Monday, October 25, 2010

Registration Times

Registration Times

12:00 Kyle B.

12:05 Rachel B.

12: 10 Maggie C.

12:15 Nikki D.

12:20 Margaret

12:25 F Michelle

12:30 G, Katelyn

12:35 H, Kayla

12:40 H. Sher

12:45 H. Jacob

12:50 K. Joshua

12:55 L. Tia

1:00M J.

1:05 M Meghan

11:50 Lane

11:40 S. Lauren

1:10 S. Mary

1:15 S. Kristin

1:20 T Kelsey.

11:30 T. Jacob

1:25 V Maria

1:30 Y. Krista

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Weekly Read #2: Definitions





***BE SURE TO READ AND COMPLETE THIS WEEKS BLOG #7 AND REGISTRATION WITH MONICA AND AMANDA (ANNOUNCEMENTS ARE INCLUDED)******



prej⋅u⋅dice
–noun
1.an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
2.any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable.
3.unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, esp. of a hostile nature, regarding a racial, religious, or national group.
4.such attitudes considered collectively: The war against prejudice is never-ending.
5.damage or injury; detriment: a law that operated to the prejudice of the majority.




rac⋅ism
–noun
1.a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.
2.a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.
3.hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.


big⋅ot⋅ry
1. stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own.
2. the actions, beliefs, prejudices, etc., of a bigot.

Be prepared to give examples of each in our next class meeting.

Blog #7 “You think you know who you are. You have no idea.”























In order for people to communicate effectively with each other, they need to begin the process of respecting, understanding, and empathize with people of all genders, races, cultures, classes, ethnics, religions, and sexual orientations to name a few. If we cannot do that, we cannot communicate effectively. By educating ourselves about our differences and engaging in respectful behavior, communication will flourish and meaningful relationships will develop. I don't just mean friendships, I mean even communicating with a stranger on the street that is from a different background than you. Prejudice lives within us all, regardless if we believe so or not. By accepting this, you will be a better person and embrace the need for development in your own character.

Crashing Through Prejudice
by Rebecca Schingel


Crash. It is the perfect analogy of how we as a human race deal with life, people and our own experiences. Physical characteristics and racial differences may be interpreted as two distinguishing traits that separate us. I think it’s what keeps us apart. That leaves several abstract questions that the film Crash illustrates. What are the origins of personal prejudice? Do individual experiences fuel standing stereotypes? Is it easier to perpetuate existing stereotypes because “things will never change?” Can people battle internal struggles within their own ethnic group? What prohibits us from overcoming these prejudices?

Ponder these questions and respond.

Registration Meeting With Monica and Amanda and Weekly Minutes and Assignment Information: POST YOUR IDEA HERE

Amanda and I have looked at our schedules and we have very conflicting schedules which make it very hard to meet with all of you. We have decided to use our class meeting for advisement next week. However, we will need to start at 11:30.

Is anyone able to meet with us during these times?

11;30-11:40
11:40-11:50
11:50-12:00

Please post on the blog ASAP if you can meet at these times and which time you want. They will be assigned to the student that requests them first. I will post on the blog the schedule we will be meeting in the class in a few days after I get a response to this.

We will still have class next week and we will be viewing a movie called, "Crash".

Remember!!!!!

Requirements for registration
• Schema of major
• Copy paste of all classes you wish to take (need at least 15 credits)
• A blocked out schedule (A visual to show where your classes fall during the day and how much time you have between classes, and to make sure your classes don’t overlap)
• Advisement will take place during our class meeting next week. There is no need to go to my office and sign up.

If you need advisement on what to take, that is fine. Please however have ideas of what you want listed.

Students that are not prepared, will not have registration.


*********Dignitas Weekly Minutes October 19, 2010**********


Communication Link #3: Being Aware of How We Speak

There are several very inappropriate words that we use in our everyday speech. It is never appropriate to use them unless you are referring to the actual group of people. Using these terms to mean stupid, sick, silly and so on only makes you look uneducated and disrespectful.

Here are some that we listed in class.

-gay
-blind
-deaf
-mental
-retard


Class Discussion: What is a Bully?

