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CyberFirst S2 Girls Competition

CyberFirst S2 Girls Competition 2023 Results

The CyberFirst Girls Competition aims to inspire girls interested in technology to pursue a career in cyber security.

The competition is a team event. Each team, of four girls in S2, tackles challenges from cryptography and logic to artificial intelligence and networking for the chance to be crowned cyber security champions.

Well done to everyone who took part but a special congratulations to the top 10 scoring Scottish schools and St Kentigern’s Academy from West Lothian who were this year’s top Scottish school!

Top 10 schools in Scotland for S2 Girls CyberFirst Competition 2023

  1. St Kentigern’s Academy  
  2. Girvan Academy  
  3. Hyndland Secondary School  
  4. Glasgow Gaelic School  
  5. Marr College  
  6. James Gillespie’s High School  
  7. Perth High School  
  8. Pitlochry High School  
  9. Stirling High School  
  10. Carluke High School  

Education Scotland is the proud regional partner with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) CyberFirst programme.

Find out more about our work and how your school can register to be a recognised CyberFIrst school here: about CyberFirst partnership.

Streaming and Video

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Gaming, streaming and videos covers a wide range of apps and services. This section provides information on the most common ones and covers:

  • main features of the services
  • potential risks
  • how to setup an account
  • using platform settings to manage risk
  • how to report harmful conduct

Main features

Games are traditionally played on consoles and PCs but increasingly on mobile devices, such as tablets and phones. View our Games Hub for advice on Playstation, Xbox and Apple Arcade.

Video and streaming platforms, such as TikTok, Twitch and YouTube are used to view other people’s content or create and share your own.

All of these platforms are primarily used to consume content but also offer the chance to follow and friend other users and interact with them through direct messages and live chats.

Increasingly these are for brands or individual ‘influencers’. They usually post short videos (sometimes live), photos and short pieces of text.

Main features

Games are traditionally played on consoles and PCs but increasingly on mobile devices, such as tablets and phones. View our Games Hub for advice on Playstation, Xbox and Apple Arcade.

Video and streaming platforms, such as TikTok, Twitch and YouTube are used to view other people’s content or create and share your own.

All of these platforms are primarily used to consume content but also offer the chance to follow and friend other users and interact with them through direct messages and live chats.

Increasingly these are for brands or individual ‘influencers’. They usually post short videos (sometimes live), photos and short pieces of text.

How to set up an account

Almost any app will require the same details to create an account and access its content:

  • username (usually an email or the phone’s linked Google or Apple account)
  • password

There may be requests for additional information, such as name, address or phone number – these are not always required.

These links explain how to register for and set up an account on the most popular platforms:

  • our Games Hub
  • Twitch
  • TikTok
  • YouTube

  • Using platform settings to manage risk

    Each platform will have a setting for security and privacy – this can be used to control a number of aspects, including:

    • who can see posts or media
    • who can contact or follow you

    These links explain how to use settings to reduce the potential risks of unwanted contact, being tagged in abusive or bullying content, or seeing inappropriate or unwanted content on the most popular platforms:

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    • How to report harmful conduct

      If a user thinks they have been potentially harmed on the platform they should be aware of how to report this to the platform and potentially the police and trusted adults.

      These links explain how to report users and content on the most popular platforms:

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Reindeer Games: Escape Room

Welcome to the Reindeer Games!

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Can you solve all the challenges in our Christmas Computational Thinking Quiz?

Lets find out!

ENTER THE REINDEER GAMES (GOOGLE FORM)

ENTER THE REINDEER GAMES (MICROSOFT FORM)

*Duplicate form links are available below as well as slideshow versions of the quiz 

EXTRA CHALLENGE!

  • Try to create your own festive quiz using Microsoft Forms or Google Forms and share it with us!
  • Or, why not use presentation software to make a quiz? Perhaps modify the advent calendar to reveal questions?

Remember to share with us @digilearnscot #12daysofcreativity

Alternative Resource – Quiz as slideshow

You might want to run this activity in class by presenting the questions as slides. You can download a powerpoint, google slides or keynote version of the questions here

Reindeer Games KEYNOTE slides

Reindeer Games POWERPOINT slides

Reindeer Games GOOGLE slides

Slides with answers at the end

Reindeer Games slides with answers at end KEYNOTE
Reindeer Games slides with answers at end POWERPOINT

Reindeer Games PDF answers

Duplicate Form Links

 

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Activity 7 – Website Building

Ho Ho Ho! It’s the time of year where everyone has a joke to tell!

