Journal - What are your hobbies and extra curricular activities? Where do you spend your free time? Tell me three of your favorite things (movies, TV show, magazine, sport, color, etc.)
I don't really have any hobbies. I don't do anything extra curricular either. Something i would consider a hobby is working out. That's where I spend a lot of my free time. I go to the gym after school and then I either go home or go to one of my best friends houses. If I decide not to go to the gym for the day then my friend and I normally just get dropped off at her house and chill until I get picked up or go home around six every day. On the weekends I am always with friends and on Sundays I am forced to hangout with my family. My favorite movie is The Lorax based off the book by Dr. Seuss and people make fun of me for that. My favorite TV Show is either Gossip Girl, Full House, or Criminal Minds. I love Criminal related shows especially Criminal Minds and I really like the cast as well. Law and Order: Special Victims Unit isn't that bad either. Gossip Girl was just great and I'm upset that it ended and same goes for Full House, it's so funny and I still watch re runs of it all the time. My favorite sport is volleyball. I played club volleyball up until seventh grade and then I just did rec for two years and my last year playing was eighth grade.
Friday, August 30, 2013
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Wednesday August 28th
Journal - What are some qualities of a good presentation? How can you make a boring presentation interesting? Explain.
If you have a boring and monotone voice then people aren't going to be interested and listening and just want to fall asleep. You have to show enthusiasm and try to get people as pumped as you are or at least make it look like you are excited to talk about your presentation subject. Be loud and proud. Something else that might change your presentation to make it interesting instead of boring is the presentation itself. Add color to it. Not only color but most people don't like to look at a presentation that is all words and it will make it more interesting for them if you add in graphics so that they can see a visual of what you are talking about because some people are also like that, they like to have things right in front of them to see next to words. Color, pictures, any other sort of graphic even if it is an informational presentation it shouldn't be that hard to make like a graph or something to go along that will keep people interested and intrigued. Just be loud, make a fun presentation, be enthusiastic, and have fun!
If you have a boring and monotone voice then people aren't going to be interested and listening and just want to fall asleep. You have to show enthusiasm and try to get people as pumped as you are or at least make it look like you are excited to talk about your presentation subject. Be loud and proud. Something else that might change your presentation to make it interesting instead of boring is the presentation itself. Add color to it. Not only color but most people don't like to look at a presentation that is all words and it will make it more interesting for them if you add in graphics so that they can see a visual of what you are talking about because some people are also like that, they like to have things right in front of them to see next to words. Color, pictures, any other sort of graphic even if it is an informational presentation it shouldn't be that hard to make like a graph or something to go along that will keep people interested and intrigued. Just be loud, make a fun presentation, be enthusiastic, and have fun!
Monday, August 26, 2013
Monday August 26th
Journal - Tell me if you agree with this statement and then explain why or why not. "Images on the internet are 'free game' - if someone posted I should be able to use it.
I think that this statement is true. If you put it online then it wasn't so people wouldn't see it so obviously people were supposed to see it and that's the point. Now I'm not saying that I think people should be able to claim those pictures as their own and take credit for something that somebody else bluntly did because that's just plain wrong but if I want to use somebody else's picture for a project or a powerpoint, I think that I should be able to without having to cite it. Part of my reasoning for saying yes I do agree is because I think it's such a hassle to have to cite a picture the proper way and get graded for citing any image.
I think that this statement is true. If you put it online then it wasn't so people wouldn't see it so obviously people were supposed to see it and that's the point. Now I'm not saying that I think people should be able to claim those pictures as their own and take credit for something that somebody else bluntly did because that's just plain wrong but if I want to use somebody else's picture for a project or a powerpoint, I think that I should be able to without having to cite it. Part of my reasoning for saying yes I do agree is because I think it's such a hassle to have to cite a picture the proper way and get graded for citing any image.
Friday, August 23, 2013
Friday August 23rd
Journal - What is the importance of online safety and protecting your information? What do you do to protect yourself online? Share an experience you or someone you know has had with online safety.
I think the importance of online safety is just for you to be safe and so that nothing bad or dangerous happens to you because of something that could have been easily preventable. While online to protect yourself just don't share too much information or anything important online. People online can see what you post and anything that you post will never fully be erased, it can somehow always be recovered so you have to be really careful as to what you put up many social media or anything on the internet in general. Everything that you post is visible to everybody in some way. If you put on personal information people that weren't supposed to see it can easily see it and there are online and internet predators out there that are just looking to harm others. Just don't post anything that you wouldn't want your parents or the whole entire world or police to see. Don't share personal information especially stuff about where you live, where you go to school, where you work, your routine after school or your routine in general. People also pretend to be people that they are not and they try to trick you and convince you and that is how people end up getting their identities stolen and bad things happening to them.
