Week 10 Weekly Report and Reflection

Normally, when you think of programs for presentations, the first one that comes to mind is PowerPoint. While that is a great application, there are however, other tools that one can use to share presentations. Those include, prezi, animoto, and photopeach. This week in ADED 1P32, we were assigned to create a presentation about digital literacy, and copyright. The program I chose to use was Animoto. It was a great tool for being able to express thoughts about topics through pictures, and text. One issue II had with it however, was that in order to change music, choose all of the themes, and make presentations longer you had to pay for the service. For that reason, I couldn't put it in my PLE.

logos.wikia.org

Through this weeks work, I was able to improve my knowledge on digital literacy, and digital citizenship. This week focused on copyright and how everyone is responsible for following copyright laws. Copyright is defined as "

the exclusive and assignable legal right, given to the originator for a fixed number of years, to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material." This is meant to protect authors works, so that they can make money off of it. This is relevant to digital citizenship, because as a citizen, one must make sure they always get permission to use someone's work, or they must cite it.

The article of interest this week for me, was about how rock star Bon Jovi is looking to buy the Buffalo Bills. The reason this is relevant to me, is because he has said he would have plans to either play more games in Toronto, or even move the team there. If this were to happen it would create a number of job opportunities in professional sport for a SPMA student like myself. 

My Animoto Presentation

Digital Literacy

Week 9 Weekly Report and Reflection

Voice Thread, 2013

This week we were assigned to learn a new tool called VoiceThread. VoiceThread is similar to a lot of the programs we have been using, like PowerPoint and Google Docs in the sense that it allows you to create presentations and share them with others over the internet. The difference with VoiceThread however is that the program allows for you to put voice notes over the presentation, to help better explain the point you are trying to make. This is a very useful tool because it is difficult to remember something when just reading it, or just hearing about it. When hearing it, while reading the presentation allows for a greater amount of retention of the information.

The other program that we were told to use this week is Poll Daddy. Poll Daddy allows for users to create polls in a number of different fashions, in order to gain a plethora of information. There are three different types of Poll Daddy accounts based on the needs of the user who is signing up. Once you create a survey you are given a URL of your survey so that you can either print off your survey and hand it out in person, or send your respondents a link which they can fill out the response on, with the results tracked by Poll Daddy.

Throughout this class we have been learning about Digital Rights and Responsibilities, and to me, it all boils down to respecting others. This can be respecting others as human beings by not insulting them through message boards or comment sections. Another type of respect is being respectful of someone else's property. To be respectful of someone else's property is not only using it properly, but not stealing it and either selling it yourself or giving it away for free.

Technology Use Scenario #10

Scenario 10: Kevin has just purchased the latest video game, Too Fast '22. He and his friends enjoy playing games on the computer. His best friend Vince also likes to play video games, but doesn't have the money to buy the latest games. Kevin decides to be a good friend and give a copy of the game to Vince.

I believe that Kevin is misusing technology in this scenario by copying a video game for Vince. This is misuse of technology because the video game is someone's property, and they have the right to make money off of it. Because Kevin decided to copy the game he took away a potential sale from of the game, losing any money he would make off of it. Vince also is misusing technology by playing an illegally copied game. If he does not have the money to purchase the game he should wait until he does.

Week 8 Weekly Report and Reflection

This week in ADED 1P32 we learned about Wiki's. Most people, if you were to ask if they knew what a wiki was, would think you meant Wikipedia. While wikipedia is a wiki, in general, they are just websites that allow sharing of information in an easy way over the internet. Wiki's also allow for the user to either turn off editing, or rather allow for everyone in the public to edit your page. This allows for the page to have hundreds of people reading over the work and making changes where they feel it necessary. By doing this you would get the most COMPLETE page, while also gaining both sides of a potential issue or topic.

Ogre3d.org (2011)

We were also asked, this week, to read about digital rights and responsibilities, and then pick the three that we felt were the most important to us. The three that I chose were; privacy, no cyber bullying, and ethical use. When I say privacy, I mean that every user of the internet should be able to feel comfortable sharing their information online. The only way for this to happen is for everyone to acknowledge their responsibility to keep others information private. There are two parts to the no cyber bullying responsibility. First, and most obviously, is not to cyber bully in general. Second, however, is that if you see someone cyber bullying whether it be on YouTube, Facebook, or whatever, you have to report it to the site so that they can remove the user. This is the quickest way to get rid of cyber bullies on the internet. Last was that people should make sure they use the internet ethically. This responsibility involves citing sources of information gathered, along with asking permission. This also involves not using information in unethical ways like cheating on tests or assignments. Another must for using information ethically is that you must follow the acceptable use policies of the site and server which you are using.

Week 7 Weekly Report and Reflection

This week in ADED 1P32, we were assigned to finish our group projects using Google Docs. This is a program that allows you to post documents, spreadsheets, etc. online where anyone with the permalink can view it. This is incredibly useful for a number of reasons, the largest of which being the ease it allows for you to share information with. This can be especially useful in a classroom environment because it would allow the professor to post notes, slideshows, spreadsheets, or any material pertaining to the class in an easy to access document.

I will definitely be adding Google Docs to my Personal Learning Environment, as it combines a lot of useful tools into one easy to use program. Google Docs would fall under the applications strand of my PLE.

A reading I found interesting this week from my Feedly comes from the Toronto Star. The post is entitled Rob Ford says he made ‘mistakes’ but plans to stay and is about Toronto's mayor, Rob Ford going on his weekly radio show and admitting that he has made mistakes, and apologized for his actions. Most people are caught up on his story, but if you're not, essentially there is a video of Ford allegedly being high on crack/cocaine while in the company of drug dealers. What made this article particularly interesting is how it mentions that Ford, while he did admit mistakes, never specifically mentioned this incident, rather his much less publicized drunken actions on St. Patricks day in 2012, and at the Taste of the Danforth festival. As is also seen in the title, Rob Ford does not plan to step down due to these allegations. It will be interesting to see where this leads.