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__**This is my class journal**__

2/7/11 - ZOOM Activity

The image that best represents my time at C.S.I.H.S.I.S would probably be the image that depicted the man sleeping on the cruise ship in the chair with paper in his. This represents me because over the past year and a half I have not been putting all of my effort into school.

__**Notes on Social Media**__ To me social media means connecting people with each other from great distances. Or connecting people together to interact with each other using devices or a website, such as myspce, twitter, facebook.

I believe Social Media plays a very large role in our day to day life. The role it plays is connecting people to each other, people use it for their work when they want to interact with other people in other countries. Social Media would play an important role with a businessman who wants to conduct his buisness over seas in China, but he doesn't have time to make a trip to China, he would use some sort of Social Media to connect to China.

Some effects Social Media has on the world are connecting people to one another. You may use a website that is accounted for Social Media like myspace, twitter, and you may find out that you had a relative you never knew about. One important event with social media is in Egypt, people were using different kinds of Social Media to inform other people about the riots they were going to throw against the Egyptian government.


 * __Social Media-__** technologies that allow people to communicate and share thoughts and information from everywhere and anywhere, and allows those people to collaborate (feedback).


 * 2/8/11 __Pros & Cons of Social Media__**

- Pro- connect people from one country to another - Con- anyone can write on a Social Media website - Con- not all information is reliable or true on a Social Media website - Pro- you can find a family member or relative you never knew you've had - Pro- helps companies advertise their businesses - Con- there is a chance of cyber bullying - Pro- you can catch up with old friends - Pro- find information not found in newspapers or books - Con- some advertisements you find may be false - Con- you cant take back information it stays on Social Media forever

To me social media is a 10 in my life. I chose 10 because everyday I play xbox live and I go on to facebook.com. I use these two Social Media's because literally every day I use those two Social Networking. I believe the amount of time a teenager spends on Social Networking is around 60 hours a week including week ends.

**GLOBAL LEADERSHIP** **2/11/11 - XPLANE & Introduction to the idea of Global Leadership**

** //What is your concept of a global leader?// Express in a word (individually), and discuss (discuss=explain) **

To me the concept of a global leader is one who is: intelligent, honest, caring, open minded, respectful, strong, trustworthy. A person who is good under great pressure and knows how to keep their cool. Someone who is intelligent and who has gone to some sort of acceptance into higher learning. example (college)


 * Notes on "Imagine Leadership" video**
 * - it can bring peace, shapes naions communities, 923 mill slum, 1 in 6 illiterate, 9 miles polar melt, 24.7 amazon forest, 1 in 5 internet access, 340,000 computers thrown away a day, 80% of humanity lives off less 10$ a day, 73.9 mill c02 a day **


 * 2/14/11- Global Leadership continued**


 * I think TIME is going to choose the new Egyptian president as the new person of the year because of the new reforms ad ideas he has for the country of Egypt. This will help change the country from its old dictator rule.**

Passage Finder: You can learn more about how Americans live just by looking at the backgrounds of YouTube videos—those rumpled bedrooms and toy-strewn basement rec rooms—than you could from 1,000 hours of network television.
 * This quote stood out to me because it shows just how far we have progressed in our technologies from where we were ten years go, having other people in other countries learn about some of our culture just by looking at the background of a youtube video. **

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 * 2/17/11 Social Responsibility **

I believe that there should not be a responsibility on the internet, like how the internet is now, they should keep it the way it is. I think once the government or whoever does start to put restrictions on the internet, their not gonna stop. Every once in a while, I believe if the government does create restrictions, that they will keep creating more and more restrictions until they will eventually have control over the internet. Our internet community might fall under some dictatorship regime where the government or whoever will control what goes on and off the internet. I really don't want to end up like North Korea.


 * __Notes on TED video (technology entertainment design)__**

its hard to predict things are gonna happen, new technology renaissance, life excpectancy has doubled in last 25 years, last time was in stone age, income gone up, illiteracy has gone down, mobile phones powerful, almost able to replicate body parts, no one knows whos gonna have that power, no pension after 2030, by 2030 more nano technological sciences, by 2030 one person could create a bio pathogen that could wipe out the world


 * 2/18/11 Social Responsibility Part 2**

Some implications that are on me, are that I would be able to contribute to a blog when I would want to. I would be able to sell or advertise anything that I would want. Although there would be consequences if I sold anything I want, such as getting sued or risk jail time. As a consumer I would be wary to trust just any site, such as wikipedia for information, but I would try and find a legitimate site. As a producer I would be able to advertise the projects I would be selling, but I would still have to be careful about what I'm selling, as not to get sued.

