Category: Ako | Learn

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.

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.

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!

Today we learned about what to do if something goes wrong online – we refreshed ourselves on making sure we knew how to take screenshots and forward emails.

We then got to make pick-a-paths, which were really fun to do and learn new skills. Have you made a pick-a-path with Google Slides before?

Here are some of ours, give them a go:

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?

We have been learning about our online footprint. We have learned that everything we share online can be searched, copied, shared, and is permanent. We learned this by watching a video and talking about what we’d seen; we also talked about times when we’ve shared something online and it’s been copied and shared without our permission. This is important information to learn because we have started our class blog, so we are actively sharing information online, during class time.

We collected screenshots of the places we visited online in the last 24 hours and inserted them onto our footprint. We also took a selfie to go with our footprint. We learned how to change the shape of our selfie by using Mask tool in Google Slides.

Here is a slidedeck of our footprints. We hope you enjoy looking through them.