E-Safety

The Term E-Safety:

 Internet safety, or online safety, is the knowledge of maximizing the user's personal safety and security risks to private information and property associated with using the internet, and the self-protection from computer crimes in general.

  

Types and Etiquette of E-Safety:

 

 

  Context is everything. If kids want to have silly online names that conform to the convention of a particular online community and only their friends will see, fine. But for more formal communication -- like email addresses, posting comments, or anything to do with school -- have them choose a respectable screen name (though not their real name) that they wouldn't be embarrassed to utter out loud in front of, say.

 Take the high road (but don't boast about it). Chatting, texting, and status updates are all "in-the-moment" communication. But if there's an escalating sense of rudeness, sign off. No good will come of firing off a nasty comment. You can always write out a response to get something off your chest ... without sending it.

 Keep a secret. In today's world, photos, texts, and videos can be posted, copied, forwarded, downloaded, and Photoshopped in the blink of an eye. If you think something might embarrass someone, get them in trouble, compromise their privacy, or stir up drama of any kind, keep it to yourself -- and maybe delete it for good measure.

 Post only information that you are comfortable with others seeing – and knowing– about you.

Many people can see your page, including your family, the police, the college you want to apply to, or the employer you want to hire you. 

Never respond to rude or threatening messages whether in chat, newsgroups or message boards. Always leave if the conversation makes you uncomfortable. Never engage in a flame war. That is a shouting match (through text) conducted between 2 or more people. Never send an email in capital letters. That is considered to be shouting on the Internet.

Never say nasty or untrue things about others especially in public forums, newsgroups, or chat. These remain in many archives and you could be charged with libel. Never forward personal emails sent to you to others without checking with the original sender first.

 

Computer Security Threat

Defination of Computer Security:

A threat, in the context of computer security, refers to anything that has the potential to cause serious harm to a computer system. A threat is something that may or may not happen, but has the potential to cause serious damage. Threats can lead to attacks on computer systems, networks and  more.

Types of Computer Threats:

 

 

 

 

 

Malware: Malware is short for “malicious software.” Wikipedia describes malware as a term used to mean a “variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying software or program code.” Malware could be computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses, dishonest spyware, and malicious rootkits—all of which are defined below.

  Computer virus: A computer virus is a small piece of software that can spread from one infected computer to another. The virus could corrupt, steal, or delete data on your computer—even erasing everything on your hard drive. A virus could also use other programs like your email program to spread itself to other computers.

 Computer worm: A computer worm is a software program that can copy itself from one computer to another, without human interaction. Worms can replicate in great volume and with great speed. For example, a worm can send copies of itself to every contact in your email address book and then send itself to all the contacts in your contacts’ address books.

 Trojan horse: Users can infect their computers with Trojan horse software simply by downloading an application they thought was legitimate but was in fact malicious.

 Botnet: A botnet is a group of computers connected to the Internet that have been compromised by a hacker using a computer virus or Trojan horse. An individual computer in the group is known as a “zombie“ computer.

 Spam: Spam in the security context is primarily used to describe email spam —unwanted messages in your email inbox. Spam, or electronic junk mail, is a nuisance as it can clutter your mailbox as well as potentially take up space on your mail server. Unwanted junk mail advertising items you don’t care for is harmless, relatively speaking. However, spam messages can contain links that when clicked on could go to a website that installs malicious software onto your computer.

 

 

Digital Citizenship

Term Digital Citizenship:

 Digital Citizenship is a concept which helps teachers, technology leaders and parents to understand what students/children/technology users should know to use technology appropriately. Digital Citizenship is more than just a teaching tool; it is a way to prepare students/technology users for a society full of technology. Digital citizenship is the norms of appropriate, responsible technology use.  Too often we are seeing students as well as adults misusing and abusing technology but not sure what to do. The issue is more than what the users do not know but what is considered appropriate technology usage. 

