Class+Journal

** Here are my check in notes from class: **
2-7-11: **ZOOM ACTIVITY** The picture that best represents my experience at CSIHSIS would be the picture of the bus in traffic with the poster of the cruise ship on it. The bus is the only one among many cars and our school is extremely different compared to other schools. This school has helped many people develop their differences and become better learners. We stick out like the bus sticks out in that picture.


 * Define social media** - Social media is technology that helps connect people to each other and to the rest of the world. Sites like AOL NEWS are examples of social media. AOL NEWS allows people to learn about the events going on around them and what other people are going through. You are also able to comment on this site so you can put out your opinion about the topic, learn about others and have discussions. Social media is a way of connecting people to each other and to the world.
 * Role in society** - Social media has helped people become more aware of the people and events a round them plus it has helped people keep in contact with each other. Sites like skype, oovoo, tumblr, email, forumspring, youtube etc. help people stay connected to each other and keep them on top of what's going on in each others lives.
 * Effect on world ** - Social media has helped people become more knowledgeable about the world around them, letting people form opinions about these events and take actions accordingly. With social media people have been given knowledge about the world and each other letting them take actions depending on how they feel. Things like protests are due to social media. If the person wasn't aware of tat event or person then they couldn't protest it.

2-8-11: **Pros and cons of social media** 1 Can get easy acess to information. 2 Be able to keep in contact with people. 3 Express your opinions and feelings with other people. 4 Meet people from around the world. 5 Can start an online buisness cheaply compared to owning a physical shop. 1 People can get cyber bullied. 2 People have easy acsess to your personal information. 3 Can get scammed by illegitimate websites. 4 Hackers can get a hold of your credit card number. 5 Identity can be easily stolen.
 * Pros:**
 * Cons:**

On a scale of 1-10, 1 being not important at all and 10 being your life, social networking would be a 7 for me. Social networking plays a big role in my life, but it isn't my life. It helps me keep in contact with people and gives me easy acsess to information about the world and facts for school. I do do things outside of my house too so my life doesn't depend on social networking. I think the average teen spends 21 hours on the computer for social networking sites. A lot of teens these days rely on social networking and the internet to keep them occupied. Teens are probably also addicted to social networking sites like twitter, facebook, tumblr etc. which is the reason they spend hours and hours on the internet, constantly updating their statuses.

2-11-11: **Global leadership**

A global leader to me is someone who is selfless and is out to help everyone for the greater good, not someone who just says they are, but are really just out for themselves. People need global leaders to help guide them to a better ways of life, but not everyone can be a global leader. Global leaders need to be selfless, diligent, smart, eloquent and brave. So far I don't know of any Global leaders, but I'm still waiting for that someone to standup and be that leader. //** "Imagine Leadership" Video Notes: **// -Be the chane you want to see in the world (Ghnadi) -everyday 9 square miles of polar ice melts -by 2009 enough fiber optic cables were installed to circle the earth 90 times -80% of humanity lives on less than 10 dollars a day -How will you live, dream and lead?

2-14-11: **Global leadership continued**

The person that should be in Time Magazines person of the year should be St. Valentine. Today is Valentine's day and in commemoration of him, he should be in Time Magazine. He was a priest in Rome who helped martyrs from King Claudius II's persecutions. Valentine was then beheaded on February 14th for going against King Claudius. In honor of Saint Valentine today, we still celebrate him and the sacrifices he made for society.

Activity: Find the Passage

The answer is, you do. And for seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, TIME's Person of the Year for 2006 is you.

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I chose this passage because Time magazine was right; we are all the "person" of the year. We are the ones who notify the world of events and what's happening, we are the ones who put out our opinions so people won't be so blinded by their partisan perspectives. Global media has helped us become the people of the year by allowing us to express ourselves and notify he world.

2-15-11: **The Power of Social Media**

I have left a review for products online, and I have posted pictures and videos onto the web before. I know my parents have done those things before, but I'm not sure about my grandparents. Before the internet and online reviews, I'm guessing people got that kind of information by word of mouth, from magazines/newspapers and having to buy the product themselves to find out if it's any good. The internet is extremely convenient and has helped us make decisions and post information. It's hard to imagine how people got along before the internet.

"The Chaos Scenario" Notes: -Digital revolution -Digital world altered human behavior -record buisness and newspapers imploded -People now control media -Listen or Perish

//‘If your sink is blocked for a few weeks and you remove the plug to dig out the obstruction, the offending mangled mess of soap, fish bones, human hair and other horrible gunk in which bacteria has set up home, is exactly like the World Wide Web’.// //- http://thechaosscenario.net/blog// / In general, the World Wide Web is a just a big mess of useless stuff and brainless stuff that we need (don't get me wrong, I couldn't live with out the internet, and there is some important stuff, but it's generally useless.). I have to agree with this quote, the internet is a disgusting mess that we find, but at the same time it's intriguing even though it is a repulsive, mangled mess.

