Social media

Social media are media for social interaction, using highly accessible communication techniqes. Interaction between user means shearing, rating and taging, or to post comments on eatch other piqtures.

Since this assigment is about creating a blog, I thought this post could be about bloging as a social media.
Blogging is a word sat together by two other words, web and logg. Blogs are usally maintainted by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events +++

Personaly i have no experience with blogging, so I question: Why is blogging so popular? I dont think i will find a correct answer to taht question, since it`s induvidually. But I have read som peoples meanings: http://www.bitrebels.com/geek/why-is-blogging-fun/

blogger

There are several different types of blogs, the people behind them desides what their blog should be about. One of the biggest bloggers in Norway have over 30 000 readers a day. The girl i s16 years old and writes everyday events and fashion, here are her adress: http://tcmn.blogg.no/ 

What is so important when you are blogging?
Firstly you have to write so that blog readeres are attracted. Good bloggers have more than one post a day, and at leat one video a week. It seams to be a correlation between the numbers of post and and numbers of readers.

There are many people who comment on blog post, thay will provide feedback on the post. Sometimes the feedback is negative. Many bloggers delite their blog because the attention they, often the negative one. If you are a bloger read this: http://www.chrisbrogan.com/guest-post-handling-negative-comments-on-your-blog-post/

If you`re not a blogger but wants to try, look at this:

www.piratebay.org download for free

The piratebay is the worlds biggest BitTorrent tracker, where most of the material you can search for often is protected by the intellectual property.
It all started as a hobby project, but today the webside daily generating advertising revenue most people only can dream about.

The page was bred by a original critical interest group as a part of efforts to simplify file sharing. The piratebay consists of a directory where users can search for torrent files other users have uploaded.
Serviced provided by the piratebay makes effcient transmissions of large amounts of data possible.

This has both legal and illegal applications, witch has led to to that the film and music industry has spent considerable amounds of resources to close the webside.
In 2009 three persons named Gottfried Svartholm , Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde was brought to trial accused of copyright infringement. They were sentenced to one year in prison and 30 million in compensation.

I hav chosen to write about this because the question either free downloading is stealing is mutch discussed, and is very mutch about the ethical aspekts we see. Anti- pirats hav set up with horror commercials were they compare downloading with stealing. Pirates belive this is not comparable when a copy is not the same as physically stealing.¨

Phishing

This post will deal with some of the risks you take when you share information online. 


Phisning a way of attemting to aqire sensitive information susch as usernames, passwords and credit card details. This is done by someone pretendning to be someting they are not, by masquerading as a trustworthy enity in a electronic communication.        








Phising is a growing form of computer crime Those behind developing steadily new tools and methods  for phising. A common approach is that a person sends out e-mails and claiming that they are form a large bank and wants you to enter information about yourself in any way. E-mails will be send out to a number of peoples, and they might say that there are some problems with the credit cards in this bank. 


How to protetct youre self from such crime?
There are several different programs online detection of phishing. Newer versions of browsers have protection against this. Yet user trainging is very important. If you are in doubt after reciving an e-mail you can directly contakt the bank to get confirmation that is actually those who are transmitting. 


It is also important to consider what information you give to other about youre self online. 
One must take simple precautions and be aware that you actully can be scamed. 
Scammer often have economic purposes, so credit information you musk be careful to deliver online. 
Many may think that this dosent happend to me, but everyone should be on guard to avoid a negative experience.

The need for digital literacy

If one is to keep ut with the digital development this day you have to to acquire digital literacy. This post inted to be an insperation to acquire competance, and to be a topic for discussion.


I will first clarify the consept of digital literacy.
Digital literacy difined as the knowledge that bridges the gap between skills such as reading, writing and arithmetic and the skills that are required to be able use new digital tools and media in a creative and critical way. 


Digital literacy is about mutch more than to turn on a computer and knowing how to use the internet. It`s about how to master basic ITC skills like how to use an compunter, save documents and be able to use standard applications. It`s also about how to use educational ITC and how to use learning stategies. 

Teacher using digital tools

So why is digital literacy important to aquire in today`s modern society?
There are many reasons why tis is important, in my last blog I talk about ITC in kindergarten and why it is important to allready as small children to start developing didital skills. It`s expected that we can and should master the various digital tools this days. If you are a student on higher education all communication usally transported online, assignments and examinations is given and must be submitted online. 
You can read newspapers, send mail and pay youre bills online. If you`re looking for a new job the search for this often aquire that you know how to use internet. It`s posible to buy and sell clothes, cars, vacations, propertys and mor by using internet. 

See how you can by clotes online

Digital literacy is not something that comes by it self, you haft to want to aquire this knowledge and know that is does not happens over night. For many this is something new and frightening, I think that it becomes important that we are able to see the benefits og aquire this knowledge and to be patient :)

ICT in kindergarten

ICT in kindergarten is a subject who is relevante in the community. It is in the resent years it has been discussed and seen as important. Because ITC is a fundemental skill who place equal with skills like reading, writing and arthmetic in school, it`s important that children already in kindergaten gets experiences with it.

Every kindergarten in Norway is imposed to plan their work based on a national curriculum, in this curriculum we can fin a chapter how tells us how to work with ITC.

"The children should experience that digital tools can be a source to play, communicate and acqustition of knowledge"

a yong child who explores a computer

Through work and practice I have had a chance to see how differnet kindergartens work with ICT. My experience says that many kindergartens dont even know that they are required to use digital tools, and follow guidelines in the national curriculum.
This tells me that ITC has not been seen as important in kindergarten, and i can hear that the staff has negative attitudes.

I belive that it`s the adults in kindergarten who has to change their views and have the ability to see the positive aspects of ITC.  Through working with ITC the children will learn new and challengig ways to work with whilde developing compentent children. When children starts school and later in job it is usally arranged so that they could master the digital tools http://www.teachingexpertise.com/articles/the-benefits-of-introducing-young-children-to-ict-3072

Studies show that today there are more than 75% of all househols have access to a computer, and if you look at famelies with small children 95% have computers at home.http://medienorge.uib.no/?cat=statistikk&medium=it&queryID=251 Digital tools are becoming more prominent in our societystudies shows that mor that 77% of children aged 6-13 years old use the computer to play games. Playing videogames is something most children like to do, if you aquire knowledge about different games one can se that there are also games that are educational for children.¨
This is a video where cildren can learn the alfabeth.

The key for working with ITC in kindergarten is knowledge. Through knowledge you will see the importace og ITC