Week 6

Create your own mind maps at MindMeister

 This week we learned lots of new stuff. We learned how to make maps online! like the one above, I made at MindMeister.com. This week we learned a lot of new words that we put in our maps.

• Authority: Look for the sponsoring agency and the authors.
• Sources: Insist that the web site can back it up.
• Purpose: Mission statements, typically in a link called "About Us."
• Evenness: Check if it is bias and see that issues have equal coverage.
• Coverage: Check the reputation.
• Timeliness: Sometimes web sites have articles that are individually dated. If these dates current, you have a clue that the site is maintained and updated on a regular basis.

When we made our maps, I really didn't know what to do but I learned how to use it. I really like Mind Meister since I got to play with it and made a map on A.S.P.E.C.T.

The internet has so much stuff on it, we barley know whats on it, Anyone and everyone can put something on the internet and pretend that it is true, but it really ain't. This week on Online Driver's license we learned a lot on how to tell if a website is real or fake. This will really help me and other people to find correct information to use for papers and projects. Here is some questions that you can ask yourself to look for a good website.

1. When was the information published or posted?
2. Has the information been revised or updated?
3. Does your topic require current information, or will older sources work as well?
4. are links functional, or working?

 Information must be accurate, authoritative, objective, and current to use the best websites.

This week has been an awesome week for me. I love it here at Gaston Early College High School. We finally heard that our school is done with inspections and they are moving furniture and smart boards in next week! That means we will be moving in the following week. I don't mind at all waiting a little longer because being here time just flies by. I am glade we are getting our new building because I have so much books. My friends and I went to the Gaston College Libary this morning and we got tons of books. I got mostly romance and adventure books. I love have friends here and meeting new ones.

Bad Piggies!

 Angry Birds

February 13, 2010

Topic

The company, Rovio, that made cut the rope and Angry Birds, has made a new game called Bad Piggies.

Article Title

Angry Birds sequel 'Bad Piggies' launches tomorrow we go hands-on

Article Source

Bad Piggies

Summary

 In December 2009, the game studio Rovio let out "Angry Birds" and "cut the rope." Bad Piggies is a game where you can create your own type of vehicle to transport the piggy to your goal point. You can get the game tomorrow, and it comes out on iOS devices, Mac, and Android.

  

Reaction

I love Angry Birds so I can't wait till Bad Piggies come out. I will get a new phone soon and I will have all of the games on it. I think Bad Piggies will never compete to Angry Birds or Cut The Rope, because everyone love those games and just building a vehicle and then letting the pig go doesn't so much fun but I'm going to try it out. I have saw some photos of the game and I am not sure if it is going to be more/as fun as Angry Birds or Cut The Rope. The blog says that it is going to have some features the Angry birds have like "quick, fun gameplay, colorful characters, goofy sounds, and accessibility."

World Impact

I think this will impact the world on how they play so many games. I love playing games but sometimes people can get obsessed with them. It will be okay if you have a game on your phone and just play it when you get board, but not if you are playing it all the time like in school and in class. People should love this game because Angry Birds and Cut The Rope was so popular. I can't wait to try this game. Remember it comes out tomorrow morning!

New things! on week 9/17-9/21

This week we learned many things like how we got on the online driver's license and how it taught people about bullying and how it could really hurt somebody. It has really taught some new stuff and how to treat people online now. This week on Sunday I local girl killed herself, because she was getting bullied.

On some of the tests on the online driver's license I learned some facts and wrote them down. Some of y'all are going to be surprised with some of these facts. I know I was.

• Almost 80% of teens own a cell phone.
• About 4 out of 10 teens ages 13 to 17 experienced some type of cyber bullying in the previous year.
• About three-quarters of kids 12-17 say they have helped others while gaming.

I have learned that everything that is online, you can delete it but some people would already see it and tell people and it will never go away.
    
We also learned some words this week. The words are:

• Reputation is a general impression held by others the public. 

• Persist is to continue on and endure. 

• Context is different factors that surround information that help determine its meaning.

• Tag/Caption is not like tagging someone in a photo or a post on Facebook but is words, terms, or a sentence describe photo or videos.

      
       This week we also learned how some people can make photos and put fake stuff on them. There is three photos below. The first one is the original that I found on Flickr (I love Flickr by the way. It is awesome and the pictures are free to use!). The second one is a positive photo that I edited of the original. The third picture is also a picture of the original that I edited of a negative photo I did all of this at magmypic.com.

This photo I found on Flickr of a couple kissing.

Love

A positive photo.

This is my negative photo.

week 5

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DNA

Got this off of Flickr-cc.

1. Topic: Researchers traces evolution to the DNA level through snapshots of 40,000 generations.

2. Article Title: Researchers track evolution through snapshots of 40,000 generations.

3. Article Source: Arstechnica

4. Summary: In 1988, Richard Lenski's lab begin with an experiment of a set of 12 bacterial cultures was started and was given a burst of sugar every day. The goal was to be able to follow major evolutionary innovations as bacteria try to outcompete their peers under near-starvation. Then in 2008, one of the 12 cultures had its big breakthrough, a sudden burst of growth powered by citrate, a chemical that was present in the mix, but not normally used by bacteria.

5. Reaction: This events tells how bacteria can multiply. This event really don't effect me or to other people. It could effect how we look at bacteria and how it grows. Bacteria can grow amazingly and we need to learn more about it, because some bacteria can maybe help us get better of we get sick or need medicine to get better. This event could maybe lead to something greater and more amazing things.

6. World Impact: Doing this experiment could make a chain that could lead to great things in the future. This world is getting more and more technology each and every day. DNA is very important in many different ways.

Animoto!!!!

This photo is for love and respect for the internet.

