What is Alice?
If someone wanted to download Alice, where would they go?
to obtain the program go to alice.org
What objects doe Alice have to offer?
it has many different options from a japanese dojo to an airport in an abandoned city, everythihng you could possibly ask for alice has.
What could Alice be used for?
it could be used for creating short movies to spend time on your new computer or to show someone exactly how much is involved in making an animation.
What are the pros of Alice?What are the cons of Alice?
the pros and cons dont really seem to be that bad but its kinda hard to navigate and choose exactly what you want but it is easier once you have it chosen to further define what your askin it ot do.
What world did you make with Alice?
i made a moon landing that doesnt go well.
Did you enjoy Alice? Why/ Why not?
i did enjoy certain things on alice but i would not see myself useing it regularly.
Would you use Alice in the future? If yes, for what? If no, how come? no because it takes just too much time to get anything accomplished.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
Cyber Bullying
What is Cyberbullying?
Article link: http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/598017/Cyber-bullies-killed-our-son-Matthew-Jones-inspires-click-bullying-into-touch-campaign.html
Article Title: Cyber Bullying Killed Our Son
THERE was simply no hiding place for tormented schoolboy Matthew Jones.
For the evil bullies that battered him at school even clawed their way into the safe haven of his bedroom . . . through his computer screen.
Day after day, click after click, they attacked the 17-year-old through social network sites Facebook and MSN, urging him to KILL HIMSELF.
And the torrent of hate drove the intelligent but vulnerable lad into the clutches of another sinister form of bullying - internet suicide sites where sickos egged him on towards the edge.
Until, one afternoon, he did what they wanted.
"I got the sh** bullied out of me," he wrote in a suicide note his devastated parents Lin and Roger found on his computer.
"Life simply isn't for me. I have found that I have no fight left. So this is me saying goodbye."
Today the devastated couple join our anti-bullying campaign and reveal the full depths of what Matthew suffered - from playground beatings and 'happy slapping' attacks recorded on mobiles to psychological torture, leading him to self-harm.
"His death has totally destroyed our lives," says grieving mum Lin, 56. "Bullies and these sick websites took our boy from us." Matthew's nightmare began when he was just five at Norbreck Primary School in Thornton- Cleveleys, near Blackpool.
"Another boy constantly kicked and punched him and told him he was worthless and should be dead," says Lin, who keeps her beloved son's ashes in a shrine in her lounge surrounded by flowers.
Once she found Matthew with a length of cable. Lin added: "He said he was trying to kill himself like the boy had said.
"Another time we were in the car and he was sat in the back. He'd been quiet for a while and I turned round and he was blue in the face.
"He was holding his breath to try and end his life. It was terrifying. The seeds of his suicide were planted then." His little tormentor was dealt with by the school - but the bullying followed Matthew to senior school at Montgomery High.
After only a few days there, his mountain bike was smashed to pieces in the school bike shed. Dad Roger, 56, says: "He was heartbroken - but that was just the start. A group of around 15 to 20 pupils picked on him constantly. He was kicked and punched and had football boots pinched and even his blazer."
Lin adds: "I just thought he was being careless and losing stuff but then he broke down and told me he was being bullied."
Once Matthew bravely tried to stand up for himself after being surrounded by a gang of 20 lads but he was battered to the ground and trudged home with blood covering his shirt. Lin says: "The school did nothing to discipline the boys involved - even though we told them the names of the main two ringleaders.
"The bullies even filmed attacks on him and passed them around as some kind of sick entertainment.
"All the school did was appoint a bullying mentor - an older boy who accompanied Matthew at break time. But this just made him more of a target."
Damage
Lin and Roger, a barber, had several meetings with the school's staff but unhappy at their inability to prevent their son's bullying they moved him to the private Emmanuel Christian School in nearby Poulton-le-Fylde in 2004. "He was more settled there but the damage had been done," says Lin. "He was always worried about making friends because he felt he didn't fit in or wasn't part of the crowd."
Then the internet attacks were launched by tormentors from his old school.
"Matthew had his own Facebook and MSN pages and was often very upset by some of the messages he received," says Lin. "It was like there was no escape for him.
"He'd changed schools but someone can just type in your name and find you and the bullying starts all over again.
"After his death we found one boy on Facebook we knew had bullied him every day for years."
So Matthew - a talented pianist whose own compositions were played at his funeral - turned to self-harming in a bid to release the pain. "He would cut himself with razors or the blades from pencil sharpeners," says Lin. "There was nothing we could do to stop him.
"Another time, I went into his bedroom and he was sat there slashing his arm with a pencil sharpener blade.
"The blood was running down his arm.
