Animoto Video

Entry #5

Nothing much to say about this course. It went rather smoothly in my opinion. Learned about resizing photos, which was something that had always been a pain in my side. I would post a picture that I scanned in and if someone downloaded the picture it was be huge. So at least that annoyance is out of the way for me.

We learned about illegal downloading and filesharing as well. To be honest I don't really care if people are taking music. I don't really since I have internet & youtube access on my phone so I don't really feel the need to take music. I'm pretty much indifferent to the whole thing, really.

Learned about Tag Clouds, which to be honest I had no idea what it was called. I mean, I assumed what it was, some organized tags and that the ones most used were bigger then the ones that weren't used as much, but I didn't know it had a name or anything like that.

We got introduced to Web 2.0, which had me confused at first on what it was, but I got it eventually.

Super fun happy vocabulary time!
Freeware - is software that the author allows you to download and use without charge. Though it is still protected by copyright law and should only be used by how the author says it should be used.
Shareware - is software that you can download and try out, but you are expected to pay for the software on a permanent basis.
Peer-to-peer (p2p) File-sharing network - allows files to be transfered between individual personal computers located on the same local area network (LAN) or between individual personal computers that are connected to teh internet. Can share individual files that contain music, photos, videos etc...
Virtual world - Where players can assume a persona that lives in an alternate virtual existance, often used as an online role-playing game.

Voki Character

Photobucket Slideshow

1) I did enjoy Photobucket. I've never used it before and I thought it was simple enough to use. I love simplicity.
2) It was very easy to use, the web 2.0 application, that is. Very easy.

Entry #4

Journal Entry #4 

Mar 22, 2011

I did learn quite a bit this course. Learned about online collaboration, emails, blogging & micro blogging, wikis and how to use them for not social uses, but for educational and business uses as well. Nothing much for this course, mainly just focused on working on the projects and presenting them.

To be honest I never really thought about using social networking or blogs for business use. I mean, I knew that people did all the time but when thinking about the idea of advertising your own business comes to mind all I think about is the weird ads on the side of the web page or TV commercials.

As for educational use, I think that using blogs and wikis are good in theory, but since anyone can post and edit something I don’t think it’s a too good of an idea. So I would check several sites if I ever needed help with something.

I thought I did pretty ok for this course. Nothing too much that I couldn’t handle well enough

Now for some super awesome vocabulary time!

The administrative address is the e-mail address used for administrative requests, such as subscribing and unsubscribing from a list.

If someone sends a message to a moderated list, the moderator reviews the message, approves, edits, and sends the message to anyone, with comments or discards it.

A web-based e-mail service is an e-mail service available to a user through a browser and a web site. They are created especially (but certainly not limited to) for people who do not have a computer, but have access to the internet, like at the work place.

The social media is described as online tools that allow people to communicate, collaborate, and share over the internet.

The Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) sends newsgroup messages over an IP address.

Entry #3

Nothing much during this course, I mean, I still learned a lot.

Learned how to search the deep web and on libraries, which I thought was neat. I didn't even know the Internet had a deep net. I also learned about different search engines. The first one I used was from Yahoo, and then I stwirched over to Google. I never really used anything else, what Google gave I got. I'm really glad that I can search the deep web, it provided what I was looking for and Google kinda just told me where I could buy what I was looking for. Not really useful when you're broke half the time.

I also love the fact that you can put a minus sign after the sentence to exclude it in the hit list. It's helpped me a lot more then I though tit would!

When you're looking for a decent search engine, look for one that is:

-Easy to use

-Updates it’s information often

-Has the best relevance to key words

-Returns searches results quickly

-Sponsored or paid for by some company

I learned about Digital Citizenship and it's nine elements:

1) Digital Etiquette
2) Digital Communication
3) Digital Literacy
4) Digital Access
5) Digital Commerce
6) Digital Law
7) Digital Rights & Responsibilities
8) Digital Health & Wellness
9) Digital Security

Learned about IF, which is the ability to gather, evaluate, and use information in ethical and legal ways IF is a combination of information literacy and Digital Citizenship.

I may not have entirely focused on this course. I'm still juggling my other schools and classes, so my attention is definately divided. I'll just have to keep paying attention in class.

