In Steph’s speech on social welfare ,she used an appeal to emotion. In order to try to get the proposal passed which was that all people who attend the assembly are paid , she tried to make people feel bad for the poor. To get her points across , she asked people who were rich , how they would feel if they were not so well-of , in order to get them to think about a situation in which they were poor and how they would want this proposal to pass because it will help them.
In Jasper’s speech about going to war , he used an appeal to character. He said that he should go to war because he has had experience from being in the past war and he knows what can make our army better , as well as , what weakens our army. Another thing that he said is that he is loyal to Athens ,which I thought meant that he will go to war to help make Athens the way that it was before the previous war. His speech made a lot of people in the assembly believe that since he had previous experience with war , that he would be one of the best people to go and that is why we sent him to war.
According to Burgess and Green , YouTube is different from more traditional forms of broadcasting because it has some of the aspects of traditional media but it has changed the way mainstream media is broadcasted. Unlike traditional forms of broadcasting , YouTube allows its users to make amateur videos that show their talents in order to be able to achieve success and fame. Burgess and Green stated in the reading that , “YouTube has been mythologized as literally a way to “broadcast yourself into fame and fortune.”(22) This means that YouTube was made in order to allow people to gain success by doing things that they are good at.
Burgess and Green said that , ” In press coverage, YouTube is often used to express familiar anxieties about young people and digital media , especially in relation to risks , uses and misuses of Internet and mobile phone technologies.” (17) The youth are assumed to be the default users of YouTube which means that many of them are new and undisciplined. They explain how young people are agents and victims because they are responsible for majority of YouTube’s content that is teen-age shenanigans but are also at risk of being exposed to footage of some very offensive and appalling footage like autopsies and racist propaganda. Another way that YouTube makes the youth victims is cyber-bullying by people posting videos that insult or humiliate them or by uploading videos that contain footage of acts of violence. But the people posting these videos are the ones who are causing these people to be victims. Burgess and Green than say that , “The new category of cyberbullying , which academia has been complicit in creating , is a good illustration of how moral panics around youth , violence, and the risk are linked to existing media effects discourses, producing a media panic.”(19)
The distinction between YouTube and traditional forms of broadcasting matters because of copyright infringement of YouTube users. Companies have accused YouTube for illegally distributing their content and making profit off of it. . Burgess and Green state that , ” … – copyright infringement sets up a discourse about the threat to the entertainment industries posed by empowered but unchecked consumers.”(30) This means that YouTube can not be blamed for this because they actual company is not doing this , YouTube’s users are. Burgess and Green believe that when talking about copyright infringement , YouTube needs to be seen as a business and a cultural resource that was co-created by its users.
In this chapter , Solove talks about how websites use cookies , information sharing , web bugs and digital rights management to show how websites collect your information . He also talks about how the websites not only use them to collect information but they use them to store your information and share your information with other websites .This information allows websites to learn what the user likes so that they can target advertisements for that user. Even though is could be a could thing for the websites , this is taking away people’s privacy .
Solove says “A cookie is a small text file of codes that is deployed into the user’s compter when she downloads a web page .” This means that when you use the internet on the computer , the cookie remembers the history of internet activity. This is because the website saves a unique identification code into the cookie . He also explains that cookies have limits . The limits are that cookies are tagged only to particular computers and not particular users except if the website requires you to log into it and that cookies can only be stored by websites placed on the computer and not by other websites.
Information sharing is where one website will share all of somebody’s information with other website without the person knowing. To explain what information sharing is , he uses DoubleClick as an example. He says “When a person visits a website , it often takes a quick detour to DoubleClick . DoubleClick accesses its cookie on the person’s computer and looks up its profile about the person. ….” He then talks about how DoubleClick uses that information in order to determine what type of advertisements the person would be the responsive to. He then says that it happens so fast that the person doesn’t even know .
Web bug is ” a hidden snippet of code that can gather data about a person.” Web bugs can be embedded in web pages and emails (spam). Along with this web bugs can also collect information when a person is exploring a website and some can even collect information from the person’s computer files . Most people know what web bugs are and understand the damage that can be done from web bugs so they try to stay away from them.