 

 

 

 

9 Elements of Digital Citizenship:

Digital Access: Full electronic participation in society

Parents and educators need to identify if children and others have basic contact to technology as well as supporting those with "other abilities".

Digital Commerce: Buying and selling of electronic goods

 Parents need to discuss when it is appropriate to buy or sell items online

as well as the issues that can go with it (such as identity theft) when using non-secure sites.

 

Digital Communication: Electronic exchange for information 

 Parents and educators need to help children to identify the different digital communication methods (for example, cell phone, instant messaging, and blogging) and know when and where to use these communication technologies.

 

Digital Literacy:process of teaching and learning about technology and the use of technology

.Everyone needs to spend time learning about technology before using it. Parents and teachers need to lead their children by providing a good example of technology use. 

 

 

 Digital Etiquet:Digital Etiquette:electronic standards of conduct or procedure

.Children need to become aware how others see their technology use.Use of mobile devices (for example mobile phones, MP3 players) can be annoying to others in public spaces. 

 

Digital law: electronic responsibilities for goods and deeds

 Educators most often spend time teaching children about issues of plagiarism but everyone needs to know that this also applies to topics such as illegal downloading of music or movies. 

 

Digital rights and responsibilities: Those freedoms extended in this digital world

 

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CYBER SAFETY

Term cyber safety means

Internet safety, or online safety, is the knowledge of maximizing the user's personal safety and security risks to private information and property associated with using the internet, and the self-protection from computer crime in general.
As the number of internet users continues to grow worldwide, internet safety is a growing concern for both children and adults. Common concerns regarding safety on the internet include: malicious users (spam, phishing, cyber bullying, cyber stalking etc.), websites and software (malware, computer viruses, etc.) and various types of obscene or offensive content. Several crimes can be committed on the Internet such as stalking, identity theft and more.
Most social networking and chat sites have a page about safety. Numerous groups, governments and organizations have expressed concerns about the safety of children using the Internet. Safer Internet Day is celebrated worldwide in February to raise awareness about internet safety.

Here are some key messages around internet safety that I believe all students should be aware of.

• Always ask an adult if you’re unsure of anything when you are online.

  Don’t sign up for sites that are 13+ if you are not old enough (Facebook, YouTube, Instagram etc).

  Remember YAPPY (the personal information you should not share online) – Your full name, address, phone number, passwords, your plans. 

  Don’t add people as online friends unless you know them in real life or have parent permission. Never arrange to meet an online friend without talking to a parent.

        Remember that you cannot believe everything you read on the internet and you can’t trust everything online friends tell you  Talk to your parents about what you’re doing online and let them know when you’re going on the internet.

Know what cyber bullying is and tell someone if you think it’s happening to you. Cyber bullying is when someone picks on you, annoys, embarrasses, or threatens you over and over again using technology, such as the internet or a phone.

Protect your digital footprint: don’t put anything online that you wouldn’t want all your friends, family, teachers and future employers to see.

Treat others online the way you’d like to be treated.

Dignity Day

GLOBAL DIGNITY DAY

Why is dignity day celebrated?

 Global Dignity is an independent, non-political organization. Their project is the universal right of every human being to lead a dignified life. The organization was established in 2006 by Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, John Hope Bryant and Pekka Himanen.
The organization is working towards dignity for people creating a global conversation about dignity, promoting dignity-based leadership discussing the issue of dignity with young people. An annual Dignity Day on October 20 was arranged for the first time in 2008. School classes are invited to discuss Dignity - what it means to them and their relationship with other people. Per 2011 schools in more than 40 countries had participated in the project

The Dignity project has formulated five dignity principles:

 Every human being has a right to lead a dignified life.A dignified life means an opportunity to fulfill one’s potential, which is based on having a human

How we celebrate dignity day in BLL:

We celebrate Dignity Day on 21st of October every year. 

This year it was more organized with some exhibition and some human right companies came to BLL. It was far better experience this time because we had many things to learn. posters and projects were prepared in whole United Nation. We had to welcome them very professionally. We got certificates for our hard work. We donated books and stationery worldwide. We had project to help other people by giving them respect. Hope so it would be more better and good experience next time.