2-16-11: **Power of Social Media** "The audience is taking to the stage" basically means the tables are turning. Those who were in the background watching are now the ones making the decisions and performing. That line has a lot of meaning to it and can be used in an instance of great change.

-The audience is taking to the stage -Information is everywhere -The web is a mass of conversation -mass inovation -20th century=mass production for mass consumption -are we always safe sharing -How do we earn a living if everyone is freely sharing their ideas?
 * "We Think" notes: **

2-17-11: **Social Responsibility** The responsibilities of us the people is to spread the truth through the internet. The internet now has been a great way of becoming informed about the world around us. If we see a life changing event it's our responsibility to report it, because it's the peoples right to know about these things. The truth had been something that was distant and always hidden and now we finally have acsess to it all the time, so we should also be the ones to share the truth if we know it. The internet and it's information has become our responsibility now and we need to uphold it.

-Urbanization and integration are leading to a new renisance -Literacy has gone down from half to a quarter of people on earth -Genetic modification -Retirement and pension will be gone by 2030 -Migration will become more important -An Individual will have the capacity and 2030 to destroy the world with a bio-pathogen -Globalization: integrated fragility
 * Ted Video notes: **


 * NEW PERSPECTIVE FOR RESPONSE**: After watching the Ted video, it isn't just our responsibility to spread the truth, it's our duty to try and save the world from ourselves. Genetic engineering, globalization and industrialization are going to destroy us in 2030. We need to use the internet to inform people of what they are blindly doing to our planet. If we will have the capacity to destroy the world with a bio-pathogen in 19 years then we also have the capacity to save this world in 19 years with the help of the internet.

2-18-11: **Social Responsibilities Part 2** There are many implications when it comes to the internet (Web 2.0) as a consumer or producer. The implications of being a consumer or producer vary. If you're a consumer you can get scammed easily. When you give out banking information or credit card information someone can get a hold of that and use that information. Being a producer has its implications too. Posting on blogs and social sites gives people acsess to all of your personal information. Do you really want a stranger to know where you live and what you're doing over the weekend? Do you want a stranger to know your social security number or credit card number? As a consumer and producer you have to be careful because using the internet is a heavy responsibility that we must carry.

"The Video Republic" sounds like a video about how videos have helped us become the leaders of media. MEANS: People can post anything they want which gives us power.


 * "The Video Republic" Notes: **
 * Telling Stories=Power
 * Video is changing people into young reporters
 * Define people beyond race, religion etc.
 * A virtual community
 * They want their voices heard
 * The video Republic is growing
 * If it's public space should private companies own it?

I don't really think I'm a part of the Video Republic. I have posted videos before, but it's something I rarely do. The videos I posted weren't even really about anything interesting like an event, they were just videos I made for the fun of it. I don't really watch video or post videos. I do sometimes as I said before, but not enough to be part of the "Video Republic".

2-28-11: **Social networking: obsession or necessity** My 5 original ideas about facebook:
 * 1) Facebook is like a billboard, tailored to advertiseto a specific audience.
 * 2) Facebook's positive and negative effects cancel each other making it have a neutral effect on the world.
 * 3) Facebook is a big part of cyberbullying, almost like a school yard.
 * 4) Facebook has helped reunite lost friends and family, it's like our very own private investigator.
 * 5) Facebook has changed the way the world socializes.
 * The Facebook obsession notes: **
 * Facebook, good+negative affects
 * identity registry of the world
 * Facebook was made in a dorm in Harvard
 * Keri Triddle is searching for her biological mother
 * Found mother because of facebook
 * Facebook helped reunite a mother and daughter

3-1-11: **Social networking: obsession or necessity** Yesterday we viewed a video about how facebook helped reunite a mother and daughter, but this could have taken a turn for the worst rather then good. What if that wasn't actually the mother? Both would have been heart broken and hopeless. Or maybe even worse. The mother could have not wanted to see her daughter and how would that make the daughter feel? She'd feel unwanted and heart broken because honestly who wouldn't feel that? This situation could have been emotionally disturbing rather than comforting to this girl.


 * The facebook obsession notes:**
 * A movie called the social network is loosely based on the lives of the creators of facebook
 * Mark Zuckerberg
 * Facebook was origionally ment for Harvard students only
 * Facebook was collaborated with other people and "scammed" from them
 * Sued for 26 million dollars
 * "Hackathon" helps makes facebook chat and video

3-2-11: **Social networking: obsession or necessity**

It's kind of disturbing as to how much information these companies have of ours. They know our phone numbers, our adress, names and probably even our social security. Sites like facebook aren't really that private if companies and other people have such easy acsess to our information. There are consequences and their should be consequences to what we post and do on facebook. Is it necessary to tell everyone how drunk you got the other night? What if you have family on your facebook or even a teacher and now they know that. Facebook and other social networking sites have consequences so we have to be careful as to what we post because we don't know who will get a hold of the information we post.

