I only missed one question on my TRAILS test:
9. When you are assessing a website's objectivity, which of the following would you not examine?
My wrong answer was advertising on the websites. The actual, correct answer was the currency of hyperlinks on the website.
I believe I missed this question because I misread it. I think when I originally took the test I thought it was asking for a site's currency, which was not the case. Looking back on it now, the correct answer is obvious; while approved advertising on a site could demonstrate bias, whether or not the hyperlinks are still active has little/nothing to do with it.
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Topic 7
I could definitely see myself using Google Drive for school projects in the future. It's a very effective tool, both for making presentations or helping to share documents with collaborating students on a school project.
Here's a timeline from my book I made using Google Drive:
It's crude and skips over a lot of details, but gets the main points across.
One of the cooler tools I found was in the Drawing, Charting and Mapping Tools section of the online database WebTools4u2Use. It's called Art.com and lets you "paint" an image on a fake canvas and save it to your "gallery." You can send photos to other people by email. One of the more interesting features is how you can see an instant replay of your masterpiece, brushstroke by brushstroke. You can also see artwork by other people. It's a pretty simple tool, and I can't really see myself using it for anything outside of all means to getting rid of boredom. As far as I can tell, there's also no way of attaching the images you make to sites like this blog, or simply copying it with a mouse click/drag, which is really aggravating.
Since Glogster refused to work with me and any project I made inevitably shut me out or wouldn't save any changes to the document I made, I went and made a picture with Google Drive instead.
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Topic 4
1)What is "fair use?"
The Copyright Act gives copyright holders the exclusive right to reproduce works for a limited time period. Fair use is a limitation on this right. Fair use allows people other than the copyright owner to copy part or, in some circumstances, all of a copyrighted work, even where the copyright holder has not given permission or objects.
2) How does fair use fit with copyright law?
Copyright law embodies a bargain. It gives copyright holders a set of exclusive rights for a limited time period as an incentive to create works that ultimately enrich society as a whole. In exchange for this limited monopoly, creators enrich society by, hopefully, contributing to the growth of science, education and the arts.
A Creative Commons License is a kind of online tool that gives everyone--from individual creators to large companies and institutions--a "simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work." This is an important thing for any potential writer/artist to know about.
Two images I might use in my book trailer:
Picture of a timber wolf/German Shepard mix. There's one of these in my book. This was one of the clearer, more candid-looking photos I found, so I decided to use this one.
Brodersen, Bonnie. Wolf / German Shepherd Puppies - Price: 500.00 for Sale in Denison, Illinois. Digital image. bestpetsonline 2014. Web. 18 Nov. 2014.
One of the crucial clues the characters find that kickstarts the novel's plot are a pair of old military dog tags. A girl also finds them, and the picture shows and girl's hand.
Liftarn. Dog Tags. Digital image. Wikipedia 18 Dec. 2005. Web. 18 Nov. 2014.
A large portion of the book takes place on Loggerhead Island, off the coast of Maine, which hosts a scientific research institution and a colony of monkeys.
Kevin Oke / All Canada Photo / Universal Images Group
Rights Managed / For Education Use Only
The Copyright Act gives copyright holders the exclusive right to reproduce works for a limited time period. Fair use is a limitation on this right. Fair use allows people other than the copyright owner to copy part or, in some circumstances, all of a copyrighted work, even where the copyright holder has not given permission or objects.
2) How does fair use fit with copyright law?
Copyright law embodies a bargain. It gives copyright holders a set of exclusive rights for a limited time period as an incentive to create works that ultimately enrich society as a whole. In exchange for this limited monopoly, creators enrich society by, hopefully, contributing to the growth of science, education and the arts.
A Creative Commons License is a kind of online tool that gives everyone--from individual creators to large companies and institutions--a "simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work." This is an important thing for any potential writer/artist to know about.
Two images I might use in my book trailer:
Picture of a timber wolf/German Shepard mix. There's one of these in my book. This was one of the clearer, more candid-looking photos I found, so I decided to use this one.
Brodersen, Bonnie. Wolf / German Shepherd Puppies - Price: 500.00 for Sale in Denison, Illinois. Digital image. bestpetsonline 2014. Web. 18 Nov. 2014.
One of the crucial clues the characters find that kickstarts the novel's plot are a pair of old military dog tags. A girl also finds them, and the picture shows and girl's hand.
Liftarn. Dog Tags. Digital image. Wikipedia 18 Dec. 2005. Web. 18 Nov. 2014.
A large portion of the book takes place on Loggerhead Island, off the coast of Maine, which hosts a scientific research institution and a colony of monkeys.
Kevin Oke / All Canada Photo / Universal Images Group
Rights Managed / For Education Use Only
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Topic 8
The site I decided to use was Goodreads. I discovered this site a few years ago and have been visiting it periodically ever since. Every few days I sign in and wade through all the new books for anything I might be interested in reading. It's particularly useful for researching books by the same author or for the excellent suggestions it offers in the "Readers Also Enjoyed" category in the top right of the screen when viewing a book's page. I've discovered many excellent books I don't think I would have found otherwise through this way. Since I've been using this site for some time, I really had no difficulty with it. I suppose the hardest thing about it is sifting through its extensive database for a specific book or genre. I chose this site over the other two because I'm familiar with it and know its layout pretty well. I definitely use this site for fun all the time and it would be a good resource for school when researching nonfiction texts or maybe viable reading material for an English class.
Here's a widget of my personal Goodreads bookshelf:
Here's a widget of my personal Goodreads bookshelf:
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