Is your life safe?

Terrifying

Safety on the internet is HUGE. I live in the age of data information. You can pay for almost everything online now. I have accounts with hundreds of websites. I blog and post information about myself every week online for everyone to look at.

Everyone needs to be careful that they are using good passwords (do you use the same password for ALL of your accounts? from your email to your facebook to your paypal account to your bank account to your good reads?) Only post information on the internet that you would tell a stranger. -No addresses or information that can pinpoint back to you. Everyone's heard the horror stories about even mentioning a school + child's name that can be allow a stranger to pick up someone else's child.

With all of the information online about you: could someone put the pieces together and crack your life?

Issue for everyone. Teach your children. Teach your parents. As a teacher you are responsible for even more children's safety. Be SAFE.

My goals: go back through my accounts/passwords. Several have the same password they've had for my internet "lifetime" as were. (You know since I was like 8. It's time for some maturing.)

The other part of this assignment (besides learning how to be safe on the internet) was to teach someone a bit about internet safety. My younger brother just started a blog as he left for college. He's pretty internet savvy. In fact- he is smarter and knows more about technology than I ever have known. I also shared what I learned with a friend. He is also very careful on the internet. I impressed the importance on not revealing personal information as well as being smart about passwords. They are actually going to help me generate some better passwords for some of my accounts. : )

Do you copy right?

Two of my recent favorite videos:

Basically a copyright suit. Purely entertainment and taken without permission. The video is taken from Disney's Toy Story, the sound is taken from the Dark Knight trailer, put together by a third-party. Even giving credit to the original sources: violates copyright laws.

A music video done by the original artists of the song. The video on the TV in the middle of the video: is another of the group's music videos. I'm not sure about all the objects though. They use a whole lot of random objects- but their is never an obvious label or name; so I am pretty sure that everything follows copyright laws.

Discovering Google Reader and the wonders of RSS

Some of my new favorite rss feeds to subscribe to:

• Chemistry from about.com
• Secondary Education from about.com
• HowStuffWorks.com (Learned that the average person dreams for a total of 6 years in their lifetime. )
• Free Technology for Teachers (my fav this week: snappywords. It's like a visual dictionary. For me who is so bad with vocab and seeing how things match up: brilliant.) (Also cool was Trailmeme) (and tools to make online quizzes) (I also really like their weekly highlights. Easy to go through and catch-up on cool new tools out here.) (Yep.. REALLY like this feed)
• WiseGeek is pretty fun as well. (Learned what rumble strips and ginger ale are today.)
• Discovery News (Funny note about slackers)

I am really liking google reader. As my family are big bloggers, I can't believe I haven't done this before! It is WAY easier to go to one place and go through everything I want to read real quick than go through my dashboard and click on each blog individually, then go through all the random websites and comics.

I am still going through and finding the blogs and sites that will be helpful in my teacher career. But now I know what to do with such sites and how to keep track of everything!

The Purpose

We don't have class this week:

So I wasn't sure if we even needed to post. But I figured that I would introduce what this blog will be for. (Partly for you Mom).

This blog is indeed for a class! A teaching with technology class. The point of the class is to get us comfortable with finding and using new technologies that will help us in our classrooms.

I am starting to build up a list of resources that I can use in my future classroom. Technology specifically using online tools, resources, etc. that will enable the students to enhance their learning in and outside of the classroom.

I liked this article we read for class. Kids these days have grown up in a different world than I have. By the time I am in my own classroom teaching students of my own- it may be even more different. The hope is to stay current with technology. (Though I know I will shortly be passed by) Or at least staying comfortable with finding and using new technology.

Hello Everyone!

My name is Emmalyn.

I finally decided on a Chemistry Education major after taking enough chemistry classes that I didn't want to start over entirely in another subject. I realized after a couple of years being a straight chemistry major that I didn't really like research or the idea of working for a company. I TA'd for Chem105 all last year and LOVED it. I loved working with the students and seeing their eyes light up when they understood a concept. Changed my major to Chemistry Education and here I am! Ideally I want to teach high school chemistry.

I am the oldest of 6. The baby just turned 9. My brother is a freshman this year and I am so stoked that he is here!

I love collecting elephants. My favorite color is red. I am not coordinated so I only try things in which I am the only one who could possibly be injured. I was born in Utah but grew up in Maryland. I spent last spring in London studying abroad and having an utter blast!

I have actually been blogging for the last two years, while I have been away at college to show my parents what I am up to.

EL