-Defined what a bully is
-Defined what it means to be bullied
-Discussed Cyberbullying on social networks
-Discussed the difference between being weak and a victim
-Viewed some very tragic results from Cyberbullying
-Discussed Blog #6

****REMINDERS!****

Assignment #2: Due next Tuesday October 25, 2010

-students must complete their assignment, "Applying Theory to Practice"
+be sure to print off the assignment that I emailed you last week and follow the directions carefully
* select a topic that is meaningful to you that you would like to share with your group
+topics can be anything that you wish that you can use to bring your group together (how will this contribute to our community)

ASSIGNMENT MUST BE PROFESSIONAL, CREATIVE, INSIGHTFUL, MEANINGFUL, AND FREE OF ERRORS



Ideas:

-create a dish from your heritage and explain its importance to your family and culture. Discuss how by learning about our difference it actually brings us together
- teach the students how to make a tie blanket and work together to find a shelter you wish to donate
-teach a project that requires everyone to participate and explain the importance of coming together

POST YOUR IDEA ON THIS BLOG...I MAY OFFER SUGGESTIONS TO YOU BUT JUST GET STARTED.



Have a great rest of the week and weekend,

Monica

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Requirements for Registration

Requirements for registration
• Schema of major
• Copy paste of all classes you wish to take (need at least 15 credits)
• A blocked out schedule (A visual to show where your classes fall during the day and how much time you have between classes, and to make sure your classes don’t overlap)
• Advisement will take place during our class meeting next week. There is no need to go to my office and sign up.

Monday, October 18, 2010

What is a Bully?

A bully is someone who is habitually mean to others, inflicting both physical and psychological abuse on his or her victims. Bullies can appear at schools, in workplaces, and on the Internet. Bullying can also take on an international scale when nations bully each other with their politics and militaries. Bullying can be extremely harmful on every level, and there are a variety of ways to deal with bullies and their actions.

Bullies tend to pick on targets they think are weak. Children, for example, will target children who are younger than they are, along with children who look different because of race, disabilities, or fashion sense. People who appear emotionally weak may also be targeted for bullying. Bullies themselves are often former or current victims of bullying. Children who have unstable home lives, for example, may take out their frustration and aggression on other children.

Should this be taken lightly? No punishment for this kind of behavior? Wasn't Hitler a bully?


by Dr. Jay
Adolph Hitler is the epitome of what a coward a bully truly is.

Prejudice and bullying go hand-in-hand. They are two sides of the same coin. In order for someone to bully another person (the victim), the bully needs to judge the victim as different from him/herself. To distinguish the victim from him/herself, the bully must engage in prejudicial categorizations. The bully must place the victim in a "lesser, inferior, undesirable" category, much the same way that Hitler had based his Nazi genocide theory of hatred and persecution towards the Jewish and others he considered "undesirable" and undeserving of humanity in the 1930's.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Dignitas Weekly Minutes October 12, 2010

Dignitas Weekly Minutes October 12, 2010

Campus Announcements:

Advisement begins October 20. Students should check on their accounts at the business office this week- to be sure they are clear for registering for spring semester.

Early admission applications for first year students to the Nursing ENTER and Occupational Therapy FACT programs are due the end of fall semester. Applications and requirements are available in the department offices or on line.
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Class Announcements:

 Communication Link #2: Enhancing Team Effectiveness
o Read the power point that I sent you carefully on our second communication link

• Blogs
o Blogs will continue to be due Thursday at 12:00am and Sunday at 12:00am this is due to the number of late responses
o You must have correct grammar in your blog comments (no i’s, incomplete sentences, correct spelling, etc) points will be deducted.
o Blog comments need to through and complete to review credit
o A hard copy must be given to Amanda before class starts on Tuesday
 No credit will be given for late work
 No credit will be given if you do not hand in a hard copy
 No credit will be given if you do not sign your name after your posting
• Missing Class
o If you miss class you must write a 2 page paper on what you missed
 This needs to be typed
 Get the information from a classmate if you are absent
• Weekly Readings #1 posted on the blog. Be sure to read.
o Weekly readings will either be given in class or incorporated in the blog
• Do not text during class
o Students that are texting will lose a half a letter grade for each incident
• Computers must be shut unless I tell you to open them

Assignments:

 Blogs are due weekly
 Applying Theory to Practice
o Be sure to print your assignment that I emailed you
o Begin to think of something that you want to teach your group about. It can be anything that makes your heart sing. It should be meaningful and bring your group closer together.
Feedback:

