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Thursday, June 6, 2013
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Post #5 - Web 2.0 Tools / Wordcloud
Good afternoon, AICT15'ers! 7 more days, wow right? Today you are writing the excel portion of your final exam. If you finish early come back here for today's task!
Today's Tasks (June 5th, 2013):
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Today's Tasks (June 5th, 2013):
- Post a link to your blog here.
- Continue to work on your design of your blog.
- Follow 2 other blogs including AICT15
- Make a new post! Review assignment criteria here. REMEMBER: your posts must be thoughtful, relevant, and interesting. AKA: more then one sentence.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Post #4 - What is your mindset?
Hey folks!
Welcome back to another exciting instalment of AICT! Can you believe your first year of highschool is nearly over? In 3 more years you will be graduating! That might sound like an eternity, but believe me the time will fly!
What will your mindset be in 2016? Since 2002, Beliot College began a study on highschool grads attending their first year of post secondary education. The studies goal was to track the evolving mindset, from year to year! Over the years, they have been able to make predictions as per the mindset of future grads. Take a peek at the predicted mindset of the Class of 2016! That's you!
Creating Links:
Today's Tasks (June 4th, 2013):
- Mr. P
Welcome back to another exciting instalment of AICT! Can you believe your first year of highschool is nearly over? In 3 more years you will be graduating! That might sound like an eternity, but believe me the time will fly!
What will your mindset be in 2016? Since 2002, Beliot College began a study on highschool grads attending their first year of post secondary education. The studies goal was to track the evolving mindset, from year to year! Over the years, they have been able to make predictions as per the mindset of future grads. Take a peek at the predicted mindset of the Class of 2016! That's you!
Creating Links:
- Highlight the text you wish to convert in to a link.
- Visit the website of the page you wish to link to, and copy the html.
- Click the link button in the tool bar below, and paste the URL into the Web Address field.
Today's Tasks (June 4th, 2013):
- Post a link to your blog here.
- Continue to work on your design of your blog.
- Follow 2 other blogs including AICT15
- Make a new post! Review assignment criteria here. REMEMBER: your posts must be thoughtful, relevant, and interesting. AKA: more then one sentence.
- Mr. P
Monday, June 3, 2013
Post #3: Online Ethics & Digital Citizenship
Welcome back!
Did you know your generation has earned the title of 'Netizen' of 'Digital Native'?
In a nutshell this refers to the fact that you have no concept of life with out the internet. Or at least life with out the freedom to access the internet...
Think about that? How old were you when you first went online?
My generations grew up WITH the internet, but you are growing up ON the internet.
You and I come from very different technological backgrounds. You have access to tools and abilities, that dwarf where I was in highschool.
Nevertheless, the world we share online is exactly the same. Therefore, our personal online code of ethics is important to ensure a safe and productive environment for all.
This post is geared towards defining what are online ethics, and how we can act as posotive digital citizens in the 21st Century.
Today's Tasks (June 3rd, 2013):
!!SEE ME FOR MISSING / PASS DUE ASSIGNMENTS!!
Did you know your generation has earned the title of 'Netizen' of 'Digital Native'?
In a nutshell this refers to the fact that you have no concept of life with out the internet. Or at least life with out the freedom to access the internet...
Think about that? How old were you when you first went online?
- Have you experienced the debate over ethics of downloading music, movies and games?
- How many devices that you own provide access to services such as Netflix, GooglePlay, iTunes, AppleTv?
- If you really needed to access the internet, how many different ways could you connect?
- The truth is you have the power and potential to interact with, literally, hundreds of people from all over the world, in seconds.
My generations grew up WITH the internet, but you are growing up ON the internet.
- My first cell-phone I purchased 2-years after graduating highschool.
- It had a green screen
- T9 typing - a terrible abomination
- It flipped open, like a boss.
- Video games in 32mb and later 64mb graphics were awesome. No online gaming, 4P (Max) vs. IA, all day. No LANing. No MLG. No Fun.
