the band wagon.. If you want to try it click here… but be prepared for a good laugh…

My years are from a recent picture then onto 1976, 1974 and 1956… of course i threw in Rick from 1970 and Darragh all presidential looking from 1956 and one from Maries… suits you sir/ lady!

We got a notice home today from Ballyboughal NS that they intend to set up a school Web site.  The notice also informed parents of the schools intention to publish photographs of activities taking place in the school, and they also asked for parents permission to have their kids photograph on the Web site.  I very much doubt they intend to publish individual photos of each child, I think its more “If your child is in the activity photograph”.

I know the sounds of it may strike fear into the hearts of most parents due to the horror stories you may hear. But, I think if the school can do it and do it in a sensible way.  There is no real easy solution to protecting photos online unless they are contained within a private group, but even still someone from within that group could download and share it else where.

What the school could do is limit the amount of information within each photo and restrict the file size so if an image is resized it looses quality. They could also use scripts to prevent it from being saved locally,but that does not prevent the image from being captured using  a screen grab for example.

Putting photos online has the same kind of worry to your child playing out on the street, will they be safe?