Cyber Safety
Information that identifies who you are, what you buy, where you live, your name, or what you look like.
What is personal information (or data)?
An article you read relies on information from an important-looking Medical Society website. This is one way to use the internet to find out if the Medical Society is real.
What is an online search? (Search other sites for information about the society, such as Wikipedia)
DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN except during this moment.
What is 100% TOTAL eclipse? PLEASE use indirect viewers or solar filtered glasses designed for viewing the eclipse. Pick up a pair for free at the Medford Public Library. **In Medford, the eclipse will be at 92% at the peak, NOT 100%**
When you create something, you alone automatically have this right to copy, sell, or give it away.
What is copyright?
For and While are part of this logic structure.
What is a loop?
Do this if you think that someone is being a cyberbully to someone else.
What is "tell somebody" ?
Typing in ALL CAPS during an online conversation can give this impression to others.
What is yelling, screaming or shouting?
Solve this riddle:
ECLIPCLIPCLIP
What is Eclipse?
If you want to use an image of someone, or quote what they said, you have to get this first.
What is permission?
This is the name of a changeable value in code. It can be a number, text, or some other type of information.
What is a Variable?
Rule of thumb for how you should treat others
What is "like you would like to be treated"?
This kind of humor can be misunderstood when used online because it depends on tone of voice and facial expression.
What is sarcasm?
This would happen if the Moon's orbit was not tilted 5 degrees.
What is a solar eclipse every month?
This is a common saying that is missing some vowels:
PCTRSWRTHTHSNDWRDS
What is:
"A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words" ?
This woman is recognized as the first computer programmer, writing algorithms for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
Intimidating, embarrassing, or hurting someone else using an electronic connection such as the internet or texts.
What is cyberbullying?
Fraudulent emails, calls or messages claiming to be from reputable companies telling you to provide sensitive information such as passwords or bank account access.
What is phishing?
The phase of the Moon during a Solar Eclipse
What is a New Moon?
You used a very short excerpt of someone else's video in a school project. This type of use is allowed under copyright law.
What is Fair Use?
A number system that expresses all numbers as 0 or 1.
What is Binary?
The amount of time that information will exist on the Internet.
What is forever?
Looking for a fact in 3 different places before accepting it as true.
What is fact checking?
The name of Mrs. DesAutels' cat (hint: Star Wars character, sounds the same as another name for sunlight)
What is Rey?
Falsely portraying someone else's ideas as your own, by failing to cite a source of information.
What is Plagiarism?
This is the term for testing and fixing the errors in software.
What is Debugging?