Weekly Blog Review

Some new terms we learned this week and last week are target, offender, bystander, upstander, escalate, and deescalate. Target means victim. Offender means person with malicious intent.. (bully). Bystander is someone who eyewitnesses the "attack" but does nothing. An upstander is an eyewitness that does something.. (defends). Escalate means it becomes more intense - increase. Finally, deescalate means decrease - make less intense. 

A new web 2.0 tools we used this week and also last week is WeVideo. WeVideo is a website that allows you to create movies made of pictures, music, videos, and etc. It's complicating at first, but when someone shows you how to use it or when you get the hang of it, it's not really all that hard. It felt like it took me a week to finish my video, but even though it took awhile to make it, it was worth the time. My video turned out great. Here's mine..............

Some positive aspects of this WeVideo website are that it's very fun to use and you can make it as long as you want it. Some websites have it to where you can only make it so long but with WeVideo you can make it as long as you want it. Also, you can add music and pictures which always make everything better and more interesting. 

Some negative aspects are that whenever you first start to use this website, it's not as easy to use as the rest of the web 2.0 tools we have used previously in the year. This website was probably the most complicated thing to figure out, no doubt. 

The digital literacy component we used this week is "Turning Down The Dial". This taught us all about cyberbullying. It told us that we should ALWAYS be upstanders, NEVER be a bystander. Bystanders are badd. But, anyways, we watched a few videos about cyberbullying and we answered some questions about each of the videos we watched. Overall, it was a very good, but touching lesson. 

This helps me in my personal life because I learned that everybody has feelings. Sometimes, people are really sensative and get hurt by the littlest, slightest mean thing you say to them
, and they get upset, and some people kill theirselves over bullying. So, always keep your opinions to yourself. This helps me in my academic life because I learned something new and I can always use this lesson in school. This helps me with my interactions online because if someone is trying to start crap with me, I know now to leave them be, and don't even mess with them. Also, if I see someone getting cyberbullying on Facebook, Twitter, etc., I know what to do. 

Overall, my week has been great. I couldn't ask for a better one. Even though I got moved from beside of my bestfriend Matthew in geometry, I am starting to somehow bring my grade up . It just makes me mad that everybody gets out of school tomorrow and we don't. 

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