Keeping Up With Work

Keeping up with the work in this class was not all that hard. Problem with me was that I would do the blog post on word but then get too lazy to go ahead and upload them to the internet. If one was to do the three blog post every week then the work in this class would be a piece of cake. I enoy doing blogs and a couple of buddies of mine have our own sports blog at www.redandbluegrass.webs.com where we discuss UK and UL sports. You should check it out sometime as the arguments get vicious as we draw closer to the ultimate game verses the dirty birds on December 31st.

Redandbluegrass.com

LOR

After taking this class the way I approach research is completely different. I evaluate the web resources, I use the library to my advantage and alos use the databases. To be quite honest I would have never have known how to use the databases. The way I have used research to do a paper for my World Civ class is credit to what I learned in this class. Some of the things we learned when it came to research seemed like common sense once it was taught to me. Overall I would suggest this class to every student here at Murray State.

The Future of Accessing Information

The future of accessing information will be hard to predict but judging from its history there will be significant strides in technology in five years or less. It is amazing to me that ten years ago we didn;t have wifi and hardly used the internet....now I have it on my phone. I fully expect computers to become obsolete and then soon after laptops. I firmly believe components like the Ipan will be the devices and computers of the future that will be the everyday used computer.

Plaigarism in Universities

I do not believe that plaigarism is a big deal in colleges anymore. MAinly because the students can not get away with it. Because of programs like SafeAssign students will be hardpressed to get away with copying information from websites. The days of a student being able to copy and paste material are long gone. As a student I wouldn't dare even try to put something word for word into any of my papers. There is no way i could get away with it and I am just asking to get kicked out of school.

Why are citations important?

Citations are important because a citation gives credit to the people who wrote the original piece. It also shows the instructor where you got your content and if the instructir wanted to they could go look it up for themselves to see if any content was copied word for word. It also allows the instructor to see how much research you did for the paper or project that was assigned. Overall citations are important for several reasons but mainly for aacademic purposes

Copyright and Ethics

Copyright and Ethis
This discussion we had in class made sense, if someone created copyrighted material that is theirs. It would not be ethical to "steal" their material. IF one was to create something of similar stature then it would be stealing. Now the question is can you copyright an idea? I would like to think so. I have had several ideas for sitcoms and films but of course don't have the means or money to have them come to flourishin so if I gave them the idea I would hope to get credit for doing so.

End of CD Ownership

End of CD Ownership

The Discussion we had in class on copyright and ethics made me think of some things to share in this blogpost. First was the fact that if you buy a cd you can not give it to someone else once you had listened to it. However I feel like if I bought it then it's  mine the material on the cd may not be mine but the CD is. If I am not burning a copy of it and creating another form of it then I do not see why that is so wrong.