Today, Today, Today

What I wish to accomplish in before time runs out.

But to where, it's all typed, I actually have the facts, and maybe someone would like to read it.


-Until Next Time!

Photo surplus.

Even though you can see basically any image your heart desires at the click of your mouse on google it doesn't mean that you can just copy and paste it and call it as your own or use it for what ever you want. Why you may ask, I'll tell you why. In my last blog I discussed plagiarism, this is basically a form of that. You are taking something from a website and calling it your own. You may not be doing this intentionally but you still are basically saying this is my piece of art.

Stock photography is the supply of photographs licensed for specific uses. It is used to fulfill the needs of creative assignments instead of hiring a photographer. Today, stock images can be presented in searchable online databases.

Ruub. Cchair. 15 Aug. 2010. www.sxc.hu. N.p., 15 Aug. 2010. Web. 10 Sept. 2010.
     <http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1302859>.

Bill Gates didn't say that I did!

Plagiarism, the lazy americans favorite pass time. Plagiarism is defined as -the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language andthoughts of another author and the representation of themas one's own original work.[1] Students are the most common offenders of this crime. The punishment, instead of coming from the state comes from the school district. The consequences can range from detention to ISS, from Parent notification to a behavioral contract. A way to avoid these punishments is by creating citations for any and everything you use that does not come directly from your own brain. Even if you read something and reworded it, that doesn't matter you have to cite it to show your reader that you are not trying to pass someone else's work off on your own, or trying to reword it a bit to make them think you wrote it. Plagiarism is such a big deal that websites have now been created to prevent it. Teachers can now log on and copy just a sentence of a students work and if something pops up, and their work is not cited, it can be thought of as plagiarism. Websites like Plagiarism.org have mission statements stating- Our mission is to help people all over the world prevent plagiarism and restore integrity to written work.[2]

WebSite

"About Plagiarism.org." Plagiarism.org. N.p., 9 Sept. 2010. Web. 10 Sept. 2010. Web Site "About Plagiarism.org." Plagiarism.org. N.p., 9 Sept. 2010. Web. 10 Sept. 2010.

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G'day mate!

I am going to research and plan a trip, while I do this I am hoping that my researching skills will vastly improve. Whether I take this trip doesn't matter I'm going to learn everything I can about the country I chose. Learn as much as I can about them, and teach you as I go!

Australia, a large country full of 19,913,144 people, and seven states. Mainly Caucasian people live there, because most people there are of British or Irish decent, but there are also Asian people and a small pre cent age of aboriginal people. English is the primary language used in Australia. Yet their colorful vocabulary, accent, phonetics system and slang can take a lot of getting used to.

Thats what I've got so far!

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Who you calling Netiquette, you cyberethic?

             I guess because I never considered yelling at someone or confessing my undying love for someone over a social networking site, I never thought anyone else would either. Apparently I was wrong people obviously do it a lot, enough so that schools monitor students when they get online through the schools network. People do this enough so that Universities like the Universities of Illinois feels the need to to have someone sit down and write out rules for people to follow while they are on the internet and using social networking sites. People do this enough that they have created words like "Netiquette" and "Cyberethics" which just mean the rules and etiquette other people assume everyone should follow while they kill time online.



So for the people who don't know

• If someone sends you a harassing e-mail, don't turn around and send an e-mail that is just as mean, if not worse, be the better person wait, cool off. If you still feel like you should respond wait till the next day, by then you'll have calmed down enough to where you can calmly write back to that person back how they made you feel rather then just slamming them on everything you can think of.
• Don't download illegal music online, someone worked are to create that music they at least deserve the $1.29 Itunes makes you pay for that song.
• Along with downloading illegal music, don't go to sketchy sites to download malicious scripts or anything else you want. Most likely while you are watching it download a virus is also downloading in the background. Be smart your not suppose to do it in the first place, so don't.
• On this topic of taking things that aren't yours you can't make copies of CD's or DVD's to give to other people, that is illegal as well.
• But if you have a class and you lost the homework assignment or their syllabus and their teacher has it on their website, you CAN take that they have that there for you to use. You will not break any rules or laws.

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More and More Pages

Pages is a program on Macs, similar to Word Perfect on all the computers that work with Windows .

Some computers that use Windows are:

• Acer
• Dell
• Toshiba

My Task today was to play around on Pages and figure out how it works. While doing this I could see how easy it would be for someone, who say owns a coffee house, could sit down and design their letter head, brochure, menu, business cards, and much more. Not only could they create everything on the same program but, they can give them all the same design with a simple click of the mouse. With Windows you would have to go through and one by one select how you want everything to individually look. Pages makes creating clever things easy and almost painless.

Hold Shift and command and then press three to take a screen shot.

On Pages I created what their coffee shop poster would look like, Pages consider your Program mastered.

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Me in the town of Meez.

Today I was trying to make an avatar to put on my blog, as a way to liven things up. I found two sites http://www.voki.com/ and http://www.meez.com/ I played around on both sites to see which one would give me an avatar that would look most like me, but before we get into that, what's up with the word "avatar" where did that come from. Wikipedia told me the word avatar comes from the Hindu word Avatara, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar . This refers to a deliberate descent of a deity from heaven to earth, and is mostly translated into English as "incarnation", but more accurately as "appearance". So does that mean by me creating this avatar, or Avatara, is this like me going from earth, or the world I'm in, to another world in the computer. This makes since after playing with both avatar making sites, because after you make it you are then invited to the world created on that site meez.com shows you a map of their city. Now it was time to find which website allowed me to make the most accurate image of me. Voki.com was confusing, instead of just giving you a few skin colors to chose from, it made you create your skin color. Which included color wheels and other things of that nature. I like choices but I don't wanna have that much control. Along with the confusion of creating my skin color, the clothes were not very detailed. They were plain shirts changing in color and patterns but there was never a shirt that just jumped out of the computer and looked like anything I would ever wear. But Meez.com was great with tons of detailed clothing options, numerous about of hairstyles and backgrounds, and just a few skin colors it was simple and easy to create an avatar that looked some what similar to me. Mission Complete.


-Until next time