september 30,

I was really upset when I found out that our work was erased, but today I think that I got enough done so that I can re-finish my brochure.

1st 6 Weeks Review

What is a blog? Is it a verb or a noun? What about commenting on blogs?

• A blog can be a noun, a verb or an adjective, depending on what form its in (Blog, blogging, or blogger). A blog is an on-line journal that people use to write about information or opinions; anyone can read them. Any who reads a blog has the power to comment on it, this means that the reader can also express their opinion on the blog or on a topic.

What is an avatar? What does it mean and where does the term originate?

• An avatar, well on computers, is a graphical image that represents a person. The term's origin is, form the word avatara.

What is digital citizenship/netiquette? What are some reasons it is important?

• Netiquette is the informal code of behavior on-line. Digital citizenship is a certain way that people should behave on-line. A reason why both of these are important is, that because these are some what of a form of respect on-line.

What is Pages? What is its purpose?

• On the computer, pages is a program for word processing. 

What is Royalty Free Imagery/stock photography? What is Public Domain? How are these beneficial?

• Stock photography is a way of people to use (legally) professional photos and images without the cost of hiring a photographer directly. 

What is a citation? Why are they important? How can different internet websites 

make them easier?

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What is a PDF? Why are they useful?

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1st 6 Weeks Reflection

The first six weeks are already over, and I feel that I have progressed a lot more than I thought I would have by now! Here are some of the things that I have learned for taking this class:

• How to create and use a blog
• How to make an avatar and upload it onto my blog
• I have become more familiar with pages
• What shock photograph is
• About plagiarism 
• Easier was to make a citation
• What a PDF is
• And a lot more

I think that learning all of this can and will help me in my future in collage, the rest of high school, and for my future job (hope fully a meteorologist). 

Norway Project- Self Grading

Here is what I think I made on the first Part of my project...

• General -3
• Cover - 4
• Table of Contents - 4
• Work Log - 3
• Bibliography - 3
• Citation - 3
• Professionalism  - 4

Seeing Other Projects...

This morning I saw some other traveling projects. My favorite were:
     The Asian Leprechaun-
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-yY_l0l8tS2NGNjOGY1OGItNWZkYy00YWM2LWE2MTAtYWVhOTI1MDIxMjJi&hl=en&authkey=CK6U9osO
      Cheetahlicous-
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B7rYCc4EsNw0MmMyMmJiY2MtY2FiMy00YzNmLThhNjAtMjQyMGQ3ZjcxZGQz&hl=en&authkey=COCRxwE
      And also starsRamazing-
http://docs.google.com/a/mysbisd.com/leaf?id=0B3OZXy3PTP2cNTBmYmQ0OWUtYjY3MS00NDhjLTk5MGUtM2UzZDhlMDkzZTdj&hl=en&authkey=CMaB46IO

First PDF file!- Norway Project

Here is the url to my PDF file:

http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0Bxs_cPhXC5L3OWM4ZjY3NTEtZTYzOC00Yjk2LWI4NTItYjQwMWY1NWEyMDU4&hl=en&authkey=CMi3hPgH

I read on Mr. Double-U's multimedia post today that after you save your document as a PDF that the quality of the pictures in the doc would be less than they were before. I found out that this is very much true... all of my text turned out to be fine, but my pictures and backgrounds were a little fuzzy. lol

Norway (again)

Today I worked on my Norway brochure, I think that its going really well; doing this project is making me want to visit Norway more and more! I think that I got a lot done on this and i can't wait to see the finished project

The First day of Norway

Today I fell like I got accomplished what I should have gotten accomplished. At first I was confused by the instructions that Mr. Wegscheid gave us. Although now I am really getting the hang of pages and I think  that I'm going to do good on this brochure.

Norway Brochure Picture...

Citation Blog

1- What is plagiarism? Any good reasons to avoid it?
               Plagiaraism is taking credit for someone elses work that you copied.
2- What citation format are we using for this project?


3- Create a citation for your 'Works Cited' page of two websites you might use on your project.
               
4- What is stock photography
               Photos that you can use insed of having to take the photo yourself.
5- Why can't we just use random images off google?

               Because you have to have permission from the webstite containing the pictuer or the photogarapher.

6- What does it mean for an image to be Public Domain?
               This means that anyone may use these pictures.
7- Post a picture you found off a stock photography or public domain site on your blog.