 Keep it up and do participate!
 More students need to participate. I appreciate those that voice their thoughts and opinions on our topics
 Be sure to complete your work to your best abilities
 Do not hand in late work
 Do not be afraid to talk with Amanda or I about anything you need

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Blog #6: Communication Changes Due to Social Networking

**********Be sure to read the first weekly read below as well.************

Communication

Information taken from:

http://networkconference.netstudies.org/2010/04/facebooks-aggregated-news-feed-has-changed-the-way-people-communicate/


The way society communicates has changed drastically due to the introduction of social networking sites like Facebook. Facebook has provided society with the infrastructure to expand people’s social circles. It does this by providing people with a place to stay in contact with every person that they have ever met. Facebook’s aggregated newsfeed has enabled members to receive a consolidated update of their social circles’ lives in just a few moments and without being in physical contact with a single person. The consolidated updates have also, in some cases, led to a behavioural pattern of possessing tendencies to self promote experiences through the newsfeed (Buffardi & Campbell, 2008). This increase of communication without any human contact has led to a number of uncomfortable etiquette issues in both the online and offline spaces. These issues include Facebook’s members addressing what is socially acceptable to know about each other when they meet in an offline space or the “real world”. This constant need for communication has led to people feeling as if they need to be able to communicate anywhere and at any anytime and this has seen the rise of the ‘smart phone’ (AIMA, 2009). As part of research for this conference paper, an online survey was distributed through social networking sites starting with my own contacts on Facebook, Twitter and email. There were one hundred and fifty three respondents with the majority of respondents located in Australia. This survey gathered information regarding how people communicate since the introduction of social networking sites. This conference paper will discuss how Facebook’s aggregated newsfeed has drastically changed the way society communicates.

Communication amongst peers, families, governments and companies is an essential part of a society. Communication can occur in many different forms from face-to-face communication, to mobile communication, online communication, voting or polls, or mass communication (Kotler et al., 2009, p.228). The Collins Dictionary defines communication as “to exchange (thoughts) or make known (information or feelings) by speech, writing or other means” (Collins, 2010). Since the introduction of technology such as social networks and mobile phones communication has been amplified and has become ubiquitous. Much of today’s communication is instantaneous with the delivery of messages being transferred almost immediately. Snail mail has been replaced with emails (Mayfield, 2001), telephone calls replaced with text messaging (Buskirk, 2010) and in some instances face-to-face communication has been replaced with social networking sites (Planeswalker, n.d.). Social networking sites have drastically changed the way people expect to communicate with one another, as people no longer wait days, weeks or months to receive news. Communication has become instantaneous and has enabled people to become more connected than ever before.

Social networking sites like Facebook enable a person to maintain an array of friends in an online setting (Boyd, Ellison, 2007; Kagan, 2008). Facebook allows a person to reconnect with people that they have met in an offline environment or start a relationship with a new person or “stranger” that the person has met only online. According to Robin Dunbar, Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University Britain, humans are unable to maintain meaningful relationships with more than one hundred and fifty people at a time (Hill, Dunbar, 2003). But Facebook has allowed individuals to broaden their social circle from just a handful of people that they see on a regular basis to include old school, college, work and travel friends and any other person that is in their social circle. The survey that was conducted as part of research for this paper showed that Facebook was the most regularly used social networking site. Seventy percent of the people surveyed had a social network that consisted of between fifty to four hundred friends. But in a period of twelve months over half of those people had not seen between fifty to two hundred of those friends in an offline environment. Through social networking sites like Facebook, people have started to expand their social circles but in accordance with Robin Dunbar’s research people are finding it difficult to transfer these relationships into the offline world.