When I lived in Washington my dad co workers and me were very close. One of his closest co workers had a friend and her daughter had been sharing stuff online and like online chatting with this guy for a while. He convinced her that he liked her and he pretended to be somebody that he really wasn't and he got her address and personal information and he came to her one night but he wasn't who she expected. I don't remember what ended up happening because this story was from a while ago but I think the daughter ended up safe.
I think the importance of online safety is just for you to be safe and so that nothing bad or dangerous happens to you because of something that could have been easily preventable. While online to protect yourself just don't share too much information or anything important online. People online can see what you post and anything that you post will never fully be erased, it can somehow always be recovered so you have to be really careful as to what you put up many social media or anything on the internet in general. Everything that you post is visible to everybody in some way. If you put on personal information people that weren't supposed to see it can easily see it and there are online and internet predators out there that are just looking to harm others. Just don't post anything that you wouldn't want your parents or the whole entire world or police to see. Don't share personal information especially stuff about where you live, where you go to school, where you work, your routine after school or your routine in general. People also pretend to be people that they are not and they try to trick you and convince you and that is how people end up getting their identities stolen and bad things happening to them.
When I lived in Washington my dad co workers and me were very close. One of his closest co workers had a friend and her daughter had been sharing stuff online and like online chatting with this guy for a while. He convinced her that he liked her and he pretended to be somebody that he really wasn't and he got her address and personal information and he came to her one night but he wasn't who she expected. I don't remember what ended up happening because this story was from a while ago but I think the daughter ended up safe.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Wednesday August 21st
Journal - Tell me what you know about Web 2.0. List example Web 2.0 sites. Are you on any sites that let you “post” information? What are those sites? How often do you use them? What do you post on them?
I know that they are websites that you can post information to. You also have a username and a password to this website. It's almost just the same thing as social media but it's on the computer more so.
I know that they are websites that you can post information to. You also have a username and a password to this website. It's almost just the same thing as social media but it's on the computer more so.
- Vine
- Tumblr
- Hi 5
- Youtube
- Myspace
- Ask.fm
The only sites that I'm on that I post information to are Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest. I use Instagram and Twitter on a daily basis about every two to three hours depending on what I'm doing or how bored I am. I have a Pinterest but I don't go on it that much anymore unless I am really bored or like before I go to bed. Same with Facebook. On Twitter I post some tweets and I retweet and I also post the pictures that aren't like Instagram worthy but they're like funny to me or my friends. On Instagram I'm really picky about what I post but I mostly post things like cute pictures that I take with my friends. I don't post anything on Facebook besides I upload pictures so that I don't have them just sitting on my phone but I never post statuses I just see what other people post. On Pinterest I re pin things mostly outfit ideas that I would actually wear and have the clothes for because I occasionally get stumped on outfits.
Tuesday August 20th
Journal - After watching the short clip of Ashton Kutcher's
acceptance speech what did you take away from his advice? What does this quote
mean to you -"Everything around you that you call life was made up by
people that were no smarter than you, and you can change it, you can influence
it, you can build your own things that other people can use."
I got out of his advice that the
sexiest thing is being smart. In AP Euro yesterday we learned that smart isn’t
how high your IQ is or how good your grades are but smart is how much
background knowledge you have on a subject. If you are competing with somebody
that has an IQ of 105 and as opposed to you with an IQ of 83, and are reading
about baseball but you with the lower IQ knows more about baseball will be smarter
than the person with the high IQ because you understand it better than they do,
you understand the process of a double play better than somebody who is book
smart. Anybody can be smart and being smart is just as much confidence. You
have to be confident in yourself that you know what you are talking about and
confidence is also sexy. Smart isn’t just what you read in books and who has a
better memory to retain what you read.
The
quote to me means that you can add on to things that other people have discovered
or invented. Alexander Bell invented the telephone but somebody else added on
to what he had to say about telephones and after a while, cell phones were
made. Alexander didn’t invent cellphones but people added on to what he had to
say. So you can edit what other people do and make things great. You can also
invent or think of something new so that other people use what you built. Other
people already invented and built things so now it’s your turn to do your part
and add on yourself?
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