Information Reliability

Copyright and the Law

Copyright - the exclusive rights and protection given to an author or creator of an original work

Copy free - A type of licensing that make the distribution of a piece of work available at no charge of commercial use

Trademark - A name, symbol, word, phrase, icons, etc. that is registered by the law to represent a company or a product and legally restricted to the use of owner/manufacturer

Creative commons - Organization that collects copy-free works, and distributes it; One of several copyright licenses that allow the distribution of copyrighted works. The licenses differ by several combinations that condition the terms of distribution

Royalty free - The right to use copyrighted material or property without needing to pay license charges for each use, per volume sold, or some time period of use, or sales

GNU licensed - A free software license that promotes the distribution of free works 


Public domain - Works that have no restrictions, and available or belonging to the public

Copyrighted = reliable
Copy free = question the reliability

Checking Your Sources

Here are a few tips for you to check whether information is hoax or not:

• Read the information twice or more
• Check to see who created it?
• When was it created?
• Why was it created?
• Are there any hidden message?
• What are their aims? Are they using omission (leaving important facts out)?
• Is the information biased?

Flotilla Homework

• Have you had a look on various sources to find out what Marc (Marc3pax) does?

                 - After watching the video, I did some research but I don't really know who he is, so I decided to read the comments below, and one of it says that Marc is an Israeli actor and his name is Omer Gershon. Other comments are saying that the information in the video is not true, its fake and the video is a racist propaganda.

• How does this video relate to the flotilla movement?

                - This video relate to the flotilla movement because Marc said that the flotilla movement is bad because it linked to Hamas.

• Is the video objective (based on facts; unbiased)?

               - No, its very biased because most of the information are not true, and he didn't provide any reliable sources. Also, he only talk about one side of the conflict, so the information is very biased.

• Is there evidence supporting Marc3pax's findings?

             - There were some evidences for what he said, such as videos and images, but most of his information are unsupported or biased.

The Flotilla Protests

List of people who could report about Flotilla Protests:

• Israeli media/ government/ citizens
• Palestinian media/ government/ citizens
• UN - United Nations
• United States media/ government
• Arab media
• American Jews
• Pacifist (people against war)/ Protestors/ Students
• Foreign journalists
• Zionists
• Hamas

Biased:

• Israeli media/ government
• Palestinian media/ government/ citizens
• United States media/ government
• American Jews 
• Pacifist/ Protestors/ Students
• Zionists
• Hamas

Objective (Fair):

• Israeli citizens
• UN - United Nations
• Arab media
• Pacifist/ Protestors/ Students
• Foreign journalists

Kony Letter

Critical Thinking - Kony 2012

Things that are true:

• Joseph Kony is at the top of the ICC list
• Kony kidnapped kids and turn them into child soldiers/ sex slaves
• Kony is a real character
• The "Cover the Night" is real
• Jason and the group had conversations with Congressmen

Things that are untrue:

• Kony's army is 30,000 people --> can't be accurate
• All of the money will go directly to Uganda

Wordle

   

  After doing this word cloud, I realized that my project review doesn't have enough keywords, I only included basic words like brochure and model. I haven't use much of the modelling vocabulary, such as inputs, outputs, drop-down list,... Maybe I could have include the word "user-friendly" more, because it is the main topic of this project. So, next time, I will use more keywords that are related to the topic that we're learning.

Google Site

https://sites.google.com/site/vyicteportfolio/welcome

Tokyo Brochure Design

Title: blue
Text: pink
Pictures: purple
Background: white

Tokyo Leaflet

I think the 8 things that my leaflet should include are:

1. Images
2. Purpose
3. The places that we're going
4. Total cost
5. Summary of the trip
6. Teachers who are going
7. Contact information
8. Permission form

Tokyo Trip Gantt Chart

Heart Rates Homework

The results:

The chart:

The trend of this data is everyone's active heart rate is higher than their resting heart rate.

Blogging Guidelines

1. Know who you're communicating with
2. Only write things that you would want everyone (in school, at home, in other countries) to know
3. Only post infomation that you can verify is true(no gossiping)
4. Respect other's work, cite where you get the information
5. Know how to give helpful feedback
6. Treat other people the way you want to be treated
7. Think before you post
8. Know how to give construction feedback
9. Do not share your personal information to strangers on the internet
10. Use appropriate language and proper grammar and spelling

Digital Citizenship

Blog Introduction

Introduce Myself
     My name is Vy, I love the color pink and I love to draw hearts. I really like to eat chocolate, my hobbies are singing, shopping and reading. I always do crazy stuff and to some people, I'm very annoying because I talk a lot.

Advice/ Suggestion
1. Always do your homework
2. Don't be late
3. Be creative
4. Don't put your title with rainbow colors
5. Try your best to do your work

Target:
     My target is to improve on my design graphics skills, like Publisher and Paint.net. I really hope I can improve on these skills when this semester finish.