Safe Practices for Life Online

Emily Volnoff - 2, 5, 8, 12

Anna Rawls - 3, 6, 10, 13

Madeline Saucier - 1, 4,  7, 11

Everyone does 9

1. Match.com, eHarmony.com, Zoosk.com (Madeline)

2. I found where many students were expelled from school, but also other things happen to students. I found were a student was arrested and charged when posting a threat on Yik Yak. If anything is posted threatening to a school or faculty member the person who posted it will be found and arrested. (Emily)
3. Define in your own words… (Anna)
1. Sexting- Sending provocative pictures or text messages (http://www.teachthought.com/technology/the-definition-of-sexting/)
2. Cramming- The addition of unexpected or unauthorized charges to a phone bill (http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/cramming)
3. Cookies- Either a sweet snack or a small piece of data that is generated by a website and saved by your web browser to remember information about you (http://www.techterms.com/definition/cookie)
4. Trojan Horse- Either a trick used by the Greeks to enter Troy or a very bad virus that attacks your computer under the guise of being harmless programming (http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/Trojan-horse)
5. Phishing- An email form of fraud when there is an attempt to get sensitive and important information from your computer by pretending to be something trustworthy (http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/phishing)
6. Spyware- Software that gathers information about a person or organization without their knowledge or can take over a computer (http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/spyware)
7. Rookit- A stealthy software that attempts to hide from detection while giving someone (not the owner) access to the computer (http://searchmidmarketsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/rootkit)
8. Zombie- A computer becomes a zombie through the use of malware and is then controlled by standards based on networking protocol (http://www.techopedia.com/definition/27201/zombie-network)
4. These screen names are poor choices because some of them can be the target for ridicule.  Trashmouth can give off the idea that you have a dirty mouth; IHaveOnePairPants may be the target of ridicule because if the student really does only have one pair of pants, other students may make fun.  It is also a good idea to include keyboard symbols and/or numbers in a screen name to make it more original.  Also, if future employers are able to see certain screen names, they may not appreciate them and that could be a hiring decision(Madeline).

5. Some of these screen names can make students target them because of their screen names. For instance, FatMama the student might be just a little overweight but since her screen name is FatMama students see that she might accept it, and then students start calling her name until it gets out of control. Also, some of these screen names can send the wrong impression like IMAHottie this can attract not good boys or girls that will make fun. Another thing is if someone has this screen name and they are not the most popular student it can cause major problems at school. (Emily)
6. Too much information revealed through screen names… (Anna)
1. The person is probably a male and his first and last name are available
2. This is probably a younger girl who might have graduated in 2013 or that could be a sports number
3. It reveals that Andy probably takes Karate lessons and is a younger person
4. It reveals that the person is female and enjoys to play the violin
5. The person is most likely male and younger because of the spelling and he enjoys wrestling and may even be on a wrestling team
7. good or bad screen names and why? (Madeline)
1. good, uses numbers and letters
2. bad, likely to attract bad attention
3. bad, gives away gender, numbers in sequence
4. bad, possibly gives away age and name
5. bad,  likely to attract bad attention
6. good, letters and numbers, no bad attention or personal information
7. bad, likely to attract bad attention
8. good, no bad attention or personal information
9. good, no bad attention or personal information
10. bad, gives away name
11. bad, likely to attract negative attention
12. bad, gives away name and age
13. good, no bad attention or personal information
14. bad, likely to attract bad attention
15. bad, likely to attract bad attention
16. good, no bad attention or personal information

8. Gatlinburg321, Design_22, and EVancouver2 (Emily)
9. Emily’s
1. no
2. no
3. no
4. yes
5. yes
6. yes
7. no
8. yes
9. no
10. no
11. no
12. yes
13. no
14. no
15. yes
16. yes

9. #4Michelle12 (Anna)
1. Yes
2. No
3. No
4. Yes
5. Yes
6. Yes
7. No
8. Yes
9. No
10. No
11. No
12. Yes
13. No
14. No
15. Yes
16. No

9. Madeline’s

1. no
2. no
3. yes
4. yes
5. yes
6. yes
7. no
8. no
9. no
10. no
11. no
12. no
13. no
14. no
15. no
16. yes

10. Select reasons for students’ online accounts are broken into… (Anna)
1. Most Common- Students give their password to their friends, who then decide to use it or give it to others who use it
2. Least Common- A password cracking program is used to crack their password
11.   I really liked this video but I thought it was a little long.  I lost interest after a while and it also seemed outdated.  I think that this video should is very important contains information that everyone should be aware of, however, many or not.  In order to make sure these kind of things avoid computers proper virus protectors and “patches” should be installed onto the computer as soon as possible.  Without these a computer is bound to attract a virus.  

