Website polished and poster finished! Talk about a sense of accomplishment, doing something artistic and having O.C.D is not a great combination. let me just say, it took me way longer then normal to finalize the font I would use for my poster.
On a serious note though, after creating my digital citizenship page I have all this knew knowledge that I sort of feel bombarded with. Kind of like, I know all this new information but have no way to express it. I could have made eighty-five posters and written one hundred blog's with all the information I have come across. I opened this blog not knowing how I was going to finalize this part of the assignment, only to realize I still have so much I want to say and learn! Speaking of so, I found this great little journal article by a man named Mark Gibbs:
“Gibbs, M. (2010). Digital citizenship. Network World (Online), , 15. Retrieved from http://0-search.proquest.com.prospero.murdoch.edu.au/docview/757190607?accountid=12629”
Gibbs talked about how a young man had taken his own life because his room mate filmed him doing private things in his dorm room and streamed it online. It is things like this that make me overtly frustrated, it is such an over complicated world we live in when we beg for artistic freedom yet use the tools we are given to exploit people's private lives, almost like we have no happy medium. It used to be technology that scares me, yet if I vision technology as a person, it is not the physical person I am afraid of, right? It is the content inside their head, There mind. It is the content on ICT that scares me, technology is just the aid.
After reading text over text over text about how we should leave a good digital footprint, I realized we have no control on what anyone else's footprint is like. No control over what they are uploading, downloading, sharing and stealing. Not just sexting but the online world in general, I believe we need to further our education from 'there are bad digital citizens' out there to how to avoid situation like that poor American boy Gibbs discusses. People use the internet as a shield, people are ten times worse on the internet and we need to be equipped and educated on what to expect.
I realize this blog is sort of all over the place and I have not really concluded anything at all, yet this is what is going through my mind right now! It seems like such a simple strategy, just do not upload anything you would not want you're mother, father or employer to see. Yet, everyone does this anyway! I have come to the conclusion it is because we do not realize the internet is a permanent thing. you can not just click exit and it is gone. if you write on a piece of paper in pen but throw it out, it may be out of site but the writing is still there isn't it? I think the idea of permanence kind of struck us when Facebook brought in the timeline, things we had written years prior was now re-surfacing, all this time facebook was storing our stuff and we had no idea. If I could only teach my future students one thing from what I have learnt it would be that the Internet is never private.
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has succeeded our humanity" - Albert Einstein
I might leave it on that note, my head is about to explode!
wish me luck, check out my website and my poster and please please please stay alive and avoid the thumb drive...see what I did there ;)
Blog you soon!
Thursday, 20 March 2014
Thursday, 13 March 2014
Week three, I made it! Not with out a few bumps might I add.
I finished my website, found great quotes and awesome picture's that just depict the way people are dependent on technology perfectly only to come to topic three's lecture and be told we can not use images unless they are free to share on Google. Well... looks like I will be doing some re-decorating!
With the bad always comes the good though, and the silver lining to that situation is I learnt how to change my advanced search on Google which makes using images and texts so much simpler, not just for this unit but all my units. It also means I am aware of how to censor the search engine which also correlates lovely with what we have been learning.
This week has been a good week, it is that time of semester when assignments start arising and the workload becomes just enormous. Yet, it is also that time of semester when unit objectives and meanings/understandings to theory start coming together. I have had so much fun putting together my website and now starting my poster assignment, I truly feel so much more confident in this unit now and feel like everything is coming together nicely.
Speaking of posters, I have started mine! After this weeks lecture and researching all the possible topics I could make it on, one stood out the most and that was 'sexting'. I feel so passionate about this topic, I grew up when mobile phones were starting to become a necessity where as now they are an appendage. If I knew of so many 'sexting gone wrong' cases during my high school experience, can you imagine the amount of sexting that goes on today! I also feel like it is a topic that gets over looked and I believe there should be a lot more awareness and education on it, in class rooms and in the home. I have tried to design an information poster that includes five steps to follow, if or when someone is caught in a sexting situation. I attempted to use a shock method, using words that will get peoples attention such as "you send it once, they send it twice" implying that what you have privately sent is almost never private. I think that although everyone knows how to use technology, no one really understands the full repercussions of sending something out there, that is irreversible and forever out there and that is what I hope to educate teens on in my digital guidelines poster.
enough chatter from me, I desperately need to catch some z's!
