PART 3: Social Networking -- Keeping in Touch
As shown in the program, social networking sites can be used as a way to "talk junk,"
insult others or hash out conflicts. Is fighting online a relatively safe way to express
negative emotions in responding to others (without having to deal with them face to
face)? Or does online fighting do more harm than good?

Trash talking happens in every socialization web pages. When people talk online and not face to face they feel more secure. They know that if they talk junk to the person he or she can`t do anything to them because they are in diferent places. Even do they are not in the same place, the other person can get angry and send junk messages or take revenge if they know them very well. Sometimes I trsch ralk when they insult me in youtube because i don`t really know them. I don`t do this in Facebook because the friends I add are really my friends so I wouldn`t insult them. Face to face and online fighting are not a good thing to do because it will only bring problems.

PART 4: Identity Play

When you think of stuff to post on your profile, who is the main audience you’re

communicating to? Who are other potential audiences that might be viewing, but that you might not think of when you post things?

When I post things in my facebook profile I always think that my friends and family will see it. I know that other people will not . When I post pictures there is always a choice to leave other people see it or just you friends. All the pictures I put in to my profile are private( only for my friends.) Even do I can make my pictures private some people can see them when their friend is tagged. I think this is an error that Facebook made about privacy. Many people that are not your friends can see this pictures. Some examples are friends of your friends, or other people that just like to see pictures of other profiles. Some of this people are sometimes obssesed with the person. the profile is something personal so I have to be carefull in what people can see it.

PART 2: Digital Media in Schools

More teachers are using tools to try to detect cheating or deter students’ inclination tocheat. In the program, we see the use of plagiarism-detection tools like Turnitin.com andwriting assignments completed during class time to make sure students do their own work and generate their own ideas. In terms of student writing, what are some different types of "cheating"? What are the elements you would include in your definition of

"cheating"?

Cheating is a way to get a good grade in an assignment without effort. There are many ways to cheat in an exam or make a homework assignment. you can browse in the Internet for web pages that can tell you summaries of books etc. An example of a web page is Sparknotes.com but schools are now using turnitin.com. This checks if the assignment was copied from a web source. In the exams people cheat in many ways. Most teachers tell us that students record their voice saying the answers and put it in their Ipod. when its time for the exam they hear the playlist to respond the questions. Another way to cheat in the exams is by using small notes with really small letters. Cheating shouldn't be done but teachers should also leave less work for the students.

Cheating

The teenager says that that he never reads books and that he only got notes from the we. He also mentions that he feels guilty so Mr mark assigned us to give our opinion of this kid. In my opinion he should feel guilty but I also agree that sometimes students don't have enough time to finish all the assignments given by teachers. I agree more on the guilty feeling because it's unfair. The other students did the work and wasted most of their day. Besides the student that cheats will not learn quite well and in their future they will suffer when they go to college. I don't use this spark notes for my homework but the ones that do always will have the bad feeling of what they did. When they get rewarded with a diploma or a gift from their parents for their grades they will feel that they don't deserve it. What these kids do is totally wrong because giving the homework is for them to research and learn about the topic not just copying from a web page. These people should feel guilty because their parents pay for their education but they waste it by cheating.

In the opening of the program, we see boys gathering to collaboratively play a military style video game. What characteristics of a computer make it different from other media in the home, such as television, videogames, stereo/radio, magazines and books? How do these characteristics influence:

• How the computer is used in the home?
• Who uses the computer?
• Where the computer is placed?
• How much the computer is used
• How much the computer is used?

The computer is more useful but more difficult than other objects in my home. We use television to watch shows, the radio for information and the magazines to see whats new . What people don`t quite realize is that you can do this in your computer. you can see your tv shows at youtube or Hulu andyou cna see many things that are happening lately in the world just by browsing in Google. the computer cna be used by everyone you just have to be careful on what pages you enter. If a minor uses the computer I think that their parents should be superising. The computers are mainly used for entretainment such as youtube or videogames and for homework. most computers are located in a place that is common. one example is the living room so everyone can go there without asking permission to enter. The average time a person uses the computer is one hour. although there are people that can stay most of the day using it because it becomes an adicction. The computer is mare useful but it can become a problem.

old stuff....

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Rollercoaster

A few days agoMr Picketts took the class downstairs to watch rollercoasters of the 12 graders ( I wasn`t there) I didin`t see the projects but my friends told me about them. From what they told me I thought they were really elaborated. The themes they told me they were about are: Candy, a city, and christmas. I don´t know who won but I bet that the highest one did. the people are always amazed with the biggest rollercoaster. I would like to do that when I am in twelve grade. I wish I saw the rollercoasters from what I heard.

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Christmas

This Christmas I did many fun and amazing things. The first week I invited friends to my house. We played Xbox, ate, and then skated. One day I went to skate with two friends and I learned how to jump four stairs. i hurt myself when I fell but it was worth it. that same week, some friends came from Macalen to visit us. They always rent an apartment near ours so I can visit often. We made plans and went to placeds they didin't know. One of the place we went was Splash. This is a water park where we rode all the water slides. The rest pof the week we just played videogames and watch tv.

