'Who Am I' Presentation

Wednesday, August 28

Journal - What are some qualities of a good presentation? How can you make a boring presentation interesting? Explain. Engage your audience. In order for your presentation to interest other people you must relate to their lives as well as your own. Nobody enjoys listening to a presentation only having the presenter talk about themselves. When somebody gives a presentation some good qualities that the person should have is to make good eye contact with the whole audience. The presenter should look around at each person casually and not just stare at the teacher in the corner, or one individual in the crowd. Another thing that the presenter should do is smile. If the person looks miserable while presenting people will generally not pay attention or care about the content of the presentation. Good posture and stance is another key point to being a good presenter. Standing with your feet towards the audience and not twisting and turning and awkwardly moving about, but instead standing still and confident towards those you are presenting. The presenter should never have his/her back to the audience either, that is a sure sign of being ill-prepared. Those are just a few key points that I think make a good presentation.

Monday, August 26

Journal- Tell me if you agree with this statement and then explain why or why not. "Images on the internet are 'free game' - if someone posted I should be able to use it. I agree with this statement. I think that if someone posts a picture on the internet they are assuming the risk that the viewers may or may not copy it, tell others about it, use it, etc,. When people post things online whether it be a status update, a personal comment or opinion, or a picture, they are at risk for being judged or copied. People who complain about someone's personal comments on their photos should not be upset. They were the ones who assumed the initial risk of posting it to a much bigger community than just keeping the photo(s) personal. Another thing that I think is that if someone posts something to a social network like a quote or something, anyone should be able to use that quote on one of their pictures: whether or not you would want to do that instead of being original is up to them. People who complain about others opinions of them online are just looking for something to complain about. If you posted a picture on a social page and then got 'hate' comments, you did it to yourself. Now there is the argument that maybe then you should choose your friends more wisely, or post pictures that people won't make rude comments about, but that isn't the question being asked. It's short and simple: IF someone posts images on the internet then they are free game for anyone to use because the internet is a large community of people that may or not be able to be controlled by who sees those pictures.

Friday, August 23rd

"What is the importance of online safety and protecting your information? What do you do to protect yourself online? Share an experience you or someone you know has had with online safety." Online safety is important because you need to keep your personal information away from strangers that you are unaware of. If a stranger tries to get a hold of information about you, you have no way of knowing how that person will use that information. That person could use it to find out where you live, call your phone number(s), find out your other family members and other personal things that only friends and people you trust can have the knowledge of. There could be people that you don't know checking your facebook or your twitter to see where you live, go to school, etc,. One thing that is important for facebook users to do is to set their profile as private- which means somebody who clicks on your profile cannot see any personal information without you accepting their friend request. The same option is available for twitter, instagram, etc,. I personally have my instagram set to if someone wants to follow me they have to send me a request so that I can approve of who sees my information and my pictures. If I didn't have my Instagram set to the 'private' setting I would have way too many people who are viewing my pictures that I do not know at all. Another reason it is a good choice to set your settings like that is that without it people who follow you could follow you without you even knowing. There pictures wouldn't show up on your notifications and they would obtain to the ability to follow you without you having any idea. One time one of my friends didn't have her facebook profile set to 'private' and someone was able to hack her facebook account and figure out her phone number. Another thing that happened is her friends list became something that nearly everyone in the city (or it seemed like that), was friends with her. She hardly knew anyone of her friends in the list but since her profile wasn't set to 'private' she wasn't able to sort out her friends from people who just wanted to view her profile. Bottom line is: protect your privacy from those who you don't know because you never have any idea of who is really looking you up or checking up on you.

Tuesday, August 20th

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you, and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use." Everyone has their own way of adding and taking away from/to our communities, society, etc. After observing the video on Ashton Kutcher's acceptance speech people can get a better understanding into a more 'popular' opinion. A person can hear a million times their own parents telling them, "You can make a difference- change the world, etc." but hearing it from a famous person can make you truly think that you actually can make a difference. Ashton's quote is showing that it doesn't take some genius to make a difference in this world, instead be a creative individual, a problem solver, etc,.No matter how big or small an individual is they can impact this world negatively or positively. If some small-town girl decides to make a new food stamp program for her town, no matter how small that town is, she has made a positive impact. That girl decided to change her town for the better and she wasn't some famous actor or actress.