-56 year old teacher loses her job of teaching after 30 years because of deragitory facebook posts about students -Facebook is opening up peoples profiles -Facebook protest- sign off for one day -facebook has ALL of your information
 * Facebook obsession notes: **

3-3-11: **Social Networking: obsession or necessity**

Although facebook is a free site to use it still has to make money like any other company. It does this with advertisements. Companies pay to put up their ads and can narrow down the audience they want to see their ads by using our facebook information like our gender, age, where we live, hobbies and likes/dislikes. This really isn't an infringment on privacy because when you use facebook you're agreeing to their terms and if you don't like it then don't use it. People need to be careful with what they do on facebook, but i don't think that facebook is at fault with our privacy. The government shouldn't really play a role in social networking in my opinion. Is it necessary for the government to be able to see all our personal information? They know all the facts about us, but they don't need to know the details. If they want to inform us about something then they should just leave it to the media or put it on the news. The government doesn't really need a facebook page or twitter.

-Obama used facebook to campaign -white house has a fb page -There is a government team team based on social networking (Communications New Media) -Politicians all over the world use facebook -Social Media has allowed the public to be empowered like never before -70% of facebook users are outside of the U.S -Taos police use fb to fight crime (find convicts) -Mark Zuckerberg has made $6 million off of facebook -People Question Zuckerberg's privacy when IM scandal surfaces
 * Facebook obsession notes: **

3-7-11: **Social Networking: Publishing or Finding**

My paper must be: first line : my respnse to facebook obsession 12 font double spaced 5 catagories: history, social affects, financial aspects, benefiets and dangers and future and outlook [|Facebook Obsession Powerpoint]

3-11-11 to 3-14-11: **Knol**

Check out my profile! https://profiles.google.com/alysonfusaro Check out my knol on the facebook obsession: []

3-15-11: **Investigating World Events** "Civic Journalism" sounds like media that is meant to report the truth of what's going on around us rather than propaganda. Basically civic journalism is us. We have no need to distort the truth, we only want to spread our knowledge.


 * Egypt's Revolution and Japan's Tsunami**

__**Japan's Tsunami**__ WHO: Japanese citizens and tourists WHAT: Japan was hit with an earthquake of an 8.9 magnitude, not only causing damage through the quake, but triggering a devastating Tsunami. WHEN: March 11th 2011 WHERE: Japan WHY: The earth's tectonic plates shifted causing an earthquake and a tsunami to form. It wiped out houses, people, roads, debris etc. HOW: This has affected not only Japan, but all other countries. Families and friends have been lost in Japan and so have homes and peoples lives. It will take some time for Japan to recover from this disaster.

WHO: Egyptian citizens WHAT: Egyptian citizens are protesting their president of 30 years because they feel he isn't fit to be the leader of Egypt anymore. WHEN: Protests started January 25th 2011 WHERE: All over Egypt, one of the biggest protests is in Kyro. WHY: The citizens of Egypt are fed up with the constant poverty, high unemployment rates etc. and their president isn't doing anything. They want him to step down, at first he refused, but in the end he has. HOW: The constant protest and violent uprisings finally made the Egyptian president step down, but he didn't go down without a few lives being lost.
 * __Egypt's Revolution__**

3 Academic Questions:

What was the cause of the Tsunami? The earth's tectonic plates shifted causing an earthquake and a tsunami to form. It wiped out houses, people, roads, debris etc. Why would he citizens of Egypt protest against their president? The citizens of Egypt are fed up with the constant poverty, high unemployment rates etc. and their president isn't doing anything. They want him to step down, at first he refused, but in the end he has. What kind of devastation has the Tsunami caused?

This has affected not only Japan, but all other countries. Families and friends have been lost in Japan and so have homes and peoples lives. It will take some time for Japan to recover from this disaster.

3-17-11: **Capturing Topics in a Visual Story**

People are more attracted to pictures than text because with pictures you can see for yourself. Words leave too much to your imagination and can be interpreted differently, meanwhile pictures are what they are. For instance, if you read a description of what somebody looks like you really don't what they look like for sure because words leave so much uncertainty. If you were to see a picture of somebody you know what they look like, no uncertainty or vagueness. People are more attracted to visualizations because it is more informative than words.

