The chronicals of digital citizenship

Thursday, 25 June 2015

Section for parents

1. A Mighty Girl Your go-to site to find empowering and inspirational books, toys and movies for girls of all ages. Founded by two American women who were tired of searching for the right gifts for their nieces, A Mighty Girl puts all their girl-powered picks in one place.

2. Art Games This delightfully interactive and fun website is hosted by Buffalo, New York’s Albright Knox Art Gallery. Kids from 4 to 12 will have a blast creating their own masterpieces and playing art-spirational games.

3. BBC Kids Your mini anglophile will be all over the Canadian online home to the BBC Kids TV channel. The website offers ups listings, a selection of tv shows and games from across the pond.

4. Brain Pop This American site offers fun and educational animated videos and games to help reinforce the school curriculum from kindergarten through grade 12. (Check out Brain Pop Jr. for grades K to 3.) A subscription is required to access the entire site but there is still plenty of content available for free.

5. Build It’s a virtual Lego set for the little Lego lover in your life. Lego and Google Chrome teamed up to create a site for master builders of all ages to build their own creations. And no clean up required!

6. Canadian Geographic Kids This is a great resource for fun and learning about all things Canada. It’s the online home for kids of the popular Canadian Geographic magazine and offers games, videos, animal facts, kid-friendly articles, avirtual atlas and more.

7. CBC Kids There’s games and videos galore starring your kidlet’s favourite CBC Kids characters. Enjoy peace of mind knowing the CBC offers quality programming for young and old alike.

8. DOGOnews Kids can catch up on current events with news stories written just for children. Started by a San Francisco mom, DOGOnews is a great resource for homework, projects and curious minds.

9. Doodle.ly This is essentially and ultra-simple virtual sketchpad that any creative kid would love. You can choose to publish the drawings on the site or older kids can share them to Facebook or Twitter. It’s also an iPhone and iPad app!

Wednesday, 24 June 2015

Digital Commerce

Digital Commerce primarily refers to the activity of buying and selling goods or services through digital channels, however can also incorporate the entire process of developing, marketing, servicing, selling and ultimately paying for products.

Importance of commerce
Ecommerce proved its importance based on the fact where time is essence. In the commercial markets, time plays an important role to both the business and consumers. From the business perspective, with less time spent during each transaction, more transaction can be achieved on the same day. As for the consumer, they will save up more time during their transaction. Because of this, Ecommerce steps in and replaced the traditional commerce method where a single transaction can cost both parties a lot of valuable time. With just a few clicks in minutes, a transaction or an order can be placed and completed via the internet with ease. For instance, a banking transaction can be completed through the Internet within a few minutes compared to the traditional banking method which may take up to hours. This fact obviously proves that Ecommerce is beneficial to both business and consumer wise as payment and documentations can be completed with greater efficiency.
http://webdesign.vinsign.com/what-is-ecommerce-importance.html

Plagiarism guideline
Plagiarism is due to when an individual does mot acknowledge that the work that they have written is not of their work. Can also be known as unauthorized collaboration of work. Work is not see a plagiarism is the individual references with details of where the information comes from.

Online auctions and tips
Online auctions are places that people can go and order to buy or sell goods or services online for a small fee. Anyone can sell an item and anyone can bid on an item.https://ethics.csc.ncsu.edu/commerce/auctions/study.php

Tips to online auctions is that:

· One should do research about the product they wish to purchase.

· One should have a limit of how much will be spent.

· Keep their eye on the dead line.

· Pay up quickly to avoid losing the product.

· Last but not least enjoy the experience.

Digital Law

Digital Law is defined as the electronic responsibility for actions, deeds which is either ethical or unethical. Digital responsibility deals with the ethics of technology. Unethical use manifests itself in form of theft and/or crime. Ethical manifests itself in the form of abiding by the laws of society." It is basically about what you are and are not allowed to do while surfing and using the Internet

Everybody should respect the law and abide by it. Not following the law can result in serious punishment. Examples of this behavior are like hacking into people’s personal details, pirate software, downloading music illegally and creating viruses or Trojan horses. http://coe.k-state.edu/digitalcitizenship/

Identity theft is becoming a rising problem. Studies show that one in five families have been victims to this in the U.S. The thieves can steal your credit card number allowing them to buy or rent various products using your information. The worst thing is that you don't realize what is happening until you are sent bills or receive calls about different transactions. It takes months to restore all of your information and secure it all. Therefore everyone should take precautions.

Spoofing generally means to convince people to provide personal or financial information that lets the hacker commit credit card/bank fraud or other forms of identity theft. Spam criminals often use spoofing as an attempt to get into someone else's computer.

IP Spoofing" is a technique used to get access to computers, where the intruder sends a message to a computer with an IP address telling them that the message is coming from a trusted machine and person. To stop IP Spoofing packet filtering is a programm that blocks other packets getting into your network. This prevents an outside attacker from gaining access to an internal machine.

Software Piracy is copying and selling of unauthorized computer software, movies etc. This happens a lot in the Mexico, China, Indonesia, Russia, Brazil and Zimbabwe but many other countries are also involved. Most of these countries have Copyright Infringement Laws but many citizens do not abide by them however some countries are more strict about them than others.

