Facebookistan

The podcast is all about the world's largest social network, Facebook. Facebook gives people an open range to interact with fellow friends/classmates/coworkers and family. The main reason Facebook was to catch up with old friends who you have no contact with over a social network. Facebook has grown into a powerful place, you can promote, sale and engage on the network. Only thing is, Facebook requires a lot of personal information to be put infront of the whole world web for everyone to see. Facebook requires a full name, your current residence and the option of contact information including email and phone number. Most people on the internet are thankful for Facebook so they can interact with their friends, but Facebook is becoming too personal for most and putting their safety in risk. Facebook is more like a robot now, it can see what you browse online even when your not logged in. Once you are a user your under Facebook control, no privacy and sometimes no credit for yourself because anyone can steal your information and use it their self. Facebookistan is basically another country with controlling observation and altering assumptions. For example, liking a brand just because you do give the brand the initiative to send you emails and request as much as they please. The podcast also interviewed a girl whose rapist added her as a friend on Facebook and asked her to contact him. I was shocked when I heard this, if it happened to me, I'd freak out completely. In her situation him and her exchanged messages and talked about the problem in the past. She wanted to know the truth and to reassure herself she wasn't delusional. He told her exactly what happened and told her not worry, she wasn't crazy it was a simple mistake. She told the podcast she felt grateful for Facebook because she finally got her answer and quit blaming herself for it.  She gave him advice for his daughter and son, and realized he was a human just like her, he just made a mistake like everyone else does. She knew he was 
genuinely sorry, and wasn't necessarily chipper he found her on Facebook but finally she can put the past where it belongs. The podcast shows people who use Facebook how easily it is to locate information on others, but in that sense isn't a good thing for other's privacy. 

In class blog post 10/31/2012

Book:Could be secondary or primary source. In a book the information you find would be very helpful. An actual story behind the information, or research for a similar topic. A book is a great resource in a research because there is a reliable author. You could use to a book to show similar reserach another author did for a project.

Blog Post:Tertiary source. I don't feel as if a blog post is as effecient as a book. A blog post is more of one's opinion on a topic, and how they feel about it. It could be helpful if your clueless to the steps to find scholarly information. A blog post could be used in research for a example, but you wouldn't be as sure if the information was realiable.

Scholarly Journal Article: Primary source. A scholarly journal is very useful because it has professor's own research and reliable sources. It's named scholarly for a reason, it's great information to use on research project. The author of the journal worked very hard to find all the information he/she did.

Wikipedia: The source is not reliable, because one can go to the website and alter the information if they please. One could possibly think they have the right information on the topic but could be completley wrong. Wikipedia is not a good source to use on research because your paper would not be correct.

Podcast: Is information from one's audio voice or video telling about a source. The information can be useful for research. It's reliable.

In class blog post 10/29/2012

The Steps I used to search the article!

First step I took, was to look at the Galileo library database! 

Second step was to search the title, Gray, K. Medical students' use of Facebook to support learning: Insights from four case studies. 

The last step was reading the article. 

Annotated Bibliography

An annotated Bibliography is a list of books with useful information, such as in books and articles. There is 3 major parts to make up an annotated bibliography. First, is the citation of your source Second, the summary gives the reader an inside look into your notes. Third, is the actual notes that will be helpful in your research, the annotation. The annotation is where the information unfolds and enhances your research. The reason why you would like us to write an annotated bibliography is to enhance our research and to make actual time for the topic. Starting early gets you on the right track and you will have enough time to fix your mistakes if there is any. When preparing yourself for your research paper, the annotated bibliography comes in handy when coming up with your thesis! I like to think of the annotated bibliography like the spider webs we made back in high school. They were very helpful when coming up with ideas and points for my paper. 

In class blog post oct. 24

Plagiarism, pparaphrasing correctly, copyright, open content, open access, and creative commons all share a similarity when it comes to library research. In the Library when you are looking up source to use on research, you should know the difference between copyright and plagiarism. If you don't know the difference you could be facing a lot of trouble you didn't mean to get into. Learning how to paraphrase correctly is a must! When writing a research paper, you can not just copy someone else's work online or your professor could give you a zero for your paper, you can be expelled or even worse have a law suit filed against you. There is somewhat of a difference between open content, open access and creative commons. Open access is completely open to users online, you can use their information without having to worry about citing them or asking for permission because the information is wide open.Open content is when authors license their work and give up some control to the viewers. Creative common is used but the creators can licences their work but must ask for attribution. This knowledge comes in handy with other classes such as English when writing a paper. You wouldn't want to fail your paper because you decided to plagiarise your work.

Open Content Images

http://openclipart.org/detail/27178/peace-symbol-by-flowerpaz

All the content on this website is waived of all rights, including copyright. The website is open for Public Domain.

Peace Symbol. (2008). July 14 2009. http://peacesymbol.org/

10-17 homework

Elsevier is an academic scholarly publisher which is having issues trying to seek easier way to access scholarly journals. The librarian's that were interviewed stated that hard copy could become unreasonably pricey, but through the internet it's easier to access and also at a lower cost. Mathematic professors have started a boycott trying to grant tax payers free access to scholarly journals. The author's of the articles are wanting to grant free access to their information but are afraid of not being credited for their work. The boycott will rebel against well-known journal companies and try to alter the  high subscription fees.

The New England Journal is an journal of past and present regarding medical practices. This scholarly article is known to be the most accurate for finding research and medical information. The journal has become free to tax payers after 6 months that the article is released, hoping to bring in more interested public since the article is free and reliable.

The change of knowledge of the internet age, regards how knowledge has evolved from paper, to books and now to the internet. A professor named David Weinberge located at Harvard University states that knowledge has become more broad ever since the internet was invented.  The internet opens doors to anything  the public would like to know. The internet will keep broadening the knowledge of the public as long as it is up and running. 

The common theme between all three is the access to information from the internet and how the information brings knowledge to the public. My reactions are grateful because while I am studying as a student I will use scholarly journals for research that I am assigned. These stories are helpful because they have informed me that scholarly information is free to students while they are studying for their major. They affect me as I'm trying to succeed in college with the most accurate information their is possible on the internet.