Bi-Weekly Blog Post 1

       Hey, everyone! This is my first blog post! My weeks been pretty good. Its only my second week in high school, I'm still scared! I am getting used to it though, maybe now I wont get so nervous and actually pass my tests. Yeah, I'm not doing so good so far even in my easiest class I got grades like a 75%!!! Yes, 75% is bad.
       I haven't made that many friends, well, not in my own grade level. Most of my friends are sophomores, they told me that I'm only freshman that will actually talk to them. That makes me feel all nice inside ^.^ The sophomores are really awesome, not like I thought they would be. What I don't understand is how as soon as we walk into the building on our first day we are already in a social group, so you could walk in and be a nerd, popular or just in the middle, I'm in the middle and I like it!

FickrCC, Friendly Greetings Awesome Smiley, January, 21 2009

       Schoology is a new web 2.0 tool I learned. It is a  Facebook for school. It really helps you organize your school work and helps you keep up with things that are happening at your school. You can take test and quizzes online and turn in assignments. But, you have to get a code from your teachers to make one.

These are some new words for digital literacy I learned:

• Fair use: The ability to use a small amount of someone’s creative work without permission, but only in certain ways.

• Commercial Purposes: A use in connection with a business, usually for profit.

• Copyright: A law that protects a creator’s ownership of and control over the work he or she creates, requiring other people to get the creator’s permission before they copy, share, or perform that work.

• Creative Commons: A kind of copyright that makes it easy for people to copy, share, and build someone’s creative work- as long as they give the creator credit for it.

• Public Domain: Creative work that’s not protected by copyright and its therefore free for you to use however one wants.
  
  
  Learning all of these digital literacy terms I'm going to think about things before I do them online. I'm Going to make sure that I use things that are creative commons or public domain and make sure to give credit to the writer or creator.