Tag Archives: Computers

Cyber Bullying Survey

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OTTAWA – Youth are in constant communication with one another. Their worlds are progressively becoming more wireless and more mobile. Students are using Social Networking Sites more than ever before. Some may engage in mean, unsafe behaviour online and on wireless devices. This is cyber bullying.

Cyber bullying is defined as harmful actions that are communicated via electronic media and are intended to embarrass, harm, or slander another individual. Cyber bystander behaviour includes behaviours such as helping a student who is bullying, passively watching someone being cyber bullied, and assisting the person cyber bullying (e.g. adding more mean comments to a mean post). The problem with cyber bullying is that it is faceless and is often harder to identify and stop than bullying in the offline realm.

Canada Safety Council, along with the Promoting Relationships and Eliminating Violence Network (PREVNet), encourages students from all over Canada to participate in the Cyber Bullying Survey. The survey aims to gather information about online behaviour.

The researchers at Queen’s University want to know what students do online, and how individuals would act when bad things happen online. The survey will take approximately 20 minutes to complete and is open to students in grades 5 to 11.

Click the link below to participate in the survey:

www.safety-council.org/news/archives/cyber-bullying-survey

Thank you in advance for participating in the Cyber Bullying Survey, all your answers will be kept private and confidential. The research gathered will help to better understand student safety and online bullying.

CBC Donates Equipment to VHSS Communications Technology Program

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VHSS Communication Technology program just received $3000 in lighting and sound equipment via a donation from the CBC who are adding upgrades to their own equipment. Mr. MacKay who has worked with the CBC and CHCH in the media industry in the past was able to use some of his past connections to make this happen. Student now in the program will be able to explore advanced lighting techniques in building their media projects.

A Different sort of Start to the School Year

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Today on a warm first day we had to adjust the class schedule to include a last period assembly on Cybercrime put on by our school OPP Liaison Officer McCourt. This change in scheduling was put in place to assist us in the coverage of classes of teachers in attendance at the Funeral of teacher and coach Mr. Michael Nikin.

The information shared at the assembly was timely and relevant as so many students are connected through social media networks like Facebook, Twitter and Myspace. Being Cyberaware and cautious is crucial in todays age and as was noted in the assembly things like identity theft is on the uprise.

E-Learning Annual Report

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Brenda Blancher, Superintendent of Program, shared the e-Learning Annual Report. The Board offers two delivery methods for this programming, asynchronous and synchronous. In the asynchronous model students and their teachers do not work simultaneously. This year 104 Grand Erie students took e-Learning courses offered by our Board. Additionally we placed 52 Grand Erie students in courses taught by other boards within the Ontario e-Learning Consortium. In synchronous learning, students and teachers work simultaneously. This year we offered 12 courses, involving 140 students. As a new initiative, Delhi Secondary and Brantford Collegiate worked on an e-learning model in math. Two teachers of senior math courses work together to provide e-learning support to groups of students at both high schools—which means that the Calculus and Vectors course being taught at Delhi is available to BCI students and the Functions and Applications course being taught at BCI is available to Delhi students.

VHSS Student #1 in Province

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Congratulations to Nathan Johrendt who place first overall in an Ontario-wide programming competition. Nathan created a computerized hockey pool system.

Participants using Nathan’s system select 10 NHL hockey players. The system tracks the performance of the hockey players and maintains a ranking of all of the participants in the pool. Since the output is Internet-based, any person can view the pool from any Internet connected computer.

Nathan field tested his software this year at VHSS during the NHL playoffs and it worked great! (Congratulations to Mrs. Turner who won the pool.)

Outstanding job Nathan!