These viruses can infect a computer very easily.  Just by clicking on a website link or an email a virus can make its’ way into the system.  A common target is probably children.  Kids are on the computer all the time and can easily click on sites that contain viruses and spyware programs.  I think it is important to inform children of these risks and problems.  Make sure that they know not to visit suspicious web pages, or simply monitor their computer time.(Madeline)

12. Identity Thief: I have a low risk of identity thief. Risk to be Scammed: I have a low risk of being scammed. Computer Protection: I am almost at high for my computer not being protected. (Emily)
13. This article focuses on a mobile device spyware application called StealthGenie. It is an app that requires a person to have physical access to the phone in order to install the software, but after installation it is undetectable to most individuals. It does all types of monitoring including call recording, call interception, recorded surroundings,and monitoring of emails, sms messages, voicemails, contacts, photos, videos, and appointments. One reason this app is difficult to detect is because it is designed to look like another application, such as a photo editor. If you believe that there may be a malicious spyware app on your mobile device, it is best to complete a “factory reset.” Be sure to back up all important information before completing this reset though because all data and apps will be removed from the phone. (Anna)

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US History

This quiz covers questions from our US politics chapter. Be sure to read the entire question!

1. Who is the president of the United States? Barack ObamaMichelle ObamaMary LandrieuGeorge W. Bush
2. Where is the US capitol located? Baton Rouge, LAWashington, D.C.Richmond, VirginiaPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
3. What is the capital of Louisiana LafayetteShreveportNew OrleansBaton Rouge
4. When was the Declaration of Independence signed? July 4, 1776July 2, 1774July 3, 1778July 2, 1892
5. How many stars are there on the American flag? 1375030
6. Who was the first President of the United States? Abraham LincolnGeorge WashingtonJohn F. KennedyTheodore Roosevelt
7. Who is the governor of Louisiana? Bobby JindalDavid VItterMary MandrieuBarack Obama
8. Who has the biggest signature on the Declaration of Independence? Andrew JacksonThomas JeffersonJohn HancockAbraham Lincoln
9. What is the very tall, pointed monument that is located in Washington D.C. called? Lincoln MemorialWashington MonumentTomb of the Unknown SoldierJefferson Memorial
10. Who made the first American Flag? Betsy RossAbigail AdamsSusan B. AnthonyClara Barton
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Track #456832: Online Math Help!
Annotated by: Madeline Saucier
1.	Khan Academy  https://www.khanacademy.org/welcome Khan Academy is a site that helps with a variety of subjects including math, science, test prep, etc. This site helps with students in grades K-8 as well as high school and beyond. It has different lessons that you are able to look up. The site provides you with a video of a person explaining the lesson step by step.
2.	First in Math  http://www.firstinmath.com/ First in Math is another math website to help students practice math in a fun way. There are different activities and games that they are able to play. There are different lessons depending on the child's age. As students complete the levels the are able to advance to more difficult levels.
3.	MathBrain  http://www.funbrain.com/brain/MathBrain/MathBrain.html MathBrain is another fun math website to help students learn. The student is able to select the level of math that they are learning and move to higher, more difficult levels as the complete problems.
4.	Math Playground  http://www.mathplayground.com/ Another website with games for students to help them engage and learn in a fun way. Students are able to select their level of learning and the problems they wish to practice.
5.	Math.com  http://www.math.com/ A website that provides homework help to students with any given problem. The website, similar to Khan Academy without the videos, allows the student to get homework help by selecting the grade level and lesson they are learning.

#14

This article gave teachers advice on managing technology friendly activities to implement in the classroom.  One of the rules was to "do your homework."  This means to prepare absolutely everything for the following day of class, think about what could go wrong, then try to resolve those problems from happening.  Another rule was to make learning goals that the children will understand.  When students have a goal in mind they are more likely to aim toward that goal and learn from it.  Another point made was that teachers allow students to step away from the computer.  Computers can be great tools for learning but it is also important that students learn in different ways too.  Sitting at the computer all day can also hinder them from learning more.

#15 IT 365 Tuesday

1.     From Safe Practices for Life Online: A Guide for Middle adn High School (2008) -D. Fodeman & M.Monroe

a.       Lookstoogoodtobetrue.com risk tests

b.      Chapter 2 Protecting Your Privacy Online

                                                               i.      Pop-ups and Banner Ads- Pop up ads are advertisements that show up in a new browser window.  Pop-up ads are just one form of internet advertising used by advertisers to get web users' attention.  A web banner or banner ad is a form of advertising on the World Wide Web delivered by an ad server. This form of online advertising entails embedding an advertisement into a web page. It is intended to attract traffic to a website by linking to the website of the advertiser. https://www.google.com/search?q=what+are+pop+ups+ads&oq=what+are+pop+ups+ads&aqs=chrome..69i57.4147j0j9&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=what+are+pop+ups+ads&oq=what+are+pop+ups+ads&aqs=chrome..69i57.4147j0j9&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8#q=what+are+banner+ads