Its available at flickCC.com

http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/flickrCC/index.php

date of picture: 04/03/07

Monday we learned how to do parts of speech, parts of sentence, and tell what phrases and clauses in a sentence. We also learned how to cite a picture on our blog! So lots of pictures are coming soon!

On Tuesday we learned a lot of things and i'm going to tell you all about them. Ethics are the principles and morals that govern people behavior, for example honesty and respect towards others. Online ethics is as it relates to Internet and digital devices. Digital Citizenship is a safe, responsible, and ethical approach to functioning in a digital world. Privacy is obviously respect privacy of others online. Self-Expression and Identity is present yourself honestly and genuinely in an online world. Connected Culture is treating others kindly and respectfully, avoid cyber bullying.Last but not least Respecting Creative Work is cite others work (give credit) and ask permission. All of these words will help you not in trouble and to use the internet and other things the right way and not the wrong way.

Wednesday we made a video on Animoto.com it is really cool. You can make all kinds of videos and its a great thing to use for a presentation or for a birthday present. I have made a great video and it didn’t take me no time to make this for the stuff that we learned on Tuesday. How I made my Animoto is that our teacher told us to go to the website and make an account, then after you could pick a layout for your video and start putting pictures, the background music, and the texts. I think my Animoto is great and the best one I made yet. It will show you the basics of learning how to be respectful and kind to others and others on the internet. The most I like about it is that its free to use and has awesome tools. the least is that some layouts you can't use them unless you buy them. 

This week has been great I'm finally getting the hang of Gaston Early College High School. 

Wii U

My topic about technology is the Wii U. My title of my article is Nintendo unveils $300 Wii U, coming Nov. 18. I got the article by searching "Technology" on Google and it came up Nintendo Wii U.

The Nintendo Wii U is "next-generation gaming console." It has a touchscreen controller and has 8 GB. There is two different kinds of Wii U, the basic version ( 8 GB ) that is $300 and the "deluxe" version ( 32 GB ) that is $350 and comes with extra stuff.

I feel that it is going to be a big seller to a lot of gamers. Personally I had a Nintendo when I was younger and loved it to death and I still have it! I think Nintendo and Wii coming together is really great, but is it going to make more kids unhealthy and not exercise? I just want kids to realize that there is more stuff to do outside then just on a little game system. It is okay for kids to play on the game system once and a while. I realized that since I was younger there has been less and less kids outside and doing other things then playing video games.

This can impact in good and bad ways. In good ways it can tech kids to learn and study for tests. Even little kids that are learning how to spell or learn the alphabet. In bad ways it could keep kids from listening in class or make there grades low. I think this invention would big more and more new inventions to the world.

This week we learned how to post blogs and how to comment on blogs. Today we had to comment on someone’s blog and see what they did right or wrong.


We learned how other people can hack you. If someone gets your email and password to anything they can get into your account and even make you have a virus. They can also send viruses to other people and they will blame it on you.

Mostly if you get an email of “YOU JUST WON!!!” or “CLICK HERE!” then you click on it to find out what it is you are caught with a virus right away. If they ask you for your email they can get password and send stuff to people to make them get a virus too. 

 A computer virus is a small software program that spreads from computer to computer and interferes with the computer operation.A virus will might ruin your computer by deleting and adding stuff to your computer or using an email program to spread the virus or by deleting everything on a hard drive.

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This week has been really hard because we are getting into work and its harder as more and more classes add more work to my list. Then on Friday someone came to us from “Rachel’s Challenge” and told us about how Rachel Scott was one of the 13 people that died in the Columbine High School shooting. There was 12 students and 1 teacher that died and Rachel was the one of the first ones to die. There was 2 guys that went to that school that shot the 13 people. Rachel wrote in a diary before she died. She knew that she was going to die young and she accepted it. Everyone saw her as nice, kind, and friendly.

Rachel’s Challenge is a program against bullying. To talk to someone that is having a bad day or don't have any friends.

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Against Smartphone Giants

1. Topic:Against Smartphone Giants

2. Article Title: TV Makers Join Forces Against Smartphone Giants

3. Article Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/06/technology/06iht-srtvs06.html?ref=technology

4. Summary: Berlin, Toshiba, LG Electronics and Philips Electronics is joining together to make  your TV sets to search the internet, play games, and listen to music on line with internet connected to it. For manufacturers to hold back Apple and Google, that also want the TV market, they have to develop a joint operating system because consumers will not accept more than a few competing platforms 

5. Reaction: I think this article is great. How we could do even even more stuff with technology. Technology is a great thing that we have in our country. The way that we could surf the web with our TV's is really amazing. I just hope every TV company can have a part of it.


6. World Impact: This could be big thing for the United States. The problem I got is how is this going to effect the world? The smartphones are beginning to be a big thing mostly the IPhone. And will this help America with their life or will it make them just fall into a black hole??

First Week of Blogging!!!

Copyrighting on Prezi

This week  my class has learned how to use Prezi.  Prezi is where you can make a presentation of whatever you want. For us we use it for school work. This week we made a Prezi about copyrighting.There is four types of copyrighting. Creative Common, fair use, copyrighting, and public domain. I didn't realize how bad copyrighting is and that you could get sued or go to jail! The one thing that I don't like about copyrighting is that you have to check everything about it to make sure it is not stolen or anything with "Creative Common" on it you have to ask for permission.

  

My Prezi for this week I found an awesome video on copyrighting at YouTube. It tells you everything about copyrighting and how to use it safely. 

Copyrighting is where you are the owner and nobody else can use it without your permission.

No, I don't think you should use creative work that you found online because you need to ask for permission and you need to give them credit. You wouldn't like it if someone did that to you. Would you?

Can you use creative work that is posted under a "Creative Common license"? Yes but you have to ask permission. What about work that is in the "Public Domain"? Yes, it is for the public and free to use without giving permission.