"I asked him why he was doing it and he said the bullying had made him feel useless and worthless and doing this made him feel better."
It wasn't long before Matthew began to think of suicide.
Twice, at 15 and 16, he took overdoses of pills he found at home and needed hospital treatment.
Beforehand he had been chatting to users of an internet suicide group online. "My husband checked his computer and he'd been telling his problems to two girls on MSN," says Lin. "They'd left messages calling him a coward if he didn't go through with it and saying if he wasn't online the next day then they'd know he was dead.
"That's another form of bullying. People egging on and goading vulnerable youngsters to take their lives is absolutely repulsive. The sites should be closed down."
After Matthew made a third attempt at an overdose last October, Lin and Roger took hospital advice that he should be assessed at a psychiatric unit.
"We agreed for him to go for six days but it didn't help him," says Lin. "He was locked in with extremely disturbed adults and was terrified when he came out.
"He hadn't washed the whole time he was there and had barely eaten." After the shock of being in the unit, Matthew - by now on medication for depression - seemed much happier."
Matthew even started to chat about buying goods from the internet. Roger adds: "I took it as a sign he was growing up."
But it was all part of Matthew's final elaborate suicide plan. He used the card to buy a gas canister.
Sketch
"He said he was expecting a delivery and when it came I should make myself scarce because it was a Christmas present for us," says Roger. When the parcel arrived last December, Roger duly kept out of the way as Matthew took it to his bedroom - and gassed himself with the canister. By the time Roger went to check on his son, Matthew was dead. Next to him was a harrowing sketch he had made of himself taking his own life. We publish it today with details removed to protect other vulnerable children.
At Matthew's inquest, Blackpool's deputy coroner Michael Woosnam said more needed to be done to crack down on web forums advising young people on how to take their own lives.
Today Matthew's bedroom is just as he left it almost a year ago. The bed is neatly made. On his computer table is his mobile phone. Lin says: "We can't bear to touch anything. It is like he has just popped out for a few minutes and will be home soon.
"I am right behind your campaign. If it prevents one child from going down the same route as Matthew then it will have been worth it."
Matthew had been bullied for over a year at school and online and he had been egged on to commit suicide daily online in suicide groups and chatrooms. it started when he was young and kept on growing until he was even in high school, trying every form of suicide from cutting and hanging himself to holding his breath and overdosing.
this makes me feel horrible that nothing was done, if it were my kid i would have changed school districts and tried my hardest to make him fit in. ezpecially with a child who is talented like matthew was i would have made sure he had a better life than he lived.
NOT FINISHED!!!
Article link: http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/598017/Cyber-bullies-killed-our-son-Matthew-Jones-inspires-click-bullying-into-touch-campaign.html
Article Title: Cyber Bullying Killed Our Son
THERE was simply no hiding place for tormented schoolboy Matthew Jones.
For the evil bullies that battered him at school even clawed their way into the safe haven of his bedroom . . . through his computer screen.
Day after day, click after click, they attacked the 17-year-old through social network sites Facebook and MSN, urging him to KILL HIMSELF.
And the torrent of hate drove the intelligent but vulnerable lad into the clutches of another sinister form of bullying - internet suicide sites where sickos egged him on towards the edge.
Until, one afternoon, he did what they wanted.
"I got the sh** bullied out of me," he wrote in a suicide note his devastated parents Lin and Roger found on his computer.
"Life simply isn't for me. I have found that I have no fight left. So this is me saying goodbye."
Today the devastated couple join our anti-bullying campaign and reveal the full depths of what Matthew suffered - from playground beatings and 'happy slapping' attacks recorded on mobiles to psychological torture, leading him to self-harm.
"His death has totally destroyed our lives," says grieving mum Lin, 56. "Bullies and these sick websites took our boy from us." Matthew's nightmare began when he was just five at Norbreck Primary School in Thornton- Cleveleys, near Blackpool.
"Another boy constantly kicked and punched him and told him he was worthless and should be dead," says Lin, who keeps her beloved son's ashes in a shrine in her lounge surrounded by flowers.
Once she found Matthew with a length of cable. Lin added: "He said he was trying to kill himself like the boy had said.
"Another time we were in the car and he was sat in the back. He'd been quiet for a while and I turned round and he was blue in the face.
"He was holding his breath to try and end his life. It was terrifying. The seeds of his suicide were planted then." His little tormentor was dealt with by the school - but the bullying followed Matthew to senior school at Montgomery High.
After only a few days there, his mountain bike was smashed to pieces in the school bike shed. Dad Roger, 56, says: "He was heartbroken - but that was just the start. A group of around 15 to 20 pupils picked on him constantly. He was kicked and punched and had football boots pinched and even his blazer."