Facebook has drastically changed the way people communicate with one another in particular amongst friends. Facebook’s main focus is about connecting people although you can do a number of other activities on the site such as, reuniting with old friends, sharing photos, organising events, status updates, creating fan pages and buying, selling and trading goods (Nielsen, 2010). When new members first join Facebook they are asked “Are your friends already on Facebook?” (Facebook, 2010). The new member is encouraged to search through their existing email contacts and add any people that they are already connected with. Through these connections Facebook also has the capability to ‘suggest friends’ to the member based on whom their friends are friends with. New members can also complete their education details, which will assist them to build and increase the social circle. Although it must be noted that for any connection to take place the other member must reciprocate that they indeed know the person by confirming the friendship. This process of finding friends through email, school and Facebook suggestion will build the new member’s social network, which will enhance the user’s experience by pre-populating their Facebook home page. This concept of having all of your friends located in one place and accessible at any time is new to society. Previously people would have different groups of friends and use different methods of communicating with them. The implication of having all friends located in one place is that other forms of communication such as phone and text are decreasing in usage. There is also a risk that people not joined to Facebook miss out on aspects of their friend’s lives as they are missing things being posted to Facebook’s newsfeed.

Facebook’s home page is an aggregated news feed of the social network’s status updates and profile updates. At the top of the news feed and the top of every profile, users are asked “What’s on your mind?” in which the member writes a short status update which is then collated into the newsfeed (depending on their privacy settings). This function has led to a rise in self-promotion (Buffardi & Campbell, 2008), where members are posting detailed status updates of what they are up to and in some cases updating their status a number of times during the course of the day (Dubow, 2007). Psychologists have linked the idea of self-promotion on Facebook with narcissistic behaviour (Buffardi & Campbell 2008). According to a survey undertaken by youth marketing firm, Ypulse, sixty percent of college students agreed with the statement “People in my generation are using social networking sites for self-promotion, narcissism, and attention seeking” (Grove, 2009). Where members of Facebook increasingly use the site to promote themselves through updating vivid details of their personal lives, using photos to promote experiences or vanity and increasing perceived popularity through friendship numbers (Buffardi, Campbell 2008). The idea of self-promotion has changed the way people communicate as with the assistance of Facebook’s aggregated newsfeed, details of our personal lives can be communicated as a one to many broadcast system.

The aggregated newsfeed performing as a one to many broadcast system has changed the way people communicate with one another. In a few moments, Facebook members can be exposed to a number of daily activities without actually being in physical contact with a single person. ‘Facebook stalking’ has been coined as a term to explain this phenomenon and it has become so common it can now be found in The Urban Dictionary (2010). It defines ‘Facebook stalking’ as “a covert method of investigation using Facebook.com. Good for discovering a wealth of information about people you don’t actually know”. Facebook ‘stalking’ is not always limited to stalking strangers but can also be associated with constantly checking the news feed to ‘stalk’ what friends are up to. Survey results for this conference paper showed that eighty six percent of people surveyed checked their most regularly used social networking site between one and six (or more) times per day. This constant need to check one’s profile and newsfeed reflects on society’s change in the way communication is taking place. Facebook members can experience a feeling of disattachment from society when Facebook is down or inaccessible (Alder, 2009). Members feel a constant need to check in and find out what people are doing, this has become so apparent that social networking has become a pastime or a recreational event (Ridings & Gefen 2004). This constant need to check one’s newsfeed has allowed Facebook to recently overtake Google as the most visited website on the Internet (Arrington, 2010). This does not indicate that members are socialising in their offline environment anymore or any less but it suggests that people are more ‘updated’ when they are communicating with an online friend in the offline world. ‘Facebook stalking’ has led to people knowing a greater amount of information (or strangers in some situations) which has changed the way people communicate with each other in the offline world.

Facebook’s aggregated newsfeed has affected the natural flow of conversations in the offline world. Previously when meeting with a friend or acquaintance the conversation would flow through a number of predictable questions. These questions would assist in gaining an understanding of the activities or the life events the other person had been effected by since the last encounter such as “how have you been?”, “what have you been up to?”, “how is work going?”, “how are the children?”, “how is the wife/husband?” etc. Now, most of these finer details are posted directly on to the newsfeed and the friend is well aware of these events prior to seeing their friend. The survey results for this paper show that respondents know details about their friend’s lives before seeing their friend in person. Now when they see their friend they would discuss what each other had seen on Facebook. But they felt that even though they receive regular news from Facebook’s newsfeed, to be able to receive a more detailed version of events they needed to make one to one contact. A number of etiquette issues have arisen with the introduction of Facebook’s aggregated news feed becoming common in society. It can be an awkward situation when confronted by a person that is on Facebook in the offline/real world, as members are still negotiating how much information is appropriate to divulge without revealing that they have been “stalking” Facebook. The etiquette of discussing offline or in the ‘real world’ what you have learnt through Facebook about a person, is something that is still being experimented with Facebook members. But it seems that if the person is a close friend than it is acceptable to know of the intricate details of their Facebook postings. If it is an acquaintance or a stranger’s profile that has been stalked than it is best to claim no or minimum knowledge of the other person’s life (Dubow, 2007). Facebook has unknowingly changed offline communication amongst friends from an angle of catching up on latest news to more of a conversation about the updates viewed on the newsfeed and the details surrounding these updates (Dubow, 2007). Facebook ‘stalking’ has changed the way people conduct and structure their conversations with friends, this change has also led to a noticeable decrease in traditional forms of communication.