                                                             ii.      Spyware- software that enables a user to obtain covert information about another's computer activities by transmitting data covertly from their hard drive. https://www.google.com/search?q=what+are+pop+ups+ads&oq=what+are+pop+ups+ads&aqs=chrome..69i57.4147j0j9&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8#q=what+is+spyware

                                                            iii.      Zombies and Botnets- A ’bot’, short for robot, is a type of software application or script that performs tasks on command like indexing a search engine, and they are really good at performing repetitive tasks.  Once these machines are infected they are called “zombies.”  Once a combined amount of these are infected, they are called a botnet. http://www.webroot.com/us/en/home/resources/tips/pc-security/security-what-are-bots-botnets-and-zombies

                                                           iv.      Cookies- A cookie is a mechanism that allows the server to store its own information about a user on the user's own computer. https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+a+cookie&oq=what+is+a+cookie&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.5144j0j4&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8#q=what+is+a+cookie+in+technology

                                                             v.      Drive-by-downloads- A drive-by download refers to the unintentional download of a virus or malicious software (malware) onto your computer or mobile device. https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+a+cookie&oq=what+is+a+cookie&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.5144j0j4&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8#q=what%20are%20drive%20by%20downloads

                                                           vi.      Cramming- Companies that engage in "cramming" bill you for services that were never ordered, authorized, received and/or used.  People are getting charged for internet-related services on their phone bills or credit-card statements. http://www.atg.wa.gov/InternetSafety/InternetCramming.aspx#.VH-H2THF9u4

                                                          vii.      Trojan horse- non-self-replicating type of malware program containing malicious code that, when executed, carries out actions determined by the nature of the Trojan, typically causing loss or theft of data, and possible system harm.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_horse_%28computing%29

2.     From Transforming Learning with New Technologies (2011) – R. Malloy, R.E. Verock-O’Loughlin, S.A. Edwards, & B.P. Woolf

a.       Take Pew Internet & American Life Project “What Kind of Tech User are You?” quiz.  You scored better than 81.8% of the public, below 9.9% and the same as 8.3%.

b.      Uniform Resource Locator (URL) aka Web Address – What is the purpose of the following URL designations?

                                                               i.      .com- derived from the word commercial, indicating its original intended purpose for domains registered by commercial organizations.

                                                             ii.      .org- truncated from organization. The domain extension was originally created for non-profits, but this designation no longer exists and today it is commonly used by schools, open-source projects, and communities as well as by for-profit entities.

                                                            iii.      .gov- derived from government, indicating its restricted use by government entities in the United States.

                                                           iv.      .net- derived from network, indicating it was originally intended for organizations involved in networking technologies, such as Internet service providers and other infrastructure companies. However, restrictions were never enforced and the domain is now a general purpose name space. It is still popular with network operators, and is often treated as an alternative to com.

                                                             v.      .edu- United States-affiliated institutions of higher education

                                                           vi.      .mil- the Domain Name System of the Internet for the United States Department of Defense and its subsidiary or affiliated organizations. The name is derived from military

1.       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name

c.       Specialized Search Resources for Teachers

1.       Criteria for Evaluating Web Resources

a.       Accuracy – reliability of the information on the site by providing a description of who authored the site and for what purposes

b.      Authority – credentials of the authors or author as well as the nature of the site itself – commercial or not for profit

c.       Objectivity – tests whether the information on the site is fair and non-biased, and free of advertising

d.      Currency – up-to-date with recent information and updates that are clearly indicated

e.      Coverage – information on the site that can be viewed easily without difficulties or commercial messages

                                                             ii.      Internet Public Library

                                                            iii.      Voice of the Shuttle

                                                           iv.      Technorati

                                                             v.      Webopedia

                                                           vi.      Artcyclopedia

                                                          vii.      Encyclopedia of Educational Technology

                                                        viii.      California Learning Resource Network

                                                           ix.      Library of Congress American Memory

                                                             x.      University of Texas at Austin Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection

                                                           xi.      Newslink

                                                          xii.      Good Search

                                                        xiii.      Score (Schools of California Online Resources for Educators)

                                                        xiv.      Search Engines 2

                                                         xv.      Wayback Machine

                                                        xvi.      Open Library

                                                      xvii.      Viewzi.com

                                                     xviii.      VueToo.com

                                                        xix.      LibriVox

d.      Internet Search Tools for Students

                                                               i.      KidsClick!

