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5th Grade Audience Project: click here
Recent Blog Posts:
Internet Citizenship
As internet users, one of the things we need to be careful about is what we do with our personal information.
Personal information includes:
- Full name (first and last)
- Address
- Phone number
- Email address
- IM screen name
- Social security number
- credit card or banking information
- School/Teacher
- Birthdate
- Pictures of yourself
- Gender
- Mother’s maiden name
- Personal details about friends and family
Possible consequences for mis-using personal information include:
- Identity theft
- Cyber-bullying
- Advertising and email SPAM
- Loss of opportunities (like college or a job) if the information you share is inappropriate
Sharing personal information is not always bad and it’s not always good; it depends on the situation. Here are some guidelines:
- Check with your parents before sharing information
- Do not share personal information with people you do not know IRL (in real life)
- Do not click on links from emails asking for personal information; legitimate companies will not ask for information this way
- Never share your password with anyone (except your parents) even if they claim to be from the company your account is with.
- If a website is asking for your personal information, investigate the site.
- Do a web search on the site to see what you can find out about it
- Read the site’s privacy policy
- Look for a seal from TRUSTe® or BBBOnLine®
Remember: your information is your information. You never have to share it. If a web site or person online is making you uncomfortable you can simply close the window — problem solved!
5th grade cyber safety
BeCyberSmart:Student Links
Click here to see the video.
Click here to watch the movieThis is cool…
This is an example of time lapse photography: basically you set up a camera with a timer on it and leave it alone for awhile. The camera takes a picture every so often (every few minutes, for example) and then the photos are put together in a movie. This allows the viewer to “speed up ” time and watch changes that normally are too slow to notice. This one shows the night sky over the Alps. See if you can find the Milky Way!
570-Megapixel, Intergalactic Camera
Digital cameras aren’t just for vacation pictures:
Photo: Fermilab
“You’re looking at the heart of one of the biggest digital cameras ever conceived — 74 CCD sensors that will go into an enclosure the size of a Mini Cooper. The 570-megapixel shooter is being built at Fermilab by an international team of particle physicists and astronomers, who think it will help solve one of the great mysteries of the cosmos: What is dark energy?”
via Big Picture: 570-Megapixel, Intergalactic Camera |Wired Magazine.
Vancouver vertical farm| DVICE
6th grade: Here are the “farm of the future” examples we looked at in class:
Vancouver vertical farm looks like a futuristic resort, but for plants and animals | DVICE.
also:
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Plantagon (love the name).
Google Earth Assignment
Create a project using Google Earth and Keynote.
- The topic is up to you.
Examples: voyages of the explorers; a trip you’d like to take; places your family came from; great monuments; etc. - You must include at least 3 screenshots (pictures of your screen) from Google Earth
Tip: on a Mac use “apple” + “shift” + “4″ - You must use the internet to research the places you using in your project. Please include 3-4 facts.
Hint: go to the Research page and start with a directory or encyclopedia. - You must use 1-2 animations in Keynote that help us learn about your topic.
- Your slideshow must include a slide that tells where you got your information.
Hint: go to the web site you used and copy (”apple”+ “c”) the address. Paste it (”apple” + “v”) on your last slide.
The project is due on Tuesday, January 12.