Digital Rights Management is collects information about people as they use the internet for media type things like music. Digital Rights Management is used to prevent privacy and is used by copyright holders. Solove says “DRM technologies thus ‘create records of intellectual exploration , one of the most personal and private of activities’ “. They use DRM in order to identify the people who are illegally downloading things.
The collection mechanisms concern me because nothing is private anymore and people can get all types of information about others. People are using the internet for everything now and these mechanisms allow it to be easy for people to get information about practically anyone and everyone .
Article : http://www.deathpenalty.org/article.php?id=128
This article is by the parents of Laura Wilcox , who was murdered on January 10,2001 . In this article they are talking about how they don’t believe in the death penalty and how they think the man who killed their daughter should be fully accountable. They say at the end that the death penalty is about revenge and retribution and that if the courts decide to use the death penalty for anyone it should be because it either deterred crime and saved lives or the result of the death penalty was a reduction in state costs. They said that the expressions from their community were a lot about how the murderer should get what he deserves and these did not make them feel better about the death of their daughter. A statement they made was that If closure means healing , that healing must come from within , not from the fate of the murder . After reading the article , I think what they mean by this is that the victim’s families should focus on grieving about their loss and try to move on in life without that person , rather than focusing on what happens to the murderer.
Partner : Tony Varga
Price / Value : How much the app costs and how much you are getting for your money.
Performance : How well the app does what it is supposed to do.
Educational Value : How much you can learn from the app.
Ease of Use : How easy is the app to use. Does it require some getting use to or are you able to just pick it up and use it.
Interactivity : Are you able to interact with the app.
Customer Support : Is there a place in the app where you can go to for help.
Partner : Tony Varga
The four apps we chose were Frog Dissection , Rat Dissection , Science 360 and Brain Pop.
“Frog Dissection” is a biology educational app. This app does exactly what it says, it allows you to virtually dissect a frog on your iPad. The app guides you step by step as you use gestures to dissect a virtual frog on the screen. Frog Dissection receives nearly universal praise wherever I looked. Most reviewers praised how useful the app was, how easy it is to use, and how informative the app was. In a conclusion of a review from wirededucator.com, the reviewer wrote “Best Science app we have ever reviewed. A perfect match for the iPad. Should be in every Science classroom. Well done.” However, the app has received criticism for a lack of content. A biology teacher posted a review on iTunes that said “Disappointing. Organs are not dissected. Information is good.”
Rat Dissection is an app that you can virtually dissect a rat instead of doing the real thing. The key features of the app are vivid 3D images of rat’s internal organs, step by step instructions with voiceover, accurate simulation of the wet lab dissection procedure and the content validation by subject matter experts. Most of the reviews were about how good the app was but they did say it could never replace the actual dissection itself. The review from padgadget.com said “It’s unlikely dissection apps such as these will completely replace the traditional experience students get during a biology class, but they are a great addition to the tools teachers have to help their students learn”. According to an iTunes review “I’m interested in how science is presented on the iPad . I thought this app provided a good approximation of a real dissection. Kudos to developer(s), it would be cool if it integrated a quiz”.
“Science360” is an app that collects new and interesting scientific videos and articles. From the app, you can click on a thumbnail of a video or picture, which will pull up the video or a high-definition full-screen picture and a summary of the information. Like Frog Dissection, Science360 has been received very well by both app users and reviewers. This app was reviewed on the website ipadinsight.com, where the reviewer stated that Science360 is “a great educational app and one that almost sneaks up on you in a way – because it’s so engaging it feels more like fun than learning.”
Brain Pop Featured Movie App is an app that allows you to watch a different animated movie every day, then tests your new knowledge with a free interactive quiz. Majority of the reviews for this app said it was a great app but there were some minor problems. In iTunes one review was “The app is good,but it could use more movies. If it was just like the website on the computer,that would be great. Also, if the screen was full-sized, that would be good”. The review from iear.org is “BrainPOP.com gives you access to several free videos, but in the iPad, you can only access today’s featured movie”.