 

Titanic History

The Titanic Historical Society, Inc is a non-profit organization founded in 1963, whose purpose is the preservation of the history of the famous ocean liner RMSTitanic, which sank on April 15, 1912, in one of the greatest maritime disasters in history.On April 10, 1912, the Titanic, largest ship afloat, left Southampton, England on her maiden voyage to New York City. The White Star Line had spared no expense in assuring her luxury. A legend even before she sailed, her passengers were a mixture of the world's wealthiest basking in the elegance of first class accommodations and immigrants packed into steerage.

The Journey of Titanic

She was touted as the safest ship ever built, so safe that she carried only 20 lifeboats - enough to provide accommodation for only half her 2,200 passengers and crew. This discrepancy rested on the belief that since the ship's construction made her "unsinkable," her lifeboats were necessary only to rescue survivors of other sinking ships. Additionally, lifeboats took up valuable deck space.

Four days into her journey, at 11:40 P.M. on the night of April 14, she struck an iceberg. Her fireman compared the sound of the impact to "the tearing of calico, nothing more." However, the collision was fatal and the icy water soon poured through the ship.

It became obvious that many would not find safety in a lifeboat. Each passenger was issued a life jacket but life expectancy would be short when exposed to water four degrees below freezing. As the forward portion of the ship sank deeper, passengers scrambled to the stern. John Thayer witnessed the sinking from a lifeboat. "We could see groups of the almost fifteen hundred people still aboard, clinging in clusters or bunches, like swarming bees; only to fall in masses, pairs or singly, as the great after part of the ship, two hundred and fifty feet of it, rose into the sky, till it reached a sixty-five or seventy degree angle." The great ship slowly slid beneath the waters two hours and forty minutes after the collision

The next morning, the liner Carpathia rescued 705 survivors. One thousand five hundred twenty-two passengers and crew were lost. Subsequent inquiries attributed the high loss of life to an insufficient number of lifeboats and inadequate training in their use.

Less than three hours later Titanic lay at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean, nearly four kilometres down. The sinking of Titanic claimed more than 1,500 lives. For many, the tragic fate that befell Titanic would come to mark the passing of the opulence of the Edwardian era and foreshadowed the global tragedy of World War One. The story captured the public imagination across the world, spawning countless books, films, plays, memorials, museums and exhibitions. The discovery of the wreck by oceanographer Robert Ballard on a Franco-American expedition in 1985 gave rise to a fresh wave of interest that continues to this day.

The Sinking of Titanic

The fascination with the wreck of Titanic began not long after the ship sank to the bottom of the north Atlantic, some 676 kilometres off Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, almost four kilometres below the surface. Early plans to find and raise the wreck were hindered by a combination of technical limitations and prohibitive cost.By the 1980s, technological advances in sonar scanning made the dream of finding the wreck a tantalising possibility. The wreck of Titanic was finally found in 1985 by a Franco-American expedition headed by oceanographer Robert Ballard.Many subsequent expeditions followed, most famously those of James Cameron. The film director used footage gathered from eleven dives to the wreck in his 1997 blockbuster, Titanic.

                                                             Teachers Day Celebrations

In many countries, Teachers' Day is a special day for the appreciation of teachers, and may include celebrations to honour them for their special contributions in a particular field area, or the community in general. The date on which Teachers' Day is celebrated varies from country to country. Teachers' days in different countries are distinct from World Teachers' Day, which is celebrated on 5 October.^[1]

The idea of celebrating Teachers' Day took root in many countries during the 20th century; in most cases, they celebrate a local educator or an important milestone in education (for example, Argentina has commemorated Domingo Faustino Sarmiento's death on 11 September since 1915,^[2] while India has celebrated the birthdate of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (5 September) since 1962).^[3] This is the primary reason why countries celebrate this day on different dates, unlike many other International Days.