Lin adds: "I just thought he was being careless and losing stuff but then he broke down and told me he was being bullied."
Once Matthew bravely tried to stand up for himself after being surrounded by a gang of 20 lads but he was battered to the ground and trudged home with blood covering his shirt. Lin says: "The school did nothing to discipline the boys involved - even though we told them the names of the main two ringleaders.
"The bullies even filmed attacks on him and passed them around as some kind of sick entertainment.
"All the school did was appoint a bullying mentor - an older boy who accompanied Matthew at break time. But this just made him more of a target."
Damage
Lin and Roger, a barber, had several meetings with the school's staff but unhappy at their inability to prevent their son's bullying they moved him to the private Emmanuel Christian School in nearby Poulton-le-Fylde in 2004. "He was more settled there but the damage had been done," says Lin. "He was always worried about making friends because he felt he didn't fit in or wasn't part of the crowd."
Then the internet attacks were launched by tormentors from his old school.
"Matthew had his own Facebook and MSN pages and was often very upset by some of the messages he received," says Lin. "It was like there was no escape for him.
"He'd changed schools but someone can just type in your name and find you and the bullying starts all over again.
"After his death we found one boy on Facebook we knew had bullied him every day for years."
So Matthew - a talented pianist whose own compositions were played at his funeral - turned to self-harming in a bid to release the pain. "He would cut himself with razors or the blades from pencil sharpeners," says Lin. "There was nothing we could do to stop him.
"Another time, I went into his bedroom and he was sat there slashing his arm with a pencil sharpener blade.
"The blood was running down his arm.
"I asked him why he was doing it and he said the bullying had made him feel useless and worthless and doing this made him feel better."
It wasn't long before Matthew began to think of suicide.
Twice, at 15 and 16, he took overdoses of pills he found at home and needed hospital treatment.
Beforehand he had been chatting to users of an internet suicide group online. "My husband checked his computer and he'd been telling his problems to two girls on MSN," says Lin. "They'd left messages calling him a coward if he didn't go through with it and saying if he wasn't online the next day then they'd know he was dead.
"That's another form of bullying. People egging on and goading vulnerable youngsters to take their lives is absolutely repulsive. The sites should be closed down."
After Matthew made a third attempt at an overdose last October, Lin and Roger took hospital advice that he should be assessed at a psychiatric unit.
"We agreed for him to go for six days but it didn't help him," says Lin. "He was locked in with extremely disturbed adults and was terrified when he came out.
"He hadn't washed the whole time he was there and had barely eaten." After the shock of being in the unit, Matthew - by now on medication for depression - seemed much happier."
Matthew even started to chat about buying goods from the internet. Roger adds: "I took it as a sign he was growing up."
But it was all part of Matthew's final elaborate suicide plan. He used the card to buy a gas canister.
Sketch
"He said he was expecting a delivery and when it came I should make myself scarce because it was a Christmas present for us," says Roger. When the parcel arrived last December, Roger duly kept out of the way as Matthew took it to his bedroom - and gassed himself with the canister. By the time Roger went to check on his son, Matthew was dead. Next to him was a harrowing sketch he had made of himself taking his own life. We publish it today with details removed to protect other vulnerable children.
At Matthew's inquest, Blackpool's deputy coroner Michael Woosnam said more needed to be done to crack down on web forums advising young people on how to take their own lives.
Today Matthew's bedroom is just as he left it almost a year ago. The bed is neatly made. On his computer table is his mobile phone. Lin says: "We can't bear to touch anything. It is like he has just popped out for a few minutes and will be home soon.
"I am right behind your campaign. If it prevents one child from going down the same route as Matthew then it will have been worth it."
Matthew had been bullied for over a year at school and online and he had been egged on to commit suicide daily online in suicide groups and chatrooms. it started when he was young and kept on growing until he was even in high school, trying every form of suicide from cutting and hanging himself to holding his breath and overdosing.
this makes me feel horrible that nothing was done, if it were my kid i would have changed school districts and tried my hardest to make him fit in. ezpecially with a child who is talented like matthew was i would have made sure he had a better life than he lived.
NOT FINISHED!!!
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Acceptable use policy - AUP
what an AUP is- A set of rules you abide once you sign a formal document. such as not using the internet for certain things or not texting at work
How is an AUP used at Glenvar? Give 5 rules and why they would be important.
An AUP is used at glenvar every year for every student, it takes the weight off the school if something were to happen and there were to be legal issues.
