Week 7 I really hate Christmas now!!!!

Christmas Bunnies


The lecture

Yippeee Daniel has up dated the module by putting all of his notes onto blackboard. I was having trouble last week by copying down the notes and trying o listen at the same time. Glad thats sorted though.

We were asked wether we thought that monitoring a persons use of a website was ethical. I always thought that you needed permission to monitor someones internet usage and the person had to give his permission to have this done.

My initial thoughts were that i agreed that a person could only have his usage monitored if he or she agreed to it.

I quickly changed my opinion though when i was given an example of a chat site that was being monitored for paedophile activity. Plainly if the moderators gave their intentions out openly, both the kids and any unsavoury characters would soon turn tale and dissapear.

This would negate the need to monitor and i guess that this type of control would be ok for no permission.




The Tutorial

This weeks tutorial had us again looking at the University of Glamorgans web page but this time as a different or third person. We each chose a ficticious person and used him or her as a basis for a visit to the web site. Using Nielsens guidelines again we looked at wether the website fulfilled our needs.

I pretended to be a prospective new student looking for information on the Mathamatics degrees on offer.

I have to be honest i found the site good for this purpose and i found the information i needed straight away.

Refection.

Well i am pretty well worried now about internet chat rooms i can tell you. I have a 7 year old daughter who wont be allowed to use them in the future and i may even stop her using the sky remote from now on for that matter!!!!

This prompted me to read up for myself.

http://www.fbi.gov/publications/pguide/pguidee.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/chatguide/parents/index.shtml

http://resources.kaboose.com/safe-surf/parents-intro.html

I guess the old addage of "It dont really matter untill it happens to you" this is true - sadly.

On a serious not i learned this week that not everything is as black and white as they seem. Sadly this is the world we live in now and although the web is a phenominal tool for all to use there are, as always some people who will spoil it for others.

Thats me off to the little room armed with a magazine and some andrex.

byee...