Tuesday, September 30th, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
What is an infographic? If you don't know, go look it up. Read about it and then in your own words tell me what an infographic is. What do infographics do? How do they work? What makes a really good infographic?

Infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present complex information quickly and clearly.  They are like charts that present very complex information.  They use bar graphs, pie charts, and line graphs, and that makes a good infographic.

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Monday, September 29th, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me about your Homecoming weekend! If you didn't participate in the Homecoming festivities, what did you do? Share pics!

This weekend I went to Worlds of Fun with my friend Marcus, and we had fun riding all the rides, and we rode the new one, also.  The new one is called Steel Hawk, and it is a pillar that goes as high as the Mamba (which we also rode) and it spins you in circles letting you see the whole park.

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Wednesday, September 24th, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
Imagine Mr. Bacon has asked you to suggest one way of improving Blue Valley High School to make it a better place for students. Think about the changes that are needed at your school. Pick one change you feel would really make a difference and explain what it is and why you'd make the change.

Since I haven't been in this school that long I really don't know any changes that have to be made, I really don't.  I guess the thing I would say is to make the mobile homes inside and just extend the school out that much, because it will get annoying when it becomes winter to go out there.

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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
What are your favorite apps on your phone or tablet? Why?
(If you don't have a smart phone or tablet, what are you favorite website you visit regularly.)

My favorite app on my phone is 9GAG because it is a website that people submit helpful or funny posts to and other people go through them and mark off which ones are acceptable to make it to the front page, and it is so popular, that there is a new post on the front page every minute or so and it can be very helpful at giving you life hacks or making you laugh at funny things and it is a great way to past the time. And it is also a website on the computer if you don't have a smart phone.

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Monday, September 22nd, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
What is email? When do you use email in your own personal life? List reasons and ways that people use email. What do you know about "email etiquette"?

An email is like texting, but for computers and it is free and you have multiple websites to email from.  I never use email.  People email because it isn't instant like texting is so you don't interrupt a meeting or something.  People email with multiple websites, suck as Yahoo, MSN, Gmail, and more.  I have no idea what "email etiquette" is.

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Friday, September 19th, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
Now that you've been in Emerging Technology for several weeks... what do you think? Do you think the web tools (Drive, Evernote, Bubbl, etc.) are helpful to you? Do you think they will be helpful throughout high school or even college? Explain.

I think that some tools, such as Bubbl.us is a very useful tool, and the Google docs and drive are also very useful, but other things like Evernote aren't that useful because they can be replaced by the Google Chrome's bookmarks, which is much easier to use than the ever note, and they are free, unlike Evernote, which has a premium account option.

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Wednesday, September 17th, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
Do you enjoy writing? When do you enjoy it? What kind of writing do you enjoy? Why do you think the ability to write is so important no matter what kind of writing it is? Give an example that you enjoyed writing or hated writing. Why?

I like writing when I can write what I want.  I like to have a format and a topic,  but be free on what I can do in that topic to write about.  I enjoy fictional writing the most.  Writing is important because you need to be able to describe things when you're in a job.  I enjoyed it when we were told to write about weather and how it described mood.

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Tuesday, September 16th, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
Reflect on this quote. Give an example of a time in your life that this might have been the case.





This quote meant that if you don't prepare for something, then you should know that you will probably fail it, and you are basically preparing to fail.  This has happened to me when I knew that I had a test and I didn't prepare even though I knew that I should have.

Friday, September 12th, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
What is the importance of research? Why do you need to know how to research? What have you learned in high school about researching topics and finding quality resources? Have you had a helpful teacher that has taught you to research? Explain.

You have to research to learn about things that you research.  You need to know how to research so you can actually research and learn.  I learned that data bases are very good places to research topics because they have a lot of sources. I think that Ms. Edwards was very good at helping us research because she was the one that taught me how to use
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Global Issue Selection

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For my global issue in Emerging Technology I have chosen animal abuse. I have begun researching the issue and you can find my research questions here.

Wednesday, September 10th, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:

Kids these days are so spoiled, they get all they want, like their fancy eye phones, and there big mac books, and everything. When I was their age, all I had was a little 8 bit console that didn't work half the time, and the only game on it was the original super Mario brothers.  That game was the hardest game that there ever was. if you didn't know how to get past the last boss, or you couldn't beat the level you were on, then you wouldn't beat the game. Now a days, you can just hop on the internet and look at a walk through of the entire game.  Kids these days aren't appreciated enough about what they have and what we didn't have back in the day.

Tuesday, September 9th, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me about the global issue you selected. What do you already know about the issue? What are you looking forward to learning about it? Explain.

The global issue that I chose is animal abuse.  The reason I chose that topic is because I love animals and I already know a lot about animal abuse.  I already know how it happens and how the police stop it and how they find out about it.  I'm looking forward to learning more about animal abuse and about organizations that help stop it, but not organizations like PETA, they are not about what I'm researching.


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Monday September 8th, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
What did you do this weekend? Share pictures if you have them!

My weekend I sat in my room playing Minecraft all day on my Minecraft 1.8 sever.  I'm wondering what will happen when they reach Minecraft 2.0, if they'll make you buy a new one, or just call it the 2nd one.  I also helped my dad fix our drive way by mixing the repair concrete and pouring it, while he spread it out.  The drive way is in rough shape because there is supposedly an underground river or stream of water that is not giving it support, so it sinks into the river, since there is no re bar to hold it together

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Friday, September 5th, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:

Playing Video Games: A

Eating Lots of Food: A

Staying in Bed Until Noon: A

Getting a Good Computer: A

Going on the Internet Every Day: A

Like School: C

Wake Up Early: F

Be Nice in the Morning: D

Bacon: A

Cyber Bullying PSA

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
Yesterday I asked your to "think differently" and push yourself to be uncommon with your PSA project using Google Slides. Why do you think I asked you to do that? What is the point? Why not just use bullets and headers? Explain.

You asked us to do different because you didn't want to have to read the same thing over and over again, where it will get very boring.  The point of making this PSA is to alert people who read our post over what we are doing the PSA about. We can't use bullets and headers  because we are trying to inflict emotion in the reader to ensure that they know what we are talking about.
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:

Tell me all about your Labor Day weekend. What did you do? Include photos!

My Labor Day weekend I sat in my room playing Minecraft all day long, for all three days.  I Decided to make a Minecraft server after I tried to play on other servers that were not just normal Minecraft, so when I made my server, I didn't know exactly what I was doing, so when I made it, I was following a guide, and they didn't say that you needed to tell your friends your IPv4, so I just told them my normal IP address, and it was my friend who told my to tell him my IPv4, and after that I got my server working. Since that was late Monday night, I didn't have that much time to play on it, and since Minecraft 1.8 comes out today, and I made the server on Minecraft 1.7.10, I hopefully will be able to update the server.

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