The Role of the Authority

"Our feeling was that we should think about the issues before Internet usage in schools is widespread"
John Rooney, Curriculum Services Manager, Renfrewshire Council

Providing guidance
The recommendations

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The Authority should assign personnel to keep up to date with Internet and personal safety issues.
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On behalf of those in their schools, the authority should ensure it has access to legal advice concerning the Internet as well as to Internet specialists.

Developing policies
The recommendations

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The Education Authority should have clear policy guidelines regarding personal safety on the Internet for all those in its employ and within its schools.

Disseminating information and exemplars

Some Education Authorities, such as Renfrewshire Council, have produced full sets of policy exemplars for their schools.
The recommendations

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Authorities that have not already done so should approach those who have, to share information, ideas and resources.
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As new Internet-related curricular issues arise, Education Authorities should form a view and disseminate information to schools.
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Education Authorities should have mechanisms in place to help schools to share Internet-related information.

Professional development

Significant professional development is required for those involved in the Internet in schools.
The recommendations

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Education Authorities should ensure that an appropriate resource commitment is made, and that internal staff, as well as those in schools, has the opportunity to participate.

Watercolor painting

Watercolor (WE) or Watercolour (UK) and aquarelle in French are one of the painting methods. A watercolor is the medium or the resulting artwork, in which the paints are made of pigments poised in a water soluble vehicle. The traditional and most common support for watercolor paintings is paper; other supports include papyrus, bark papers, plastics, vellum or leather, fabric, wood, and canvas. In East Asia, watercolor painting with inks is referred to as brush painting or scroll painting. In Chinese and Japanese painting it has been the dominant medium, often in monochrome black or browns. India, Ethiopia and other countries also have long traditions. Finger-painting with watercolor paints originated in China.

Driverless car

The driverless car idea embraces an emerging family of highly automated cognitive and control technologies, eventually aimed at a full "taxi-like" experience for car users, but without a human driver. Together with alternative propulsion, it is seen by some as the main scientific advance in car technology by 2020.

Driverless passenger programs include the 800 million ECU EUREKA Prometheus Project on autonomous vehicles (1987-1995), the 2getthere passenger vehicles (using the FROG-navigation technology) from the Netherlands, the ARGO investigate project from Italy, and the DARPA Grand Challenge from the USA. For the wider application of artificial intelligence to automobiles see smart cars.