SMART MEDIA – Don’t Fall For The Fake

This week in cybersmart we learnt some tips and tricks for not falling for fake things online. Things such as: not clicking on links, making sure the website looks real (not using numbers or lots of words). We also made sure that we knew if we get an email to make sure that we definitely know the person it is from and to not give out any details.

We then had the chance to make either a fake instagram, fake netflix or fake postcard, where we had to remove the background and add us in a random place.

We enjoyed these activities as it allowed us to show off our creative skills!

Here are some of our fake postcards:

Here are some of our instagram pages:

And here are some of our netflix pages:
We hope you enjoy these as much as we enjoyed making them.

Fake News

In our Cybersmart sessions we have started to learn about Fake News and Hoaxes and how to spot them. Things like long URL’s or too good to be true sites are probably fake.

We got to create our own magazine covers, and fake news articles that were obviously fake (but also could have been real).

Here are some of our creations!

MAGAZINE COVERS:
 

FAKE NEWS HEADLINES:
 

We really enjoyed being able to use our creativity to make these, it also helped us realise that not everything that we see online is real!

SMART MEDIA

This week, we started our Smart Media topic by looking at what Media is, and the different types of media there is.

We then made posters to show the different types of media (online, broadcast and print) that there are.


 

For a lot of us, finding out what Media was, was new information as we thought of Social Media only when we were first asked about it.

Internet Etiquette

This week in our Cybersmart lesson, we learnt how to show Internet Etiquette. We discussed emails and why it is important to be polite and clear in emails (as sometimes, people can interpret the written word differently than we intended as tone is not always there).

We had to write emails where we were very clear with our words (and used the correct punctuation etc) and then also ones where we weren’t so clear and our words could be misinterpreted by our friends.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We also learnt how to comment and tag in Google Docs, Slides and Sheets. This is really helpful when we need our teacher to check our work or when we are working on a group project.

We also tried to use Google Meet and learn how to show etiquette with this, but unfortunately, it was blocked – Whaea Stacey is going to get us to give this a go next time!

Being Upstanders

For the past few weeks, we have been learning how to be upstanders online and in person.

We’ve used what we’ve learned in these lessons to help create animations (either using scratch or google slides), pick-a-paths and posters.


Once you press the green button – press the up arrow.

We have also played interland taking screen shots that help us focus on being cybersmart! Lots of us managed to get certificates for the games too!

How do you show that you’re an upstander?

Chrome Music Lab

For the past 2 weeks, we have been learning about creativity, copyright and fair use. Last week we used canva, pixlr, sumo paint or Google Draw to create badges for things such as: best teacher and best sports person. We also used remove.bg to remove backgrounds of images of ourselves and then placed ourselves in different places around the world.

Today, we used Chrome Music Lab to create songs. Here are some of our songs. Have you used Chrome music lab?

 

Artificial Intelligence

Today, we learnt a little bit about Artificial Intelligence (or AI). We wrote down our ideas on a jamboard, and then we got to create some images.

Whaea Stacey showed us how to use Canva and Pxlr to create AI generated images. Princeton even found another site: Picsart.com, which you could also create AI pictures so we had a go at that too!

Here are some of our images.

We also used Chat GPT to see how that works. Whaea Stacey found the recipe for (supposedly) the best Chocolate Chip Cookies and we also had a paragraph generated about how awesome our class was. Their post was pretty accurate (which is a little scary!)

Have you used AI? What for?

Social Media

Today, Whaea Stacey discussed with us Social Media and how we can stay safe online.

We discussed things like: not sharing private information and not adding people that we don’t know (and if we think we know them, sometimes we need to check!). We talked about why we should be 13 before we have these types of accounts.

We then got to make posters, using apps we know to explain dangers of Social Media. Here are some!

 

Touchpad Tips n Tricks

We have been learning some tips and tricks to know how to use our touchpad more efficiently. We learned that you can swipe up/down and side to side with one, two or three fingers and all of these do different things!

Next we went to an online site where we had to use our new skills to complete some puzzles.

This slidedeck shows one of the create tasks we did today. For this task we had to remember how to take a partial screenshot, and how to upload an image to Google Slides. We hope you enjoy taking a look at our learning.