Cyber Bullying

Cyber Bullying is when you hurt or offend people over the internet.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,315684,00.html

MySpace Mom Linked to Missouri Teen's Suicide Being Cyber-Bullied Herself

After Lori Drew’s teenager daughter got into a fight with her friend Megan Meier that permanently ended their friendship, the Lori Drew created a MySpace account and constantly tortured the poor girl by creating a blog titled “Megan had it coming” and continuously taunted the Megan which resulted in the her committing suicide.

I don’t think Megan had it coming like Lori Drew thought. Friends get in fights all the time and end their friendship, she really took it to the extreme when she made Megan kill herself.

After Megan was dumped by “Josh” (who was a ficticious boyfriend created by one of Lori Drew’s employees in order to get back at Megan), she decided to hang herself. There was not enough evidence to charge Lori Drew with any kind of crime. Her attorney claims she had nothing to do with the blog, however Lori Drew admitted she created the blog.

Besides not having a psycho mother, don’t get so wrapped up in these blogs. It’d probably be better not to join any. Don’t date over the internet with a person you’ve never met.

I’ve had several friends who were cyber bullied. My dad isn’t very nice to people over the internet. People in Glenvar are cyber bullied all the time and today’s society is increasing with bullies and victims over the internet.

Staying Civil Online

5 rules for internet etiquette

• Do not yell at others online
• Do not send spam to people
• Act like you are talking to someone in real life
• Anyone can read your post, be careful what you put on
• Do not aggrevate others.

A netiquette is crucial for keeping the Internet a civil place because teh internet is not policed or run by a single person or group. Be sure to behave on the internet, don't mess around.

• Behave as though you are communicating in person. When communicating with someone online, act as if you are talking to taht person face to face.


• Remember that your words are open to interpretation. If you posts jokes, sarcasm, or other attempts at humor, do not be surprised if someone is offended. Word your postings clearly and carefully.


• Do not "shout" online. Typing in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS is like shouting and is considered rude.


• Do not "flame" other users. In "Net-speak," a flame is a posting that contains insults or other derogatory content. Flamers can be shut out of listservs and chat rooms, and other users can block a flamer's messages.


• Do not send spam. Spam is the online equivalent of junk mail- uninvited messages, usually of a commercial nature. Most ISPs have strict spam policies. If you are caught distributing uninvited messagges to multiple recipients, your ISP may cancel your account. You'll learn more about spam in Unit 14, "Living with Computers."


• Do not distribute copyrighted material. Usenet newsgroups and many private Web pages are filled with copyrighted and trademarked text and graphics, posted without the owner's permission. do not think that text or images are "in the publice domain" because you gound them on the Internet. Copyrights still apply


• Do not be a coward. As a general rule, you should never conceal your identity on the Internet. If you choose to use a screen name, do not hide behind it to misbehave
  

Do you think that netiquette is important? Why or why not?
I think all the netiquettes are important except for the last one. I don't think you should EVER conceal you idenity to the internet. If someone is misbehaving, you can still find out who it is.

Acceptable Use Policy

Explain what an AUP is.


Acceptable Use Policy is basically a set of rules laid down that restricts what your not suppose to do at work, school, or some other place of that sort.




Glenvar's AUP would be our Code of Conduct.

• No Volgar Language: Volgar language is inappropriate and is a bad habit to get into for later in life. You don't want to say the wrong thing and offend the wrong people.

• a prohibition against use by division employees and students of the division’s computer equipment and communications services for sending, receiving, viewing or downloading illegal material via the Internet: This is so Glenvar doesn't get in trouble for any illegal contenet downloaded by student/teacher.

• provisions establishing that the online activities of users will be monitored: Glenvar can moniter any computer to insure no body is doing something they aren't suppose to.

• provisions prohibiting the unauthorized disclosure, use, and dissemination of personal information regarding users: No body is to learn any personal information about anyone throught the computers.

• provisions, including the selection and operation of a technology protection measure for the division’s computers having Internet access to filter or block Internet access through such computers, that seek to prevent access to
  child pornography as set out in Va. Code § 18.2-374.1:1 or as defined in 18 U.S.C. § 2256;obscenity as defined by Va. Code § 18.2-372 or 18 U.S.C. § 1460; and material that the school division deems to be harmful tojuveniles as defined in Va. Code § 18.2-390, material that is harmful to minors as defined in 47 U.S.C. § 254(h)(7)(G), and material that is otherwise inappropriate for minors: This allows Glenvar to block websites that could be harmful to students.
  
  
  

A letter could be sent out with a list of rules in the policy at work.

AUP's are neccesary because they are rules and living in a world without rules in caotic.

If you were the boss of a large company where each employee had their own computer and access to internet, what rules and regulations would you have?

Rules for Tyler Hutchinson's BIG BUSINESS!!!!

• Don't look up anything inappropriate
• Don't forward e-mails to me
• No facebook
• Spend your internet time wisely
• No facebook
• Check only your work email
• No facebook
• No AIM
• No facebook
• No Myspace
• No facebook

Emoticons

Emotions are feelings you have when your mind reacts to an event.


Emoticon is used to express feelings through some sort of text.

Give 10 examples of emoticons and what they mean.
;)= Winky face
:P= Face sticking it's tongue out
xD= Face with it's eyes crossed out
:(= Frowny Face
:0= Shocked Face
:)= Happy Face
:-D= Really Happy Face
:-D*= Super Incrediably Ultimately and Unbelivably Happy Face
<@;-)= Clown hat winky face emoticon
0:)= Halo Angle Smily Face



Acronyms are letters that stand for words.

JK=Just Kidding
LOL= Laugh Out Loud
NDF= Non Discriminating Friend
G2G= Got to Go
BRB= Be Right Back
Y= Why
IDk= I don't know
IDC= I don't care
B4= Before
MBRSD= Embarrassed

HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language and is a language for describing webpages.

A tags are keywords surrounded by angle brackets <> like tag (<)html(>)

The first tag in a pair is the start (open) tag which looks like (<)html(>). The second tag is the end (close) tag and looks like (<)/html(>)

These are the steps to creating a HTML site:

• Open up Notepad
• Type in (<)html(>) and (<)/html(>) somwhere near the bottom
• Under (<)html(>) type (<)title(>) and put the name that you want to be your title. After you type your title put the end tag (<)/title(>) so it should look like (<)title(>)TITLE(<)/title(>).
• Under your title tags put (<)body(>) and right above the end (<)/html(>) tag put the end body tag (<)/body>.
• In between the two body tags you can put any html code you want to further continue your page.

5. Give 3 websites that give good examples of HTML tags to copy and paste

www.web-source.net/html_codes_chart.htm
www.quackit.com/html/codes
www.htmlfreecodes.com


I feel really good about HTML. At first I didn't really understand the concept of it but now I think I know everything we've gone over like how to make it, what to do to put stuff in it, changing backgrounds. It all revolves around the right codes. If I ever want to make a website, now I know one way to do it.