W8: Internet Privacy

Learning log:

In this week, we first discussed previous written assignments. Patty pointed out that moist of students' written work didn't cite their reference. Therefore, we talked about what is "cite", and created a vocabulary list, including citation, reference, origin, and source. Before long, we defined the word "cite" as   "to tell your readers where your idea comes from by pasting selected information like author, link, title, or published year". For me, citation has been an instinct for I've been trained in academic writing and know the importance (avoid plagiarism) and the reason (convince your readers your information is reliable) that we have to cite. In the following section, we continued the discussion of "internet relationship". First of all, we looked at two similar pictures of which were the connection of computers and humans, and Patty asked us to compare and contrast the pictures for following dialogue. Much to Patty's amazement, she found that most of the students didn't see the difference because students nowadays considered computer networking to be part of their lives, which is as similar as people's networking. She thought this situation might refer to the generation gap, that is, digital natives didn't separate the real world and virtual world, while for digital immigrants they are totally different. In addition to the virtual/real world, we also mentioned the theory of Gardner, which is multiple intelligence, referring to eight abilities that people own in terms of musical–rhythmic, visual–spatial, verbal–linguistic, logical–mathematical, bodily–kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic. In the end, we talked about the topic of the week-- Internet Privacy. Since we don't have too much background knowledge of Internet privacy, we simply found some definition on the net. For the assignment, we need to complete the task of "Internet privacy", and dig out its concern, risks, levels and law. 

Weekly Note:

1. Explain three kinds of assignment. Requirement

2. Discuss: what is citation?

Citation is the reference of published work or unpublished resources. 

- Patty asked many students what is citation/reference/origin/source. (Jay, Jasimine, Nita)

- You should cite the source online. 

- cite: to tell your readers where your idea comes from by pasting selected information like author, link, title, or published year

How to cite?

Use APA style to 

Psychology. (n.d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved October 14, 2009, from

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology

- the vocabulary list: citation/reference/origin/source

Patty told us the importance and reasons why we have to cite.

- importance: avoid plagiarism

- why: convince your readers your information is reliable

 

3. Continue the discussion "internet relationship" since Week 6 3/27

- picture discussion: the webs are linking together

- the way they are linking are the same but the first picture refers to computers, the second picture refer to human 

Natives: 

- People's relationship = computer's relationship

--> 

Immigrants

- People's relationship --> real world

     --> interpersonal relationship

- v.s.

- computer's relationship --> virtual world

 --> Internet relationship (discussed in week 6): interpersonal relationship (communication between people)

- An interpersonal relationship is a strong, deep, or close association/acquaintance between two or more people that may range in duration from brief to enduring. 

- bridging: social networking websites 

Gardner chose eight abilities that he held to meet these criteria:[2] musical–rhythmic, visual–spatial, verbal–linguistic, logical–mathematical, bodily–kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic. 

- concern: a) native: not concern b) my care: privacy, security 

Week 8: Internet privacy

what

concern

risk

law/regulation/policy

level (setting)

Privacy is something you don't want other know. 

How to set your privacy on google plus?

Written work:

1. Internet relationship v.s. interpersonal relationship

2. Discuss on privacy

3. What is/are your privacy policy/policies on social networking sites?

4. What is the rationale behind your privacy policy/policies?