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• Kirsty McRae - ICT coordinator
Introduction
• Alan Mathieson – developer– Two children Alexander Form 3 and Tiggy UT
Introduction
• Computers• Apps• Devices and when they shouldn’t be used• Email• Passwords• Apps (again!)• Safety
This Evening
• Email account– School email account– Personal email account
• Social media• Send a file to a prospective employer• Authenticate an application• Sync files
Your child’s IT future
• What’s happened to change everything?– Old set-up– Updates
• They don’t even build them like that anymore– What is this darn cloud?– Mobile/Devices
• Data is shared by– web - mobile - tablet - phablet - tv - cooker -
fitness band - cat collar - light bulb - shoe
But I’ve got a computer
• What are all these apps?– Outlook - Word - Excel - Internet Explorer– Dropbox - Evernote - Calendar - iTunes - Chrome -
ToDo list - Photo Editing/Storing - Food/Recipe - Maps - Review - Gaming - Music - Films – Learning
– Twitter - Facebook - Tinder – Saga – Snapchat -Grindr
• Computer in sitting room RIP• Complicated now? It might get worse…• Everything leaves a footprint
Apps
• Create some rules– When and where– Ownership – home IT rules– Parental access to all– You set it up – not the child
• Device ‘glow’
Device usage
• Web based? POP accounts and downloading email
• Hotmail account not great• Other dodgy• Gmail account de-faco standard– Google terms and condition
• Learn good practice• You do want a memorable password
Passwords
Passwords
• Learn good practice• You do want a memorable password• Probably need to log-in on a public computer• Bank, Credit cards, App store, Amazon• Password managers
Passwords
• What?• Files and folders• Dropbox• Box, OneDrive, Google Drive, iCloud Drive,
Bitcasa, SpiderOak, Wuala, Transporter, Copy• Security and two-step authentication• Worth it
Sync – files in the cloud
• Microsoft– Windows, monolithic software, storage – OneDrive
• Apple– Devices, OSX, iStuff, storage – iCloud
• Google– Search, Android, storage – Google drive
• Amazon– Shopping, prime, services – storage Amazon AWS
• Facebook – sharing
Who are they?
• Why?• Your child’s account set by you• Keychain/MS version• Setting auto log-off– Log-in with password
Accounts on your computer
• Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox and Safari• Different accounts– Set restrictions on what websites they can visit– Passwords – where are they?– Autofill
• Authentication
Browsers
• Devices have ways of restricting downloading and restricting certain features
• Individual app restrictions are available too
Installing and restricting apps
• Skype• WhatsApp – has taken $30 BILLION dollars out
of SMS/text market• Facebook Messenger• Snapchat• Cryptocat• Kik• Google Hangouts• MeowChat, Ethan etc
Apps – chat apps
• Instagram – owned by Facebook– Restrictions you put on the type of photo that’s
shared – set those parameters• Flickr – owned by Yahoo• Path• Snapfish• Bump
Apps – photo sharing
• 1.2 Billion users• Started in February 2004• Privacy settings• Friendship groups• Form 7 & 8 IT
• Microblogging• Source of research
• Xbox• Playstation• Who are they playing with?• What is Minecraft?• Handhelds
Games
• Restrict until over 21!– Tumblr– Reddit– 4chan
Things to watch out for
• www.parentalcontrols-on.org• www.thinkuknow.co.uk• www.commonsensemedia.org• www.education.gov.uk• www.ceop.police.co.uk • www.internetsafetyzone.co.uk • www.education.gov.uk
Useful information
• https://help.instagram.com• https://en-gb.facebook.com• https://www.snapchat.com/privacy• http://support.xbox.com/en-GB
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