Snapchat Privacy Alert

You may be aware that Snapchat has released a controversial new update feature which shares the user’s location on a map (as below). This has been received with widespread criticised on safety grounds.

At Queen Margaret College we have a strong commitment to teaching our girls how to conduct themselves safely and responsibly online. In line with this, we strongly advise QMC Snapchat users to turn off this function for their own safety.

This week the class QTechs (student IT support) will be delivering this message to all Snapchat users, along with instructions on how disable this function. The instructions on doing this are provided here, or students can call into see me or the ICT Centre for further help with this.

Please contact me on richard.knuckey@qmc.school.nz if you have any concerns about this.

 

 

Year 6 App Design Project

After seeing the call for submissions for a fantastic tech challenge I decided to enter and put a team together. The Tech Challenge is a Australian and New Zealand competition calling for girls to enter app ideas to aid their community in ways that fall under the UN guidelines such as poverty, environment, peace, equality, education and health.

After the Kaikoura earthquake where my family and I had to evacuate as we live on the flat in Seatoun, I thought it would be a good idea to create an app that would help others in similar situations.

Eimear and Jaskiran have joined my team and we have started coding in MIT app maker as well as filming a pitch video. We are also talking to Wremo about our ideas.

If we are successful we will head to San Francisco to Technovation! So fingers crossed! There are also prizes that we could win for our school. We will also update QMC News as we progress and maybe even present the app at assembly.

Isabel Haupt 6LA

Left to right: Eimear Fitzgerald; Isabel Haupt and Jaskiran Rahi