Citation:
Riedl, Juliane. "Stock.xchng - Zebra 2 (stock Photo by GermanGirl)." Stock.xchng - the Leading Free Stock Photography Site. 31 Jan. 2009. Web. 10 Sept. 2010. <http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1140897/?forcedownload=1>.

Norway!

I  choose norway for my country, I was pretty sure that it wouldn't be one of the first countries taken! I really love Norway plus Norway has always interested me, and I think that I'm going to like doing this project. 

Rosponse

Scenario #1- A student sends a harassing e-mail to another student. The receiving student
retaliates with a “flaming e-mail.”    

                    I think this is not the appropriate response; the receiving student should have saved the email and showed it to an adult or teacher so that they can handle the situation.

Scenario #2 – When hanging out with friends, one of the students makes a call on their cellphone and carries on a conversation while still within the group. Is this okay? Why or why not?  

                    I think this is okay because the friends probably have a casual relationship together. Although it wouldn't be okay if the student on the phone was talking about other students in the group.

Scenario #3 – A student logs on to a free file sharing website and downloads a song they just heard on the radio. Is this ok? Why or why not?

                    I think this is not okay because if you download and distribute copyrighted music, other materials over the Internet without proper payment or permission, you are stealing.

Scenario #4 – A student follows a questionable link to a website and downloads a malicious script which releases a Trojan Horse virus on to the school network. Is the student to blame? Why or why not?

                 I think that this could go either way, the student didn't know there was a virus on the link, but the link did look questionable so the student should have had told a teacher.

Scenario #5 – An hour before class, a student remembers that a writing assignment is due. The student goes to the library, logs on to a website, and copies/pastes the information. Is this ok? Why or why not?

                   This is not okay because this is plagiarism which is illegal!

Scenario #6 – At home, a student uses a software package to copy movies and games from DVD’s for his or her friends. Is this within fair-use laws? Explain.

                   No this is not within fair use law because, downloading and distributing copyrighted games over the Internet without proper payment or permission, is stealing.

Scenario #7 – A student logs into the school website to download the syllabus they lost. Are they breaking any rules or laws? Explain.

                   The student isn't breaking and rules or laws, because teacher put their syllabus online so that students and their parents can download it.

Scenario #8 – Students spend a good amount of time in class creating a web page for a school sponsored fundraiser. However, there website is not usable by certain individuals with disabilities. Was this disrespectful or wrong of them?

                   This is disrespectful, because people should treat everyone equally! 

Here Are Some Other Blogs You Should Check Out...

http://theasianleprechaun.blogspot.com/
http://pahloolahblog.blogspot.com/
http://schooledbypaulyd.blogspot.com/
http://dancersonlyblog.blogspot.com/
http://bunniesdmultimedia.blogspot.com/
http://agustin-agustin123.blogspot.com/
http://doodle-tech-head.blogspot.com/
http://yaquelin-yaqui-yaquelin.blogspot.com/

Self Evaluation

Here is what I think I made on my blog :

• Design Template-  4
• Design Tab: Gadgets-  4
• Setting Tab-  3
• Protecting Your Identity-  4
• Posting-  3
• Blog Entries-  4
• Commenting-  3
• Professionalism- 4

Computer Survey and Results- Reflections

At the beginning of the survey, I was really uncertain if I knew more or less about these computers than everyone else. I was surprised to find out that I knew a lot more than I thought I did, because I'm not very familiar with Mac computers. And for the results, I was really surprised that the entire class knew a lot more than I thought we were. Therefore I am a lot more confident now about taking this multimedia class than I was at the very beginning of the year! 

Computer Hunt!

Find Pages on your computer and copy and paste the questions into it, and answer them there.

Open the Multimedia Survey. What chart do you find most interesting?

(you have to choose one)

“I don’t ask for help even if I need it”

Find and record the following information.

What operating system are we running?

Mac OS X Software

What is the processor?

2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

How much memory?

2 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

How many USB ports do our computers have?

6

What Adobe programs are loaded onto the computers?

Dreamweaver, photo shop, and bridge

What programs are part of iWork?

Pages, Numbers, and Keynote

What is Keynote?

key note gives you different way to display data in a presentation.

Open chess, what colors are the squares?

dark brown and tan

What program do you surf the net with on the Macs?

  safari

What program did this document open in?

pages

Change the background on your computer and take a screen capture of it.

Drop the screen capture into this document.

Save this document on your server files. You will need it later.