Day 17 Blog

Read the moderated comments from Y3W on Day 16 Blog. Now enter your new Y3W for the Gruen Von Behrens, the motivational speaker on Friday regarding Chewing Tobacco and cancer. If you were to sum up his presentation, what are Y3W? Explain the pictures you would use to depict Y3W.

Day 16 Blog

http://ugv.abcnews.go.com/player.aspx?id=681503

View this Y3W (Your three Words). Think of the Heather Laxdal Symposium and Alvin Law's presentation, what three words did you get out of it? Mine are: Treasure Fond Memories. If you were to put them into pictures, what would it look like? Describe.

Day 15 Blog

Good Morning. Please comment on what you got out of the Heather Laxdal Symposium in the theatre on Tuesday. Include the "message" that you got from Alvin Law's motivational speech. What can you take from what he had to say and apply to everyday life?

Day 14 Blog

Answer the following questions in your blog today:
1. You spend an average of how many hours a day with media? (3,4.5, 6.5, 8 hours)
2. Children with easy access to media tend to spend more time using them. (True / False)
3. Young people who spend the most time with media also report spending more time...(with their parents, being physically active, pursuing other hobbies, all of the above)
4. New media displaces the use of old media. (true / false)
5. What % of youth report having acces to TV, video games or computers in their bedrooms? (68, 52, 83, 37 %)
6. Those youth who are least content or get the poorest grades spend more time with video games and less time reading than their peers. (True / False)
7. The dominant medium for young people today is... (television, video games, internet, music)

Day 13 Blog

Comment on this quote: " To be media literate in this new environment, young people need to develop knowledge, values and a range of critical thinking, communication and information management skills and media education is an essential tool in helping them acquire these skills."

Day 12 Blog

View the interview from 60 Minutes TV clip with Kevin Mitnick, world reknown hacker. Comment on your views on hacking and using the internet and technology in unacceptable ways.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=8_VYWefmy34&eurl=http://digiteen.wikispaces.com/Digital+Law

Day 11 Blog

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=l5SmrHNWhak&eurl=http://digiteen.wikispaces.com/Digital+Law Watch this short video clip on Piracy is a crime! How do you feel about this? What is the regular practice of people your age in regards to copying music or movies? What are some legal alternatives?

Day 10 Blog

After reading last day's posts, some good relationships were made between playing video games and an addiction to speed. Obviously the physical signs and symptoms are not the same, but some of you could relate to the "addiction" as well as the "good feeling" you get while playing the games. Consider this: "Cyberaddiction is developed through the use of the computer. Let's specify that it is not the computer we are addicted to; rather we are addicted to the experience we have because of the machine...In the same way drugs and alcohol can be , the computer becomes a way to escape reality, deny problems, or forget about them by devoting time to something else." (Jean-Pierre Rochon, Internet Addiction psychologist). Comment on this psychologist's research.