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Cyber-me

Last week we started learning a cyber-sense rap, which has continued into this week. Maybe you’ve heard parts of it at home!

I have a special secret,
Whenever I’m online –
I don’t share with others
The things that are just mine.
 
My e-mail and my home address,
My phone number and name –
These are just for me to know,
In chat rooms or in games.
 
Instead, I use my nonsense name –
It’s my online identity!
When people ask me who I am,
I introduce my “cyber-me.”
 
And when I want to surf the Web,
for places that are cool,
I get some help from mom or dad,
or teachers at my school.

As you can see it has lots of good tips for online safety. Today we created our own “cyber-me”s, also known as avatars. Students could choose to use doppelme to create a character, or kerpoof to create a drawing. An avatar is a great way to protect your privacy online, instead of having a photo of yourself. Our next step will be to create names for our avatars, making sure that they doesn’t reveal any personal information such as our real name, age, school, or where we live.

I am looking forward to putting all this learning together into a project to share. I think it is going to be really cool!

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The good, the bad, and the pirates!

This morning we had a great introductory lesson to media literacy.  We started by defining media literacy, and then focused in on thinking about the internet.  We brainstormed good things and not so good things, and added our ideas to a Popplet.  I was quite impressed by what students already knew.

Next, we played Privacy Pirates, which taught us lots of ways to keep our personal information safe online.  The class was pretty smart about talking to a trusted adult if they weren’t sure about something online, but I think it surprised some of them that what you post online could be there forever, or copied by someone and shared another way.  The game has different questions each time you play, so this may be one you’d like to play again as a family.

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Media Literacy Week

This week is media literacy week in Canada.  In Division 7 we will be talking about all the amazing things you can do online, as well as potential problems.  We will be learning how to protect our privacy online.  Stay tuned for updates about what we are doing!

This week is a good chance to have a conversation with your child about online safety.  MediaSmarts has some fantastic resources for parents.  I found these great documents about internet safety tips for 5-7 year olds and 8-10 year olds.  What stood out for me was how important it is for parents to be involved in and aware of children’s online activities.  That will be an important message we focus on this week: “If you see something that makes you uncomfortable or aren’t sure if you should do something online, ask a grownup you trust.”

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Halloween Photos

As promised, here are a few photos from Halloween yesterday.  Thanks, so much to Derek for setting up the photo booth, the kids had lots of fun posing!  If you would like the link to more images please send me an email and I can share it with you.

**April 16 update – To comply with Burnaby School District guidelines for sharing online photos of students these images were removed.  Please email me if you are interested in seeing them.

 

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Halloween party fun!

Today we have two guest bloggers who are writing about our party yesterday!  I will add some photos later today.  -Ms. Collins

We had a fun halloween party at halloween we got lots of  junk! And Max’s dad had a  photo booth. We also had finished our frankiestein everybody had cool costumes at the costume parade in the gym and parents came to help take down our halloween decorations thanks guys! Ms. Collins was a Jellyfish if you saw she had a sumbrero under her jellyfish costume we also had a song it was “The thing that isn’t there!” It was funny when we scared evryone saying… BOO!!  We also had crafts some of them were ghost puppets and pumpkins.

 Typed by Ollin &  Benjamin