Weekly Review Blog 8

This week we learned quite a lot about staying real online. Here are a few terms that we learned:

• Represent- How you present yourself to others.
• Persona- Image or personality you portray to to others.
• Avatar- Image or graphic that represents you online.
• Anonymous- Hidden Identity.
• Inhibited- Being careful or restrained about your actions or impluse. 

Also, we did some more work on out Digital Drivers License. We also used a new web 2.0 tool called Glogster. It's basically a picture blog. You can have text, but not very much of it, you have to put it in little text bubbles. Also, I don't like many of the pictures and graphics. They should keep adding more, better ones. Also, they have lots of emo pictures, I'm not emo, neither are many, many people. So why so many emo pictures?

With Glogster, we made ours about how to be real online. Mine included the following tips:

• Be true to yourself.
• Don't represent something that doesn't represent you.
• Don't do things that would reflect badly on you.
• Don't put inappropriate things on social media.
• Don't be anonymous.

So keep those things in mind the next time you go online. Don't pretend to be someone that you're not. Be who you are, don't try to make a different image of yourself online. Don't pretend to be a thug when you are really an A+ student and you've never been in trouble. And sometimes those fake images can make you look bad.

Also, don't put inappropriate things online, I don't want to see it. Neither does a good percentage of the world, so don't do it.

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