Artifact # 7: Cheaters Beware

The article, Professors Use Technology to Fight Student Cheating, starts off talking about how teachers have been way behind the students when it comes to cheating. But now teachers may have finally found their solution. According to this article, teachers have been technology to catch their students cheating. For example, using text-matching software, webcams and biometric equipment. This has been making it a little harder for students to cheat on papers, tests and homework. As I was beginning to read, I found it shocking that the percentage has risen from about 21 percent in the mid-1900s to 50 percent in 2002. Although it has dropped 10 percentage points, it's still a lot of people who have admited to it. At UCF studnets have to take their tests on cheat-resistant computers in a new testing center. This has also decreased the number of people cheating at this university. The article then talks about the ways students cheat. They cheat by using Bluetooth, texting, notes in cellphones, and programmable calculators. In my experience, my past teachers have not let us use ipods, make us turn our phones off in front of them and they have to go around the room and check our calculators if we use them. Also when I've had to write papers we have to turn it in to http://www.turnitin.com/. This website check to make sure we haven't plagarized.

Artifact #6

The beginning of the video had a great attention-getter. There were two men talking and one started screaming and then the main part of the video started. The video was about a forum on the TED website that was completely annonnoymous. People can say whatever they want and stay nameless and it will be only be on the website for a certain amount of time. It all started when a young man who found a website called 4chan, which is a japanese webiste. He took the forum and used it on the TED site. There are rules for this website that most people ignore and there are three that the community have made up. The first rule is, "You do not talk about /b/". The second one is, "You DO NOT talk about /b/". And the third one, is "If it exsists, there's porn of it. No exceptions." Then the video explains what "/b/" is. It is the "beating heart" of the website, where all the traffic is going. People post many different things. One example is that there is a group that was apart of the website called Annonymous that posted things about Tom Cruise and protesting Scientology. The thing posted were taken off and many people were not pleased. After the young man was finised giving his presentation there were questions asked. One of the comments/questions had to deal with how things that are posted can be damaging and how it can be a risk. He agreed with the statement and I think that if something that was posted and offended someone of seemed inappropriate he would take it down. I think this video was really interesting because I had no idea this website was out there. The only site that I was familiar with that was somewhat similar is Wikepedia.

Artifact #5

As I was listening to the podcast, "Thank Sex For Making The Internet Hot" I was very surprised. I knew you could find porn on the internet, but I had no idea how much of an impact it had on the internet. For instance, it allowed people to put their credit card on the internet to be able to watch porn. Being able to give websites your card information, you can now do all of your shopping online. Also it led to private chat rooms and streaming videos. It's weird to think that all the things that most people use almost every day are possible because someone decided to put porn on the internet.