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A simple, elegant html timer site with a stop watch, count down and alarm clock. Click at the bottom of the screen to customise the background and choose a YouTube videos which will play for the alarm or when the count down has finished. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools

"Swimming pools can be dangerous for children. To protect them, one can install locks, put up fences, and deploy pool alarms. All of these measures are helpful, but by far the most important thing that one can do for one's children is to teach them to swim." - Youth Pornography and the Internet

Blog about faculty ethics on facebook.

A new poll conducted by the nonprofit organization Common Sense Media suggests that students are using cell phones and the internet to cheat on school exams. What's surprising, however, is not just the alarming number of students who say they cheat, but also the number of students who think it's OK to do so.

"There are lots of stressful careers, but teaching combines the elevated baseline of chonic stress of the day to day, coupled with bouts of intensely stressful events. Inspections, staff meetings, work scrutiny, piles of unmarked books in the boot of your car, all can cause stress and anxiety. Plus the current culture of the profession, where boasts about the long hours individuals work are wore like medals rather than alarm bells, make us feel inadequate unless we are working ourselves to the verge of medical exhaustion."

Track your sleep with sleepbot - it helps know how you sleep but also will wake you during your lightest sleep. For iOS and Google.