I think the phrase the video Republic means its a video on how most videos are public. They are allowed to be viewed by everyone, not just one one person or group of people. I am not part of the video republic because I have never sent anything out over the internet as a video, I was never a producer. I do not think private companies should try and __own__ any part of the internet. It should be free to anyone and everyone, no one has a right to own it. Also the whole thing on freedom of speech, it should be allowed in countries where its not for people to have free speech over the internet.
 * Notes on the video Republic**

July 17, 2006, explosions, builidings on fire, turing people into reporters video, i am watever i say i am on the inernet, and expressive democracy, shows emotions, stories,


 * 3/1/11 Social Networking, Obsession or Necessity**
 * It is a positive sign because it shows how social networking can be exceptionally amazing. Some of the dangers could be that it was not the girls real biological mom. It could have been completely random person, waiting to snatch her. **

Dangers- there may be some stalkers on facebook you would have to watch out for. Some people may use facebook to bully others. It could destroy careers. Social- two thirds of every one who uses facebook returns to the site again for a second time. There are one million new users on facebook every week. Facebook has surpassed google as the number one used website on the internet in the U.S.A. One out of twelve people in the world use facebook. Benefits- reconnect with relatives you never knew you had. Police can find criminals
 * Financial- Facebook obtains income from adds. Facebook is estimated to be about fifty billion dollars **

I do not think that marc zuckerberger is responsible for stealing the idea. He used the idea to make a website, one that has yet to be created, and if he didn't create the website, someone else would. My initial reaction to someone/some company holding so much personal information about people is being scared. Scared to know and realize that someone knows everything about you. I think there should always be consequences for what people put up, that is, if its inappropriate. Facebook should be monitoring if something is inappropriate or not, and they should have the power to take it off their website or not.
 * 3/2/11**

Yesterday we had learned that Facebook makes its money by using having companies pay Facebook to put their ads on the Facebook website. Another way Facebook makes money is that it sells your ip address with your information on it to other companies as well. I do not think it is fair, but seeing as no major problems have occurred so far, I don't think that it is too bad that they are doing it. I do not think the government should have any way shape or form when it comes to the internet. They have no right to tell us what website to go on, or what not to go on. I believe that if the government takes a step into the social media and internet, we would be one step closer to a communist regime.
 * 3/3/11**

Facebook Notes : co-creator of Facebook helped get Obama in for getting people to follow him on a Facebook page. When the new Iranian leader came into office, protests started to happen, and to organize the protests, they told everyone on facebook where to be. Facebook is also used to find fugitives, cops are making their own facebook for their precincts.

My Knol http://knol.google.com/k/anonymous/the-facebook-obsession/9o0jpu4hkax7/1#view


 * 3/15/11 __"Investigating World Events"__**


 * I think the term "Civic Journalism" means to be a civilian in a country where their is strife or or things that have great meaning or impact, then to write about it for the good of other people in the country as a reporter. **

__Egypt Protests__ Who- President Mubarak corrupt leader of Egypt, civilians of Egypt, 384 confirmed dead, 6467 injured What- egyptian civilians protest their leader for a new leader,used facebook to contact for rallying points Where- all of Egypt, mainly Cairo When- January 25, until February 11 when Mubarak resigned Why- Egypt wanted a new leader, the civilians were tired of their leader of 30 years and wanted change How- by contacting each other egyptian civilians over Facebook, as a way to get into contact with each other to tell when and where they were protesting.

Who- the people mostly on the western cost of Japan What- an earthquake of the magnitude 8.9, causing a tsunami Where-the costs and most of Japans cities When- March 11, 2011 Why- the tsunami was caused by the devastating earthquake, the tsunami caused a nuclear plant to explode How-
 * __Tsunami in Japan__**


 * Monday 3/21/11 Using Picasa as an embedded slideshow**

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 * Tuesday 3/22/11 Picasa Slideshow**

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 * Friday 3/25/11**
 * This is my first prezi**


 * 3/29/11 What the blog!?**

I think I will receive an 8 on the getting out the message part on my glog, because I am conveying my message clearly on my glog. I also believe I will receive an 8 on the overall theme because my theme is easily understandable. For the design I guess a 6 because Ihaven't worked hard enough on it. On the connections part I think a 2 because i didn't use many connections. For the student comprehending the glog, I would put an 8 because I fully understand what is happening in Japan.
 * 3/31/11 Creating a GLOG according to Rubric**

Its important to understand multiple perspectives in today's wold, because we don't want to become ignorant. Ignorance breeds fear, the next thing after fear would be anger and hate which leads to racism and violence. So when were ignorant we don't understand other cultures and people.
 * 4/5/11 If the world were a village**

My project was on energy sources, and better ways to make use of them. During this project i have learned many facts about different sources of energy we use, some good and some harmful. I learned that coal is the primary source of energy we use today. But i also learned that coal won't exactly last forever, so were going to have to switch to other sources of energy. I learned alot about hydro ansd solar power.
 * 5/3/11 Reflection of project**


 * 5/13/11**
 * Article 1:** I am thoroughly disgusted with the way that poor girl leslie was treated. I mean this poor girl was only in sixth grade, and the two who bullied her wrote vulgar things on her wall, and messaged sexual things from her facebook to other people. I mean its ludicrous there only in sixth grade for gad sake. Yet I don't believe that there should have been an forms of monitoring on that subject, only because it was the girls fault for saving her password to her facebook on the other girls computer.
 * Article 2:** Just as in article 1, I am yet again disgusted. I mean to rank girls like that and put it on facebook is pure idiotic. I as a boy can understand if he made that list and just showed it to one or two of his friends without giving them copies of it. But putting it on Facebook and making copies of it is just mentally challenged. That kid deserves whatever punishment he's getting.
 * Article 3:** And once more with this third article I am again disgusted. What kind of person blackmails there girlfriend into having sex with them? At least the dumb kid got arrested and is facing juvenile detention. As for monitoring on this case, I'm glad Facebook took the photo of that poor girl down. Imagine if Facebook didn't have it's social media monitoring, that picture would of stayed on the internet and the poor girl would be humiliated, so thank god for those few social media monitoring restrictions.