Topic 5: Creating Your Own Images

1.In your blog posting add remixed images you have created from 2 of the sites. 
2. Make sure and identify the sites that you used and add the hyperlink.  
3. Also, tell us how you might use each site for fun or for school.  
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image made on Big Huge Labs

image made on Image Chef

I might use these sites in the future for making funny jokes with my friends, but i'm not sure how I could get away with using these web sites for school.

Topic 4: Photos, Images & Giving Credit

This post is going to be oriented around creative commons licenses and how to give credit to something you found on the internet or how to get credit for something you made and then posted to the internet. To fully understand how to post your ideas on the internet while retaining ownership of the content you created, you should know a few key terms such as public domain and creative commons. This post will give you a general idea of what you need to know if you want to become a content creator of some kind on the internet.

What does public domain mean?: Public Domain things you find on the internet are basically things that anyone can use without having to worry about the creator of the content suing you for using their product/idea without their permission. Basically, if you want to put something on the internet and let anyone see or use it any way they want to, then it's public domain. Conversely, if you want to upload something to the internet but you want to make sure everyone has to acknowledge that you made it, and everyone who wants to use it has to credit you somehow for using it, then you should add a creative commons license.

*IMPORTANT! IF YOU USE PUBLIC DOMAIN CONTENT, YOU SHOULD STILL CITE WHERE YOU GOT IT FROM!

What is a creative commons license?: Have you ever noticed a small (™) sign at the end of a name of something or even a (CC)? This means that whatever your looking at is owned by someone and by using or referencing that thing without giving credit to the owner can get you in varying degrees of legal trouble.This is called copyrighting. A creative commons license (CC), is a free license anyone can get attached to their content by going to their web sight here!, filling out a quick survey, and choosing the how others can use and can't use your content. That being said, it is possible to use pictures and videos that have a creative content license, so long as you cite it properly as shown below. 


Example of properly citing a creative commons picture:

Atherton, John. Kamabai car wash crew. 1968. Flickrcc. Yahoo, n.d. Tues. 18 March. 2014. http://flickrcc.net/flickrCC/index.php?terms=Kamabai

Arraes,Duda. Water for the Kids 27 Feb. 2011. Flickrcc. Yahoo. Fri. 21 March 2014. http://www.flickr.com/photos/45770203@N05/6282512687

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Format for photograph originally posted on the web:
Photographer's Name.  Title of Photograph.  Date Photo Taken if Available.  Web Site Title.  Web Site Publisher, Date Posted. Web. Date of Access. <URL>.

(Thanks to PHS Library Assistants Do Web 2.0. Blogger. Web. 21 Mar. 2014. 

     <http://phsweb2.blogspot.com/>.  for giving me the format to cite the pictures above.)

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I choose the two pictures above to demonstrate how to properly cite a picture because they relate to the book i'm reading (Memoirs of a child soldier by Ishmael Beah) and show how the war in Sierra Leone devastated their country and left so many children to fend for themselves.

Topic 3

Your Topic 3 posting should answer these  questions:

1. How could blogging be used to enhance learning in your high school classes?
2. Tell us about two of the characters in the book that you are reading for your book trailer. What do they look like?  What kind of personality characteristics do they have?  Do they have any problems?  Would you be friends with them if they went to PHS?  
3. What about the setting of the book.  Where does it take place: in the country, the city, a high school? What is the time frame: in the present, the past, the future?  Describe one scene in the book so that we can get a feel for the setting and time.

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1.) Blogging can give students a professional and easily accessible way to share information with each other as well as discuss information that may seem confusing. 

2.)  Ishmael Beah and Junior are both important characters in my book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. Ishmael and Junior are both 12 years old, mildly malnourished, and always tired because of them having to always be on the move. Ishmael and Junior might be hard to befriend because of our completely different upbringing's and that i'm pretty sure both of them are in their 30's right now. 

3.) The book takes place in the west African country of Sierra Leone,  during the 1990 Sierra Leoneian civil war. A particularly powerful scene in the book is when Ishmael and his friends are captured by a group of militants attacking a village and are forced to watch one rebel berate and threaten an 80 year old village elder for trying to escape the village and see his grand children. The book is very heart wrenching and fast paced but it is a good read because it shows how important hope is.

Avatars: Topic 2

For my avatar I used the Turn Your Name Into a Face web-sight.  I chose this program to create my avatar because it was a simple to use and neat program. To make an avatar on that sight all you have to do is type your name into the text box and press the 'into a face' button. Doing this won't create an accurate portrayal of your real face but it's still a quick and easy way to get a free avatar.