Thursday, December 4, 2008

Social Networks

Is teenager socializing positive or negative ? Summarize this article. Voice your opinion supported by examples and facts.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Woman Guilty of Cyberbullying


In Los Angeles Lori Drew was found guilty of cyberbulling. Megan Meier, a thirteen year old girl committed suicide after these online communications. Lori Drew posed as a teenage boy in their online communications using Myspace.

A number of questions: Is this a violation of free speech? Should Lori Drew be charged with murder? How can everyone be safe on the internet?

Monday, November 3, 2008

Technology and the Race for the Presidency




Obama has a Facebook page. McCain has a Facebook page. The election is tomorrow November 4.

Please review each candidate's Facebook page. Summarize how each candidate uses Facebook. Then decide which candidate makes best use of the Facebook technology. Give example to support your point of view.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Teaching Using a Webpage

Webpages help students become better teachers. You can teach other students. Let's see how this is done. Let's go the an Americation Revolution website. It has

  • text
  • links
  • images
  • colors
  • small and large size fonts

Monday, September 29, 2008

The New World

The Internet and computers have changed many parts of our lives. Please interview a family member and find out how they applied and got one of their jobs in the old days ( before the internet). Notice what tools or technology they used. Post their story on your blog. Include images and a link.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Safe Internet Use

Dr. Parry Aftab during a special assembly program spoke to our students about safe internet use. She emphasized the problems and consequences concerning cyberbulling.The students brainstormed with her about ways to alert other students about this problem. The students discussed creating T-shirts,bumper stickers, wrist brackets, and a documentary that would be uploading to YouTube.What project would you like to do about this topic?

Friday, September 19, 2008

Tables Practice

Please go to tutorial about making tables. Read the the section on Tables and examples carefully.

Use a great interactive tutorial

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Practice Creating Tables with HTML

Create a Table with 2 columns and 5 rows. The width of the Tables should be 800 pixels. Place a different image in each table data.

Create a Table

Tables
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Monday, September 15, 2008

Tables

Please go to HTML Goodies to read a tutorial and practice making a Table. Table is a basic design for making attractive and useful webpages.

Friday, September 12, 2008

Links and Images

HTML code for creating images and links on a webpage

Links And Images
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Thursday, September 11, 2008

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Welcome to Your Parents


Creating Webpages


One language that creates webpages is HTML--Hypertext Markup Language. Please practive the basic formatting tags--html --- head --- title --- fontcolor="#ffffff" --- body --- bgcolor="#999999"

The next steps will be creating links and images.HTML Goodies has many tutorials.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Safe Blogging


Blogging is a public activity.It is on the internet.It is a modern form of publishing. It influences other people . It expresses your views.

When you drive,take a class, go to a thanksgiving dinner or publish on the internet tere are behaviors that promote respect and safety.

What behaviors will promote safe blogging?

Sunday, August 31, 2008

In the Beginning

Welcome!! It is September...A New Beginning...I look forward to working with you this year.

This is the class blog. I will post class assignments and interesting developments connected to Digital Communication. Computers, the internet and other tools have changed the way we communicate. New tools are always being created.

Next week you will create an account with Google and create your own Blogger account.