                                                             ii.      Ask for Kids

                                                            iii.      Search 22

                                                           iv.      Clusty

                                                             v.      Yahoo!Kids

                                                           vi.      QUintura

                                                          vii.      FirstGov for Kids

                                                        viii.      NASA Kids Club

                                                           ix.      The Why Files: The Science behind the News

                                                             x.      U.S. Oatent and Trademark Office Kids’ Pages

                                                           xi.      Time for Kids

                                                          xii.      Smithsonian Education

e.      Questions

                                                               i.      What is the meaning of information literacy for teachers and students?  Teachers and students should be able to locate, evaluate, use and share information.  They should be able to navigate information resources, improve their quality of education, learn additional tools to reinforce course content, and enhance lifelong learning. http://www.csulb.edu/~lfarmer/infolitwebstyle.htm

                                                             ii.      What are search engines and how do they work?  a program that searches for and identifies items in a database that correspond to keywords or characters specified by the user, used especially for finding particular sites on the World Wide Web.  Through links, search engines’ automated robots, called “crawlers,” or “spiders” can reach the many billions of interconnected documents.  Once the engines find these pages, they next decipher the code from them and store selected pieces in massive hard drives, to be recalled later when needed for a search query. To accomplish the monumental task of holding billions of pages that can be accessed in a fraction of a second, the search engines have constructed datacenters all over the world.https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=what+are+search+engines+ http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/how-search-engines-operate

                                                            iii.      What pieces of information do students need to know about Internet searching?  Students should not believe everything they read on the internet; not every webpage is reliable,  Information found on the internet can be second hand information so not all viewpoints are accurate.

                                                           iv.      How can teachers and students thoughtfully evaluate online information resources, including the online encyclopedia Wikipedia?  If students and teachers find information though online resources, such as Wikipedia, it is a good idea to check those web pages’ sources.  They can lead you straight to the page where the information came from.  It might also be a good idea to look up the information found in a textbook or online database to check its’ accuracy.

                                                             v.      How can teachers respond to problems of plagiarism when students use online sources?  Teachers can talk to their students about plagiarism and why it is wrong before any assignment to ensure that they avoid it.  They should also teach students to in some way cite their information so they are giving credit to the original source.  Another way to avoid plagiarism altogether is to use Turnitin.com, which detects plagiarism in schoolwork.

#13 Why so many kids can't sit still in school today

This article starts off by giving the audience background on the percentages of children who have een diagnosed with ADHD.  The percentages with in the last few years have only been increasing, which is cause by a number of different reasons.  One of them being the amount of time a child is required to sit while in school.  It is important that a child get a certain amount of physical activity per day, or the child will develop poor strength and balance.  With poor strength and balance a child's natural reaction is to begin fidgeting.  Fidgeting is seen as bad behavior in the classroom so kids are told to "stop fidgeting," or get a bad behavior report.  Fidgeting is a sign that the child's body is not getting enough physical activity.

In the future when I have to deal with this in the future I plan on providing my students with more activities that allow them to get up and move around.  We could go outside and I could come up with activities in all of the subjects that imply moving around.  I think that by giving the children activities what they will have to interact and move around, not only will they be getting physical activity and exercise, but this will also be able to be able to grasp the information more because it provides them with hands on activities.

#12 6 VIdeos

Classroom of Tomorrow
I really liked this video.  I thought it showed a good representation of what classrooms will be like in the future.  This video shows students using different forms of technology such as iPad, computers,etc.  Technology is already very prevalent and will become even more widespread in the future.  I think the author is correct by saying " The future is available to those who prepare for it" because people who are taught with technology are the people who will be the ones to be best prepared in the future, when most things are technologically advanced.

The Voice of the Active Learner
I thought that this video had many good points.  Technology has become so much more widespread now than it was years ago especially in children, I think that it is still important that children do not become too absorbed in the technology.  While technology is important and bound to become much more prevalent, I think children should not be totally surrounded by technology so that they are still able to know basic social skills.

The Future Starts Now
I think that the author made some really great points in this video.  Technology, or ICT, is something that students are very interested.  Involving technology with everyday learning can be much more fun and exciting for students, making them want to learn.  However, though interest and excitement helps students yearn to learn, I still believe it is important that they are able to not fully rely on technology.  Face to face interaction is still extremely important.

Designing Schools For 21st Century Learning
This video described a different way of building schools in the future.  It is interesting, but the office type setup may be difficult for a student to learn.  I think one of the greatest things about school and learning is the input and interaction coming from other students.  Personally, being in my own cubicle like that would make me feel separated from the other students and may even distract me more.  I found that this video was a little boring.  I felt that the author could have made his point quicker and more to the point with a shorter video.

Tools and Resources for the 21st Century Education
This video was interesting because it provided viewers with many sites that could be used for educational purposes.  I find that useful, but I thought the video was a little long and dragged out for the point that was trying to be put across.

A Vision of 21st Century Teaching
I had a hard time watching this video!!

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