1-no texting in school bacuse it distracts from learning
2-staying off game sites on the schools laptops because they eat up bandwidth
3-limited PDA in the hallways because teachers dont like it
4-not putting music on the schools computers because there isnt enough room
5-not taking drinks in the library due to the carpet
How could an AUP policy be put in place at a job?
How is an AUP used at Glenvar? Give 5 rules and why they would be important.
An AUP is used at glenvar every year for every student, it takes the weight off the school if something were to happen and there were to be legal issues.
1-no texting in school bacuse it distracts from learning
2-staying off game sites on the schools laptops because they eat up bandwidth
3-limited PDA in the hallways because teachers dont like it
4-not putting music on the schools computers because there isnt enough room
5-not taking drinks in the library due to the carpet
How could an AUP policy be put in place at a job?
Blocking Websites that arent appropriate for the workplace
Why are AUP's necessary?
so you can set limitations on what he/she can do.
what rules and regulations would you have?
no instant messaging, playing games and no blogging!!!
no instant messaging, playing games and no blogging!!!
Emoticons ;)
An emotion is how you feel and express yourself through body language.
An emoticon is some type of face/recognized emotion that is created through the keyboard to describe that particular feeling or emotion.
--- 10 Examples of Emoticons and What They Mean are:
:) happy
:( sad
:D excited
;) wink
.-) pirate
: straight
D: mad face
:-Q smoking
:----( sad with long nose
:} ) happy with mustache
An acronym is an abbreviation of words.
--- 10 Examples of Texting/IMing Acronyms:
BRB - be right back
g2g - gotta go
TTYL - talk to you later
LOL - laugh out loud
L8 - late
U - you
THX - thanks
Y - why
BWLN - bowling
NVM - nevermind
An emoticon is some type of face/recognized emotion that is created through the keyboard to describe that particular feeling or emotion.
--- 10 Examples of Emoticons and What They Mean are:
:) happy
:( sad
:D excited
;) wink
.-) pirate
: straight
D: mad face
:-Q smoking
:----( sad with long nose
:} ) happy with mustache
An acronym is an abbreviation of words.
--- 10 Examples of Texting/IMing Acronyms:
BRB - be right back
g2g - gotta go
TTYL - talk to you later
LOL - laugh out loud
L8 - late
U - you
THX - thanks
Y - why
BWLN - bowling
NVM - nevermind
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
HTML = Hyper Text Markup Language
1. What is HTML?
HTML is a language/code that allows you to make a website.
2. What is a tag? Give an example.
a tag is basically a source to what you want on your website <"tag"title>
3. Explain "open" and "close" tags
Open- is when you want to start info on your site, close tags end the info on your site
4. Steps to create a HTML site (BE VERY THOROUGH!!! I should be able to create my own site from your instructions on this one!)
Open Notepad
at the top put "tag"html>
Underneath put "tag"title> Your info "tag"/title>
then put "tag" body> which stands for break "tag"/body>
--- now just copy and past html codes for what you want on your site from anywhere on the internet or other sources you might have
--- once you have done this click file, save as, and save it as homepage.html
--- now open it up in internet explorer and there you have it
5. Give 3 websites that give good examples of HTML tags to copy and paste:
Quackit
Web soure
Html code tutorial
6. How do YOU feel about HTML? I like html because i think it is pretty interesting because it shows how random stuff you might not even be close to understanding the computer will recognize it as something you are very familiar with. -What did you know already? I knew what it was and i knew how to find codes on the internet and copy and paste them. -What do you know now? how to set up websites and things that the normal computer user might be clueless on. -Will this help you with anything in the futre? Why/Why not? it could help me in the future with job oppertunities.
HTML is a language/code that allows you to make a website.
2. What is a tag? Give an example.
a tag is basically a source to what you want on your website <"tag"title>
3. Explain "open" and "close" tags
Open- is when you want to start info on your site, close tags end the info on your site
4. Steps to create a HTML site (BE VERY THOROUGH!!! I should be able to create my own site from your instructions on this one!)
Open Notepad
at the top put "tag"html>
Underneath put "tag"title> Your info "tag"/title>
then put "tag" body> which stands for break "tag"/body>
--- now just copy and past html codes for what you want on your site from anywhere on the internet or other sources you might have
--- once you have done this click file, save as, and save it as homepage.html
--- now open it up in internet explorer and there you have it
5. Give 3 websites that give good examples of HTML tags to copy and paste:
Quackit
Web soure
Html code tutorial
6. How do YOU feel about HTML? I like html because i think it is pretty interesting because it shows how random stuff you might not even be close to understanding the computer will recognize it as something you are very familiar with. -What did you know already? I knew what it was and i knew how to find codes on the internet and copy and paste them. -What do you know now? how to set up websites and things that the normal computer user might be clueless on. -Will this help you with anything in the futre? Why/Why not? it could help me in the future with job oppertunities.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Eithernet Cables
The purpose of a/an ethernet cable is to connect two network devices through ethernet.
