User talk:Virlany372

Ed tech: Final

1.	 Enter your name into three different search engines, what shows up? Are you surprised? What actions can be taken to ensure that you don’t chance your online reputation and personal brand? a.	Yahoo: Hispanic Student Association, Facebook, UF Student Government, MSN: All-Dade County Scholar Athletes, Center for Student Activities & Involvement, LinkedIn Google: Dean of Students Office, Omicron Delta Kappa, FHSAA b.	I am not surprised; these are activities that I am or was involved with from high school and even more so in college. c.	Online reputation takes time to build therefore, it starts with It can be as simple as not getting involved with activities that can jeopardize my reputation/personal brand. In addition to asking to be removed from websites that is no longer in my interests. I think we need to take further steps to secure these sites once we have established an account. It will most likely decrease the probability of someone who will tamper or attempt to change my personal page. 2.	Employers have increasingly begun to use Web sites like MySpace.com and Facebook.com to screen applicants and current employees. Should employers be allowed to do this? Provide a thoughtful, detailed explanation of your thinking below. Be sure to articulate possible social, moral, legal, and ethical consequences of such actions. a.	Employers have the legal right to use these web sites in order to find information that could not be found otherwise. However, I do believe that is not ethical to use such resources to find information on a potential employee. It is true that these sites are public information, but it does not take away that some parts of these personal web pages are not meant to be seen. Luckily these sites have been able to understand the need for options as to who can see the user’s page. There are privacy settings which do not allow people to view profile of the user; depending on how the users arrange the settings they can prevent these employers to search their profiles. 3.	 Utilizing the Internet, select and describe a freely available online application that would be useful for individuals in your 'field of choice'. Describe how you envision utilizing the application in a professional setting? Why is this application specifically relevant to your field of interest? What do current users of the application have to say about its strengths and weaknesses? a.	Second life is an application the recreates a real life in a virtual world. Large corporations use this application to reconstruct and potentially meet future employees and other corporations in real time. b.	I would envision using this application as a recruiting mechanism to see how my employees would survive in the corporate world by stimulating real-life situations in a virtual world (assuming that I would own my company in the future). In addition I could use this program to market products, causes, and teams. c.	Within sports management there can be room for non-profit organizations that advocate for children and their involvement to partake in more active lifestyles or there are organizations that help children who live in neighborhoods that lack resources and do not have a chance to participate in sports. Such causes are worth using this application to get exposure so that support can possibly be earned by other organizations. d.	Strengths: Second life provides an opportunity to explore your creativity. It has numerous options to recreate a real life in the virtual world. From purchasing land to modifying your physical features, second life is increasingly becoming more popular amongst corporations. e.	Weakness: It allows many activities that would not be appropriate in a professional business environment. It allows many activities that would not be appropriate in a professional business environment. The initial difficulty of understanding how to navigate and make sense of Second Life. 4.	One current concept in contemporary education is 21st century skills. Utilizing your web-based search and information analysis capabilities, develop a personal working definition of 21st century skills, and then describe your progress towards the attainment of these skills. What have you done in the last few years to add to your 21st century skillset and what do envision doing in the future to continue to develop these skills. a.	Reading, writing, and math skills will not be enough for students to succeed in the future. These 21st century skills include how to think analytically and innovatively, work collaboratively, use the Internet to do research, and converse openly and successfully. Students also need to be dependable and liable, to be up on the news, and to have a practical understanding of economics and business. b.	To attain such skills, it starts with the individuals desire to become better. In addition, the professors that teach such skills should be proficient and willing to do so. c.	I have spent numerous of hours researching these skills. In addition to hands on training in comfort of my own home. Not to mention, taking classes that will further my education on some of these skills. I have also surrounded myself with individuals in where these skills are their strengths. d.	In the future, I believe that these skills will not be required but essential to have. In the business world thinking outside of the box is highly encouraged and with the help of these skills working collaboratively with other corporations is just as significant as being able to communicate effectively within your own company. e.	http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/11/19/teaching_students_21st_century_skills/ 5.	 Using current examples from Internet, which should include links and references where appropriate, present a thoughtful structured argument for why you feel that the University of Florida is or is not the #1 party school in the nation. a.	