In resurrecting this blog leading up to the 23 Things course, I did review the About Me section but after reading the advice given, I have put a bit more work into it and am pleased with the result. About … Continue reading →
Category: Thing 4
Thing 4: Digital Literacy
I feel I had a good understanding on this subject before undertaking the reading. I had a look at my phone and deleted three apps I no longer have use for including the airline Emirates. I deleted another two that … Continue reading →
Permission Granted Thing 4
Well unless on the very rare occurrence I only add apps from the legitimate app store and permissions granted are nothing out of the ordinary. The only one that has ever surprised me is the covid safe app and even then it is understandable the out of the ordinary request it has made in theseContinue reading “Permission Granted Thing 4”
Digital Security
Following the instructions for ‘Thing 4’ I opened the Play Store app on my Android. I found the menu which listed all the apps installed on my phone and chose the most harmless looking one to find out the permissions it had, ‘Office Jerk’. Sorry, …
23 Things – Thing 3 & Thing 4
Thing 3 – Digital Footprint A digital footprint is what you leave of yourself online which can include profiles, pictures, comments. Because these items are online, they can be found … Continue reading →
23 Things – Thing 4 Digital Security
I went to Settings on my phone to have a look at what information some of my installed apps were using – I was pretty shocked with what I found. Some of the permissions that apps have been given To give an example, here is a list of some of the thing that one of … Continue reading 23 Things – Thing 4 Digital Security
Thing 4 – Digital Security
Write a short blog post on what you found/did not find being shared by your apps. I’m afraid I wasn’t able to complete this as my phone is too old (Android version 2.3.5). I’ll bear it in mind for when I eventually forced to buy a replacement. I have set a PIN and made a… Continue reading Thing 4 – Digital Security →
Digital security
Looking through all my apps permissions through the mypermissions app I was quite surprised at some of the data the apps had access to. For example why would an app need access to my inbox? Looking into it further I discovered these apps were the OS of my devices of which I had added my … Continue reading Digital security
Week two- Thing 3 and 4
A little bit later getting these two done but it has been a very busy start to term!!I watched the video on digital footprints and read the guidelines and case study on E-professionalism. As I have been a teacher in a High school for the past 11 …
Week two- Thing 3 and 4
A little bit later getting these two done but it has been a very busy start to term!!I watched the video on digital footprints and read the guidelines and case study on E-professionalism. As I have been a teacher in a High school for the past 11 …