Collaborating are you?

Image By: Christopher Dombres (CC BY 2.0)  Copyright has become a growing issue over the internet over the years. Many people whether it is music, papers, pictures, animations, and etc. content will be copied by someone or reused. You see people all the time use quotes and excerpts from different content. People who make their own YouTube videos normally include some kind of music to go with it, that is most likely not their own work. Same can be said for most students when it comes to paper, we will include quotes from other people that really stick out to us. In a Prezi  presentation we looked at, it goes over just how we can use other people’s work, music, and other content somewhat freely. By following some of rules and guidelines in this Prezi presentation you should be able to use most content without worrying about copyright laws hitting you where it hurts! One of the simple things you could do to avoid this is to cite just where you are getting your copied or ...

Image by: Stephen Dann (CC BY-SA 2.0) When it comes to music, movies, and even games it is possible to somehow in some way get it through piracy. One of the biggest examples of this was through sites and applications such as Napster, Lime-wire, and bear-share. These sites were used for people could download music and even some movies without having to purchase them. Sure, these sites have been sued as well as shut down because of piracy laws, however as years go by other ways of piracy have taken hold. An example of this is just other day my roommates were watching a movie (which I in turned watched with them) I did not know what the movie was called until more than three-fourth of the movie was over. Turned out the movie we had just watched was "The Hitman's Bodyguard", which turns out is still in theaters! So yes, piracy is illegal, but is it really going to stop people from doing it? Rip A Remix Manifesto

Image by: Mehdl Kabob (C.C by 2.0) Mehdl's Flicker During this day and age, the internet is used for a lot of different reasons. There are sites that were made so that people could come together and discuss various topics. Now normally when you think of a bunch of people coming together to discuss things, you think of people who are collaborating together to put ideas together. One site that is extremely popular is reddit, which generally has millions of people on it per day. When it comes to reddit, many people can come together and talk about different ideas in categories called subreddits which are like mini communities. Now you would think these are good examples of people collaborating because they are coming together like they are to discuss a specific topic. However, to me this is not the case seeing as not everyone in reddit are there to actually do anything. Some people are there just to waste time, or in some cases be complete trolls. This doesn't follow how a co...

Image: Business Men, CC0 C.C When working groups with other people, there are ways to make a group successful in what it is trying to achieve. When you first are making a group, you are actually doing the first step which is the "forming" of the group. This is probably the most natural part of a group seeing as people can come together to form a group if they have similar thoughts or ideas. A prime example of this is a sports team, because a bunch of people come together because of their love of the sport they are playing. The second step of being in a group is the "storming" process. Now this process can cause many problems in a group seeing as this is the part where the members can bump heads with one another and voice their own opinions. This is the best time to for people to be selfish and let out all their thoughts in order to eventually come to a compromise with the others within the group. If you can't compromise how can you work together? This b...

Image by: Scott Maxwell, (CC BY-SA 2.0) CC BY-SA 2.0 CC BY-SA 2.0 When it comes to working in groups whether it is in a small group that has two people or group with more interdependence is an important aspect to all groups. This is because when it comes to group projects or activities, you will need to be able to trust the other people in your group to pull there own weight as well as you pulling your own as well. Such groups that are like this are CoP’s or Communities of Practice which usually coincide or people who share the same common expertise, passion, or experience in a specific field or practice. An example of this would be auto repair engineers, they may not meet up very often, but when they do they are able to be interdependent with other engineers who are all trying to figure out auto issues.   These CoP’s are also a great way for people to figure out problems together and help advance the field in that area as a result. One example of this is programming l...

Image by: Nick Youngson (CC BY-SA 3.0)  Figuring out the different ways one can collaborate with others willingly or unwillingly can be pretty tricky to figure out. Some of the more well-known ways to collaborate with others is to knowingly work with others to achieve a specific goal or objective, kind of like a project. Other types of collaborations are the types that are being made without real acknowledgement of it happening which is known as "Aggregation". Examples of these are when you search for something on YouTube, after a while on your homepage there will be an aggregated collaboration of things you have search or could be interested in searching. Another form of collaborating which, to be honest I feel isn't much of a collaboration in my eyes is how the people who created Captcha and Recaptcha are using words from books to get them digitized.( Ted talk on Captcha/ReCaptcha ) Sure it maybe getting a bunch of people to help out with something together...