Lesson 11: Personal Protection and Data Protection

  In this lesson we are going to talk about important tips and information that we need to know when using our computer: Nowadays we use our devices for everything, and they contain a lot of private information that we need to protect against possible cyber attacks. Therefore there are som recommendations that we should consider: - Keep our devices updated. - Use safe passwords (there are websites where you can check how good your password is). - Clean regularly your devices from cookie information. - Try to hide your wifi so that only those who know its name can have access to it. - Beware of spam emails that you may receive and always check the information and the source, to make sure that nobody is trying to trick you.  In addition, because of the importance of technologies nowadays, we also spend a lot of time in front of our computers. This is why there are some recommendations that we should consider: - Maintain a proper posture. - Make sure all elements from your environment hav

Unit 3. Digital content, information evaluation and licensing.

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🕃 THEORICAL PART:

💥In today's lesson I was able to learn about recognizing what a digital content is. It is any form of data or information in digital form (electronic files), as opposed to physical form (analog). Therefore, we have many examples as documents, presentations, images and videos, etc.

👉After that, we saw that there are two types of softwaresystem software which has operating system, file management utilities, disk operating systems, etc. (example: android) and application software (example: word).

Continuing with the software topic, we understood the meanings of software licenses as we can generally classify them in 4 types from the point of view of the license:

  • Copyrigt (Traditional licence) : you pay for the privilege of using software. 
  • Free software: you have the freedom to modify the source code of this software and you can redistribute it. 
  • Freeware: this software is distributed free, but have copyright and you can’t change the source code. 
  • Shareware: initially distributed free of charge, but may later require a payment to unlock (trial) or keep functionality.

Ⓜ Moreover, we realized that Content curation is the process of filtering, grouping and selecting the most useful information for the user. Where there are four steps: Search, Filter, Analyze/Create (add your valie) and Share. Some specific platform of this topic are reddit or wakelet. 

Moving forward there are some legal aspects that we need to know: intellectual property and copyrights.

  • Intellectual property refers to creations of the mind: inventions; literary and artistic works; and symbols, names and images used in commerce and is the set of rights that authors have over their original creations.
  • Copyright refers to the legal system of author rights regulation that we have related to our intellectual property. It’s created automatically and you don’t need to register. This has allowed authors to protect their work, although in recent years, due to the development of the Internet and the exchange of information, attempts have been made to eliminate or reduce existing limitations for reusing or modifying content. Then, thanks to Creative Commons which is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing free permission to the public to share and use their creative work under the terms and conditions of their choice.

There are several types of Creative Commons license with different configurations to provide a work with permissions for citation, reproduction, modification or distribution. 

They can be grouped into four modules of conditions: 

  • Attribution (BY): allows copying, reproduction, distribution, modification and comercial use of the work as long as the original author is recognized.
  • Share equal (SA): allows modifications on the work but under the same or similar license. 
  • Non-commercial (NC): requires that the work is not used for commercial purposes 
  • Non-derivative (ND): does not allow modification of the work in any way (includes SA)

б The combination of these modules gives rise to six Creative Commons licenses: 

  • Reconognition (CC BY). 
  • Reconognition – Without Derivative Work (CC BY-ND).
  • Reconognition - No comertial (CC BY-NC). 
  • Reconognition – Share Equally (CC BY-SA). 
  • Reconognition - No comertial – Share Equally (CC BY-NC-SA).
  • Reconognition - Without Derivative Work - No comertial (CC BY-ND-NC).


🕃 PRACTICAL PART:

ACTIVITY 1.

Link to a post:


https://www.edu.xunta.gal/espazoAbalar/sites/espazoAbalar/files/datos/1541426032/contido/press/different_types_of_newspapers.html

This website is available via licence CC BY-SA, meaning that this website cannot be used unless it is recognized (BY). And we can modify the post (share equally) if we have the same license (SA).

This post is very useful because it contains a lof of information about topics related to the different types of newspaper, and additionally it has some activites in order to comprehend the newspaper's field.


Link to a document (PDF):

http://cea.uprrp.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Creative-Commons-Aspectos-importantes-Octubre-2016.pdf

Finally in order to understand the creative common's topic in a better way, I have chosen this PDF. This document shows a CC-BY-NC-SA. So it means: 

Attribution (BY): allows copying, reproduction, distribution, modification and comercial use of the work as long as the original author is recognized.

Non-commercial (NC): requires that the work is not used for commercial purposes

Share equal (SA): allows modifications on the work but under the same or similar license.


Link to one image:

https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/es/view-image.php?image=137969&picture=periodico-del-vintage-posters

This Creative Commons license is for the public domain, that is, so that the image can be redistributed and manipulated completely freely and without restrictions. In this case, the author of this work has renounced his copyright to it, becoming part of the public domain.

In this case, the picture helps to realize how the old newspaper were like.


ACTIVITY 2.

I have added a Creative Commnos licence to the blog.
I decided to add this type of license, because I want to be able to share the content that I upload, but I would also like my work to be recognized and make sure that it is not used with a commercial aim.

Image

This is a picture I took in London some summers ago. Since it is only an image, I decided to use the license CC BY NC SA, which means that people can use this picture as long as they recognize me, they don't use it with commercial purposes and they can also modify it if they use the same license. 





Slide

This slide can be used for our group work, because I think, perfect for our students! I've chosen the license which means that people can use this picture as long as they recognize me, they don't use it with commercial purposes and they can also modify it if they use the same license.


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