WILF: You to think about how you use the internet and what the implications
of this are.
1. Keep a log of every website you visit over a 24hr period (don’t worry
about search engines such as Google). You may wish to record it like this:
Time
|
Website
|
Estimated length of time
|
Device
|
8.00am
|
Facebook
|
13mins
|
laptop
|
8.19am
|
Gmail
|
6mins
|
Smartphone
|
2. Create a wordle of the websites you visited. If you visited Twitter
more than once then write into your word box as many times as you used it (www.wordle.net)
Post it on your blogger site.
Post it on your blogger site.
3. Write a blog post about what you have noticed about your internet use. Think about the amount of times you visit certain websites, how long you spend on the sites and what you use. You may wish to also think about the following questions:
-What are
you doing when visiting these websites? For example, are you sat having food
with your family and if so, is this a good thing?
- Do you
think you waste time on the internet or do you think your use is ‘useful’?
4. Analyse your own Facebook
or Twitter page. How many times have you or friends shared any of the following?
- A news
article or campaign (such as the Joseph Kony video from a few years ago)
- A music
video or a song
- A funny
video
- An advert
or a commercial product (eg. A picture of some new trainers you want)
Write your answer to the following
question on your blogger page:
Q. Why do you and other people share
these types of media? Who benefits?
5. You have just been given a job by an
independent (smaller) record company to promote the label and its artists on
social media (Facebook/Twitter etc). On your blog page write down 5 things you
would do and why. For example, ‘Give away
a free song if you ‘like’ the record label Facebook page. This would then give
us direct access to the customers who actually like our music.
6. On the GCSE Blogger page add your opinion
to the debate about social media: ‘Social Networks don’t bring us closer together
as we now talk through computers rather than to each other.’ (http://www.debate.org/opinions/does-the-internet-bring-people-closer-together)
Read the main point in the post and other pupils’
responses. In your response, try and refer to two other classmates’ views.
I agree
with Steven that we may use Facebook to arrange a social event – whether it’s
going to the cinema or to get a group to go to a gig or something. Therefore,
it can be seen as a way to organise activities with friends rather than replace
them. However, I think sometimes I’ll be walking with a friend but messaging a
friend on my phone which is perhaps a bit rude.
