Writing Sprint #10

The first desks had a hole for the ink pot, that students used with a quill or nib pen. Because paper, ink, and quills were expensive, younger students wrote their assignments on a slate (mini chalk board) using chalk. Often these supplies belonged to the school and were lent to students for the lesson.

The next generation of desk had tray for your pencil or pen. Paper was less of a luxury and students used binders, and notebooks and wrote with ball point pens. Students are responsible of purchasing and brining their own supplies.

What will the desks of the future look like?  Describe it, draw a sketch of it. What supplies will students be carrying? Describe it sketch it.

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Addicted to Technology?

Is it possible to be addicted to your technology? Why? Why not? 
Are you addicted to your technology? Why? Why not?

Your Challenge?

(A) Spend the next 24hrs without ANY technology.  No cell, no computer, no video games. Use your Technology Journal to record how the experience is going, and what you choose to do instead to fill your time.

(B) Spend the next 24hrs documenting EVERY encounter you have with your technology.  Use your Techonolgy Journal to record  to the minute how much time you spend on your phone, computer, video game.  Be specific.  If you spend 60 minutes on your computer, detail the time spent in various sites and social media platforms.

Digital Footprint Doodle

One of our first blog related activities will combine together two interesting areas of thought:  doodling and the digital footprint.  But first, a little background on doodling from Sunni Brown, doodler extraordinaire:

In today's class what we are going to think and doodle about is the concept of our digital footprint. According to Wikipedia a digital footprint is;

• A trail left by an entity's interactions in a digital environment; including their usage of TV, mobile phone, Internet and world wide web, mobile web and other devices and sensors. Digital footprints provide data on what an entity has performed in the digital environment; and are valuable in assisting behavioural targeting, personalisation, targeted marketing, digital reputation, and other social media or social graphing services.
• In social media, a digital footprint is the size of an individuals online presence; as it relates to the number of individuals they interact with.
• A collection of activities and behaviours recorded when an entity (such as a person) interacts in a digital environment. It may include the recording of activities such as system login and logouts, visits to a web-page, accessed or created files, or emails and chat messages. The digital footprint allows interested parties to access this data; possibly for data mining, or profiling purposes.

So here is your writing mission-

1. Doodle about your digital footprint! Things to doodle about:

• Your doodle interpretation of the Wikipedia definition above
• Doodle what your digital footprint looks like. How deep is it your footprint? What is in it? Is it "muddy"?
• Doodle about how can you use your digital footprint as springboard to your future endeavours?
• Doodle about anything else that comes to mind when thinking about your digital footprint

2. Take a picture of your doodle, and upload the image to your blog, title it "My Digital Footprint Doodle". Feel free to write a brief explanation of your doodle.

Digital Ethics

Blogging is a very public activity. Anything that gets posted on the internet stays there. Forever. Deleting a post simply removes it from the blog it was posted to. Copies of the post may exist scattered all over the internet. I have come across posts from my students on blogs as far away as Sweden! That is why we are being so careful to respect your privacy and using first names only. We do not use pictures of ourselves. If you really want a graphic image associated with your posting use an avatar -- a picture of something that represents you but IS NOT of you.

(1)Students using blogs are expected to treat blogspaces as classroom spaces. Speech that is inappropriate for class is not appropriate for our blog. While we encourage you to engage in debate and conversation with other bloggers, we also expect that you will conduct yourself in a manner reflective of a representative of this school.
(2)Never EVER EVER give out or record personal information on our blog. Our blog exists as a public space on the Internet. Don’t share anything that you don’t want the world to know. For your safety, be careful what you say, too. Don’t give out your phone number or home address. This is particularly important to remember if you have a personal online journal or blog elsewhere.
(3)Again, your blog is a public space. And if you put it on the Internet, odds are really good that it will stay on the Internet. Always. That means ten years from now when you are looking for a job, it might be possible for an employer to discover some really hateful and immature things you said when you were younger and more prone to foolish things. Be sure that anything you write you are proud of. It can come back to haunt you if you don’t.
(4) Never link to something you haven’t read. While it isn’t your job to police the Internet, when you link to something, you should make sure it is something that you really want to be associated with. If a link contains material that might be creepy or make some people uncomfortable, you should probably try a different source.

Look over the guidelines and discuss the ones you like in the comments section below this post. We'll be using the one's I highlighted above as a basis for how we will use our blog.

~Ms. McL

*special thanks to Mr.K for lending me Digital Ethics posting!