The materials needed to make an ethernet cable are the length of network cable that you might require, (2) RJ45 jacks, and cable pliers/cutters.
To make an ethernet cable you first cut the wire to your desired length, strip the blue tubing without cutting the wires inside, then you untwist the colored wires, place the colors in the correct order;
light orange, dark orange, light green, dark blue, light blue, dark green, light brown, dark brown. Then you cut the wires to make them all even lengths, hold the clamp down with pliers, and then repeat steps 2-9 on the other side of the cable and then test the length of cable for internet connection to see if the wires are touching the correct jack slots.
You test by putting both jacks into the connection tester and turn it on.
-If green lights appear, you have been successful, otherwise you may need to start over and make sure you find where you went wrong.
When i put my eithernet cable together it wasnt that hard seeing that its not hard to work with tools that are as self-explanatory as the eitherenet connector tool was. i figured i would atleast mess up once but i took my time and got it right the first time.
The materials needed to make an ethernet cable are the length of network cable that you might require, (2) RJ45 jacks, and cable pliers/cutters.
To make an ethernet cable you first cut the wire to your desired length, strip the blue tubing without cutting the wires inside, then you untwist the colored wires, place the colors in the correct order;
light orange, dark orange, light green, dark blue, light blue, dark green, light brown, dark brown. Then you cut the wires to make them all even lengths, hold the clamp down with pliers, and then repeat steps 2-9 on the other side of the cable and then test the length of cable for internet connection to see if the wires are touching the correct jack slots.
You test by putting both jacks into the connection tester and turn it on.
-If green lights appear, you have been successful, otherwise you may need to start over and make sure you find where you went wrong.
When i put my eithernet cable together it wasnt that hard seeing that its not hard to work with tools that are as self-explanatory as the eitherenet connector tool was. i figured i would atleast mess up once but i took my time and got it right the first time.
Monday, October 19, 2009
WAN's & LAN's
list the four benefits of using a network Defferentiate between WANs and LANs. Identify atleast three common network topologies. Insert an image from the web of each. List four examples of network operation systems software. Describe the difference between client/server networks and peer to peer networks.
they allow users to access programs and data at the same time, the allow users to share peripheral devices such as printers and scanners, they make personal communication easier, and they make it easier for users and administrators to back up important data files.
WAN's are two or more LAN's connected together generally across a wide geographical area, and LAN's are a network of computers that are relatively near each other and are connected in a way that enables them to communicate.
Ring-http://www.ccnastudyguide.net/ring-topologies/
Bus-http://www.studynotes.net/net1.htm
Star-http://www.teach-ict.com/as_a2/topics/networks/pages/chap5.htm
windows mellineum
windows xp
windows vista
windows 95
peer-to-peer/ all nodes on the network have equal relationships to all others, all have similar types of software that support sharing of resources
client/server- in which individuals share the processing and storage workload with central server
they allow users to access programs and data at the same time, the allow users to share peripheral devices such as printers and scanners, they make personal communication easier, and they make it easier for users and administrators to back up important data files.
WAN's are two or more LAN's connected together generally across a wide geographical area, and LAN's are a network of computers that are relatively near each other and are connected in a way that enables them to communicate.
Ring-http://www.ccnastudyguide.net/ring-topologies/
Bus-http://www.studynotes.net/net1.htm
Star-http://www.teach-ict.com/as_a2/topics/networks/pages/chap5.htm
windows mellineum
windows xp
windows vista
windows 95
peer-to-peer/ all nodes on the network have equal relationships to all others, all have similar types of software that support sharing of resources
client/server- in which individuals share the processing and storage workload with central server
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Cyber Crime
Jodie Hoang, 34 and a resident of Houston plead guilty for a count of information computer fraud. As an accounting clerk she was to process funds recieved by Standard Mortgage Corporation at loan closings. She changed the codes for deposit payments made by customers and the created checks payable to herself and her credit card providers from funds she fraudulentlychenged the accounting codes for.
she faces imprisonment for up to five years and a supervised release term after imprisonmenmt for up to three years.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Blog(ing)?
Blogging... i am not much of a computer person myself, especiall being on for hours at a time. So personally im not too fond of it; but i am seeing the benefits and positive side of blogging. It seems to be a good way to keep in touch with people you dont see often and whom have a hard way to communicate with you. I also think that it can possibly be addicting yet fun at the same time so i am going to keep an open mind.
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