Artifact 8

Many people in the world today have smart phones. Those smart phones come with applications (app) that can be downloaded to the phone for a specific use. There is a new app that is WebMD. Instead of going to the doctor’s office to get questions answered, you can go to the WebMD website to ask the question. Usually this response is exactly what the doctors would say except the app on the phone is more convenient, saves you a trip to the doctor, and doesn’t necessarily cost any money. Sometimes there may be an emergency when a question needs to be answered right away, and the trip to the doctor may be too late. I also really enjoyed hearing about the video game that some cancer children played because it was their chance to kill the cancer. The game is called Remission. I like it so much because it gives the children hope of killing their cancer with the help of chemotherapy. Someone I know has cancer, and when I told them about the game, they were thrilled. I’m not sure if they ever actually downloaded the app, but it is a good way to keep spirits high. The website, patientslikeme.com, was very interesting to hear about. I never knew there was a website where patients can talk about their problems. The doctors then look at the website to see what the patients are talking about to try and make their visits better, Technology is helping patients and doctors with the problems they have. 

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Artifact 4a & 4b - Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011; 8:32 a.m.
http://marissa-simon.blogspot.com/2011/02/artifact-4a-4b.html


Artifact 5 - Friday, Mar. 4, 2011
http://marissa-simon.blogspot.com/2011/03/artifact-5.html - 8:26 a.m.
http://hargatec.blogspot.com/2011/03/artifact-5-thank-sex-for-making.html - 8:44 a.m.


Artifact 6 - Thursday Mar. 10; 9:52 a.m.
http://marissa-simon.blogspot.com/2011/03/artifact-6.html


Artifact 7 - Wednesday, Mar. 16; 9:45 p.m.
http://marissa-simon.blogspot.com/2011/03/artifact-7.html

Artifact 7

                This article was very informative. I knew that students had cheated, but I never really thought much about the extent to which some people will go to cheat. A student at my high school did the trick in which they take the label off of a bottle and them write notes/answers on it then places in back on the bottle. Because we were allowed to have drinks in class, they went to take a drink and then the answers were there. This student that got caught cheating was suspended for 3 days out of school. Needless to say, the teacher no longer allowed drinks in her classroom. When I think of cheating, I usually think of homework questions rather than tests. If two people do an assignment together then they tend to have the same answers. In my case, if I discuss the answers out loud with someone else I usually understand it better. Technically, this would be considered cheating. When people have the same answers it is cheating. At first, I figured that is what this article would be about. Never did I think that some teachers are taking extreme measures to make sure that students no longer cheat, specifically on papers and tests. It was very clever of Christe to sign up as a student for her own online class to see what students have questions about. Some students, such as myself, do not like talking in class in a group as much, so they won’t ask questions even if they have trouble with it. She finds out what students need help with and then confronts the student to make them tell her what they are struggling with. This is a very good teaching strategy because the student doesn’t have to come out of their comfort zone, yet still gets answers to their questions. Her idea of a phony website with the answers to the questions was brilliant. She says she only catches 3-4 students cheating, but there are probably way more that just don’t get caught. Also, I never thought of text messaging as a way to cheat. Teachers usually walk around the room during tests, but at a big University with huge classes, cheating would be a lot easier. For example, I am sure that students at Missouri State could cheat easier on exams than Fontbonne students because our classes are so much smaller. In this case, I could understand why the Missouri State teacher might be worried about students cheating, but not as much here. I am not saying it doesn’t happen, because it obviously does. Statistics in this article weren’t very high. Only 50% of students admitted to cheating, which is a high number, but in reality more students cheat than they admit. I do not think there is one person that could say they have never cheated. Exams are different, but homework is usually a given. Students that need help will ask for it. If the student that is giving the help is willing to share their answers, the other student will willingly accept.

Artifact 6

      When he was 15, Christopher looked at a Japanese forum website. He didn’t know that after a few years it would be evolved to have 7 million monthly visits with around 700,000 posts per day. It expanded from 1 discussion board to 48. I think this website is so popular because it is anonymous. People can say whatever they want without anyone actually knowing who they are. There is no registration therefore it is completely unfiltered. I wasn’t aware that this kind of website was available because everyone always tries to get information. I think people tend to be more brutally honest when their identity is hidden. They can say anything they want without getting in trouble for maybe saying the wrong thing. I thought it was interesting that their first discussion board was called /b/. Anonymous is a good word to describe the identity of people while they type on this forum, but it is also the name of the group that protested scientology. I found it interesting that most of the memes on 4chan posted LOLcats. This is funny pictures of cats. The irony is that a man was arrested within 48 hours because he posted a video of him abusing his own cat. Because it was posted on YouTube, the authorities were able to find and arrest him. Some may think this is an issue with privacy, just like the issues with social networking. People are more free and able to be their selves on 4chan. While there may be pros and cons to this, people have more privacy than they could imagine. Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace don’t have enough privacy while websites like 4chan have too much. When will people realize that they are the ones that make decisions? They decide whether or not they put personal information on those social networking sites. They decide whether or not they want to remain anonymous and post what they want. If you have a problem with it, don’t do it. It was comical to me that he said older people may be okay with it because they don’t necessarily understand it. Each individual understand that when they are on certain websites, they may or may not risk that other people can see what they do. I think this website is a great idea because privacy is such a popular subject. I don’t think I would be interested in blogging anonymously merely for the fact that I like to know who people are and what they are saying. I guess you could say I am a nosey person because I like to know things. Remaining anonymous is a great way to freely say whatever you please and getting your feelings out there. People that feel more comfortable using CMC than F2F communication can actually say what they are feeling without being judged. This may help people that have issues such as on the verge of suicide because they have so many thoughts that they just keep inside. An anonymous blogging website is a great idea for all people.

Artifact 5

I was completely shocked by this pod cast. People that create porn websites were the ones that played a big role in starting online shopping. I was shocked that a few years ago pornography websites were the most popular. Porn sites have gotten more hits that any other website. Even though they say men were the creators of the website, they are not the only ones that watch it. Porn is the creator of social networking websites, such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc. because people began talking. It is also the reason that internet video chatting and video players were popular. Video chatting, such as Skype, has only been popular the past few years, but I am sure some people used that as an opportunity for pornography. People used video players, such as Windows Media, was used on porn sites. It is also a money making business. People link their credit cards to websites where porn is offered because they pay for what they are viewing. This is when people began buying online items such as groceries because their card was safe when they linked it to a porn site, so it would be safe on other sits as well. Chat rooms were popular years ago as well, but private chat rooms were used to distribute porn just like the websites as long as you have a membership. Now that I think about it, I could understand why porn would be the start of online shopping because people have had the urge longer than computers were created.