Class+Journal

Here are my check in notes from class.

__**2/7/11**__- ZOOM ACTIVITY I feel that the image of the bus driving through the city is the best representation of my time at CSI HSIS. The bus has to bend and swerve around the other cars in order to get to the next stop in time. This is like me because in order to get my work done i have to either go to or avoid people and obstacles.

__//**What is Social Media?**//__ - Social Media is a way that technology is used to create a place where people can talk and discuss all different topic. Some types of social media are: blogs, twitter, aim, youtube, email

__//**What role does social media pay in society?**//__- Social media gives people the opportunity to voice their opinions in a place and manner where they are listened to and related to. It gives the chance for ideas to be spread and changes to be made. It also allows for people to stand together and become more unified.

__//**How does Social Media effect the world?**//__ With Social Media distance is no problem. People can communicate with different parts of the world in the same way that they could talk to someone right next to them. Social Media is creating a more unified world. Through social media if something happens in one area of the world it is only seconds before people across the globe know about it.

2/8/11- Pros&Cons of Social Media
 * Pros || Cons ||
 * greater spread of knowledge, you are able to connect and talk with people across the globe, People can share their ideas and learn about the ideas of others,people become close/creates unity and friendship. :) || spread of negative ideas, you have to deal with people that you otherwise wouldn't, false information, hackers/identity theft, people can see things you don't want them to. :( ||

On a scale of 1-10, the importance of social networking to me would be around a seven or eight. I rely on social networking for a number of things. I use it in order to find out information. It is also used as a way of me to distract myself and talk to my friends. I would estimate that the average ten spends somewhere around 20 hours a week on social networking sights.

2/11/11- Global Leadership

Global Leadership is the ability of foster change on a worldly level. A Leader does not necessarily mean one person that controls the entire globe, but instead is someone whose ideas, thoughts, or actions influence people worldwide to create a type of change.

"Imagine Leadership"-(video notes)


 * Leadership brings peace.... or war
 * Shaping nations and communities
 * Leaving everything behind to help others
 * Every day the world looses polar ice and trees
 * Changes over a lifetime
 * 1/5 people has internet access
 * 80% of people live on less than $10/day
 * Leadership is art
 * 1/6 people are not able to read or sigh their name
 * 89 people a day become billionaires

2/14- Global Leadership continued

If I could pick who I think should be on the cover of Time magazine as person of the year I would choose Mark Zuckerberg. He has created a more connected world through facebook- a sight where people from across the globe can come together. People can talk to each other no matter how great the distance between.

Passage Finder "the history of the world is but the biography of great men." This quote from the article "Time's Person of the Year: You" by Lev Grossman really stood out to me. It is saying how history is only the stories of the great and the ordinary get forgotten. The article goes on to say that this is no longer the case and with the introduction of websites such as youtube. With these sights anyone can become a part in history

2/15- The power of social media

I have posted pictures on the internet and so have my parents, but not my grandparents. Before the use of the internet to spread these kinds of things around, think people relied mostly on the postal service to share items.

Notes on "The Chaos Scenario"
 * Digital revolution- internet, google, twitter,youtube
 * record industry and newspaper industry plummet
 * ideas, free labor, social connections
 * Listenomics
 * "listen or perish"

Passage Finder "But the online social revolution has blown away this view." I found this part of the article to be the most interesting because i never before thought of the internet as a revolution. if anything it was a part f evolution, the advancement of people, technology, and ideas. Now, by reading this article, I am beginning to see that the internet has led to just as much change as a revolution.

<span style="color: #279325; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%;">2/16/11- Part 2-the power of social media <span style="color: #279325; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%;">"The Chaos Scenario" mentions the line "The audience is taking the stage,". This line is meant to show that those people who just listened and followed are now talking over and spreading their own name and popularity.

<span style="color: #279325; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%;">Notes on "we think"
 * <span style="color: #279325; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%;">millions have a say
 * <span style="color: #279325; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%;">talking at the same time
 * <span style="color: #279325; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%;">mass innovation
 * <span style="color: #279325; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%;">more ideas shared by more people
 * <span style="color: #279325; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%;">comes from communities
 * <span style="color: #279325; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%;">everyone leaves their piece
 * <span style="color: #279325; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%;">socialize
 * <span style="color: #279325; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%;">we think therefore we are
 * <span style="color: #279325; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%;">democracy, equality, freedom
 * <span style="color: #279325; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%;">you are what you share

<span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">2/17-Social Responsibilty

<span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">As Global Citizens and Internet Users, we share a set or responsibility on what it is that we should be doing online. The internet is being shaped by US and so it is up to us to ensure that it is being shaped into something useful and important. The internet is a tool that many of us abuse. It should be used for the spread of knowledge and ideas, not solely for entertainment. We should post only truth online, not false statements or rumors. The internet is a place where people turn for information and we must make sure that the information is there and can be easily accessed. We can do this quite easily just by posting up facts and not clogging the internet with lies and irrelevant topics.

