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Over the winter break I am looking forward to seeing my friends and then we are planning on visiting our high school, which will be a lot of fun. I am really looking forward to going to Scotland to see the rest of my family over winter break and spend Christmas with them. The thing … [Read more…]

Course Review Digital Project Video Link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7dq8fEuFeI I used iMovie to make the video. It took about 2 hours to create the project but the conversion from iMovie to Youtube took about 20-30 minutes. I felt that making the slides and the audio went well. If I were to change anything, I believe I maybe should have added a few sample … [Read more…]

Reflecting on Sources

After going through many sources, I found several good sources to go along with “When Scientists Develop Products From Personal Medical Data, Who Gets to Profit?” These sources include: “Sharing Patient data: understanding anonymisation,” “WEBSITES HACKED. CORPORATE DATA LEAKED. IDENTITIES STOLEN,” “Do we really know our patient population in database research?,” “Advance Oracle Clinical Software … [Read more…]

TRIAC of Privacy and the Internet

On the Internet people are using data all the time and this data can be collected and shared easily. The biggest concern with this collection and sharing of personal data is the lack of privacy as personal information is spread around and can be taken easily by anyone. For example, in “Privacy and the Internet,” … [Read more…]

My Big Data

I generate data on a daily basis from what posts I like on Instagram and what I post too. My snapchats can be used as data to see what kind of things I say or do. My music and youtube videos can be collected to see what I like and what I may like. Anything … [Read more…]

Diary of my Phone

My phone rings at 6:45 a.m. to wake me up in the morning. The alarm is turned off and Instagram is opened and posts are liked. Then, Snapchat is opened and some messages are answered. Throughout the day messages will be answered from group chats from high school friends or just certain individuals on texts, … [Read more…]

Quoting Twenge

Jean Twenge, a psychologist who has been researching generational differences for 25 years, argues that smartphones have had a huge impact on the newest generations. Twenge claims that beliefs and behaviors gradually rise over generations, however recently the trend has changed in the newest generations. According to Twenge, “I noticed the abrupt shifts in teen … [Read more…]

Transfer Skills

I can transfer skills such as active reading which can been used on the Biology readings with highlighting the important points in the reading. These highlights will allow me to go back and see the most important details in the reading that will help me study for tests. So far I have put that work … [Read more…]

Eulogy Tweet

Instagram was the first social media back at the age of 12. The account was short lived and there were too many random posts that were very unnecessary and some weird that made no sense.

Digital Narrative Project Link

https://youtu.be/yWNvLE8q4-M I chose the video option because I had some experience with iMovie and remembered it being easy enough and not too challenging at the more specific things. It took about 30 minutes to an hour to learn to use the software. It took about an hour to draft the presentation. It took about an … [Read more…]