Being constantly updated with friend’s news has also led to a decrease in communication via traditional methods such as snail mail, text messages, phones and emails (‘Social sites eclipse e-mail use’, 2009). According to the conference paper survey, prior to Facebook being a recreational activity, people used text messages or emails as their main method of communication amongst friends. In 2009, reduction of mobile phone use became apparent to the Australian society, in particular Emergency Services, when two young girls were trapped in a drain and decided to update their Facebook status as a replacement to using their mobile phone to contact Emergency Services. Luckily through their newsfeed posting, their social network was able to contact Emergency Services and obtain assistance (‘Trapped girls call for help on Facebook”, 2009). Eighty percent of people surveyed for this conference paper agreed with the question “Do you think the amount of time you call/email your friends has changed since you started participating in social networking sites?”. This dramatic shift in communication has led to telecommunications companies changing the way they structure their mobile phones to ensure they have the capacity to allow for the inclusion of social networking on the move. The implication of this drastic change has led to people not using their phone to communicate through the use of voice calls but using it as a way to communicate through the use of updating their Facebook profile.

The first communication to take place by way of mobile phone in Australia was in 1987 (Yussuf & Brooks 2007). There are now more mobile phones in Australia than there are people (‘Number of mobile phones now exceeds Australia’s population’, 2008). The reduction of communicating via text messages and mobile phones calls has seen a rise of mobile handsets being updated to ‘smart phones’ by Telecommunication companies. Smart phones are not only able to make phone calls and send text messages but they are able to receive emails and access social networking sites through browser access or application access. The phenomenon of the smart phone first started with the introduction of Blackberry and being able to receive emails out of the office (Middleton, Cukier, 2006). Where Blackberry was typically targeted towards the businessman the Iphone (and other similar smart phones) have revolutionalized this communication method by introducing it to the remaining half of society and by including social networking sites. In a survey conducted by the Australian Interactive Media Association (AIMA) eighty five percent of respondents had used their phone to access a social networking site in the last month and forty six percent of responses were checking their social networking sites through their mobile at least once a day (AIMA, 2009). Indicating that there is a genuine rise of people needing to communicate on the move. Due to communication happening at all times through the use of smartphones, it has changed how frequently people communicate with one another and how quickly this news can be posted and spread through their social network.

This conference paper has shown how Facebook’s aggregated newsfeed has drastically changed the way its members communicate. Members have been given the ability to maintain relationships with every single person that they have ever been in contact with. To assist in this new expansion of their social network, Facebook has provided its members with an aggregated newsfeed to ensure members are kept up-to-date with the activities of other members’ lives. Members have actively adopted this new way of communicating and have started posting numerous amounts of times a day regarding their daily activities. Although the etiquette of the newsfeed has led to some uncomfortable experiences in the offline world with the amount of information one should reveal, it has also led to a feeling of being more updated with their friend’s lives. The newsfeed has instilled a feeling of needing to be able to communicate at all times. Which has led to a rise in smart phones, which enable its users to log onto their Facebook pages through online browser access or direct application access. Facebook and its aggregated newsfeed have drastically changed the way society communicates.

How has Facebook changed the way you communicate. What is something positive and negative about this change or changes? What do you think should be done to people that abuse facebook and use it for bullying and gossip? What punishment should be established?

Weekly Read #1: Is Anything Really Private?









Public Anomie
Jul 07, 2010

No Comments by Oliver Benjamin

How The Internet Has Destroyed Privacy

Everyone knows the old adage ‘there’s no such thing as a free lunch.’ That is, if someone offers you something for free, you can be pretty sure there are strings attached.