There are 4 types of software piracy;

Industrial Piracy: An individual or group attempts duplication and distribution on a large scale for profit.
Coporate Piracy: Unprotected contents are shared through net works such as peer-to-peer, LAN and Internet.
Reseller Piracy: Involves computer hardware companies selling ma chines with illegal copies of software preloaded on their hard drive.
Home Piracy: Includes everything from trading disks with friends to running a not-for-profit bulletin board for the purpose of illegal software distribution.

Computer hacking is the practice of changing computer hardware and software. People who are involved with such activities are often called hackers. Since the word “hack” has long been used to describe someone who is not able to do their job very well. Some hackers claim this term is offensive, since they are very skilled in their topics.Computer hacking is most common among teenagers and young adults, although there are many older hackers as well. Many hackers consider computer hacking an “art” form. They often enjoy programming and have expert-level skills in one particular program.

Digital Security

Cyber-crime; types, what they are and how to prevent it:
Hacking: hacking is a crime where one person breaks into someone else’s personal computer using a variety of software and access the information they have stored on it. The owner of the computer doesn’t know that their computer is being hacked and it can be done from another computer.

Theft / piracy: piracy is when someone illegally downloads music, movies, TV series, games and software from the internet. This violates copyrights of the original creators / owners.

Cyber Stalking: Cyber stalking is a kind of online harassment where the stalker sends the victim a series of emails and online messages. The stalker usually know the person they are stalking. They make the victim’s life miserable with all the messages.

Identity Theft: With this kind of cyber crime the thief hacks the victim’s online banking account in order to get useful information like debit/credit card details to buy things online in their name or transfer the money from one account to another.

Malicious Software: These are Internet-based software or programs that are used to disrupt a network. The software is used to gain access to a system to steal sensitive information or data or causing damage to software present in the system.

Child soliciting and Abuse: This is also a type of cyber crime where criminals solicit minors via chat rooms for the purpose of gaining pictures for child pornography.
(Anon. N.d. Cross Domain Solutions. Accessed 17 May 2015. http://www.crossdomainsolutions.com/cyber-crime/)

Ways to prevent becoming a victim of cyber crime:
• Anti-virus management
• Intrusion detection
• Firewall management
• Identity management
• Routing and encryption
• Directory management
• Asset management
• Configuration management
(Anon. n.d. Cross Domain Solutions. Accessed 17 May 2015. http://www.crossdomainsolutions.com/cyber-security/)

Digital Communication

The new "it" everyone is playing, Clash of Clans. Young and old is enjoying this game about war and strategy.

3.1 Clash of Clans is a game that requires a lot of strategy and planning on the player’s side. To progress in this game you have to attack other player’s villages and basically steel their money. You build mines to get gold to build your village and clan and to upgrade on your clan making buildings. The higher you are in the game the more successful you will be. To win an attack you have to attack your opponents defense first, like the canons and archer’s towers. After this you can get the gold without getting killed.

3.2 When you join a clan you attack other clans and win gold and trophies. Within the clan you get a leader and elders, who makes the decision to attack. You can also request troops (the other players in your clan sends you soldiers from their village) to help defend your village when it’s being attacked by other players. It is like being part of a virtual family.

3.3 The communication in this game is based on how well you know the members of your clan and how comfortable you are with them. When it comes to having war, it is sort of professional because having to go into war is a serious issue for the dedicated players. But most of the time there isn’t really a lot of communication, but this differs from clan to clan.

3.4 Players can communicate with each other by sending messages. In a way it can educate the youth about digital citizenship but on a very small scale. For example, the players have to be responsible for the messages they send to other players and not send inappropriate messages that could offend other players. They must also consider the digital footprint they leave behind with the use of this game. Most of the things they do on this game can be traced back to the player need be.

Reference page

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Digital Etiquette

Digital Code of Conduct

1. Behave in a ethical way in the digital world as I do the real world.
2. Use technology in an appropriate manner.
3. DO NOT break any laws or rules dealing with the use of technology.
4. Be responsible when using technology.
5. Respect yourself and others when using technology.
6. Do not use technology in a harmful or degrading manner.
7. Have consideration of, and respect for, school and peer technological resources and use them appropriately.
8. Act safely in the digital world to prevent disruption or harm to myself and others.
9. Have a balanced, healthy lifestyle relationship with technology.
10. Protect yourself and others by reporting digital abuse of people and property.
11. Ensure the privacy of your own information.
12. Do not invade anyone’s digital profile and do not abuse it.

Penalties
1. When you do not adhere to these requirements you will not be able to use this institutes technology any longer.
2. Based on your actions and the seriousness thereof, a hearing will be held to determine whether or not you will be allowed to finish your course at this institute.
3. If your actions has serious consequences you will be asked to pay a fine to correct your wrongs.

Enforcing and Managing
In the beginning of each school year the Digital Code of Conduct will be discussed with the students and on the registration contract both student and parent/guardian has to read and sign this. The devices at the college will be kept an eye on for any suspicious doings from the students.

(Anon. n.d. Digital Code of Conduct. Accessed 16 May 2015. http://go.vsb.bc.ca/schools/johnoliver/About/Pages/Digital-Code-of-Conduct.aspx)

Digital Citizenship and Digital Access