Online Behavior Blog Posting

1. You are the young manager of an ice cream parlor that is beloved by local families. You are looking to hire some teens for the summer, when the shop is open late every evening. You require an application and at least one reference. It occurs to you that you could look online to find out a bit more about the applicants. Where would you look? And what might you find that would make you not hire someone?
2. You are finally old enough to join a social networking site and set up your own profile. You spend a lot of time making the profile look cool and you have links to many friends. Your mom makes her own profile and asks you to be her “friend.” Is that fair? Explain your thinking.
3. You have a social network profile and are smart enough to use the privacy settings to keep your stuff away from the eyes of people other than your friends. A friend of yours thinks a silly photo of you in your underwear is funny, copies the photo, and places it on her public profile. How might you feel? What might be the unintended results of such a photo in a public place?
4. You work at YXZ University. You have to choose a few talented high school students to spend six weeks on your college campus between their sophomore and junior years. What would you want to know about these students before inviting them to live on campus? What could you find out about them online?
5. You are a college freshman. Your cousin, who is a high school freshman, asks to “friend” you on a social networking site. You like your cousin and don’t want to hurt his feelings, but you say “no.” What are some reasons you might not want your cousin to see your profile and friends?

Relfections of Alexa

September 16, 2011
After doing the Alexa assignment , discuss reasons for using this site as a high school student. Give specific examples. In other words, how could this site be used to help with your high school assignments

Web 2.0

September 15, 2011
After completing the Wayback Machine assignment do this blog posting:
Choose 1 (one) of the sites that you compared using the Wayback Machine and discuss in detail the benefits of Web 2.0 technology for that web site. In other words, how does Web 2.0 technology help users on the site, how does Web 2.0 help the site become more popular, if you are using a commercial site discuss how Web 2.0 helps to attract customers.

Take Action

Teens are often called 'early adopters' because they are often the first age group to use new technologies or find new ways to use existing technologies. Write about the positives and negatives of social networking sites, messaging, and cell phone technologies used by teens. You might want to refer to a recent incident in your community or find a news article to which you can react.

Reflecting on 9/11 and Being Patriotic

This blog should be a reflective posting.

Share with us where you were and what you were doing during the 9/11 attacks.

Share with us how you felt at the time of hearing about or seeing the tragedy unfold.

Has the tragedy of 9/11 changed your life in any way? If so, how.

What does being an American and being Patriotic mean to you personally?
Describes the freedoms that you enjoy and maybe even take for granted as an American.

Describe how life might different for you if you were an Arab-American student in the US after the 9/11 attacks.

Please take some time to really reflect on what being a patriot means and how your life is shaped.

Lastly, find a blog that is dedicated to the attacks of 9/11 and share it with us. Tell use about the blog, why you like it, and what the general 'tone' of the blog is.

What is the Internet

Using the following link you are to respond to the questions. Answers must be in your own words! Use complete sentences please.

http://www.learnthenet.com/web-at-a-glance/start/index.php

Describe the Internet.
How long has the Internet been around?
Who developed it and why?
Who controls the Internet?
Who makes the rules that govern how the Internet is used?
How has the Internet evolved?
How has the original design of the Internet affected its development?
How do you think the Internet will be used in the future?
How does the Internet affect your life?

Impressions of Blogging

Please post on the following questions:

Do you have a blog other than the one you created for class? If so, what type of blog is it and what do you use it for?

Do you follow blogs other than the class blog? If so, what type of blogs do you follow?

How do you see blogging as an important aspect of communication in today's world?

How does blogger compare with Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other social networking sites?

Following the Blog

Your first assignment after creating your own blog is to make sure that you are a 'follower' to the class blog. There are a variety of ways that you can go about following a blog.

PLEASE make sure that your display name does display your name and not something like 'soccergirl123'. I MUST be able to look at my follower list and see that you are following.

Blog Rules

Hello Online A and welcome to our class blog.


Blogging is one of the topics we will discuss in class and what better way to learn than to use a blog. We will use this blog throughout the term in a couple different ways.


It may be to respond to something we do in class. It may be to post work, or comment on other's work. A blog has many different uses. We also will have each of you create a blog so that you can see how easy it is.


Before we begin blogging there are a few ground rules!
1. All posts, must use appropriate school language and be completed in paragraph form. When you post, you should be using complete sentences with proper grammar and spelling. NO: U, R, UR, i, CUZ, etc.


2. When posting a comment, you may agree or disagree with another students comment. However, you must state why you feel that way and must do it in a manner that is polite and non-judgmental. The comments need to be non-personal and refrain from sarcasm and put-downs.


3. You must comment on every post, it is an assignment (unless otherwise stated).


4. You must address the topics and questions posted on the blog. You cannot simply write, “I agree.”