Bi-Weekly Blog Post #3

My week was normal, nothing really special. We got our report cards, I'm not so happy. When we first got our report cards I almost cried, tears started to build up in my eyes. I just put my head on the table and went through what my  life would be like if I had those grades all the time, no job, mo money, no school, no life. Okay, that was really dramatic but I did almost cry. We got a Renaissance project that we have to present in front of the whole 9th grade and 10th grade, it's going to be horrid. Worst part is that I have to do it twice, once for my science class and another for my history class. If we don't do this project we can't go on our field trip. I don't have my phone this weekend so I will probably get lots of it done.

Internet and tacos. Fiesta_Tacos.  Flickr. 23 May 2011. Media. 4 Oct. 2013

New terms this week:

• Online Predator: a commonly used term for someone who uses the Internet to develop appropriate relationships with kids or teens.
• Risky: potentially harmful to one’s emotional or physical well-being
• Manipulate: trying to influence someone to do something they might not otherwise do, for one’s own benefit.
• Stereotype: a popular belief about a group of people, based on assumptions that are often false.

One of the new web 2.0 tools I learned to use is BrainShark. Brainshark is a website where you can upload your presentation and add sound. You can speak for your presentations and not even be there to present it. If you hate talking for a presentation in front of everyone this website really helps. Another idea, if you can stand up in front of everyone but you can't talk, try and lip-sync to what you say on the presentation.

Brainshark is a nice tool to have to promote your business or to present to your class but some teachers or bosses will not allow this, which is a negative. A positive is that you don't have to speak in front of anyone, your presentation does it for you. 

 For digital literacy I learned how to use the Internet more correctly and how I cannot base people off of stereotypes. I learned how some people can use the Internet for bad things and how they deceive you. I was surprised of how what I thought was all wrong and that there are predators that are my age and they can track me and they can hurt my reputation as a good person if I do one thing wrong. 
I'm going to make sure I don't do anything I regret on the computer or send anything without someones permission. I am going to use the Internet properly and not do anything that could hurt me or anyone around me. I'm not going to base people off of stereotypes or tell anyone that I don't know personally my personal information.