On Wednesday 11th August Room 12 worked with James to create guides for making strong passwords. We looked at ways we could use a combination of upper and lowercase letters as well as special characters ($%^&*@#) to make them more interesting and harder for other people to guess. Things e talked about were:
- Make the password something memorable but also personal to you.
- Include letters AND numbers.
- Replace letters with numbers e.g. to = 2
- Try using a line from a song or the first letter of each word.
- A book, chapter and verse from the bible has a great range of characters e.g. John3:16.
- Some providers let you use a SPACE as a special character.
- You don't need to tell your teacher your password, they can see it and reset it if needed.
- Avoid common passwords.
We created Google Drawings to share some of our ideas and collect some criteria for making great passwords. We also used the research tool to find an image to place in the background and re-order it to fit behind everything. We hope you enjoy our learning and look forward to your comments.
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