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In the Second week my family and I were getting ready for Christmas eve. We decorated the entire house. We created a little village with houses and people. It took as many time and effort to cover the whole house. After this I went to the movie theatre with my Friend Ernie to wach the movies Avatar. I thought it was one of the best movies of the year. Christmas came and as all the previous years we went to my mom's friend's house . many friends where in her house and we talked for hours and later on we ate. the food was amazing when I was finished I was about to explode. At 12:00 the gifts were given. I got two videogames, a shirt and a skateboard.

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The next day the daughter of my mom's friend came with all her friends from London. we went to the beach with them and played volleyball. New Year's party was coming and we had to know where we were going to celebrate it. We found out that our friends were going to Velas(hotel) so we decided to go there. The party was awsome, there was good music and food. Everything was going right Until a firework exploded and struck a man and his daughter. They were both translated to the hospital even do the injuries were not severe. When the New Year started I was really preocupated because I needed to finish my homework. I made my science project but I was to lazy to make the english one. time passed it was Monday, I had one day. So I grabbed my computer and finished it In 1 hour.this was all the things I did in my Christmas vacations.http://thestartingfive.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/new-year-fireworks-hk.jpg

Friday, December 4, 2009

reflection of Fransisco

Today at miss Fenton's class a man called Fransisco came to talk to us about his experience as an American soldier in Iraq. He started to talk about how he entered to the Citadel ( University) and about himself for the situations he would experience.

Monday, November 30, 2009

Me

Hi I am Raul and I live in Puerto Vallarta. You are wondering "What place is that?" Puerto Vallarta is in Mexico and its near the Pacific Ocean. I like the beach and I practice Wakeboarding. This is a sport known in many countries and its similar to snowboard but it is done on the sea. My favorite sport is soccer. I've played it all my life. Every recess, the boys gather to play a soccer game. A few minutes ago we were playing. Another thing I do most of the weekends is go to the movies. I always call some friends and go to the movie theater to see the new releases.

I also love to play videogames. I could spend all my day playing Halo 3 ( Wich I don't) I play for one hour or two maximum. I really enjoy music of any kind ( Except Heavy Metal) I spend one fourth of my day listening to my Ipod. I don't know how to play an instrument but next week I am going to take classes of guitar. I want to know how to play it so I can participate in the Talent Show next year.

I measure 5,5 and have black hair. One of my favorite tv shows is Two and a Half men. I think that they are great actors and actresses. A hobbie I have is looking at videos with my friends. Youtube is the best web page there is. I even made an account to have my own videos. I don't use the computer much except for facebook and youtube. This are the things I like and do so I hope you enjoyed it and learned more about me.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

listening

All the project I heard today were well done. They all had the time necessary that was 90 seconds. What I liked about the projects is that they had a variety of sounds. Some of them were from the Internet and others from sounds they made. what I didn't like is that some of them were really repetitive. I also didn't like that the sounds they did were too close to the microphone and they sounded bad

effects

In my project I used several types of sound effects. One of them is changing the speed. I used this effect to make a fast sound match a slow one. I also used the repeating effect many times. About 50 percent of my project had the repeating effect. The last a effect I used was fade out. I used it at the beginning of the song when the next sound was approaching. This where the only sound effects I used in my audacity project. This has been the best music assignment I have done in this class

Sunday, November 22, 2009

audacity reflection

I really liked this project we did about sounds made by ourselves. It took me many classes to find a good beat that matched with the others but at last the song was a success. This project was a challenge for me because most of the sounds I needed had to be done by me. I think that it was a good idea to do our own sounds so we don`t have to depend so much on the technology. Most of my sounds were made by my mouth and only a few were from the internet and by making noise with things. The time Mr Mark gave us was enough to finish the song and the video. The only thing I do not100% is that it has to have a duration of 90 seconds. This was my reflection of this great project about audacity.

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Monday, November 9, 2009

My Mash up

This Mash up project has been the best thing we have done in the entire year. I really got excited to do this. When I started to use this program I was lost. I didint know how to use it until I started to ask my classmates how to do certain things. For my Mash up I used three different songs. They are: Celebration from Maddonna, fight for you from Morgan Page, and shooting Star from Kevin Rudolf. My mash up is two and a half minutes long. It took me two classes to finish it. In the middle of my Mash up I mixed different parts of the same song to get a different sound and in my opinion this two noices matched with each other.. I think that this project was in the middle when talking about difficulty. In one day I learned how to use the preogram properly. I think that this project was fun and educative.

group Mash ups

I think that the Mash ups of my teammates were great. They were short but with good quality. I can tell that they used the time that was given in class. Many of them used really good music that matched with each other. They used many effects like the fade out and fade in.Most of my team used from two to five songs in their Mash up. Some people didn't do it so I cant talk about them. In my opinion the Mash ups were interesting and exciting.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