It recognizes the importance of teachers and attributes progress to the quality of teachers in Pakistan's Educational System.

We celebrated Teacher's Day on 5 October. We had a special assembly in school for teachers.In which there were prizes for teachers given by Head Mistress.We wished our Teacher's by giving them cards and gifts and bouquet.Our teacher's are very hardworking May GOD Bles them.  

TEACHER'S DAY QUOTES:

 Eid-ul-Azha

Eid-ul-Azha is celebarted on 10th of zil-hajj. This Eid is celebrated in the beloved memory of Hazrat Ibrahim(A.S) and his son Hazrat Ismail (A.S). On this eid we sacrifice some animals like goat, cow, camel etc.

This year 2015 we celebrated Eid on 25th of september. Government of punjab gave only 3 holidays  for Eid, one for 10th zil-hajj. The day before Eid or the day of Hajj was fast for all muslims around the world. 

Finally on Eid we woke up with excitment on our faces,we got ready. Then the butcher sacrificed our goats and cows. Then after that we ahdf lunch with our grandfather side. We really had fun on the first day of Eid but on the second and the third wasn't that fun. But this eid was better and enjoying than last year.

SMART PHONE BLESSING OR CURSE

I was out to dinner the other night with my family and I observed a very curious sight.  I saw a large group of teenagers having dinner together.  I was expecting them to be loud and disruptive. Not at all. Instead, they all had their heads down and were using their smartphones. No conversations. No verbal interaction.  Just texting, playing candy crush, or whatever else they were doing.  I thought to myself, “This is sad.  Are we losing the ability to effectively communicate with each other?”.  Then I looked at my two teenagers sitting with me and realized they were both on their smartphones!

Just look around you.  We are all addicted to our smartphones.  They are tremendous mobile computers that allows us to do pretty much whatever we want as we are out and about.  However, in an age where our technology is supposed to make us more connected, I submit that we are more disconnected than we have ever been as a society.  This first post is not going to be an extensive one but a challenge to whoever reads it.  Take a sabbatical from your smartphones.  Take a weekend trip with your loved ones and leave the phones behind.  Just imagine what a typical family road trip would look like for a family in the 1980s and copy that.  I admit it is easier said than done.  Have you ever left your house and mistakenly left your phone at home?  You feel naked right?  This feeling should indicate to us how truly addicted we are to our phones.    I’m not saying that smartphones are evil.  I love my Galaxy S5 and it is extremely helpful for many things in my life.  What I am saying that is that we should all “disconnect”  on occasion.  It will be worth it. I promise.

Sam

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on April 20, 2014.

                                                            Internet

 Advantages:

• anyone can edit
• easy to use and learn
• Wikis are instantaneous so there is no need to wait for a publisher to create a new edition or update information
• people located in different parts of the world can work on the same document
• the wiki software keeps track of every edit made and it's a simple process to revert back to a previous version of an article
• widens access to the power of web publishing to non-technical users 
•  Information on almost every subject imaginable. 
• Powerful search engines 
• Ability to do research from your home versus research libraries. 
•  Information at various levels of study. Everything from scholarly articles to ones directed at children. 

Disadvantages:

• There is a lot of wrong information on the internet. Anyone can post anything, and much of it is garbage.    
•  There are predators that hang out on the internet waiting to get unsuspecting people in dangerous situations.                                                                                                                                            
•  Some people are getting addicted to the internet and thus causing problems with their interactions of friends and loved ones                                                                                                                         . 
• Pornography that can get in the hands of young children too easily.                                                           
•  Easy to waste a lot of time on the internet. You can start surfing, and then realize far more time has passed than you realized. Internet and television together of added to the more sedentary lifestyles of people which further exacerbates the obesity problem.                                                                            
•  internet has a lot of "cheater" sites. People can buy essays and pass them off as their own far more easily than they used to be able to do. 
• Hackers can use the internet for identity theft.                                                                                      

•  It can be quite depressing to be on the internet and realize just how uneducated so many people have become in today's society.