8 TIPS TO STAY SAFE ONLINE (Internet Day)

TIPS FOR A SAFER INTERNET BY YOUTUBERS & TWITCH STREAMERS ON SAFER INTERNET DAY 2022

 Today's Safer Internet Day 2022, here's a video with some tips to be safer when you're surfing the internet given by some YouTubers. Listen and follow their advice.

Video SAFER INTERNET:

SOCIAL MEDIA: GOOD O BAD?

 

Here are two videos with the pros and cons of Social Media.

20 YEARS GOOGLING

Our favourite search engine is celebrating its 20th birthday today. 20 years searching for information.

SOCIAL MEDIA vs REALITY: ARE YOU LIVING AN INSTA LIE?

Are we living an insta lie? Are we addicted to technology, mobile phones and social networks? Watch this video and reflect about it for a moment. Give your opinions...

Video "ARE YOU LIVING AN INSTA LIE?"

COMPUTING

Charts with basic vocabulary on Computing.

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

A chart with vocabulary of ICT technology gadgets & media.

15 YEARS OF WIKIPEDIA

Yesterday, January 15th Wikipedia, Internet's free encyclopedia, celebrated their 15th birthday. It's been working since January 15th 2011. Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger created it.

It was born as a webpage in English, but nowadays it has articles written in 287 languages. 28 of them have more than 300.000 articles each. Only in Spanish there are more than one million articles. Totally there are more than 38 million pages about every topic you can imagine inside it. Only between 2005 and 2015 the number of articles were multiplied by 10, as there are more than 700 new pages created every day. Each month the web receives 500 million visits.

Last year Princess of Asturias International Cooperation Prize was awarded to it for making universal knowledge accesible to everybody.

Link: Wikipedia15: What does Wikipedia mean to you?

Galician version of this post @ ArquivosDoTrasno.

INTERNET, EMAIL & SOCIAL MEDIA VOCABULARY

WRITING IN THE XXIst CENTURY: THE QWERTY KEYBOARD

 (6th Cultural Week-7: Writing in the 21st century)

Most of the writing we do in the XXIst century is done via a keyboard rather than using a pen or other means of handwriting. Keyboards available on old-fashioned typewriters and more modern uptodate computers, tablets or mobile phones.

Many people are surprised the first time they sit in front of a keyboard to see the strange way in which letters have been displayed and how this order has nothing to do with the alphabet.

The keyboard as we know it is called QWERTY, but its name doesn't come from its inventor, but for the first six letters starting from the left. The reason why they were disposed in this way is due to Christopher Sholes when he invented the first typewriter in 1868.

Trying to accomplish his invention, he placed each letter in alphabetical order in two rows, but he soon realised that, very frequently, the keys got stuck. He realised that this happened because some were more used than others, so he thought of displaying them at random, placing together letters of more, few and lesser use, what made it easier when typing without the mechanism getting stuck.

Since then, many other keyboards with perhaps more logical displays have been introduced, but the popularity of QWERTY's keyboard hasn't made them very successful.

Galician version of this post @ ArquivosDoTrasno.

WHAT'S INTERNET ALL ABOUT?

Here are some videos to show you what Internet is all about and what you should do to surf it safely.

Video "WHAT IS THE INTERNET?"

NetSafe Episode 1: What is the Internet? (Grades K-3) from Planet Nutshell on Vimeo.

Video "WHAT'S PERSONAL INFORMATION?

NetSafe Episode 2: What is Personal Information? (Grades K-3) from Planet Nutshell on Vimeo.

100 YEARS WITH IBM

International Business Machines (IBM) is an American multinational technology and consulting firm headquartered in Armonk, New York. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.
The company was founded in 1911 as the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation through a merger of four companies and adopted the name International Business Machines in 1924.
In 2011, Fortune ranked IBM the 18th largest firm in the U.S., as well as the 7th most profitable. Globally, the company was ranked the 31st largest firm by Forbes for 2011. Other rankings for 2010 include #1 company for leaders, #2 best global brand, #3 green company, #15 most admired company, and #18 most innovative company. IBM employs more than 425,000 employees(sometimes referred to as "IBMers")in over 200 countries, with occupations including scientists, engineers, consultants, and sales professionals.
IBM holds more patents than any other U.S.-based technology company and has nine research laboratories worldwide. Its employees have garnered five Nobel Prizes, five National Medals of Science, among many others. The company has undergone several organizational changes since its inception, acquiring some companies and spinning off companies like Lexmark (1991).

Video on IBM's Centennial:

GUARDIA CIVIL'S INTERNET SAFETY TALK AT OUR SCHOOL

REMEMBER!

WEDNESDAY 16th FEBRUARY.

GUARDIA CIVIL WILL TALK ABOUT

THE RISKS OF INTERNET

AT OUR SCHOOL'S ASSEMBLY HALL.8:30h - 10:10h for 1st BAC, 4th ESO & 3rd ESO-A & B students.
10:30h - 12:10h for 1st ESO, 2nd ESO & 3rd ESO-C students.

8th FEBRUARY: SAFER INTERNET DAY, "IT'S MORE THAN A GAME, IT'S YOUR LIFE"

Safer Internet Day is organized each February to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people around the world. The topic for 2011 "our virtual lives" around the slogan "it's more than a game, it's your life". Last year, Safer Internet Day was celebrated through over 500 events in 65 countries all over the world. For more information: http://www.saferinternet.org/

On Wednesday 16th at the assembly hall of IES Rafael Dieste, members who belong to the special branch of telematic crime of the Guardia Civil will be giving a lecture about the risks of internet.

Video Safer Internet Day 2011: