Oh, No I got Scammed ( How To Avoid getting Scammed or Phished online)

In Te Ngahere we have been learning to avoid Scams and Phishing when we go online. I think this is really important because I know people who have easily been scammed because of pop-ups and emails. This is actually a challenge that was given to us by Manaiakalani. 

One way they try to scam you is by using an unsafe site and then they proceed to ask for your personal information(eg: your g-mail log in) and since they’re using an unsafe site they can easily see what you wrote. To avoid this you look at the lock pad at the top next to the tab bar and if there is a red line through it then it’s unsafe.

Something new that I learnt is that EVERY POPUP IS BAD because they duplicate themselves and they could give you a virus. 

I found this very difficult to do at first because I only included some of the information on why the email/pop-up was fake or legit.

Did my DLO help you with avoiding Scams and Phishing? ”

Hurt Your Head With These Rebus Challenges

In Te Ngahere we have been doing Rebus challenges every Friday. A Rebus puzzle is a puzzle that includes images and words, they try to test your brain by trying to make you think outside the box. For each puzzle, you try to decode it and figure out what it ends up saying. It’s usually a famous saying of some sort.

We were given these during lockdown and since our class liked them so much we got to try them in class.

We get 9 to do every  Friday and it definitely shows how different people’s minds work because some puzzles were easier for some people to solve and others were harder for people to solve.

 I thought that these were really fun to do because the more you end up solving the easier it gets to solve others.  The best part of these puzzles is probably the very satisfying feeling you get when you do end up solving a puzzle. 

There are also some rebus puzzles here for you to try:

Which one did you find the hardest to resolve?

Bio Poem

In Te Ngahere for Tuhituhi we have been learning to create  a bio poem about someone special in our lives.  A bio poem is a poem written about someone. We could write about anyone like your mum, dad sister or aunty. 

I chose to write about my eldest sister because she was who I thought inspired me the most. 

We had to use a template to write a poem too.  We also had to include things like name three things they say all the time, etc...

The easiest part was thinking of a something that my sister likes because she likes most things. The difficult part was trying to think of something that my sister says a lot because she hardly repeats anything.

Have you ever created a poem like this?