Week 5. Tutorial Task.

Culture Jamming

Jasmine, Madelyn & Taylor. 

Ideas for Culture Jam

• Lowering the driving age to 15 instead of 17
• People can get their Learners license at 14 and their Driving permit at 15 years.
• This is being assessed in QLD only by Anna Bligh, with a quote:
• "Keep Australia in tune with America, where this driving rule is already in place." (post photo of young girl with L sticker) maybe take a video of a child opinion of the age change.
• Twitter page with a petition for people to follow (URL of page on Ireport.com) 
• using people like anna bligh and parliment officials to agree to pledge. 

Twitter Name: Sarah Jones 

Username: YouthDrivers Password: blogspot 

URL: https://twitter.com/YouthDrivers 

The Report for iReport
Queensland Transport and the Queensland Government have come together to announce a possible change to the driving age laws for Queensland youth. The current laws of obtaining a driviers permit licence at 17 years of age and a learners license at the age of 16 years old is being re-examined, with the full support of Anna Bligh, premier of Queensland. it has been stated that the driving age will be lowered to 14 years old for obtaining a learners license and at 15 years old, after one year and the 80 hours of driving experience, will be allowed to obtain a permit license.

The new law is being discusse and has recieved both criticism and positive support from Queenslands youth and parents Anna Bligh is seen to be a huge supporter of this proposition, with several coments being Tweeted on the 'Youth Drivers' support page on Twitter. To show your support for this new possible law or express your opinion about it, follow their page on Twitter: https://twitter.com1/YouthDrivers.


This report was unable to be posted on CNN ireport, due to the blocking of Griffith University's pages. 

Week 7 Tutorial Task.

 What is creative commons and how could this licensing framework be relevant to your own experience at university?

Creative Commons: (CC) is a non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.^[1] The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses free of charge to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. An easy to understand one-page explanation of rights, with associated visual symbols, explains the specifics of each Creative Commons license. This simplicity distinguishes Creative Commons from an all rights reserved copyright. Creative Commons was invented to create a more flexible copyright model, replacing "all rights reserved" with “some rights reserved”. Wikipedia is one of the notable web-based projects using one of its licenses.

The organization was founded in 2001, with support of the Center for the Public Domain. The first set of copyright licenses were released in December 2002. In 2008, there were an estimated 130 million works licensed under Creative Commons.  Creative Commons has been embraced by many as a way for content creators to take control of how they choose to share their intellectual property. 

Creative commons is relevant to university study as it allows for peoples essays and journal articles to be easily accessed and viewed for future assignments. 

• Möller Erik, The Case for Free Use: Reasons Not to Use a Creative Commons -NC License, in Open Source Jahrbuch 2006.
• Plotkin, Hal (11 February 2002). "All Hail Creative Commons: Stanford Professor and Author Lawrence Lessig Plans a Legal Insurrection". SFGate.com.
• Schloman, Barbara F. (13 October 2003). "Creative Commons: An Opportunity to Extend the Public Domain". Online Journal of Issues in Nursing.
• Stix, Gary (March 2003). "Some Rights Reserved". Scientific American 288: 46. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0303-46.
• Weitzman, Jonathan B., and Lawrence Lessig. "Open Access and Creative Common Sense." Open Access Now, 10 May 2004
• Creative Commons home page

 Find 3 examples of works created by creative commons and embed them in your blog.

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 Have a look at Portable Apps (a pc based application) – provide a brief description of what it is and how you think this is useful.


A portable app is a computer program that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any Windows computer. When your USB flash drive, portable hard drive, iPod or other portable device is plugged in, you have access to your software and personal data just as you would on your own PC. And when you unplug the device, none of your personal data is left behind.  http://portableapps.com/about/what_is_a_portable_app
I guess the initial benefit of portable apps is that it is 100% free, it allows people to have access to their computer (in a sense) without having to carry around their PC. It means that you could bring all of your stuff to uni on one USB and work from their. allowing quick easy access anywhere any time. 

Week 7 Tutespark.

GOOGLE CHROME

The free software which I chose to download and trial was Google Chrome. It is similar in use to another internet browser,Mozilla Firefox. However, i use google frequently and being able to type what I want to search directly into the space where you put the url address saved  some time. I also liked the way you can customize your homepage to have tiles of the most frequently visited websites along with bookmarked websites. also another feature of the software in which i thought saved time was how you are able to bookmark specific sites which then the icon is stored under the url bar, allowing to jump from one website to another without having to change pages. 

I also found that some pages were quicker when visited with the google chrome internet browser. However I did notice that some pages would not load until after I refreshed the page. 

All in all I liked using this free software and will most likely continue using it.

(http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/landing_chrome.html?hl=en&brand=CHMA&utm_campaign=en_au&utm_source=en_au-ha-apac-aunz-bk&utm_medium=ha)

Week 6 Tutespark.

Online Privacy & Social Networking.

There has been an out roar over the change of Terms of Use for Facebook users.(http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,494804,00.html) The change occured early 2009 where Facebook deemed that they now had the rights to use the content that you post on your profile wether active or not, to be able to make a profit. (http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2009/02/16/facebook-now-owns-all-the-content-you-put-onfacebook) 
This change sparked controversy of what content you post online on various social websites is what you actually own. 


Considering this, you could then claim that Facebook would have to make all users sign a media release as they claim that they have rights to all content that you post including videos, pictures and text. how would this work for users under the age of 18 who need parental consent for their faces to be in the media? 


Opposing this are numerous websites which claim what you post on the internet  is your property as long as you have the rights to post such content and have not breeched any copyright laws. (http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071008031623AAXCMXD)


I guess in a sense the whole dilemma is based around the fact that in a way Facebook could take their identity away. 


CEO and founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg made a statement regarding the TOS debacle saying "Just trust us."(http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,494804,00.html)


How can we trust anyone when the content that we put on is not ours?