My 1st animation

Overall the creation of my first animation was frustrating... all of it! It wasn't easy at all. Being able to put music was hard. But I was able to overcome my problem by asking some of my friends who were already able to do it. Although it was a lot of work, I liked the result of my video. Its simple but funny. I wouldn't change a thing of it. If I had to make the video longer, I would make my little man do some more exercises. Such as: push ups, jumping jacks, and if possible maybe integrate a machine and make him use it.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Typing Master Scores

When I first started to type in this class I was the slowest in the class. Know everything has changed. Now I am faster than many people. from 14 WPM ( Words Per Minute)I advanced to 17 WPM. I think this can help me in the future. If I work in an office I am going to need to know how to type fast so I can have my work done. The only thing that hasn't improve is my accuracy. I am starting to have many mistakes in my paragraph typing. My goal this year is to score 20 WPM and have 95% in my accuracy. I am sure that I can reach it if I really put time on it. I have to practice more in my house and class to reach this score. my guess of what am I going to score next week is 15 WPM and 85% in accuracy. I really think I'm going to have a good grade in this class because of Typing Master.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Live underwater

I think my project is interesting and it could work for the humanity in the future. In the future, when the ice melts the people in Earth would need a place to live so I think they could use this. the process of this picture's making is not as hard as it looks. for the buildings I just erased parts of it and cut some tubes and place them in the back layer. If I could change something I would put more things on it. it took me about half an hour to finish the whole thing. I think this artifacts are going to be used for the human's survival.


I think that Laura`s artifact was well done. it looks like she spent time working on it.
i liked that she attached the machine into a rollercoaster. Another good idea that i saw
is that she used the planat Earth for backround.the artifact being in space makes it look
more futuristic because the expeditions to space are not common. the last thing I like is the color of the backround. it has something that caches your attention. In my opinion this project
was a good effort from Laura.

Laura`s project is a great job and I think it would work in the future. the people of the
world could see one of the most fascinating things people have discovered. the scientists
can also be helped with this machine. They can come and go to the different places
in the universe without using spaceships. The machine can get back to Earth if someone
needs to get back . I think that is an interresting fact because in the spaceships of today the people have to stay as long as they are told to. I also thought that the floating sign is also a
good idea. In my opinion, this artifact could work in the future.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

tutorial 2

In this tutorial called "Lighning a gaint elephant" I got many ideas for my artifact. One of them is use different layers with different contrast and brightness. Then i learn to convine them to form a different color. this idea is going to be effective for my work. I am going to use this on my project by using the light in the picture to make a reflection in the dome.

tutorial 1

In this tutorial called how "I created a raspberry frog" I learned ha few things i didn't know before. One of them is how to change the opacity to see the image underneath it and make a form of it. I also learned that by using Liquify you can change it into another form. I am going to definitely use this techniques for my artifact of the future. I am going to use this technique to make an robot out of a material that is not common in technology.

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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Social Media comments
I agree with most of the pararaphs I read during this day.
some have very good examples and some seem to be done
in a few minutes. Most of them acctually wrote things they
depend on the social media. I think most of them where done
with a good effort and with a good perspective of the topic.
The paragraphs had similar things that I had so that
made them easy to understand. the paragraphs I read
where a interesting thing to do in my afternoon.

Monday, October 5, 2009

I chose this image because I think this would help the humans to explore places. this device makes people discover places and things they didn't imagine to see in their whole live. with this they can make more

Saturday, September 26, 2009

The social media is involved in the human`s live in many different ways. Almost everyone in this world uses Facebook, My Space, and YouTube. These are types of social media that are used in the everyday basis. They are mostly used for communication. The Social Media has many good things but it’s also dangerous. Some people use Social Media for bad things like hacking accounts, to put viruses on other people`s computers and also to rob their money online.

There are many ways to protect you from these dangers. One way is to install an antivirus program to detect the dangerous things for your computer. Another way is to be careful on what websites you enter. You also have to be extremely careful in Facebook, my Space and other websites. You have to be sure you know the people you add to your friend list. The person can have a photo of a little girl and be an old man that wants to know about your personal information.

The students of this century have to be taught on how to use the modern technology for social media. Each year the scientists create or discover different things that can be used for the jobs of the future. From time to time the teachers need to give the students information to prepare them for the new kinds of work. If the students are not prepared for the future they will have a complicated life when they grow up. The world is advancing every day so the students need to be updated. The social media involves the people in the entire world.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

blogging

Iknow a few things about blogging like putting pictures and videos about your favorite things. i also know that you can put posts like this one I am writting and putting your blog list of your friends.

I mostly use this blog for school, to get a good grade. but maybe I am going to put some homemade movies I make with my friends.


The blog I created is about my favorite groups and their songs. most of them are videos of their songs and the pictures of the albums.

First I called a few friends with the telephone. later one of my friends suggested that I should go to her blog and get all the other blogs from there.

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