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Social Media

     For me personally I feel a little connected when using social media.  When ever I am on Snap chat, Instagram, or Facebook I like I know what all of my peers are up to. Or what they have been up to in the last week.

     I like to keep a healthy balance of physically talking to someone and social media balanced more towards the physical part of the way I communicate.  I only look at social media to look at peoples pictures, and keep the communicating to either in person or a phone call.

       I personally think the connection for online versus offline completely depends on the person.  Some people I know completely base their entire communication off of social media, and it bugs me quite a bit actually.  Then I also know people don’t even have social media at all.

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Personal Information Management

       I am a big believer in managing personal information through technology.  I have all of my information such as photos, papers, important documents, and stuff on back up hard drives.  If I were to lose all of my stuff I would be devastated for half of my stuff, and the other half I would definitely be in some serious trouble because most of my stuff I have saved besides my photos that I have saved is all school related work.

      So reading through the article that Bill Gates has people work for him that he has people back up all of his work for him I think is pretty smart.  If he were to lose all of his information he would be in some deep trouble.

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Week 11

     My personal opinion I’m not a huge fan of the song Blurred Lines at all, but even with the idea in the back of Robin Thicke’s head that the song could potential become a very popular song, song of summer 2013 for matter of fact.  You would think it would be wise to get Marvin Gayes permission to use parts of his song, and “remake it” or how ever he wants to put it to avoid getting in trouble.

       Some people I have heard say the only reason he is getting sued now is because the song is more popular than the original, and he doesn't deserve that.  I don’t believe that at all.  He made the song with out permission of Marvin Gaye and copyrighted the song for his own benefit. That is my personal opinion of the whole situation.

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Group Discussion Week 11

       I never gave to much thought to about all of the different stuff that can have copy rights.  All through out school they really emphasize plagiarism, and how that can be really bad if you take credit on someone else work for that.

      But like even a picture has copyright to it, that is something I never even thought of.  All through school I scrolled through Google images trying to find the perfect picture for whatever it was I was creating.  That is something that I feel like a lot of people over look.

       The hard part of copyrights for images like that is how do people monitor it.  Everyone at one point has copied and pasted something and used it for their own benefit and have obviously gotten away with it, but plagiarism can be a huge issue, when its almost the exact same thing.  

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Week 10: Craap

        Before this class I have never really took into consideration how accurate or reliable my research for past projects has been.  I have also clicked one of the top results on Google search in the past and just went with it.

        Now since this class I have learned to navigate through Google scholar to find the absolute best information I can find for the answers I am looking for.  Reading through the website with the acronym CRAAP now I really know what to look for in future research.  

        In the past I have usually just used websites like Wikipedia, or some other website.  Sometimes they are good, other times you never really know.  I kind of knew what to look for that was important, but it was always a guess.  Reading through all the bullet points of the acronym I’ll hopefully get the right stuff now.  

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Is college worth the price? I believe it depends on the individual to answer this for themselves. For myself, I decided to go to college because I was tired of working hard for low wages. I was just a high school graduate with only customer service experience. I wanted something more and felt like...

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I agree with you 100% that it all depends on the person.  I feel like I am investing my time wisely by getting a degree.  My dad always told me that even if I go through college and don’t use my degree, I’ll at least still have that degree, and no one can take that from me.

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Hey guys for this week I am leading discussion, I struggled trying to figure out a topic for us to talk about. Then an idea hit me that I started discussing with my roommates the other night. Is college now a days really worth it? The price of college is rising, so is it really...

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I agree with you completely that it all depends on what you do with your life as a career.  I really like your example as a doctor for example.  You definitely need a degree for working with the human body, as for other majors like my roommate the film major maybe not necessarily. 

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Week 9

       I definitely think my behavior changes when I am online versus offline.  Change for the better though in my opinion.  I feel like whenever I am on any sort of social media I am pretty conservative, because anyone can see anything I have posted, if I post anything at anytime.

       I remember when I was on Facebook fairly frequently I would see cyber bullying and remember thinking to myself how pathetic that is, because anyone can attack attack tough and mean to anyone over the internet, because they are safe behind their computer screen.

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Week 8

        Plagiarism I think has been a pretty big ethical problem the last couple of years.  Just like the article said, plagiarism is stealing another persons work for your own credit.  I have seen kids may of times plagiarize a whole assignment and think they can get away with it.  And in some cases like in high school, where the teachers probably don’t check that thoroughly can get away with it, and get a good grade for something they didn't put the work in for, and stole it from someone else.  Ethically plagiarism is not right at all.     

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Week 5

         At some point or another I think everyone should have experienced all 3 of these different kinds of research methods.  Reading through the description of what they are they seem to be pretty common everyday stuff we encounter almost everyday.

        For example reading what the primary research is, it is stuff like news paper articles, websites, audio recordings, survey research, etc. stuff like that.  I mean just today I have already used, or read several stuff I have just listed today just on my own time, not even for research purposes.

       And for secondary research these includes our textbooks, journal articles, bibliographies, etc.  We have all used these for our own research purposes for whatever class it is for.  We have all used these for this class alone.  

        At one point or another we have all used these resources like primary and secondary resources if not everyday within our own schooling experience. 

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Leading Discussion

        Hey guys for this week I am leading discussion, I struggled trying to figure out a topic for us to talk about.  Then an idea hit me that I started discussing with my roommates the other night.  Is college now a days really worth it?  The price of college is rising, so is it really worth the price compared to what some of us may be receiving as a salary in the future?