<span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Notes on TED video:
 * <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">future is unpredictable
 * <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">globalization more rapid and complex
 * <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">income increase
 * <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">illiteracy decreases
 * <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">growing inequality complexity
 * <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Systemic Risk
 * <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 36px;">phone more powerful than Apollo
 * <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 36px;">STEM CELLS Genetics
 * <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 36px;">who has the power?
 * <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 36px;">How do we manage the chain?
 * <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 36px;">2030-no retirement or pension
 * <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 36px;">migration
 * <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 36px;">new awareness and unity
 * <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 36px;">Glory or downfall
 * <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 36px;">one person can destroy the world
 * <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 36px;">we can create miracles

<span style="color: #c65f0c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">2/18- Social Responsibility Part 2

<span style="color: #c65f0c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">The implications of Web 2.0 on myself is that i am finding a lot of new information, but it is up to me to filter through it to find false information and irrelevant information. As a consumer, web 2.0 lets me know what I am getting. I can read comments and see if what I am looking for and what the producers are saying is the truth. As a producer it means that I must ensure that what I am posting is factual because if it is not I will likely be caught by a consumer.

<span style="color: #c65f0c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">Notes on "The Video Republic" <span style="color: #c65f0c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">I Think the term "video republic:" means a society of equals that control the videos on the internet. Everyone who posts, comments, or even watches is part of this republic. <span style="color: #c65f0c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">This video seems to be about what role the videos being posted online have taken in he world as well as what role it should take in the computer. I and millions of others use online videos for various reasons. These reasons include information, entertainment, ideas. Everyone can and many do use this "video republic", but who is to say what way is the right way?
 * <span style="color: #c65f0c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">videos create change
 * <span style="color: #c65f0c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">connect
 * <span style="color: #c65f0c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">expression and definition of self
 * <span style="color: #c65f0c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">millions
 * <span style="color: #c65f0c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">want to be heard
 * <span style="color: #c65f0c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">ideas campaigns emotions connections experiences
 * <span style="color: #c65f0c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">be a part of it

<span style="color: #c300ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">2/28/11- Social Networking: Obsession or Necessity?

<span style="color: #c300ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">5 original ideas on facebook <span style="color: #c300ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">1) facebook creates connections <span style="color: #c300ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">2) Facebook is a part of daily life <span style="color: #c300ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">3) Facebook is a means of sharing information <span style="color: #c300ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">4) Facebook can be dangerous <span style="color: #c300ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">5) There are many impostors on facebook.

<span style="color: #c300ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">3/1/11- Social Networking: Obsession or Necessity? <span style="color: #c300ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">There were some possible dangers with the story from yesterday about the girl who was reunited with her birth mother through facebook. She could have been lied to and found herself in a situation where she was killed or kidnapped. THe girl also put a great deal of information on facebook that could have been used negatively.

<span style="color: #7e15c6; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Can be used to start buisnesses
 * <span style="color: #7e15c6; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Financial:

<span style="color: #7e15c6; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Microsoft offered $15 billion for facebook in 2007

<span style="color: #7e15c6; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">facebook is worth $50 billion

<span style="color: #7e15c6; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Facebook mkes money through personal likes leading <span style="color: #7e15c6; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">to personalized advertizement

<span style="color: #7e15c6; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Obama campaign made over $500 million through facebook || <span style="color: #7e15c6; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Dangers: <span style="color: #7e15c6; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">People can hack into servers

<span style="color: #7e15c6; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Lots of information out in the open

<span style="color: #7e15c6; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Posts can be used against you.. resulting in loss of jobs, suspension, etc.

<span style="color: #7e15c6; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Zuckerberg holds so much information but does he have enough maturity to use it? ||
 * <span style="color: #7e15c6; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Social:

<span style="color: #7e15c6; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">More people use facebook than are in the entire US

<span style="color: #7e15c6; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">For every 12 people across the globe, 1 is on facebook

<span style="color: #7e15c6; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">everyday 100's of thousands of people across the globe create <span style="color: #7e15c6; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">facebook accounts

<span style="color: #7e15c6; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Pubic is empowered more than ever

<span style="color: #7e15c6; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">People are beginning to tire of endless pointless newsfeed || <span style="color: #7e15c6; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:

<span style="color: #7e15c6; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Police can use facebook to find criminals

<span style="color: #7e15c6; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">People can use facebok to find long lost family members

<span style="color: #7e15c6; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">People have a voice

<span style="color: #7e15c6; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">New jobs, including jobs in government are created. ||

<span style="color: #c300ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">3/2/11- Social Networking: Obsession or Necessity?

<span style="color: #c300ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">I do not feel like the idea for facebook was truly stolen. The creator may have takn thoughts of other people but it was still his creation. I do not belive facebook was a stolen idea, but i am afraid that it may be stealing my information. On the other hand, I feel like we should not be disallowed from posting anything. We are all entitled to our opnion and that should not be used against us. The only exception to this would be when the law is being broken.

<span style="color: #c300ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">3/3/11- Social Networking: Obsession or Necessity

<span style="color: #c300ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Facebooks main source of profit comes from tracking what it is you do. Advertisers pay to have their ads broadcasted to a select group of people and facebook uses your information in order to see what you would be interested in. I am not entirely sure how it is that feel about this but i do have some concerns about just what information facebook is taking. There are some things that i really don't mind, but there is still a problem of too much being leaked. I do not feel that the government should have a say over social networking at all. It is place to voice your opinion not to be watched.

