Professional Development

Teachers should be fully aware of the school's Internet access arrangements so that they know whether access to the web and to newsgroups is filtered or blocked at all.
Senior management should ensure that appropriate time and resources for professional development are made available so that staff can keep themselves up to date with Internet issues and use.All staff should be able to engage in a professional development programme which covers at least the following basic objectives:
Using and understanding the Internet;
Appreciating the strengths and weaknesses of the Internet;
Understanding the potential role of the Internet across the curriculum;
Recognizing how Internet use and Personal Safety Programmes can reinforce each other;
Developing Internet-related policies with ethically-sound foundations; and,
Responding to queries from other professionals and from the wider community regarding the Internet arrangements and policies within their own establishment, and the underlying rationale.

Schools are likely to benefit from having their own small group, which keeps up to date with Internet and Child Safety issues and shares new experience with colleagues.

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.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are an animal rights organization. Base in the United States and with two million members and supporters there and in another place, PETA says it is the largest animal rights collection in the world.

Founded in 1980 and based in Norfolk, Virginia, the organization is a nonprofit, tax exempt 501(c) (3) corporation with 187 employees, fund nearly completely by its members. Outside the U.S., there are joined offices in Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, South Africa, Republic of China (Taiwan), and the United Kingdom. There is also the peta2 Street Team for high school and college-age activists, and the Foundation to Support Animal Protection, which manages PETA's assets. Ingrid Newkirk is PETA's international president.

PETA's slogan is "animals are not ours to eat, wear experiment on, or use for entertainment." In support of that position, it focuses on four core issues: factory farming, fur farming, animal testing, and animals in entertainment. It also campaigns against fishing, the killing of animals observe as pests, abuse of chained, backyard dogs, cock fighting, bullfighting and the utilization of meat. It aims to inform the public of its position through advertisements, secretly investigations, animal rescue, and lobbying.

The organization has been criticized for some of its campaigns and for the number of animals it euthanizes. It was also criticized in 2005 by Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe, who stated that PETA had acted as a "spokes group" for the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front, after activist associated with those groups had devoted what Inhofe called "acts of terrorism.