Skills Needed for the 21st Century:
You need to be able to adapt, be flexible and accept consrtuctive critisim, be able to work on your own, balance your time, and be able to produce results.
You have to be aware of Global and enviromental issues, with economic choices, and Information & Media Literacy.

Now it's time for some vocabulary!

Search Query, or question for the information that you seek should contain at least on Keyword, or one specific word that describes the information that you seek.

After the search, each web page that pops up in the search result list is called a hit.

A search that uses a complete sentence is sometimes called a natural language search.

Small unimportant words in the natural language search query, such as and, what, where, is, of, in, & how, are called stop words, and are typically ignored, and the more important words are used.

Targeted search is specific information using keyword combinations, and that is being looked up for with specific words, only generates a few useful Web pages.

An Open-ended search looks for the information on a much broader scale, and can generate up to thousands of hits, again, very few are ever useful.

Entry #2

I learned a lot during this module. We covered many topics, from how to use a web browser, the strengths and weaknesses for different internet connections, TCP/IP and HTTP, the threats that comes from using a (PC) computer; such as viruses, hackers, and spyware, ways to protect your personal information, and even about domain names and their matching IP address.

Before class I never even heard of Domain names before. I didn’t know why sites site “.com” or “.edu” at the end for the URL, just that they did. I also didn’t know that IP addresses were basically coded from numbers, so I thought that was interesting.

We used Jing in this course, which I was overjoyed to work with. Before I was looking for a software that would capture my screen in both picture and video. Though I could never find a decent, reliable one without paying through the nose for it and was very frustrating.

I’ve known about viruses, spyware, malware, and hackers, though I really didn’t know much about them. I just knew that if you didn’t update a software to protect you from those threats that you could basically kiss your (PC) computer goodbye. I’m really glad that we covered the topics of malware and viruses, because I’ve seemed to be unlucky when it comes to them. So I’m very grateful for it. I also never knew that you should pay with your credit card when shopping online. I’ve always be told to be wary to give your credit card number out but I guess it is better then wiring money or paying in cash.

I liked this course; I had a general idea about most of the topics and was able to follow it well enough. I did catch myself drifting out and daydreaming a bit, but that’s always going to happen with me. I pay far more attention then anywhere else, really. I hate how I procrastinate with the internet; I got to keep an eye on it. Music can help me concentrate, though; wasting on YouTube is very counterproductive. I was a little stressed throughout the weeks, but I’m going to chalk it up to adjusting to a new environment.

Now for some super-fun-awesome-vocabulary!

A Web Portal (or just Portal), is a certain type of website that offers a way to an immense range of content and services. They are created particularly to create a starting point for viewers that just started their browsers. They offer many resources, I.e. a directory or something like the yellow pages.

Usually, a client is an application that runs on a computer and requests resources or services from another computer. A server is a computer that provides the requested resources or services.

The URL or, Uniform Resource Locator, is a unique address (AKA web address), that locates an individual web page.

The AutoComplete feature, stores the URLs that you type in the Address box, see the first few letters that you type in and suggests the best match based on the stored URLs. The feature also looks at the Favorites and History to suggest possible matches in the box.

Working offline, means that you are viewing previously loaded or saved Web pages in the browser, but you are not connect to the Internet.

A Hacker is someone who uses their computer skills to access a network and all of the computers on that network without permission.

Internet filters are hardware and/or software that filter the display of Web content based on the user settings. For example, Parental control settings configured to block questionable content.

A Malicious Web site, is a web site designed to look like a legitimate site, for example a web sit made for downloading free online games, but in reality, is owned by Hackers or online thieves who use the site’s content to steal your personal information, you’re your username and password, or to spread malicious software such as a keystroke logger, that records all of your keystrokes. The internet has a built in filter for detecting malicious sites, called SmartScreen Filter, which is always scanning web pages for malicious content unless manually turned off.

PPI, or personally identifiable information, are e-mail addresses, your name and address, or even facts about you such as health, financial, political, or religious information that you give out on the web (or companies online).

Adware is a form of spyware that gathers information and then uses said information to deliver targeted Web advertising.

…I’m a bit embarrassed on how little I knew about the Internet before this course, can’t wait for the next one. Ciao!