<span style="color: #c300ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">3/7/11- [|Social Networking Project]

<span style="color: #c300ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">3/11/11- Facebook Obsession Knol

3/15- Investigating World Events

Civic Journalism is a type or reporting news and information in a way that better grabs the attention of the people. In civic journalism the story is centered around the ideas of the citizens instead of solely the reporter.

Tsunami- Who- Japanese People What- are dealing with the aftermath of a tsunami Where- costal north-eastern Japan When- March 11th 2011 Why- tTaking to the streets, shutting down roads and businesses, strikes How- underwater earthquake pushed the water

Egyptian Revolution and protests- Who- Egyptian People What-protested against the president of egypt causing a revolution Where- Cairo and other Egyptian cities When-started January 25th 2011 Why- poverty, high unemployment, unhappiness with the government How- Taking to the streets, shutting down roads and businesses, strikes <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">

Questions about these world events...

What are some ways that Egyptians protested?Taking to the streets, shutting down roads and businesses, strikes

What was the cause of the Tsunami in Japan?Taking to the streets, shutting down roads and businesses, strikes

What where Egyptians upset about that led to protests?poverty, high unemployment, unhappiness with the government

What area of Japan was affected by the Tsunami?costal north-eastern Japan

3/17 - Capturing topics in a visual story

People are more attracted to the visual over text because it is simpler to understand. You see everything in one moment and are able to understand it instantly. With text, there is a deeper level on which someone must think in order to comprehend.

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3/23- Prezi A prezi seems like a very useful tool in order to share information in a unique manner. It allows the viewer to interact with the presentation which will lead to a deeper understanding of the topic.

When using prezi, there are a number of steps to follow. 1) The first step to creating a prezi is to get all your information on the page. You should create textboxes and place in the most importanant facts. Then you can put details around the facts.

2) The second step is to rearrange the textboxes.

3/28- Facebook Prezzi

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3/31- Creating a Glob based on rubric

Out of the rubric I think I can do the best on the categories of message and theme. The hardest part of the rubric will be the display. This is because i have a lo of information for message and theme, but it will be hard to find relatable audio/video

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4/4/11- Glog day

My Facebook Glog taught me a lot about facebook. I learned mostly about different perspectives of facebook. I learned about the ideas of Mark Zuckerberg, David KirkPatrick, and a number of everyday people. It was very helpful to be able to use the link instead of saving the content. I also found videos a big help.

4/5/11- "The Miniature Earth" It is important to understand multiple perspectives in todays world because we are very much united. Through such sources as the internet, information is spread rapidly across the globe. What happens in one area of the world does not stay isolated in that area for long. Every country interacts with countries across the world through things such as trade. Because of this, what happens in one place affects other places so we will need to know the different sides.

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5/3/11- peer review

The most impornatat aspect is accuracy. You wnat to be sure your information is accurate. You also wnat to make sure that you stay on task. Orgnization is also key in making an understandable project. The least imorntanat aspect in analysis.

5/4/11- Learning about the different sides of a story is greatly beneficial. Each person can have a a different take on a topic and different views make it easir to know what really happned.

5/5/11- I AM...

Italian!! :D Voulenteer helpful concerned easy going stubborn quiet shy crazy loud determined strong-willed peace loving Odd Brother Son Banana!

5/13/11- social media friday

Article 2- This article is about a high school student that posted a list of girls and their "ratings" on facebook. The boy was suspended from school, and later arrested by police under the charge of disorderly conduct. I think that this is a bit unfair to the child. Although parents of the girls feel that this charge was not severe enough, i feel that police activity was not required. The boy was suspended from school and that in enough. For something that did not truly harm anyone, he will always have a criminal record following him. This will really hold him back in life and is unfair.

Article 3- This article is about a teen that posted naked pictures of his girlfriend on facebook. He pressured the girl to sending him the images and then posted them online when she refused to have sex with him. The boy faces a number of charges and is now in juvenile prison. I feel that this boy deserves whatever is coming to him. He violated his girlfriend's privacy as well as breaking a number of laws. He went against facebook rules by posting a naked picture, and on top of this the image was of a minor. Such activity should not be allowed to happen.

Article 5- This article is about a high school senior that got suspended for the things he posted on his facebook account. The teen posted a number of statuses in which he made threats, but according to the article, there were no threats to specific peeople, just in general. The teen was only voicing his opinion and so should not have been suspended for it. That will only worsen the guy's anger.

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5/31 Culture and Identity-

School- purpose- to get an education an be preprared for life beliefs- education is important rules- come to learn stay focused, don't be a distraction membership is involuntary at this level

Writing Club purpose- To become better writers and work together beliefs- Writing is way to express yourself rules- everyone gets to write and work. Membership is voluntary

Family- purpose- to be accepted and belong beliefs- togetherness and unity rules- equality and respect family is both voluntary and involuntary