3/13/7

Yay for no education class!

Yay for spring break

Boo for power points

Boo for blogs

Boo for late classes

BOOOOOO for SAM.

So, chapter 8. What's chapter 8 about? Security Issues, Ethics, and Emerging Technologies in Education.

Pretty much everything we're familiar with and have heard about in the media for the past few years.

The beginning of the chapter talks about computer security risks, which I'm sure we're all familiar with. Along the line, at some point in time I'm sure we've all done some action that caused the computer to f up. That would be a computer security risk. The text also talks about computer crimes...which I'm sure we're all guilty of....cough downloading music, cough...

The chapter goes on to explain about viruses.

I'm sure we've all had a virus at one point or another. The text distinguishes different types of viral infections computers can get including boot sector viruses, file viruses, macro viruses, and malicious software programs.

I'm sure we're also all familiar with anti-virus programs. McAfee, Norton, AVG, etc.

Also, I'm sure all of us are familiar with system failure, Mac users especially.

The next section of the chapter talks about internet ethics. I thought this section was especially funny. Internet ethics have gone out the window with the dawn of the youtube age.

Also interesting was the health related stuff. Some of my friends back home have CTS from playing too much war craft. I laugh. They cry.

This past week I have learned relatively nothing in the world of computer technology. Why? SPRING BREAK BABY! YEAH!

I did learn how to do a power point extremely fast, though. Of course, I still am not finished with it. But a few minutes in class will change that.

Your liberal yet independent idiot,
-T