        One of my roommates is a film major and he was saying he doesn't even need a degree, and it’s not for certain if he will be successful in the future, degree or not.  Then my other roommate and I are going to be teachers, and we need a degree in order to get a job.  The pay definitely is great in that career field, so it will take me a long time to pay back my loans, leaving me to question if its all worth it in the end.

       Read this article I have posted below and let me know what your guys opinions on this concept is.

http://tony-silva.com/eslefl/miscstudent/downloadpagearticles/colleduc-long-pew.pdf

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High Stakes Testing

      I have never been a big fan of high stakes testing.  As far back as I can remember test like this put a huge amount of stress on me and all of the other students.  Our teachers never really told us what the tests where for which in my opinion is kind of nerve racking.

      Or I remember taking CRT testing which funds your school.  In my personal opinion is a terrible idea because if your school over all as a whole performs badly they cut some funding for your school.  Why would you cut funding for a school who performs badly.  

      SATs and ACTs are a little different story though.  Yes they are very high stakes, and very stressful because these tests tell if students are ready for college academically and help with admittance.

      At the same time you really can't tell how a person is going to perform in a college setting from a couple of tests.  Someone could sit down for a couple of hours and get an above average score on a test, but once they get to the college setting with all the responsibility you never know how they are going to perform academically.

      Overall I don't think there are as many advantages to high stake testing to as many disadvantages.  It puts an unnecessary amount of stress on the students that doesn't need to be there.  

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Week 6: Citations

       From my personal experiences making citations I never really got to frustrated with it.  My high schools library had Easy Bib, and Bib Me, so I always would use one of the two for my citations and bibliography.  If one didn't work, usually the other would.  I still go to my high schools library website to use those today, because it made my citations so easy to create, and stressful.

       I think citations are important to use because it gives the article we use for research the credit it deserves.  In my opinion if we didn't use citations to credit the article, and just used the information it provides its basically plagiarism.

       Creating citations are not hard either, using the two cites I mentioned about make it so simple.  All you have to do is copy and paste the URL into the space provided and the cite goes in on its own and looks for all the information the article provides to create your citation for you.  

       So overall I think citations are important because it gives the article the credit for letting us use it for research.  Plus using the right tools citations can be a breeze to make.  

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Week 4 ~ Using Google Scholar and Zotero

       For my research topic idea I wanted to find out if there was any relation to academic performance and physical activity.  Meaning I was curious if a child would have better test results if they were more active in their daily lives.  I remember one of my professors talking about how kids have more brain activity after running around, or doing some sort of activity.

        So far all I have found with my research is that there is some benefits with physical activity to academic performance.  From the article I read so far they tested several hundreds gave them one test before playing a game, and then a test right after playing a game to see the difference between their test results.

        So far my first experience using Google Scholar seemed like a very good source that I am going to use for a good majority of my research, and it seemed very easy to use.  Almost seemed very similar to using normal Google search but pulls up only reliable sources.

        I was very confused using Zotero for the first time after registering.  My Zotero didn't look anything like the start up window.  I feel like I honestly may struggle a little bit through out the semester using this website.   

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Deluge means a large downpour, or a flood. Data deluge is referring to an overabundance of information. This is what the “digital world” has brought us to. Today, there is so much information on the internet. A lot of this information is not the most credible. In the article they talk about how...

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I completely agree with you closing the information gap that corporations claim is there and can't be fixed is false.  I also agree with what you said about classes like this Library Research or like a Methods Research could easily fix that problem

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Deluge of Data

I find the article "At Sea in a Deluge of Data" very interesting how it states that majority of freshly graduated college students are not very technologically sound.  My initial thought about that was in this day in age I would say most kids would know how to use technology, or know how to look something up for research.  As I kept reading though it made sense how this article said we just get by using technology for research.  

I can think of so many different occasions where I have only used Google or Wikipedia for a research project.  I was maybe getting a good answer using these different search engines but I could have good great answers in my research utilizing different methods.

There was another section that caught my eye that said young adults are not very good at communicating in today's time with working together to solve problems.  I 100% agree with this, as i walk to class all I see is people either listening to music, or browsing something on their phone.  I notice it everyday, not even on campus but at home even. I'll be watching a movie with one of my roommates, and I'll look over to say something to them and they are looking at their phone and not even listening to what I have to say.         

The main idea I got from this article is big companies want to increase their hiring rate by 8% but doesn't want to hire someone who doesn't know how to find the best information possible.  They also want to hire a person with great communication skills to solve problems with colleagues. 

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Assignment 1: Information Today

To me information is an important way to increase your knowledge about the world around you.  With all of our recourses we have today we can increase our knowledge a ton with all the information provided to us.  

In todays Society we have endless ways to obtain information.  For example a few ways to receive todays information would be by going to our own library on campus here and using one of the computers stationed on the 1st floor, or by searching through one of the books provided by the library.  One of other recourses could be your very own text books.   

The way I process information is by searching key terms on the internet on reading through different links to find the best information I can to use for projects.  Or for my own personal pleasure just to find answers for anything I'm curious about.

A couple of ways to transfer information to others is through email, phone, sharing wed links, etc.  With the technology we have access to today, anyone, anywhere can obtain information about anything.

In my opinion knowledge and power are linked together in a way, the more information you are provided the knowledge you have.  The more knowledge you have the more you can influence people, which to me in a way is a form of power.