3-22-11: **Using Picasa as an embedded slideshow**

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3-25-11: **Prezi**
I think I'll get a 23 on my prezi which is about the facebook obsession. I have 7 sections, I just didn't underline each one to separate them, but you'll realize that I cover all the different aspects of the facebook obsession. Some of my grammar and spelling is probably a little off because I'm not the best at spelling, but I don't think I spelled too much wrong or made too many grammatical errors. In all I feel I did really good on my Prezi, but I know it's not perfect so a 23 is a reasonable grade for my Prezi. media type="custom" key="8866624"

3-29-11 & 3-30-11: **What the Blog!?** I would enhance blogging by making everything hands on.

3-31-11: **Creating a Glog according to rubric** I think my strongest part of my glog is the design. I think i made it pretty creative and it meets all the work requirements. I'm not sure about how well my message is. I'm pretty sure my message is right, I did the facebook obsession and i wrote about how it changed the way we socialize. I'm not completely sure if that was the message for that topic, but overall I think I did pretty well.

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4-5-11: **If the World Were a Village** It's important to understand the different perspectives of the world today. We may feel we are aware of the world around us, but really we don't know anything about the world except for what's around us or what the news tell us. We need to know about the people around us and their perspective in life. For instance, what does an orphan in India living on the streets see in the world? Or what does a Norwegian diplomat see in this world? It's important to know about the different perspectives in the world, so we can improve the world and know how to.

4-6-11: The global issue that interests me the most is energy. We have so much renewable energy to power the world infinitely, but how do we use that energy? 70% of the world's energy is from fossil fuels. If we have enough renewable resources that won't pollute the world then why don't we use them? This is a global issue that is affecting this world. I feel this is important for the future of earth and it really piques my interest. If i research this topic for my project and can find out about these alternative renewable resources, how they work and the benefits they'll have for our dying earth. [] [] [] There are enough renewable energy sources to power our planet indefinitely. How can we make better use of them? By finding a cheap way to do it! **4/7: Researching your Topic & Organizing your findings**
 * Sites like googledocs, google bookmarks and picassa are great for storing your information.**


 * 4-11-11** **Students Understand the Requirements for the Global Research Project**
 * I chose a glog, Picasa and Prezi as my publishing technologies. I'll use the Prezi as to how our world is being polluted with these fossil fuels and they are finite. The Picasa's message will be we should use renewable resources and I'll show all the different types of renewable energy. The Glog will be on why we should use the alternative fuel sources and how we will end up saving our earth.**

5-4-11**: Peer Review** The most important aspect of the project to grade would be design and information. The layout has to be creative and easy to read, the person reading it has to understand the problem. The information also has to presented in a fun and interesting to read way. You want t reader to be interested in your topic and want to read about what you have to say.

5-5-11: It's important to have multiple perspectives because we need different opinions and perspectives, so we can see the situation in another persons eyes. Having multiple perspectives can change our perspective because we'll learn to see things in different ways.

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5-13-11:**Social Media Friday**

There shouldn't be monitoring over social media unless a problem is directly introduced to officials. If someone is being bullied over facebook then they should notify their parents or some sort of authority figure to take care of the problem. It's an invasion of privacy if our facebook pages are being monitored, especially if we aren't doing anything wrong. Some of the charges I read about are ludicrous like document 5's story about a boy who got arrested and expelled for making status' about not liking the world. He made no threats to any specific individual, the school or anything. The only time action should be taken is like in document 1 and 3. The problems got taken care of because the vicitms brought attention to the authorities, or the terms of agreement were broken on facebook bringing attention to officials. If people want help with the harassment they are experiencing then they should say something or else there should be no monitoring over social media sites like facebook.

Article 1 12 year old Leslie has been a victim of cyber bullying over facebook. She was friends with these 2 girls in middle school, but they got into an argument causing a fall out. The 2 other girls harassed Leslie over facebook by posting provocative pictures on her wall and inboxing her sexual pictures and inviting her to "have sex". Leslie would cry and experience other forms of depression, but when she brought this to the attention of her mother, the problem was quickly met with action. The 2 girls are now being charged and are going to court and can go through 30 days of juvenille detention.

Article 3 A 14 year old boy is being sent to Juvinille detention for sexual harassment and invasion of privacy for posting naked pictures of his girlfriend on facebook. He pressured her into sending him a picture of hersellf nude and she finally gave in to him and sent him one. He then used that picture to blackmail her into having sex with him, but she refused and he posted the picture on facebook. It got taken down because it went against facebook's terms, but when he reposted it, it was met with the attention of cops.

Article 5 A college boy was sent to jail for his facebook status. All his facebook status' were about not liking this world, he didn't threaten anyone or anything making this a ludicrous reason to go to jail. People reported him to the campus officials because they felt uncomfortable with his status's. If they felt so uncomfortable then they should have just deleted him from their friends list. This is an unjust reason to go to jail.

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