Photos By Sara
Music by Jack Johnson
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Ch 15: Getting help
Tools available to defend home computers have become diverse and complicated.
Before one purchases security products understand which components are crucial.
Security essentials:
* patches
*anti virus
*anti-adware/spyware
*firewall protection
*backup software
Additional Niceties:
*SPAM blocking
*SPIM blocking: instant message version of spam
*Anti fraud, privacy, identity protection
Why buy bundles:
*Save money
* security has a licence
*all products work together
Back up products:
*CD drive
*USB drive
back up files need to be fairly recent
Removal tools for clean up may be necessary
By the new version of the software make sure to update it.
Keep security awareness current.
*Common sense media
*Cyber smart
*Family online safety institute
are a few sites to use to protect your computer.
Before one purchases security products understand which components are crucial.
Security essentials:
* patches
*anti virus
*anti-adware/spyware
*firewall protection
*backup software
Additional Niceties:
*SPAM blocking
*SPIM blocking: instant message version of spam
*Anti fraud, privacy, identity protection
Why buy bundles:
*Save money
* security has a licence
*all products work together
Back up products:
*CD drive
*USB drive
back up files need to be fairly recent
Removal tools for clean up may be necessary
By the new version of the software make sure to update it.
Keep security awareness current.
*Common sense media
*Cyber smart
*Family online safety institute
are a few sites to use to protect your computer.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Reflection
There are many ways that you could use this in the classroom. Anywhere from attendance to math, reading and writing. I really think using the magic math where the you drag the math problems to another recolored page and it gives you the answer! I think kids would be amazed by this. Anything to make learning more fun is going to engage the students.
Friday, November 5, 2010
Chapter 1 Protect Your Turff
Key Vocabulary:
* Netizen: a citizen of cyberspace any person using internet to participate in online social communities.
* Malware: programing code designed to harm a computer or the data.
Some: Malware villians include:
-viruses
-worms
-trojans
-bot armies
-key stroke loggers
-spyware
-adware
-scareware
-randsome ware
* Security hole: flaw in the way program is written or makes the computer vulnerable to attack by the malware villians.
* Security patch: A fix to a program to close a known security hole.
Key Learning:
The internet has been around sense the 70's and has grown expinationally. 90% of american teens have access to internet in their homes. Which means there are more chances of down loads that has villians wanting to crash the computers. Not only can down loading things have the potencial for dangers, there is the posiblity that online preditors can inflitrate past your "secure" information, putting your fincial, personal, and even your children at risk.
How do people protect themselves? first informing their children what is appropriate to down load and what sites are ok to be on. Also buying a new computer doesn't mean that the computer is safe! It is important to get the proper security software. Most of the time people will get the security holes because they are dealing with an uneducated programmer and there are programming mistakes in general.
Application:
This is good information for children to know, because a lot of the time kids just want to download something and because it says free does't mean it is! This is good information in general for anyone, I was unware about the new computers not having good security. So I think that all people could benefit from this information on how to protect the information people put on computers.
* Netizen: a citizen of cyberspace any person using internet to participate in online social communities.
* Malware: programing code designed to harm a computer or the data.
Some: Malware villians include:
-viruses
-worms
-trojans
-bot armies
-key stroke loggers
-spyware
-adware
-scareware
-randsome ware
* Security hole: flaw in the way program is written or makes the computer vulnerable to attack by the malware villians.
* Security patch: A fix to a program to close a known security hole.
Key Learning:
The internet has been around sense the 70's and has grown expinationally. 90% of american teens have access to internet in their homes. Which means there are more chances of down loads that has villians wanting to crash the computers. Not only can down loading things have the potencial for dangers, there is the posiblity that online preditors can inflitrate past your "secure" information, putting your fincial, personal, and even your children at risk.
How do people protect themselves? first informing their children what is appropriate to down load and what sites are ok to be on. Also buying a new computer doesn't mean that the computer is safe! It is important to get the proper security software. Most of the time people will get the security holes because they are dealing with an uneducated programmer and there are programming mistakes in general.
Application:
This is good information for children to know, because a lot of the time kids just want to download something and because it says free does't mean it is! This is good information in general for anyone, I was unware about the new computers not having good security. So I think that all people could benefit from this information on how to protect the information people put on computers.
Avatar
Students could use this site to create a avatar character that could be a character from a story that they are reading. Teachers could help studnets create blogs and have the students blog "in character" about thoughts and feeling this particular character might think. The grade level would could be lower grade if you are creating an avatar, but I think the higher grades could make the blog and use it to develop their character, or a character from a story. I put the link above. The risks are it is a regualr blog and if not monitored it could be miss used!
Students could use this site to create a avatar character that could be a character from a story that they are reading. Teachers could help studnets create blogs and have the students blog "in character" about thoughts and feeling this particular character might think. The grade level would could be lower grade if you are creating an avatar, but I think the higher grades could make the blog and use it to develop their character, or a character from a story. I put the link above. The risks are it is a regualr blog and if not monitored it could be miss used!
ToonDoon
This web site could be used if you want your students to create pictures to go with a story. It could be used if you want students to make up their own story. I put the link on the page, however I don't think my example that I made came up. This i think should be used in the upper grades, it is a bit complicated to create the comic strip. Some of the cartoons are dressed inapprpriately and you never know what kind of clip art there will be either. This is also another site that needs you to sign up with an email.
This web site could be used if you want your students to create pictures to go with a story. It could be used if you want students to make up their own story. I put the link on the page, however I don't think my example that I made came up. This i think should be used in the upper grades, it is a bit complicated to create the comic strip. Some of the cartoons are dressed inapprpriately and you never know what kind of clip art there will be either. This is also another site that needs you to sign up with an email.
Go to wallwisher
This could be a page that the teacher builds to ask the students questions, they all could respond on this one page using the post it notes. I have a link above to my page that I created. I think any grade level could post to this site, creating one would be a different story. It was a little confusing on how to get everything started. The risk is students have the ablity to say that their blog could be read by everyone, if you don't change it to private, a lot of people could post on your blog! You have to have an email adress to create a page, but if you want your students to just post to your page you can.
This could be a page that the teacher builds to ask the students questions, they all could respond on this one page using the post it notes. I have a link above to my page that I created. I think any grade level could post to this site, creating one would be a different story. It was a little confusing on how to get everything started. The risk is students have the ablity to say that their blog could be read by everyone, if you don't change it to private, a lot of people could post on your blog! You have to have an email adress to create a page, but if you want your students to just post to your page you can.
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A wordle is a 2.0 tool that be used in many different crative ways by teacher. Word find, sight words, categorizing things are a few ways teachers could use this tool. Click the link about where I have an example using names in a class. It really could be used for any grade level! This site seems simple and easy and most importantly safe to use! The teacher might want to play with this program before letting the students go and use this site. If you want to change your own color you have to go to the cutimize color in the color tab.
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A wordle is a 2.0 tool that be used in many different crative ways by teacher. Word find, sight words, categorizing things are a few ways teachers could use this tool. Click the link about where I have an example using names in a class. It really could be used for any grade level! This site seems simple and easy and most importantly safe to use! The teacher might want to play with this program before letting the students go and use this site. If you want to change your own color you have to go to the cutimize color in the color tab.
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