For the next two weeks we will be reading "lol...OMG!" by Matt Ivester. You will not remove the books from Room 307. Each day when you enter you will read the appropriate chapters and then answer questions about the reading. Today you will read the PREFACE and CHAPTER 1. Answer the following questions by posting (Copy & Paste) them into an email to Mr Scribner (hscribnercaa@gmail.com) and completing them in the body of the email:
PREFACE & CHAPTER 1 (Day I)
1. Where did the author go to college?
2. How much did investors want to offer him to grow his website?
3. What type of information is on your Internet Permanent Record?
4. Explain how the Internet itself is a college student?
5. What are you doing to protect yourself and your "Record" online?
CHAPTER 2 AND CHAPTER 3 (Day 2)
1. What was Melissa Murphy's joke? How many people ultimately saw it on Jezebel.com?
2. Why was the book named "lol.....OMG!"? What does it mean?
3. How many posts does the average Facebook user post per month (according to the text)?
4. Define the term "Open Authorship" and explain how it has changed your life.
5. What percent of the world population has access to the internet according to the book?
6. What is the WAY BACK MACHINE?
7. How many photos can you store online with a standard GMAIL account? How many emails?
CHAPTER 4 AND CHAPTER 5 (Day 3)
1. How many reposted views did the "Asian Rant" video on Youtube.com get according to the text?
2. Explain how Nicole's situation fits into the "lol...OMG!" theme of the book.
3. What are the "Facebook Blues"?
4. Explain the term "Superiority Bias"?
5. How do you Create Your Reputation online?
6. What percent of college admissions officers check out Facebook pages for applicants? What percent Google an applicant's name?
7. What percent of recruiters reject applications based on information found online?
8. What percent of single people, in their early 20's, Google or Facebook their date prior to meeting?
9. How are you going to protect your online reputation because of reading this book?
CHAPTER 6 AND CHAPTER 7 (Day 4)
1. What websites have you signed up for without asking WHY you signed up?
2. Explain where your Public and Private line is and why?
3. Explain how controversial you are willing to be online and why?
4. List the seven (7) steps to Active Reputation Management and what you found when you followed them.
(You should list each one and have 2-3 sentences about what you found.)
5. Explain your basic legal options to clearing your good name online. (2-3 Paragraphs)
CHAPTER 8 AND CHAPTER 9 (Day 5)
1. Explain, in your own words, what happened in Chapter 8 and describe how it could have been avoided.
2. What is Unintentional Cyber-Bullying? How is it different than Intentional Cyber-Bullying?
3. List and explain the seven (7) types of Cyber-Bullying described in the text (in your own words),
4. How do abstraction, invisible impact, shaming, anonymity, and normality contribute to people behaving differently online?
5. What are the five (5) steps to follow if you are Cyber-Bullied?
6. Why should you not be a Bystander?
CHAPTER 10 AND CHAPTER 11 (Day 6)
1. What is Digital Citizenship?
2. List and Describe three (3) of the nine tests described in this chapter.
3. Describe the Tenth (10th) test.
4. Describe the Future of Reputations as described in the text. What lessons can you take away from your reading of this book? What information will you pass on to others and why?
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YOU MAY NOT OPEN THE COMPUTER IN FRONT OF YOU UNTIL YOU HAVE READ THE ASSIGNMENT ABOVE. YOU MAY NOT WORK ON ANYTHING ELSE UNTIL I HAVE VERIFIED YOUR EMAIL RESPONSE TO THE QUESTIONS ABOVE!
When you have sent the email for today you are free to work on any other projects that are due for our class. You may also work on your 8th Grade Projects. No music, videos, Twitter, or games are allowed!
We will be reading more of the book each day. The following link will give you more resources and information about the book and the author:
http://www.lolomgbook.com/#!vstc5=helpful-links/vstc2=book-buttons
This should be an easy way to finish the year and a simple way to boost your grade in my class.
- Mr. S
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