节目资讯
刊物:生活知识家
日期:2010-01-20
难易度:High
关键字:update, zip, digitally, passive, Wi-Fi, technology
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Hello, friends.
Welcome to Studio Classroom Worldwide.
My name is Steve.
Thanks for taking time out of your day to join us.
Well, when you go somewhere, you usually leave something behind.
At the least, you leave a footprint, which isn’t always obvious unless you’re
walking in the mud, sand or snow.
But did you know when you surf the Internet, send an e-mail or make a phone call
with your cell phone, you’re leaving a digital footprint behind?
It’s true.
And it’s a little scary.
If someone looks hard enough, they can trace your digital activity back to you.
And that’s the focus of this month’s TECHNOLOGY article titled Your Digital
Footprint, which begins on page thirty-eight.
So please join us now as we read.
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Your Digital Footprint.
How much information are you leaving behind?
It’s Monday morning, and you’re late for work.
Instead of walking as usual, you head straight to the subway.
On the train, you use your cell phone to call a co-worker about a meeting.
Then you use your laptop and the subway’s Wi-Fi connection to update Facebook
and catch up on your e-mails.
When you finally get to your office building’s lobby, you swipe your ID card and
zip up to your office.
Without realizing it, you’ve left a trail of information easily accessible to
others starting back at the subway station.
This is your digital footprint.
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Hi, friends.
I’m Chip.
And I’m Chelsea.
Thanks for joining us today at Studio Classroom.
We are going to be teaching our TECHNOLOGY article today, and this article is
called Your Digital Footprint.
Now a footprint is the outline of your foot or your shoe that is left on the
surface as you walk.
For example, if you walk through snow or through mud, you can turn back and look
and see the shape of your shoe that was left behind.
But today we’re not talking about a literal footprint, Chip.
Right. We’re talking about your digital footprint.
And I think the important thing about a footprint is that if someone has left
footprints in... in the ground, uh, then you can follow that person.
You might not be able to see the person, but you can follow them by following
their footprints.
And that’s an important idea when we’re talking about your digital footprint
because when you use the computer,
you leave a trail of footprints.
And specifically a trail of information.
How much information are you leaving behind?
It’s something you’re going to want to think about today.
Our article starts out by saying:
It’s Monday morning, and you’re late for work.
Instead of walking as usual, you head straight to the subway.
So maybe you’re changing your Monday a little bit because you’re running a
little bit late.
So instead of walking, you go for something faster.
You go to the subway.
Right.
And on the train or on the subway, you use your cell phone to call a co-worker
about a meeting.
Well, I think that’s a pretty common thing to do.
You would at least...
Maybe if you don’t have a meeting that day, you would probably use your cell
phone.
That’s very common.
Very common.
And then after you get on the train and you use your cell phone, you might even
take out your laptop computer.
And the subway’s Wi-Fi connection, you use that to update Facebook or catch up
on your e-mails.
Now Wi-Fi is something that’s fairly new in our technological age.
It’s very helpful.
Chip, if you’re using Wi-Fi, why does that mean?
Well, that means that you’re using wireless Internet.
OK. So you’re using the Internet without actually plugging a wire into your
computer.
So I think a lot of coffee shops, a lot of different places, uh, even airports
and other large public places, have wireless Internet.
So it’s very convenient to get onto the Internet if you have a laptop computer.
And once you’re on the Internet, you might want to, as it says, update Facebook
or check your e-mails.
And if you update something, that means that you are giving someone the most
recent information.
Many of you probably are part of a social networking site like Facebook or
MySpace or Twitter.
And you like to update very often.
You like to give people the newest information on what you are doing.
And you can do this all from the subway train that you’re on.
You’ve already used a lot of technology this morning.
And when you finally get to your office building’s lobby, you swipe your ID card
and then you zip up to your office.
Now if you swipe your ID card, that uh, might be one way that you begin the
day’s work or you... we might say that you clock in.
You show the official start time of the day.
And if you zip up to your office, what does that mean?
Well, in the case, zip is talking about going some place very, very quickly.
You zip somewhere.
You go very fast.
You might say, ”We were getting ready to cross the street when a car zipped by
us very quickly.”.
So you check in to work for the day and then you go up to your office very
quickly.
And without realizing it,
you’ve already left a trail of information that is easily accessible to others
starting all the way back at the subway station.
Think of all the technology you have used already.
Right. We’ve used a cell phone.
We’ve used... We’ve clocked in with our ID card.
We’ve checked in to work.
We’ve used our laptop computer and updated or Facebook page.
We’ve used a lot of... a lot of technology.
And we’ve left a lot of information out there that is accessible for people to
see.
And if it’s accessible, that means that it’s easy to reach.
It’s easy for others to get.
It’s accessible.
So this is your digital footprint.
This is the footprint that you’re leaving behind you.
Remember, a footprint is very easy to follow.
And when it comes to digital footprint, people are easily able to get
information that you have left behind using different forms of technology.
And we’re going to learn a little bit more about that today.
Gosh! This is already starting to scare me a little bit.
I... I don’t usually think about the footprints, the digital footprints that I
leave when I use the computer.
Well, we’re going to talk more about our digital footprints here after the
break.
Before we take a break, let’s visit the Chat Room.
Hey, Ashley.
Hey, Ken.
What are you up to?
I was just catching up on some reading.
It’s a slow day today.
Yeah, I can see that.
Hey, speaking of catching up on your reading, do you need to catch up on your
e-mails?
Oh, actually, I do.
Thanks for reminding me.
Oh, no problem.
Actually, I read that in today’s Studio Classroom magazine.
So what else can you catch up besides reading and e-mails?
Oh, let me tell you.
I need to catch up on my sleep.
I have not been getting enough sleep lately.
So you will make up the sleep you didn’t get?
Right.
You know, you can also catch up with someone.
Oh, I know, like in a race or a marathon, right?
Right.
But I was thinking getting together with someone you haven’t seen for a long
time and finding out what they’re up to.
For example, if you don’t come to the library for a really long time, and one
day you show up,
I would really want to catch up with you and see what you’ve been up to.
I see.
But doesn’t ”catching up with someone” have a negative meaning?
Yes. It does sometimes.
If you say, ”The stress of work finally caught up with him and he collapsed in
exhaustion,” then it means the stress began to have a bad effect on him.
I see.
Well, I should let you catch up on your reading.
Thanks.
I’ll catch up with you later.
OK.
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