Copyright is the legal right of an author of any creative works including writings, pictures, videos and so forth. There is Copyright Law which protects the right of the author and controls copying of the original work.
If I want to add an image from the internet to my post and publish it, I need to at least cite the source. This means, if I plan to use it in a short time and I have no time to notify the author, I can use it so long as I cited the source. This is called "Fair use", which applies to students, new reportors, scholars and teachers. However, if I plan to use it in advance and I do have time to ask permission, I should do so.
However, this is not always the case. There are some websites such as "stock exchange photos" which offers thousands of very fine fictures for free. If I use a picture from there, I don't need to cite the source.
Xin Ma
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Personal views about Web 2.0
People used to think that it is the few, powerful, and great people who shaped our history. This is true to some extent but things are changing now, especially after the invention of Web 2.0, after people could communicate freely, expressing their views to anything online and, commenting on other people’s comments. Web 2.0 is a revolution for human’s history. Everyone in the world can contribute on web 2.0 and share everyone else’s contribution. Web 2.0 has changed the world in many aspects including people’s way of learning things, communicating and discussing with other people, library media teachers using the Internet, people from different nations understanding each other and also the way all these things are changing.
First and foremost, in the presence of Wikipedia, people may refer to the Internet when they feel obscure on certain problems or concepts instead of the books. Wikipedia contains many people’s thoughts and comments and is thus detailed and tested. Furthermore, Wikipedia can save people a lot of searching time.
Besides, with blogs and MySpaces, people can communicate freely and make comment on other people’s arguments without knowing each other. Some contributions to the site generate enthusiastic responses. People are changing their ways of discussing and learning through this process.
I have recently read an article named “Making connections with Blogs and Wikis” by Doug Achterman about how Web 2.0 has changed the way school library media teacher use the Internet. In the article, it says that “In a school setting, blogs are ideal for sustained conversations involving an entire learning community.” It is a good idea that students using blogs to complete their assignments because everyone can access it synchronously or asynchronously. Groups can collaborate on a project and students can view what their peers have done.
Without doubt, Web 2.0 has also enabled exchanging opinions internationally not politician to politician, great man to great man, but citizen to citizen and person to person. This is a profound and revolutionary transform.
As the article “Time Person of the Year: You” says, “…like any experiment worth trying, it could fail”, Web 2.0 may contain some disadvantages like some bad or worthless comments can also contribute to the outcome. However, my views about Web 2.0 are still positive. This is a promising revolution and it has already improved and eased people’s life through some vital changes in the way people communicate.
Xin Ma
First and foremost, in the presence of Wikipedia, people may refer to the Internet when they feel obscure on certain problems or concepts instead of the books. Wikipedia contains many people’s thoughts and comments and is thus detailed and tested. Furthermore, Wikipedia can save people a lot of searching time.
Besides, with blogs and MySpaces, people can communicate freely and make comment on other people’s arguments without knowing each other. Some contributions to the site generate enthusiastic responses. People are changing their ways of discussing and learning through this process.
I have recently read an article named “Making connections with Blogs and Wikis” by Doug Achterman about how Web 2.0 has changed the way school library media teacher use the Internet. In the article, it says that “In a school setting, blogs are ideal for sustained conversations involving an entire learning community.” It is a good idea that students using blogs to complete their assignments because everyone can access it synchronously or asynchronously. Groups can collaborate on a project and students can view what their peers have done.
Without doubt, Web 2.0 has also enabled exchanging opinions internationally not politician to politician, great man to great man, but citizen to citizen and person to person. This is a profound and revolutionary transform.
As the article “Time Person of the Year: You” says, “…like any experiment worth trying, it could fail”, Web 2.0 may contain some disadvantages like some bad or worthless comments can also contribute to the outcome. However, my views about Web 2.0 are still positive. This is a promising revolution and it has already improved and eased people’s life through some vital changes in the way people communicate.
Xin Ma
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
This blog entry is for my CS 1300 class.
I have used the MS Office 2003 for quite a long time. I am familiar with the MS Word 2003 and I know a little bit about the Excel 2003 and PowerPoint 2003. As for the Access 2003, Outlook 2003 and Publisher 2003, I know nothing about them.
I would like to be able to use all the MS Office 2007 tools very well. The most attractive part of the MS Office 2007 is Word 2007. According to the information I have gathered, there are some new functions in MS Word 2007. For instance, the SmartArt, it can help you to create a very beautiful file in Word 2007. It is more convenient to publish our posts by Word 2007. And people say : you will get more advantages if you use Word 2007 to make diagram.
I know I still have a lot to learn and this is going to be hard, but it is also very useful, I think.
Xin Ma
I would like to be able to use all the MS Office 2007 tools very well. The most attractive part of the MS Office 2007 is Word 2007. According to the information I have gathered, there are some new functions in MS Word 2007. For instance, the SmartArt, it can help you to create a very beautiful file in Word 2007. It is more convenient to publish our posts by Word 2007. And people say : you will get more advantages if you use Word 2007 to make diagram.
I know I still have a lot to learn and this is going to be hard, but it is also very useful, I think.
Xin Ma
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