bigidea72

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We will use this page to post the big ideas from our classes. It will be a great place to check regularly to see what we’ve been learning and what you should remember from each class.

Search Engines—June 2, 2008

 * Use multiple search engines
 * Every search engine has different results and prioritizes hits differently
 * Meta-search engines search other search engines

New Media—June 2, 2008

 * With great power comes great responsibility
 * Advertising is changing
 * Everyone can be their own TV station

Phishing--Feb. 25, 2008

 * Cause is greed
 * Use replicates of sites to trick you into giving personal information
 * If it sounds too good to be true – it is!
 * Be on your guard
 * May be after money or personal information
 * Look at the senders email address and domain name
 * Spelling mistakes hint to phishing
 * DO NOT ANSWER even if you are saying stop sending me emails, if they see that there’s a person behind the email address, they will sell your email, address, if you reply and play along for fun, they will sell your email as a live address, with a sucker behind it

iGoogle—Dec. 10, 2007

 * To have anything you would want to look at in one place(ig, calendar, news, links to webpages)
 * Helps keep us organized
 * Everything together, and still have web search function
 * RSS brings information to you
 * It is your page, and allows you to see your stuff everywhere
 * Reminders
 * Cool/ Fun/ Useful

Timeliner—Nov. 2, 2007

 * It helps you to organize dates easier than just dates on paper
 * Helps collect your thoughts.
 * Easier to do on computer than on paper
 * It is quicker than to do it on paper
 * Neater.
 * Easily make copies.
 * Can add media like video and sound that you can’t put on a paper-based timeline
 * Can present in a slide show