Haley B and taching about priva-CY

This week we were supposed to teach someone else about the importance of privacy when using the internet. I taught my roommates, all three of them, about privacy on the internet. At first they didn't really take me seriously, kept making jokes (which were funny, dang it), and asked dumb questions, but after they calmed down we talked about privacy and ended up discussing what we would want our children to do if they were able to use the internet. We talked about how it would be really important to monitor our children when we have them, and make sure that they are safe. If that means not letting them have facebook or whatever the latest thing at the time is until we feel they're old enough and mature enough to be smart, then SO BE IT.

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Haley B and making sub pages

This week I had a lot of fun working on my site for class. I did however run into some problems trying to figure out how to create a subpage. While working on it I asked my dear friend Sarah to show me what's up and she graciously showed me how to add subpages. I kind of felt dumb after I saw how simple it is to do. It's funny how you can stare at a screen for so long and not be able to figure out to just push the huge butt that says "add a page." It's good to have other people come in, who have a different perspective and see different things, to help when we need it.

Also, I finished my site so check it out!! https://sites.google.com/site/haleybennettclasssite/home

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Haley B's problem encounters with making a website

This past week I didn't get enough time to work on my website. I have found that as I have gotten online more to try and figure things out I have begun to find myself understanding how to actually do the things that this class requires of me. This is such an amazement to me. I have always thought I was good with computers because I do just dink around and find my way around problems by clicking ever button I see. This didn't work so well for a bit while I was trying to figure out how to add sub pages to my website, but I ended up navigating my way to doing what I set out to do and had a little celebration on my own for around 2 seconds. It was a good day for overcoming my obstacles in website creation.
Check out what I've done so far (I'm not saying it's finished). https://sites.google.com/site/haleybennettclasssite/

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Haley B and Copyright Laws

Copyright laws are obviously a good thing to have. Without copyright laws people that create different things would not get the credit they deserve, and everyone would just be able to take what is not rightfully their's. On the other hand, I think that there are a lot of things about copyright laws that are a bit much. Obviously as a kid my age I download and listen to a lot of music. I understand that artists deserve to get money back for the music they make, but I think it is a little out of hand how much money they must be getting because everyone is paying a dollar for their songs. I think that someone needs to find a happy middle ground where people can purchase music and share it with a certain amount of people so that both parties would be happy. It gets to be very spendy for students like me to pay a dollar for every song I buy and realize at the end of the year I bought over three hundred songs. That's one thing that makes me laugh about copyright laws and people trying to stop illegal downloading, obviously I'm going to download music for free if I can when I realize I'm wasting 300$ a year. That's outrageous that people have to spend that much to be in accordance with dumb copyright laws.

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Haley B Talking About Effects of New Technolo-GY

A new piece of technology that will change learning and how we do school work is using Google Docs. In my experiences with this tool I have already found that it makes things such as group work, test reviewing with others, and sharing notes easy for everyone to use. In the case of test reviews I have found Google Docs to be extremely useful. In past classes when it came time for a test, a group of the students in my class would put together a Google Doc that everyone could contribute to which helped those that may have questions are certain parts and also allows everyone to come to a consensus on an answer so that they are using the best reviewing material they can get. I think changing technology is only going to make teaching and learning easier and more fun over time.



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Haley B's Experiences with Technolo-GY!

In my MANY experiences with technology I've found that at first there may be times when I'm not exactly sure what to do, but am able to search the computer and find my way to my to my desired destination. Overall, I would have to give myself a 7 our of 10 on my technology abilities. By saying such, I think of my experiences with technology to be great!

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