- Taking courses such as AICT and Computer Sciences taught me things like; routing a dail-up internet connection - a practice that was imediately replicated at home on our painfully slow Pentium 386.
- We rented movies, from a movie store, for $1.50 - and paid fortunes in late charges.
You and I come from very different technological backgrounds. You have access to tools and abilities, that dwarf where I was in highschool.
As Uncle Ben from Spiderman once said...
"With great power, comes greater responsibilty."
Nevertheless, the world we share online is exactly the same. Therefore, our personal online code of ethics is important to ensure a safe and productive environment for all.
This post is geared towards defining what are online ethics, and how we can act as posotive digital citizens in the 21st Century.
What are Online Ethics & Digital Citizenship?
Online Ethics refers to...
"patterns of behavior when on the internet, guided both by law, and philosophy." source
Digital Citizenship refers to...
"the norms of appropriate, and responsible technology use." source
Current Online Ethical issues include:
- Digital Footprint - Have you ever googled your Name? say hello to your digital footprint my friend. If you posted it, google sees it, and so might your future employer! Believe it. Pay attention to what you are leaving behind.
- Think before you post - Online choices, have Offline consequences. Sometimes these consequences are extreme and permanently damage the life of another, other times the consequence reflects on you as an individual.
- Personal Identification - It is always wise to withhold personal information. Also, you are not obligated to follow everything with a heart beat, stick to friends and family. It is never smart to place your personal contact info for the world to see.
- Cyber Bullying - the prevalence of the internet has created a new breed of 'hater.' Trolls. Cyber Bullyies. However you want to call them, they are empowered by the anonymity of bullying online. They do not see the effect their words have on their victims. Unlike, traditional bullying where the effects are real, they are seen. The effects of a cyber bully often go unnoticed - and sometimes this can result in lasting damage to the victim, their family and their friends.
A general cited code of online ethics is to act in the same manner online, as is acceptable in other areas of life. i.e grocery shopping, in a job interview, at grandma's, while looking after younger siblings etc.
The issue of online ethics dates back to Plato's famous "parable of the ring" which asked if a person had the capability to become invisible and therby get away with anything, would it be right to use the capability?"
Something to think about.
Friday's Tasks (May 31st, 2013):
- Post a link to your blog here.
- Create a header / description
- Design / Edit / Modify a Template
!!SEE ME FOR MISSING / PASS DUE ASSIGNMENTS!!
- Mr. P
Friday, May 31, 2013
Post #2: Mobile Blogging
Mobile technology is changing the way we use the internet at a pace that is nearly mind boggling. As you already know we don't NEED a computer to communicate. The same goes for blogging! While there are some limits to blogging using mobile devices, if your intent is to post a quick blurb, then Googles Blogger App for the iPad / iPhone & Andriod may be just for you!
Blogger App
Yesterday's Tasks (May 30th, 2013):
- Create a new blog
- Follow AICT15
- Add these gadget's
- Blog List Gadget - Set to display "Blog's I'm Following"
- Followers Gadget
- Post a link to your blog here.
- Create a header / description
- Design / Edit / Modify a Template
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Post #1 - Welcome
Goooood day, AICT15F! Welcome to the finale of AICT15F w/ Mr. Pfahl!
You've been a great bunch. I hope the skills you have begun to develop will be rewarding in your future education and career goals!
To wrap up this year, I thought it would be fun for you to create your very own personal blogs. Today I would like you to start by showing you some of the options available @ blogger
Before you submit your first post to your new blog, explore the many features of blogger. There are various options available to enhance your blog and customize it to your specific liking. You can change your template, font styles, sizes, colors, images and much more. Then be sure to follow my blog here @ AICT15F
I've created a series of 'How to' videos that will help you enter the world of blogging!
Today's Task (May 30th, 2013):
- Review Tips & Tricks // Assignment Outline
- Create a new blog
- Follow AICT15
- Add these gadget's
- Blog List Gadget - Set to display "Blog's I'm Following"
- Followers Gadget
- Mr. P
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