Journal #10

1. Watch the following video:1.) Explain the purpose of using ‘youtube’ as a source of digital media advertising?

 

The purpose of using youtube as a source of digital media advertising is because it is a famous webpage and site used around the world.

2.) Discuss how collaborative media sites such as youtube, myspace and bebo have changed the current boundaries of media such as news, advertising ect.

Because they have targeted different types of age groups such as youth.  This has made it a popular site because of its media and techniques.

3.) Provide a link to an advertising commercial on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUkSO5Vv-UM

Journal #9

1.) Define the term ‘digital media’.
digital media is the form of media that is in the form of the Enternet. People use the Enternet to advertise or add information about certain people.

2.) How has digital media evolved over the last 5-10 years?

It has evovled very rapidly because people now relly on digital media to run their lives.

3.) Discuss the reasons why digital newspapers are extremely popular?

It has become extremely popular because it is so much easier to acces. 

 

 

Journal #8

1.) Watch the following clip:

Scenario 1: You are on a train coming home from a day at the beach. The train stops at a station and a group a youths get on the train and start bashing an elderly ethnic man. You notice people getting off the train. Discuss what you would do in this situation.

In this situation i would look for some form of help and if none is available i would report it to the police and give a discription of what they looked like.

Scenario 2: You get a message from a girl that you are interested asking you to come over her house. When you get there a number of her friends are present and they say they are bored. One of them promotes the idea of going for a walk and causing a riot. At first you tell them “No way”. However, the girl you like states that “she will like you more if you go”.Discuss what you would do in this situation.

This is a tough question because i would want a girl to like me more but i don’t want to cause a riot but in the end i wouldn’t cause a riot i would just go home

journal #7

1.) Watch the following clip:Describe what is a person’s ‘conscience’.

A persons conscience is part of their brain that tells them what is good and what is bad. It helps decide whether there is going to be any consequences if they do something bad.

2.) Watch the following clip: Describe how a persons conscience works in making moral decisions. Explain the relationship between religion and conscience.

A persons conscience works in making moral decisions by thinking about certain things first, e.g, in the clip brady was going to rob a liquer store but his conscience comes into play and makes him think about the consequences.

Journal #1

1. How is the research going?

The researching is going fairly well compaired to our first project which was difficult because we didn’t know what to do. We have got started and we know what we are doing and i hope we get good marks. 

2. What do you know about imovie? What other multimedia possibilities have you considered for your presentation?

I don’t know too much about imovie but i know that you can add different clips and images to make a short film. We have considered using the imacs to film our project.

JOURNAL #6

1.) Define the term “Moral Maturity”

Moral maturity is the development of young minds. E.g, when you are a baby you do things without even thinking about the consequences, as you get older and your mind developes, you start to think about what could happen. Such as someone could get hurt or killed.

2.) Read the following article:Discuss the reasons why the 25 year old man mentioned in the article would be regarded as having a lack of ‘moral maturity’.  

does not say anything about moral maturity

3.) Identify the differences between ‘morality’ and ‘immorality’.

Morality is when you think about the consequences and you make the right decision where as immorality is when you do the oposite and don’t think of the consequences and make the wrong decision.

4.) Watch the following clip and describe the reasons why Governor Spitzer’s actions would be regarded as ‘immoral’.

His actions would be regarded as immoral because he was imvolved with prostitutes and thought he could get away with it.

journal #5

1.) Which countries have banned the Internet?

Some of the countries that have banned the internet are China and Pakistan.

2.) Describe what the following image is about? (Provide TWO websites to support your findings)
 This image is about the emporer banning the internet due to the use of inappropriate sites in his opinion e.g. Youtube being one of the main. Also religious beliefs would have had an effect.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7292130.stm

http://myamarnews.blogspot.com/2008/03/questionable-referendum-in-burma.html

3.) Provide evidence of at least FIVE sources (Websites, newspapers, blogs, videos ect) that discuss the reasons why these countries have taken such a drastic approach.
- Religious beliefs

- Cyber chat and bullying

- Crimes

- Internet Enemies

- Offensiveness

http://myamarnews.blogspot.com/2008/03/questionable-referendum-in-burma.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_7264000/7264277.stm

4.) Discuss how you would feel if the Australian government banned the Internet. What privileges would you lose? (2 Paragraphs)If the Australian Government banned the internet I would loose the privalages of doing research for assignments and entertainment. I would feel a little angry but at the same time a little relieved due to the fact that cyber bullying wouldnt occur regularly to depressed people.

I would feel also that I have lost the privaleges of communication with friends and not being able to chat with people that in which whom I know that I am talking to.

journal #4

1.) Using the Internet research and find descriptions for the roles of the following newspaper personnel: Editor

 Someone who is responsile for publication and determination for the final content of a text e.g. Newspaper editing.

Reporter 

 A person who investigates and reports stories to the editor.          

 Journalist 
A writer to a newspaper or magazine.

Designer

 Production of images and creativity for attraction to the article.

journal #3

1.) Explain the difference between ’secular’ and ‘non-secular’.

secular is non relgious and they believe in no God but non secular is they do believe in God and religious.

2.) Provide FIVE links to media organisaions who provide media to the public.
http://www.ninemsn.com.au

http://www.yahoo.com.au

http://www.abc.com

http://www.ten.com.au

http://sbs.com.au

3.) Select ONE event current in the news media and provide a summary.

Paul McArtney, a former ‘Beetle’ was resently in a bitter divorce settlement, it was today resolved. His wife, Heather Mills, walked away with $52.3 million. This is a current event, and is currently in the headlines, for all the wrong reasons.

Journal #2

1.) Describe the Australian Governments NetAlert program?

Help kids with not running into sites that they are not suppose to. This is very useful for young kids who do not fully understand what they are running into.

2.) Discuss the reasons why they have implemented such a program?

Basically, to stop un-knowing kids on running into things that they… do not want and or need.