The Internet seems to have turned this timeworn chestnut on its head — these days there seem to be no end to the free services available to the average netizen of the World Wide Web. From free email like Hotmail to free online photo storage like Flickr to full-blown software suites like Google Docs, everyday things you once had to pay for (snail mail, photo albums, software) now increasingly come at no charge. That’s what you’re meant to think, anyway.
A humorous (and scary for some) bumper sticker is making the rounds in the United States that says ‘You can’t hide your browsing history from God.’ Yet it may not be some omniscient deity one has to worry about. The fact is that all these free services are storing everything you do in huge data banks for marketing and research purposes. In The Cost of Free, an episode of a recent BBC series called The Virtual Revolution, the narrator shows that someone with access to that data could find out things about you you’d never want them to know. In fact, as an experiment, a hacker did just that — using deductive reasoning to trace down a single US woman by the things she searched for via her AOL (America Online) browser, triangulating her identity by the data trails she left behind.

It’s enough to make your skin crawl. Most of us don’t realise it, but everything we have ever searched for has been recorded. And it is not likely to just sit there. At some point in the future, it’s probable that computers far more advanced than the ones we have today will easily be able to mine though decades of data and piece together a picture of our lives, much the same way historians do about famous figures through their letters and correspondence. Only the amount of information we expose about ourselves, just in the ordinary acts of browsing Google or Yahoo, is in order of magnitude, more rich with detail than a few letters, not to mention far less censored.

This all would be bad enough if we weren’t such willing participants in the sabotage of our own secrets. Certainly the most astonishing revolution in our attitudes about privacy has come as a result of the incredible rise of the social networking site Facebook. Lured by the thrill of sharing information with friends, untold millions of people are at this very moment laying themselves bare to the world, so to speak. Yet only recently have the implications of our Facebook behaviour come to light.
One thing people were shocked to find out was that you can never actually delete your data. Sure, you can remove it from your ‘wall’ or your messaging inbox, but it’s still there on Facebook’s servers. Forever. That photo your college pal posted of you drunk and passed out on the floor? Immortalised. Your brief membership in the Miss Piggy fan club? Not as brief as you think. That insulting comment about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg? Let’s just hope he’s the more forgiving type of power-mad CEO. Facebook continues and will continue to use any and all your data for marketing purposes, even stuff you wish you’d never let out of the bag. And it’s unclear just what they consider themselves legally able to do with those factoids of your life.
As many pundits have pointed out, however, we have only ourselves to blame. Fans of reality shows regularly bear witness to the shamelessness people display when confronted with an opportunity to be the centre of attention. Facebook capitalises on this bizarre human compulsion by offering everyone a sounding board, making them feel important, and helping them to connect with people — even people they don’t particularly care for. But appealing to our most base and unflattering drives is what marketers do, and Facebook has merely fulfilled a need that has gone unchanged since cavemen jockeyed to tell stories and gossip around the campfire.

Recently a ‘Quit Facebook Day’ was organised. It was a total flop. A tiny percentage of people cancelled their accounts — many of whom didn’t realise that their data wasn’t going anywhere anyway. For better or for worse, it seems that social networking is here to stay and we will all have to get used to the idea that our lives are no longer wholly our own. Even those who are circumspect about keeping privacy controls locked down and posting only what is necessary can’t keep their friends from tagging them in embarrassing pictures taken late one night down at the pub. And this is true even if they don’t have a Facebook account at all, or even any ‘friends’ — thanks to Facebook, that word has all-but lost its meaning.
Andy Warhol famously said that in the future, everyone would be famous for fifteen minutes. The implication of that statement was unclear at the time — it seems that we will be famous for fifteen minutes whether we like it or not.

Religious people have always felt that they had to be on their best behaviour because ‘God sees everything’ — even your browsing history, as the bumper sticker says. Yet perhaps humankind no longer needs religion (or Father Christmas) to feel that worrying sense of being watched and held to account. Technology may be rapidly and irreversibly taking over the responsibility.

Thoughts???? Why do we so freely give up our privacy?

Friday, October 8, 2010

Community Day







I am sorry that this post is late. I did not have access to the internet at home and I have been home with sick children since after class on Tuesday. This posting is not due until Monday at 12:00am and only one posting is necessary.

Please share what you did for community day and how it impacted you. What did you do to make you feel proud?