Cyber Safety Tips

 

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today we learned about how to protect ourselves on the internet and how to handle the information we put on the internet. We learned about how to keep our passwords to ourselves and what would happen if our password was given away. We also learned about why the internet is dangerous. After learning about that we then had to create a post on what we learned while watching the video.

Passwords:

Passwords are something that is private because if you share them, there is a high possibility your account will be used to do something. The only people you can share your password is with your parents because they are your guardians. Sharing with friends is also something risky, they might turn against you and use your account for different reasons. 

When choosing passwords, you need to form something that you can easily remember and is hard to guess. For example, we can combine words to create a password, then you can add numbers and symbols to make the passwords stronger.

Social Media:

Social media can sometimes be a dangerous place to be on, there is always a risk of being catfished or hacked. There are many things on social media that can harm the safety of yourself. So when going on social media don't give out too much information. Scams or frauds can trick you into giving information out.

Most importantly, you should never share your address, phone number, and bank credits online. Other people on the internet may use that information for other purposes where you could get into trouble for.

 

Summer Learning Journey 2019-2020 • Week 4 • Day 3 - Activity 3

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post!  Today I will be doing another post for the Summer Learning Journey. If you did not know the Summer Learning Journey is a holiday programme. The main reason why it started is to prevent the Summer Slump. The Summer Slump happens when you fall behind in your learning. In my opinion, SLJ is a really great programme to do so that you can keep up with your work.

Activity 3: FEAST OR FAMINE

Julian Dennison at the US Embassy in NZ,
US Embassy is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

Julian Dennison is a very funny guy! He is from Lower Hutt, near Wellington. He is only 17 years old but he has already starred in a number of movies and TV commercials. You may have seen him on Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Deadpool, or in the Lynx ads.

Julian is not only a funny actor. He recently joined up with World Vision to be a 40 Hour Famine Ambassador. He travelled with World Vision to Uganda to meet some of the refugees from South Sudan who are living there. Check out this video.

For this activity, we had to tell if we would consider doing a 20 or 40-hour famine.

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I have actually done a 40-Hour Famine back in 2018, from what I remember it was really fun and I got to meet new people. I did the 40-Hour no Technology because I go on my phone often and it was really hard for me to do. I did this because I really want to help people improve their lives and live healthier. In that time my friends and I talked a lot and I made some origami. I faced a lot of challenges, one of them were being tempted to go on my phone. It was very hard but I succeeded. I raised around $100 dollars. It was very fun. 

Summer Learning Journey 2019-2020 • Week 3 • Day 5 - Activity 3

Hi everyone! Welcome back to another post. I am almost with the activities for week 3 of the Summer Learning Journey. This one is the last activity, so I hope you learn something from it. Enjoy!

Activity 3: CHOOSE YOUR OWN

You have now made it to the end of Week 3 and have earned the chance to choose your very own scientist, technologist or inventor who you think has changed the world. There are no right or wrong choices for this activity, so find someone who interests you and tell us about them on your blog. It could be someone from your family, church, community and/or someone famous who you admire.

Here are some starting points in case you get stuck:

Taitusi Taufa

A J Hackett

Mana Vautier

Madame C.J Walker

Te Rangi Hīroa

Mae Jemison

For this activity, we had to choose one person and then we had to read about it. In our blog we had to provide, the name of the person, what the person does or have done and an explanation of how they/their work had had an impact on the lives of others.

I have chosen Cai Lun.

Attribution: Print depicting Cai Lun as the patron saint of papermaking, Public Domain.