Blogging &Twittering

Blogging and twittering are somewhat the same. On Twitter I am new to because I am so used to being on facebook and my yahoo email rather than anything else. But from the video that I saw and the information that I have read about twitter it really makes people feel more connected with you. Whether it is with a simple tweet about call me, let's do lunch or you can also tweet about what you are doing that day and how things are going for you. People can then follow you on twitter and check up on you to see what all you are doing. Alot of celebrities have twitter account and talk about their shows and what they are doing for that day. It is interesting reading about what people are doing all over the world.



As for blogging I am new to as well. It is very different, but it seems like for all of my computer classes they do require you to have a blog site and to use it frequently. I think that blogging is pretty neat, it just takes a little getting used to. Blogging is also similar to twitter and to facebook as well, as it it a place where you not only can talk about what you are doing for today and what your status is but you can also talk about what is in the news, some ideas you may have or whatever other information you want to talk about. Your blog is the place where you can write about it so that other peopl can see what you have wrote. You can comment on what people write and give each other feedback off what one another has said.



Blogging and twittering maybe used for learning objectives on Bloom's taxonomy. They include cognitive: which involves your mental skills and knowledge. So it would correlate with both of the sites with bring valuable information and read-able infomation to the sites you are providing information on. Affectiveness including growth in feelings or emotional areas, in other words your attitude. You can feel a sense of someones attitude through the way the type something and the combination of words that they use. And lastly psychomotor is manual or physical skills. For blogging and for twittering you would use the majority of the Bloom's Taxonomy skills and the three domains of educational activities.

My Own Myths

The myths that I have about online classes is that taking courses online is alot easier and from what I heard before is that you really just have to choose what classes to take because some of them can be hard. For the most part online classes can be challenging due to the simple fact that you do not actually meet in a classroom so you have to be your own teacher and learn from what your instructor has laid out for you in materials. I have taken a math class online that was extremely challenging and I hated that class but I was able to continue on and pass the class. Some other myths that I have are not about online classes but about ghosts and spiders and all kinds of other creepy stuff. I especially like to watch the history channel that has the show about all of the crazy myths and ways that people say that can kill their selves, and whether or not it is fact or fiction. I enjoy reading about what people think about myths because alot of them are quiet interesting and at times funny.

Copyright Issues

According to the copyright office one of the rights accorded to the owner of copyright is the right to reproduce or to authorize others to reproduce the work in copies or phone records. One of the more important limitations is the doctrine of "fair use." The doctrine of fair use has developed through a substantial number of court decisions over the years and has been codified in section 107 of the copyright law.

Section 107 also sets out four factors to be considered in determining whether or not a particular use is fair:

• The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes.
  
• The nature of the copyrighted work.
  
• The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole.
  
• The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted work (U.S. Copyright Office, 2009).
  

A court case in particular that dealt with copyright issues was the case of Bill Graham Archives vs. Dorling Kindersley Ltd. It was filed in 2006 and was not finalized until 2009. The attorneys included William F. Patry, and Richard Dannay, as the judges consisted on Amalya L. Kearse and Reena Raggi whom are circuit judge, and Jane A. Restani as the primary Judge. Basically the case was about a concern that the scope of copyright protection afforded artistic concert posters to be reproduced in reduced size in a biography of the musical group the Grateful Dead. The copyright holder Bill Graham Archives appealed from a judgment of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. The motion for summary judgment was dismissed, and its copyright infringement action against Dorling Kindersley Limited, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc., and R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company was also dismissed. The case was reviewed and the summary was granted. The judge agreed that with the court Dorling Kindersley's reproduction of Bill Graham Archive's images is protected by the fair use and is an exception to copyright infringement (Opengavel, 2009).

This case really cause my attention because I thought that is was very interesting that any little thing that someone publishes or does in any kind of book or magazine or whatever it may be that they need to check on what they are putting in their work and get it copyrighted. There are so many issues with copyrighting and tons of laws on ways that you need to go about doing things, that if you just make one mistake then you are probably going to eventually have a lawsuit coming your way.

I thought this case was interesting because the only thing the company did was reproduce a picture and resize it to put in a biography for the musical group Grateful Dead. But unlike this case there were several other cases that I could of chose from to blog about but for some reason this on caught my attention.

Week 1

Well this week has gone by really fast. I am so glad it is almost Friday. The class LTEC 3440 seems like it has alot of really neat information to learn about. I thought that the test were really simple and easy. As I am on my computer pretty much all day or for the most part of the day for work and for school and my social life some-what. So I kind of know how to do alot of the powerpoint presentations and other documents that are available to access on the computer.

A typical day online for me would be to check my e-mail, then go to my online class for tcc which is music appreciation, then to do my two classes online for unt and then Facebook. Then I usually get to work after that. But for the most part I like to get my internet class work completed by the end of the afternoon so that way I do not have to worry about it later on.

Well that is pretty much it for my week 1 information for LTEC 3440.