Sunday, April 27, 2008

Advice

I have several words of advice for next years class for second life english. The first is to make sure you do not take the class if you do not like computers or do not work well computers. Second life was an issue for me each time I had to use it. My computer would crash each time I attempted to be on second life for more than thirty minutes. Another word of advice, make sure that when you take an online class you keep up with when assignments are due. Sometimes it can be difficult to stay on top of school work when you do not have to attend classes regularly.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Ethics Scandal

I was amazed that there were a large group of ADULTS who cheated on a take home test. This were men and woman (probably with families) who had come back to school to try to improve themselves as business men and ultimately messed up their lives for quite some time. I feel like there are a lot of times where these men sneak up the ladder in business all while cheating. I feel like the saying "Once a cheater always a cheater" sums the idea of ethics in the workplace up. Once someone cheats and does not get caught it makes it that much harder not to cheat again. I have zero tolerance for cheaters.

Monday, April 14, 2008

ethics

This is a very difficult concept for me to talk about. I get very frustrated with the idea that anyone would have this kind of lapse in a job, school, or a life situation. The statics amazed me! I think that society accepts ethical laspses as the "norm". As hard as a company or a professor or anyone try to push eithics on individualsl, I do not feel like it matters. I think that ethics is a personal choice and it has to do with how you were raised and the amount of self-control you can display as a an individual.

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Web Documents vs. Written Documents

Personally, I know that when I read something that is on paper I pay more attention to it. I really do not know if I could explain why I do this, other than I feel that the documents on paper may be more important to me. It is very easy to skip over sentences or even paragraphs when you are reading web documents. This is often due to the lack of organization that people choose to use when writing on the web. I know that I miss important, excellent information when I read an unorganized document. The benefit to using the Web is that it is much more time efficient and since we live in a world consumed with "saving time", it has become the way to write.