How to Secure your home Wi-Fi network?

Your home may be connected with Wi-Fi now and it allows your family to access the Internet from all over your house, which makes it harder for you to control the Internet activity and sharing information. If it's not secured properly, intruders might use your bandwidth, or compromise your Internet security by infecting your devices with malware. Further they may use your devices or systems, as bots for sending the attacks from your systems to other's systems or infrastructure.

1. Change the default admin password with a secured one.
2. Make sure your Wi-Fi device is highly secured
3. Make use a strong password for accessing your router.
4. Enable wireless encryption to prevent strangers from "seeing" your network and restrict access to it.
5. Allow only specific devices to access your wireless network. Every device that is able to communicate with a network is assigned a unique Media Access Control (MAC) address, so use them.
6. Use filtering options to avoid unnecessary websites with inappropriate content.

CYBER SECURTIY

Awareness for Family

Internet has become a necessary tool for the Family. Home computers or Mobiles are often shared with every member of the family, including children and teenagers. The Internet can connect you and your family to all types of resources. Using computer with internet, you and your family can read the latest news, look up for information, do online shopping, do online booking of household items, listen to music, play games, buy things, or e-mail friends. The possibilities for learning and exploring on the Internet are endless. However, not all information and resources are safe and reliable.

How to make sure you and your family's experience on the Internet is safe, educational, and fun Both online shopping and the downloading of software or files need to be discussed with all members or supervised by adults to make sure your personal and financial information remains safe and secure.

The very nature of the Internet helps to connect to people and resources which have some risk of people intruding into your system. There are also other types of threats, such as companies that track what you do on the Internet. While there is no guarantee that you will be safe on internet, but there are many things you can do to protect yourself and family members while using the Internet.

The Internet can be a helpful source of information and advice, but you and your family members can't trust everything you read. Anyone can put any information on the Internet, and not all of it is reliable. Some people and organizations may take the necessary Tip s and take care about the accuracy of the information what they post. In parallel, some may give false information intentionally.

When you are online and using social media kindly consider the following:

·        Online information is usually not private.

·        People online are not always who they say they are.

·        Anyone can put information online.

·        You can't trust everything you read online.

·        You and your family may unexpectedly and unintentionally find material on the Web that is offensive, pornographic (including child pornography), obscene, violent, or racist.

Certain tips for parents in the family for safe surfing

Tip  1 : Secure your home Wi-Fi network.

Tip  2 : Consider Common Place for Computer to Children and Family

Tip  3 : Set Family Rules for Accessing Internet

Tip  4 : Understand the need and set boundaries for online safety

Tip  5 : Sign for Agreement and Online pledge among family members for appropriate online behavior

Tip  6 : Secure Your Computer

Tip  7 : Keep your software up to date

Tip  8 : Install Antivirus, Desktop Firewall solutions against malware and unauthorized access

Tip  9 : Back up your system

Tip  10 : Use separate standard user accounts for family members

Tip  11 : Create strong and easy remember passwords for your accounts

Tip  12 : Secure your web browser before accessing Internet

Tip  13 : Be careful online and don't click suspicious links

Tip  14 : Ensure safe browsing for everyone, even for grand parents!

Tip  15 : Download and install software from trusted sources only.

SKYPE SESSIONS FOR AMAZING EXPERIENCE OF TRAVELLING VIRTUALLY IN THE WORLD

Through the contacts I have made in the MIE program, my students have learned that they can inspire students in other countries to code and create games. They have talked and shared ideas with students 10,000 miles away via Skype. Skype sessions makes learning borderless.

 Thanx to the global connections : Interactions with other MIEEXPERTs around the world, knowing about their country, cultures, education system and the eagerness to share how they are enhancing student learning in their classrooms promotes innovation in teaching. My students love to meet their students through Skype.

 The MIEExpert program is one way to break down cultural barriers that may exist between people groups. It's important for teachers to share learning experiences with students from a variety of different backgrounds.

I LOVE TO SKYPE

MALWARE

It is very important to be aware about various cyber threats like malware to prevent ourselves from data loss and to be able to handle such cyber threats.

Click below to explore my lesson for understanding various types of Malwares and ways to prevent them.


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Happy learning!!

Tribute to MS PAINT

MS Paint has been widely used by junior students which taught them to sketch, paint. The most common sketch i have seen my students drew has been a small hut, favorite cartoon, sky at night, chessboard game and the list is endless.  

                   

                                 

Well i have been using MS PAINT since 1992 when i was doing my graduation and i used it for editing "print screen" images and making wallpapers. I guess most of us have a lot of memories and nostalgia attached to the easiest tool MS Paint. Now Microsoft revealed that it may kill MS Paint soon. After Microsoft announced it's decision to remove the 32-year old 'MS Paint' with its upcoming Windows 10 Fall Creators update, people started to post disappointing remarks on all across social media followed by #RIPMSPaint.

When i shared this news with my students they also drew graveyards and other drawings to express that they would miss MS Paint. I am sharing that video here with you all

Tribute to Ms Paint  ( Watch this YouTube Video and kindly comment)

But with so much of disappointing remarks by people world over ;  Microsoft has announced that it will be made available to users via the Microsoft Paint 3D app which is already available on the Windows store for download.  As Microsoft has now decided to remove the MS Paint partially. Which means that MS Paint will not be available with Windows, instead users will have to download it separately. 

It is in end of July 2017 that Microsoft revealed its plan to bring the Windows 10 Fall Creators update soon and will remove MS Paint. 

Microsoft now notes, "MS Paint fans rejoice: The original art app isn't going anywhere - except to the Windows Store for free!" This means that MS Paint is not going anywhere. No, Microsoft has not decided to bring back the MS Paint onboard, instead plans to add all the key features of the Paint to its Paint 3D app.

Now with Paint 3D the users will be able to capture images and transform them into 3D objects. Not only that, it also let users to turn a 2D doodle into a 3D image. The Paint 3D app further comes with 2D pens and pencils which has the ability to work on any 3D object. There are also some stickers that can be stamped onto 2D images to make it 3D.

One can try making some doodles-Paint 3D makes it easy to unleash your creativity and bring your ideas to life. Classic Paint has been reimagined, with an updated look and feel and a large variety of new brushes and tools. 

Very soon my students will be exploring Paint 3D and will be able to enhance their creative skills.

Cyber awareness and cyber safety

CYBER AWARENESS AND SAFETY

AGE GROUP: 8 YRS TO 13 YRS

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Cyber Safety tips for EvErYOnE

As students find internet a wonderful resource for making projects,communicate with friends and play interactive games; the internet safety regulations are of a growing concern for children, their parents and others.
Internet safety or online safety is all about knowing how to maximise your personal safety and minimise security risks about personal information when using the internet. It is alsi about self-protection from various computer crimes.
so internet access can prove to be dangerous for you,if you are not careful.
Parents should take the responsibility of their children's online computer use at home.
I WOULD LIKE SHARE some safety tips while using internet not only for your children but yourself too.
Regards
Ms. Anu Sharma

Computer Sc. teacher.