According to a survey conducted by the Princeton Review it ranked the University of Florida as the number one party school in nation. I do not agree with such ranking because these results were based on the media. During the time of the survey, Florida had just won the national championship in both football and basketball in years consecutively. As a result, much celebration did occur but in comparison to other neighboring schools the amount of alcohol consumed is not nearly enough. The University of Florida had much exposure on television which resulted in the recordings of these celebrations to be broadcasted. This level of exposure strengthens the rankings in categories such as these. I feel that the University Police Department is very strong against binge drinking. Especially with several deaths related to alcohol their lenience and sympathy has diminished severely. The night clubs and the bars all shut down even before 2am, and they start allowing students in around 11pm which strictly limits the amount of time students actually party. Therefore, being a student at this institution it difficult to fathom these rankings because I feel as such the rules that are set in place are very strict and will only become much strict because of these rankings. 6.	 Facebook allows individuals and corporations to develop custom applications for Facebook users (eg: scrabulous, superpoke, funwall). If you were to design an application for Facebook, what would you design? Why is this application needed? Who would use this application? a.	Design an application that allows you digitally edit the photos you have in your albums. Sort of like a photoshop application, in where you can enhance these pictures to better fit the user’s profile. It would not be your standard picture editing tool which limits you to just crop, adjust brightness & contrast, and colors. b.	This application would give the users more options when it comes to uploading and editing these photos. They could possibly restore any photos that couldn’t have been done so otherwise. In addition, the program could also have special effects such as background tones, textures and anything that could possibly enhance the pictures being uploaded. c.	I believe that all users proficient in photoshop could use this program. However, I do think that they can modify the program to make it easier to use for those who are unfamiliar with such photo editing program. 7.	Utilizing your Internet search skills, provide a brief synthesis of what bloggers are saying, pro and con, about the genetic modification of plants and/or animals to increase food supply in the United States and/or abroad. Provide a listing of the blogs that you visit and also verify the credentials of the bloggers who are posting. Identify a blogger who you feel is particularly well informed and has the credentials to make commentary on the topic (explain these credentials). Identify a blogger who you feel is not particularly well informed and does not have the credentials to make commentary on the topic (explain the lack of credentials). a.	Pro: General consensus from most bloggers is that there is no difference in taste in the genetic modified food. People feel that if they want to eat genetic modified foods than so be it, whether it may be bad for there body, they feel as if they are fully aware of what they are putting in their body. Appreciate the author for spreading awareness of the issue. Made suggestions of possibly labeling foods with genetic modified material. b.	Con: Genetic modified foods give people certain allergic reactions or side effects. The bloggers feel that the person who wrote the article could possibly not be credible source since he doesn’t use many facts to support his allegations against genetic modified food. Some bloggers feel as if these scientists are trying to play God and should not have to right to replicate these foods. Bloggers feel that there hasn’t been enough credible research to make any certain allegations about these foods. c.	http://www.genengnews.com/blog/item.aspx?id=93 Genetically Modified Foods Debate:Wednesday, October 31, 2007 Article written by: Dr. Jeffery Smith author of Seeds of Deception. d.	http://www.plentymag.com/blogs/ecoeats/2008/09/genetically_modified_food_expe.php  Genetically modified food: expect to see more of it, soon Posted by: Victoria Schlesinger associate editor of Plenty Magazine e.	http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/genetically-modified-food-the-silent-killer-previously-censored-information-healthy-sources-of-gm-free-foods-drinks-and-those-to-avoid.html Genetically Modified Food (the Silent Killer), Previously! Censored Information, Healthy Sources of GM Free Foods, Drinks and Those to Avoid. Article found in: TodayYesterdayandTomorrow. f.	One blogger demonstrated his extensive knowledge about the subject by providing other sources, from specific quotes of newspaper articles to online journal articles that support his claim against genetic modified foods. The blogger states facts that are not only relevant to issue but used completely persuade the readers that these projects not only cost money, but are not healthy for consumers. g.	There was another blogger who clearly was not aware of such issue because they did not use any other sources to base its comment. Since it is an opinion that is exactly what this blogger did, their reaction after the reading the blog was that they felt uneasy about eating these foods but wouldn’t really know the difference so they will continue eating these foods in hopes of future labeling. 8.	Discuss whether you feel that your degree is more (or less or of similar) valuable than a similar degree obtained from Kaplan University or The University of Phoenix (two leading colleges that provide online learning and grant degrees). It depends, but I do feel that my degree is much more valuable because of our institution has been established longer. Therefore the programs available to the students can be taught by the best professors. Not to mention research in our institution is much more profound because of the amount of time professors have dedicated in addition to the amount resources available to them. Although it may be more convenient to get online degrees, in the work force I do not believe it can be viewed upon highly unless the person comes in with years of experience from a given company. For students attempting to attend graduate school, it may be difficult for those attending online institutions because they do not have the opportunity to meet their professors. The online curriculum may be outlined the same but that does not mean that the strength in those courses are at the same level.