Today, we are challenging you to modify our Random Christmas Joke Generator!  

When you visit the site, simply click on the cracker to display a random joke.

 

It’s Your Turn!

Short Video Walkthrough

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Instructions

 

Can you modify the page to make it your own?  Click on the  View Source Code button at the top of the page of the joke generator – it should look like this

 

 

FIRST – Lets change the jokes and / or add more

 

Double click on the JS section (this is the javascript code that generates the jokes)

 

 

You can make the coding window bigger by pulling the divider to the right.
  • Can you see where the jokes are?  
  • Can you add another couple of jokes or replace the ones that are there?  

 

SECOND – double click on the HTML section
  • Can you edit the text that appears so that your name appears on the site?

 

THIRD – double click on the CSS section
  • Can you see where the colours are listed in the code?  Try and change the different colours of the different sections – try this one at a time
  • Can you see where the font-family is used?  Try to change the name of one of the fonts to one you know – what happens? This is a list of fonts you might want to try

Helpful hints with colours…
You can use the names of the colours eg black, blue, pink etc, however to get more specific colours you can use the HEX code of the colour.  To find the hex code ot a colour, visit the site HTML Color Codes 🎨 (html-color.codes).  From there you can pick any colour and it will give you the hex code. Eg this shade of pink has the hex code of #f462f4.

 

Simply use this hex code in the CSS rules to use the colour eg
background:#f462f4;

 


















	


		
	

			


		

		








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It’s Your Turn!


You can learn how to do this and add some customisation by watching the tutorials on this page!


There are few options for you and your learners which can all be found in the different sections below.  A brief overview of what’s available…


1. QUICK VERSION (Good for beginners)
Download a copy of the advent calendar template and ask your learners to work together, or individually, to complete it (Powerpoint, Google Slides and Keynote template included). 


2. BUILD IT YOURSELF… (Good for those who have used presentation software before)
Learners can create their own advent calendar using Google Slides, Powerpoint (desktop version) or Keynote


3. POWERPOINT ONLY – EXTRA FEATURE!… (Good for users who have used powerpoint desktop version – this one is a bit different! – Worth watching anyway :))


 If you are using PowerPoint desktop version then you may want to have look at the extended version that makes use of the Section and Zoom features available in the software


We’d love to hear and see how you get on – please tweet/X us @digilearnscot 

















        QUICK VERSION – Good for beginners (or short on time!)    










Editing our template (powerpoint example)


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Here are copies of the template you can use with learners


 Simple PowerPoint Advent Calendar Template


 Simple Google Slides Advent Calendar Template 


 Simple Keynote Advent Calendar Template















        BUILD IT YOURSELF – Good for those who have used presentation software before    










Build With Powerpoint


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You can also check out the advent calendar build using the zoom and section features! Check out the video at the bottom of the page!










Useful information if you are using PowerPoint desktop….


If you click on PowerPoint slides and not the home button, you will notice that the slide moves on to the net day! In order to fix this, you can set your presentation to Kiosk mode.  To do this, go to: Slide Show > Set Up Slide Show > select Browsed at kiosk (full screen)
















Build With Google Slides


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Useful information if you are using Google Slides….


Google Slides does not have a kiosk mode function like Powerpoint.  In order to stop the presentation moving forward to the next day when you click on the slide, you need to add a large transparent rectangle over each slide and link it back to itself.  This video demonstrates the technique


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Build with Keynote


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Useful information if you are using Keynote


If you click on Keynote slides and not the home button, you will notice that the slide moves on to the next day! In order to fix this, you can set your presentation to links only mode.  To do this, go to the three dot menu > Settings > Presentation Type > Links Only

















        POWERPOINT ONLY – An alternative build using Sections and Zoom (It’s pretty cool!)    










PowerPoint Zoom and Sections


If you are using PowerPoint on a laptop or desktop computer and feel comfortable with using it, this might be worth exploring! In this version we look as the Section and Zoom features in PowerPoint to create a slightly different advent calendar!


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Optional Starter Download


Here is an incomplete version of the Powerpoint Advent Calendar using Zoom and Sections you can use if you wish. It has 3 sections and a first page.


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Play the video to find out what’s behind door number 1!


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It’s Your Turn!


You can learn how to do this and add some customisation by watching the tutorials below!  


We’d love to hear and see how you get on – you can tweet/X us @digilesrnscot 















        Tutorial(s)    










1. Code along with us!  Open up Scratch and let’s go


We will build the snow storm first ….


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2. Now lets make it your own!


Then we’ll create the globe and your own decor!


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