Cybersmarts Activity!

Video storyboard

The message of the video:

How to make a great blog post

How is the message going to be delivered?

Through 3 people

What tool will be used to create the video ? Screencastify

Who is involved? Gary, Kiko and Siale

What props or other things are needed? Pictures from the Internet

Script:  (Who will say what?)

Gary: Today we will be talking about what makes a great blog post.

Kiko: First off, you need to ensure you have a catchy title.

Siale: After you type in your catchy title you need to write down about what you have done, about 1 Paragraph of explaining.

Kiko: Then you insert your work, bling up your work with different pictures and maybe some Music.

Gary: The next step is making sure you add some labels, that relate to your learning.

Kiko: You should also add in what you found enjoyable and challenging.

Siale: Finally you should thank your audience for reading your work, and tell them to leave a comment.

Siale: Thank you for listening.

For Cybersmarts, I am working with 2 of my peers, Kiko and Siale. For Cybersmarts we are supposed to be working on 'What makes a great blog post' for this task I have teamed up with them, to make our Screencastify more interesting with more people. Above is our Storyboard, and what lines we will be saying in the screen cast. 

We haven't yet made the video but we will very soon. I can't wait to see what we come up with and what kind of things we include in our video. Something I enjoyed during this time was when I had to write down the lines, it was cool because I didn't know that they would be doing it with me.

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Many thanks :) 

Digital Dig

WALT learn shortcuts to make our learning easier.

For this Cybersmarts session I had the opportunity to finish this DLO with my good friend Metui, which made both of our learning much easier. We completed something called a Digital Dig, it's where we had to find the shortcuts to make our learning more easier and fun to do. While working on this DLO I found that most of the shortcuts that we had to find out, I already knew the answer to! Well, me and Metui, because we have had our netbooks for over 2 years. 

Something that I enjoyed while doing this task was that I was able to complete this task with one of my fellow peers. Also I didn't find that much of these shortcuts were challenging to find. A challenge I found was finding the shortcuts I didn't know.

I love learning more things about Cybersmarts because it can help me later on in life when I have my own things like bank accounts and many more.

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Reusing and Attributing Images

WALT: Reuse and Attribute an image without breaking the law.

Yesterday we had another Cybersmarts session with Mrs Shearing. But today for this weeks session we were taught about images and how to use free images and not break the law by using images that aren't allowed to be used for free. At first I thought all the images were free on the internet because I use images for my education all the time! When Mrs Shearing told us about how we could use free images without breaking the law , she taught us how to use a tool on Google Images to pick a free image without being guilty of breaking the law. Mrs Shearing also showed us how to see the details of the image, for eg. The Author's name, the date it was put on the internet, and the license type. 

It was amazing to hear that there was a tool on the internet that I didn't know of/heard of. The tool is being able to have the ability to see free images with 2 clicks of your mouse. Mrs Shearing also said the word 'CopyRight' I have heard this word before in movies, songs and images! If an image is copyright you are not allowed to use that image to get money, or any other stupid image. If you use an image that is Copyrighted and use the image to get money the owner will think that you are using their image for something and the image isn't actually theirs! 

When Mrs Shearing was talking all I could think about was the fact that all this time I have been using images for 3 years and in that amount of time I didn't know that I was breaking the law most of the time. But at least I wasn't using the images to earn money or something, but we were also told that we have to acknowledge the owner of an image if we use it without permission! 

It's either paying or not using the image. I'm sure everyone would go with not using the image. 

This week's Cybersmart session is probably one of the most interesting Cybersmart sessions I've ever contributed in! Our task was to pick four images and find the author, license type and the image title. I completed the task in about 7 - 10 minutes. 

At first I found keeping up with Mrs Shearing a challenge because I wasn't on the same website as her in order to collect all the information. I enjoyed learning a new tool and finding out some information about images because it was my first time learning about this new trick. 

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Many thanks :)