Blog you soon!
I finished my website, found great quotes and awesome picture's that just depict the way people are dependent on technology perfectly only to come to topic three's lecture and be told we can not use images unless they are free to share on Google. Well... looks like I will be doing some re-decorating!
With the bad always comes the good though, and the silver lining to that situation is I learnt how to change my advanced search on Google which makes using images and texts so much simpler, not just for this unit but all my units. It also means I am aware of how to censor the search engine which also correlates lovely with what we have been learning.
This week has been a good week, it is that time of semester when assignments start arising and the workload becomes just enormous. Yet, it is also that time of semester when unit objectives and meanings/understandings to theory start coming together. I have had so much fun putting together my website and now starting my poster assignment, I truly feel so much more confident in this unit now and feel like everything is coming together nicely.
Speaking of posters, I have started mine! After this weeks lecture and researching all the possible topics I could make it on, one stood out the most and that was 'sexting'. I feel so passionate about this topic, I grew up when mobile phones were starting to become a necessity where as now they are an appendage. If I knew of so many 'sexting gone wrong' cases during my high school experience, can you imagine the amount of sexting that goes on today! I also feel like it is a topic that gets over looked and I believe there should be a lot more awareness and education on it, in class rooms and in the home. I have tried to design an information poster that includes five steps to follow, if or when someone is caught in a sexting situation. I attempted to use a shock method, using words that will get peoples attention such as "you send it once, they send it twice" implying that what you have privately sent is almost never private. I think that although everyone knows how to use technology, no one really understands the full repercussions of sending something out there, that is irreversible and forever out there and that is what I hope to educate teens on in my digital guidelines poster.
enough chatter from me, I desperately need to catch some z's!
Blog you soon!
Friday, 7 March 2014
Hey! How are you? Rhetorical question don't worry, although I bet you answered that in your head anyway, didn't you.
Anyway, this is the first time I have ever looked at a blog page let alone writing my own. Talk about being thrown in the deep end. Bare with me and more importantly pray with me that my mandatory primary school swimming lessons pay off!
The past two weeks have been a real eye opener because to be honest, I never thought I was bad with technology. I mean I have always had a smart phone, used Facebook and Instagram more than I change my socks, watch my lectures online, surf the internet and participate in a more than normal amount of online shopping. Yet, it was not until this unit that made me second guess myself. It made me realize there is so much more to knowing technology than just using it. For example: I made my mother dearest a Facebook account and left it at that, assuming she would know how to use because I know how to use it. Next thing you know she had randoms all over the place adding her and sending her viruses because she had not updated her privacy settings. I connect this example with the unit as we discuss digital citizenship because as a future teacher, I have to not only have the knowledge of how to use, structure and participate in the online world but also how to avoid the nasty side, how to create a censorship to protect my students and guide them, as it is clear the self-autonomy of today's world is not always as high as we would like!
Well, that has been my two weeks! Before I baffle on to much, its time to do my topic three readings. wish me luck!!
Blog you soon. (see what I did there)
Anyway, this is the first time I have ever looked at a blog page let alone writing my own. Talk about being thrown in the deep end. Bare with me and more importantly pray with me that my mandatory primary school swimming lessons pay off!
The past two weeks have been a real eye opener because to be honest, I never thought I was bad with technology. I mean I have always had a smart phone, used Facebook and Instagram more than I change my socks, watch my lectures online, surf the internet and participate in a more than normal amount of online shopping. Yet, it was not until this unit that made me second guess myself. It made me realize there is so much more to knowing technology than just using it. For example: I made my mother dearest a Facebook account and left it at that, assuming she would know how to use because I know how to use it. Next thing you know she had randoms all over the place adding her and sending her viruses because she had not updated her privacy settings. I connect this example with the unit as we discuss digital citizenship because as a future teacher, I have to not only have the knowledge of how to use, structure and participate in the online world but also how to avoid the nasty side, how to create a censorship to protect my students and guide them, as it is clear the self-autonomy of today's world is not always as high as we would like!
Well, that has been my two weeks! Before I baffle on to much, its time to do my topic three readings. wish me luck!!
Blog you soon. (see what I did there)
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