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!