Understanding the self-the digital life 101
- 1. HACKERS!!! EVERYTHING YOU NEEED TO KNOW!
- 2. What is a ‘hacker’? Who is a hacker? What do hackers want to do? Where do you think the first hack was from? What year did hacking begin?
- 4. BREAK
- 5. THE DIGITAL LIFE 101 WHAT IS THE PLACE OF DIGITAL MEDIA IN YOUR LIFE?
- 6. KEY VOCABULARY… COPY! WORDS YOU HAVE TO KNOW! media: communication, including television, radio, and newspapers, that often reaches and impacts a large audience digital media: electronic devices and media platforms such as computers, cell phones, the Internet, digital video, social networking sites, video games, and virtual worlds that allow users to create, communicate, and interact with one another or with the device or application itself
- 7. ONE WAY VS. TWO WAY MEDIA • ONE WAY ‘TRADITIONAL’ MEDIA: TV AND RADIO. YOU CAN LISTEN, BUT CAN’T REALLY ‘INTERACT.’ • TWO-WAY ‘DIGITAL’ MEDIA: ALLOWS YOU TO INTERACT WITH OTHERS, CREATE AND EXPRESS YOURSELF (AND OTHERS BACK TO YOU, TOO) ?: WHAT ARE EXAMPLES OF THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH ONE WAY MEDIA? WHAT ABOUT TWO WAY? ?: WHAT ARE SOME OF THE WAYS THAT PEOPLE COMMUNICATE WITH OF SHARE WITH OTHERS OVER DIGITAL MEDIA?
- 8. CONCEPT MAP… DO THIS ON YOUR OWN PAPER. TYPES OF DIGITAL MEDIA: YOUR PARENT’S FEELINGS ABOUT THIS MEDIA
- 9. KEY VOCABULARY…COPY! WORDS YOU HAVE TO KNOW! Simile: a literary device for comparing two unlike things. Examples: "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get.“ •My love is like a red, red rose. •You were as brave as a lion. •They fought like cats and dogs. •He is as funny as a barrel of monkeys.
- 10. GLOSSARY-COPY ONTO YOUR OWN NOTES! An AGGREGATOR is a website or Web application where headlines and other content are collected for easy viewing. Aggregators such as Google News compile news articles and posts. An AVATAR is a two- or three-dimensional icon that represents a computer user or a gamer. An avatar can be a cartoonish graphic, a photograph, a screen name, or a fully-developed character. A BLOG, from the term “weblog, ” is a type of website usually updated by an individual or a group of bloggers. Some blogs provide news or opinions on a specific subject, while others are more like online journals. Most blogs allow readers to leave comments on blog posts. ENGADGET
- 11. FLAMING is the act of saying mean things online, usually in ALL CAPS, and often in a public forum with the intention to humiliate. Flame wars can occur easily online, as it can be difficult to figure out people’s intentions or emotions online. A MASH-UP is a remix or blend of multiple songs, videos, or other media content into one product. Fan fiction writing is one form of a mash-up, as writers take characters from a well-known video game, movie, or book, and rewrite their actions or relationships.
- 12. A MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAME (MMOG) is usually an online virtual world that multiple players navigate and play in together. While in this virtual world, their avatars chat, cooperate, and quest together, oftentimes towards a goal. A P2P, OR PEER-TO-PEER, network allows for sharing of mp3s, videos, and other digital files by transferring information directly between two computers rather than by going through a central server. The best example is Skype.
- 13. PHISHING is the illegal act of sending emails or messages that appear to come from authentic sources, but really come from spammers. Phishers often try to get people to send them their personal information, everything from account numbers to passwords. EXAMPLE A PODCAST is a downloadable video or audio file. Podcasts can be verbal, based on a certain topic, or can include music, video, and commentary. Most podcasts are updated regularly through the addition of new episodes.
- 14. An SMS, or text message, is a short message of fewer than 160 characters sent from a cell phone. An MMS is a text message that contains an attached multimedia file, such as a picture or song.