Sources :
http://www.wirededucator.com/blog/2011/07/31/frog-and-rat-dissection-app-reviews-for-ipad/
http://www.padgadget.com/2011/03/27/rat-dissection-quick-app-review/
http://ipadinsight.com/best-free-ipad-apps-2/best-free-ipad-app-of-the-week-science360-for-ipad
In ” Is Google Making Us Stupid? ” , Nicholas Carr’s claim is ” They supply the stuff of thought , but they also shape the process of thought . And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation”. This means that the internet shapes the way we think and decreases our ability to focus and examine things . He then starts to talk about how the internet does not allow us to read deeply. He explains how using the computer makes it harder to focus on long readings. Carr says that some people do a form of skimming in which they “hop from one source to another and rarely returning to any source they’d already visited. They typically read no more than one or two pages of an article or book before they would bounce out to another site “. After this he then talks about how Google is trying to make the “perfect search engine “, that knows what you mean and gives you back the information that you want. At the end of this reading , Carr says “As we rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence”. I think by this he means that by using the internet to search for answers to our questions , the things we learn won’t be the same and we won’t fully understand what they mean compared to the things that we learn from a book .
I share Carr’s worry because I know when I read something that I’m interested in , I take the time to actually read it so that I understand what is going on . But when I have to do a reading that is super long and boring , I just skim through it so that I can get the information and answers that I need. I also believe that our own intelligence turns into artificial intelligence because we have the capability to get the answers on our own but we are so lazy that we just use the internet because it is easier to do . People are becoming so dependent on the internet that they forget how to find information without it.
Photo One :
For the first photo , I used Montage Pro. The first thing I did was change the shape of my picture to an octagon . Next , I added a thin black frame around the photo and a blue shadow . The last thing that I did but you most likely can’t see is that I changed the background color to Alice Blue.
Photo Two :
I used Photoviva to edit the second photo . The first thing I did was sharpen the picture and then I increased the midtones . The last thing that I did was use filled frame and adjusted the settings to make it halfway in between in and out and made it smooth. I changed the color of the filling to blue and then added light blue noise to it .
Photo Three :
For this third photo , I used Photoviva to edit it. The first thing I did was crop the photo a little bit . Then , I decreased the ghost edges and decreased the shadows in the photo. The last thing I did was change the color to white and used autopaint to make it look like it was snowing.
Photo Four :
I used Montage Pro to edit the fourth photo. First , I added a thin white frame and a bright green shadow around the photo. Then I turned the photo around to make it straight up and down . The very last thing that I did was change the background color to arsenic , so that you would be able to see the white frame and green shadow.
The two apps that I selected were Photoviva and Montage Pro. The best feature in Photoviva , I think is the autopaint . There are so many different colors and brushes that you can choose from to use and autopaint sometimes makes the pictures look really cool. The best feature in Montage Pro , I think is the ability to change the shape of the picture. You can choose any shape you want to , any number , any letter and you can even make your own shape by using free hand . In both of these apps , I like that there are so many different options to choose from to change the color of your picture. I personally would choose Photoviva over Montage Pro because Photoviva had more features and it was a lot simpler to use than Montage Pro was. When I first used Montage Pro , I couldn’t find where you go to in order to edit the pictures and with Photoviva , I had no trouble finding where to go in order to edit the photo.
Article : http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/opinion/the-military-and-the-death-penalty.html
This article was talking about why the military should abolish the death penalty but they only made one argument and that was racism. The author did not make any implied arguments at all . Arguments that could be used in this article are the cost of capital punishment . The article does use an example , however , the author says that the number of military death penalty cases is to small of a number , so the argument doesn’t really make sense.
Article : http://www.journaltribune.com/articles/2011/10/04/columnist/doc4e8b1e975741b950996806.txt
This article was talking about the reasons why the united states should abolish the death penalty. The author gave a lot of reasons and supported his reasons. The implied premise was that capital punishment fails to deter crime. The author states this a little but fails to give support as to why capital punishment fails to deter crime. Overall , this was a good article that could possibly change a person’s opinion on the death penalty.
The iPad Pilot Project 