Weekly Review

Over the course of September's third week, we have done many things in Intro to Publication.

With the start of the week, we began with procedures for peer editing. Consisted of the following: stopping half-way through, to check our grammar and spelling for mistakes, reading it aloud to check for anything that may sound awkward, and fixing those mistakes.

 We had also started an assignment that is called Digital Driver's License: The website itself tells you about how online citizen's should act.

It means that it is testing us on what we have learned, through our notes and Animotos.

Digital Driver's License covers things similar to: cyber bulling, spamming, hacking, and just plain trolling. 

So, it really just helps you become a better person online, and there is really not anything negative about this digital component.

Stems, grammar,  quiz, and a test. Were just a few of the things that we've recently gone about doing.

With Stems, we have been slowly going over all of them and we will test on them next week.

This week though, the words have become more complex. One of them for example is: Pseudo.

With grammar, came our sentences. Which we had a test on the 19th.

Now, with the quiz  they were nothing more than little ones found on the Internet about phishing.

If you don't know what phishing is here you go: Phishing is when people, spammers, send you misleading e-mails, and try to steal your personal account information from them.

So, people who Phish are the telemarketers of the internet. They e-mail you once, then you never hear from them again in a lot of cases.

You have to be really cautious and observant, when receiving an e-mail from someone you don't know.

By checking the page URL, grammar, and graphics.

You can find out whether or not it is a phish.

This photo is a screen shot of a phishing attempt on Flickr, available at:http://www.flickr.com/photos/quox/412343985/, photo was posted: March 6th 2007.

Lastly, the test took up the entire period one day. It was all about our grammar sentences and punctuation.

It was quite difficult. I will not lie, but since our teacher Ms. Payseur is kind. She is said: 'That we will do corrections.'

The corrections consisted of us writing down the question, the correct answer, and why we think that, that is the correct answer.

There was another thing that we did as a class, and it was us learning about our online and public reputation.

Reputation: A general view of what others see you as, and how they see you. This includes the public.

With that, we had to create and edit two photos. One that would give someone a bad reputation, and the other a good reputation.

Photo of an L cosplayer on a magazine cover. available on Photobucket, photo created 9/21/12
Image editing software used was both Photobucket, and Magmypic.

The photo above shows how someone, could give another a positive reputation using photos.

Because, if someone saw that you were published in a positive magazine, they would probably chose you over a person with lesser merits.

Photo of an L cosplayer,  photo available on Photobucket, created 9/20/12. Image editing software used was Photobucket.

 

In this photo, the photo above shows how someone, could be giving another a negative reputation.

By first looking at the photo, you would see the words: 'Death Note'. Which to a person who knows nothing about the one in the photo. One could assume, that he is suicidal, or that he is creating a hit list of some kind.

Which could either land him in therapy or jail.

Original photo of L cosplayer, available at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/14139311@N07/3408228186, photo posted: March 21, 2009.

Another thing regarding the photo's that we had learned about was Persist.

Persist: To continue on, or endure.

Persistence, has to do with these photos. 

For a reason like: If it were somehow to become a internet meme, and it were bad. People all over the world would be able to see it, and it turns out that negative things stay popular longer.

Then, there is context.

Context: Different factors that surround information that help determine it's meaning.

For example, let's take the unedited photo above.

If you didn't know what was going on, or who the person is. You would most likely assume that it is something illegal, or what he had been doing was something that could become illegal.

Lastly, there is tag.

Tag: Labels; words that are key to what describes a photo or video.

For another example, you would want to take the second edited photo above; the negative one.

With that the caption reads: 'Death note, picking off the human population one at a time.'

that is the caption of the photo.

With the photo editing tools in general. I'm actually quite satisfied with them; I mean, I edit photos on a regular basis.

Photoshop, GIMP, and Photobucket. Are the things that I normally use and now that I have a whole list of free ones. I'm just ecstatic, but then there are the trolls that may use these things to use exact their revenge on people.

So, they would use their new found skills, to give someone a negative online reputation.

With that being said, this will really help me out, outside of school; Since I make book covers  for my books on Wattpad, and with the digital literacy component, I now can think twice before responding to a flame review.