Journal Entry 9!

Posted on March 30th, 2008 in CST-IST by dylanmckeown11

With reference to the image below and answer the following questions:

Digital Media
1.) Define the term ‘digital media’.

This means any type of digital format including computer generated graphics etc.


2.) How has digital media evolved over the last 5-10 years?

Bassically all digiral media that has been created has been improve. Examples a the telephone, mobile phone, internet etc.

3.) Discuss the reasons why digital newspapers are extremely popular?
The reason that digital newspapers are popular is becaus there is easy access to it and it does not cost.

Journal Entry 8!

Posted on March 30th, 2008 in CST-IST by dylanmckeown11

Journal 8

1.) Watch the following clip:

 Scenario 1: You are on a train coming home from a day at the beach. The train stops at a station and a group a youths get on the train and start bashing an elderly ethnic man. You notice people getting off the train.

Discuss what you would do in this situation.

The thing that me personally would do is report the matter to police and take as many details as i can possibly.

Scenario 2: You get a message from a girl that you are interested asking you to come over her house. When you get there a number of her friends are present and they say they are bored. One of them promotes the idea of going for a walk and causing a riot. At first you tell them “No way”. However, the girl you like states that “she will like you more if you go”.

Discuss what you would do in this situation.
The thing that you should do is say no to the group and go home. Because if you go with the group you could get in serious trouble.

Journal Entry 7!

Posted on March 30th, 2008 in Uncategorized by dylanmckeown11

1.) Watch the following clip:

Describe what is a person’s ‘conscience’

A persons conscience means the inner sense of right or wrong.

Describe how a persons conscience works in making moral decisions. Explain the relationship between religion and conscience.

The way that a conscience works in making moral decisions is that with your conscience it always trys to not make you do a bad thing. You will talk yourself into doing the right or wrong thing but your conscience will give you two sides of the story. The relationship between your conscience is that the good side of your conscience that it will tell you the religious way of doing things.

Journal Entry 6!

Posted on March 30th, 2008 in CST-IST by dylanmckeown11

1.) Define the term “Moral Maturity”
Moral maturity is also moral judgement. There is a moral development theory by kholberg and that would help you understand
2.) Read the following article:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/knife-arrest-cop-pelted/2008/03/24/1206206967590.html

Discuss the reasons why the 25 year old man mentioned in the article would be regarded as having a lack of ‘moral maturity’.

3.) Identify the differences between ‘morality’ and ‘immorality’.
Morality means th distintion between right or wrong and immorality means basically doing the wrong thing. 

4.) Watch the following clip and describe the reasons why Governor Spitzer’s actions would be regarded as ‘immoral’.

Because governor Spitzer was involved in the cleaning up of wall street but in the proccess he ws found doing the wrong thing.

Journal Entry 5!

Posted on March 30th, 2008 in CST-IST by dylanmckeown11


1.) Which countries have banned the Internet?

Cuba, Iran, Maynmar, North Korea, People Republic of China, Syria, Tunisia, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. These countries have placed a ban on the internet.

2.) Describe what the following image is about? (Provide TWO websites to support your findings)

The following image bassically decribes how china have banned youtube. The reason this has occured is because of the bad videos that have been posted on the site and the abusement of the privilige.

Banned

3.) Provide evidence of at least FIVE sources (Websites, newspapers, blogs, videos ect) that discuss the reasons why these countries have taken such a drastic approach.

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/8892.cfm

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/torydiary/2006/10/censorship_on_y.html

http://erkansaka.net/blog/archive/2008/01/post_375.html

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/8822.cfm

http://travelhappy.info/thailand/youtube-banned-in-thailand/

4.) Discuss how you would feel if the Australian government banned the Internet. What privileges would you lose? (2 Paragraphs)

The main privileges that us as austrailian citizens would lose is loss to important information and loss of way of communication. Although many Austrailians out there beleive that the internet is bad there are also good in it if used correctly.

Mainly the kids, teenagers would suffer if this occured. The reason this is because lots of people out there used this privlige to commincate with others. Also it would lesson study habbits of teenagers in there later schooling years.

Journal Entry 4!

Posted on March 26th, 2008 in CST-IST by dylanmckeown11

1.) Using the Internet research and find descriptions for the roles of the following newspaper personnel:

- Editor: The person that checks edits the article or work and also adds stuff that will improve the article

- Reporter: A reporters job is to write down interesting news and then send it off to the editor.

- Journalist: This is to also write stories on interesting events.


- Designer: To select images and format the work given to them

Journal Entry 3!

Posted on March 26th, 2008 in Uncategorized by dylanmckeown11

1.) Explain the difference between ’secular’ and ‘non-secular’.

Secular is an article etc. that has nothing to do with religion. Non-secular is basically something referring to religion.

2.) Provide FIVE links to media organisaions who provide media to the public.

www.sunherald.com.au

www.smh.com

www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au
news.yahoo.com.au

newsbreak.com.au

3.) Select ONE event current in the news media and provide a summary.

Stephanie Rice and Eamon Sullivan are describe in this article as  ‘Pool’s posh and becks set to cash in’. These two individuals are swimmers and this article is talking about how they are a couple and how Stephanie broke the world record in the 200IM and the 400IM and also Eamon was 0.02 outside of the 100M freestyle world record.

JOURNAL! (SOCIAL STUDIES)

Posted on March 25th, 2008 in Skoolaborate by dylanmckeown11

1. How will you organise your multimedia sales pitch? List ideas, think about how the entry document was presented.

There is one main  idea that i think could help my multimedia sales pitch:

-imovie

The reason i have chosen this form of presentation is because i have had expreience in creating one before and also i enjoy putting together information in this format. Also the thing about imovie, is that is very advanced technology and it is great to watch if made correctly.

Job Advertisment! (Individual Task)

Posted on March 24th, 2008 in CST-IST by dylanmckeown11

I am ergently needing a Editor for a book I wrote. You will be working on this task from 2-3 weeks about 8 hours a day. You will get paid $1000 a day. It is a 600 page book and will be needed to be edited thoroughly.

Essential Criteria:

* 3 years editing experience

* Degree in Journalism

* UAI of 90 or above

* Able to work on computer at a high standed

* Most present a piece of work that he/she has edited.

Desirable Criteria

* Have 5 years experience

* Be eager to work and produce excellent work

* Have a UAI of 95 or above

* Be adaptable to whatever put infront of him/her.

To Do List!

Posted on March 18th, 2008 in CST-IST by dylanmckeown11

We as a class made a to do list that would help make us better people. This consisted of:

* Make a charity

* Help community

* Join young christian students group

* Random acts of kindness

* Donate to project charitas

* Actively prevent bullying

* Get involed in community services

The one that i think that i can improve on and make it a part of my life is actively provent bullying. That means whenever i see someone in the playground getting bullyed i shall stop this from happing. Also i need to not bully people myself. I will take this thing int my life whenever i see it happening. I think that as a school group we should all stand up against bully to make the school a better place and a better environment.

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