Online Sharing:Topic 10 & A Hour of Code

1. Add the final screenshot from your Hour of Code project. Size it so that it fits within the confines of your blog.


2. Create a project on one of the online sharing sites listed above and embed the  project or link to it. Please let us know what site you used and how you could use it at school or home. 
I used Padlet (feel free to add stuff on it!). This tool could be used for say, an English class, because a teacher could have all of their students write a few sentences on a book they read for that class. It could also be used to show important quotes that students have found and want to share with others in the class.

Created with Padlet

Evaluating Information Web Sites & Citing Sources: Topic 9

This week!

Steps:

1. Sign up for NoodleTools - check
2. Create a project called Sample Works Cited and share it. - check
3. Create 3 citations: The book, a subscription database (book review), and a web page - check
4. Completed citations included below: 

Yu, Charles. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. New York: 

     Pantheon, 2010. Print. 

Monson, Ander. "Living in Your Head." The New York Times. New York Times, 3 

     Sept. 2010. Web. 30 Nov. 2015.

Kimmel, Daniel M. "My Best Friend Is a Wookie/How to Live Safely in a Science 

     Fictional Universe/Jar Jar Binks Must Die…and Other Observations about 

     Science Fiction Movies." Fantasy & Science Fiction July-Aug. 2011: 42-48. 

     EBSCO Literary Reference Center. Web. 30 Nov. 2015. 

     

      5.  Trials test results: I missed questions 4 and 5.
[4] Deputy Director Hill of Horseshoe Cruise Line stated the following about the mysterious illness aboard the 900-person cruise ship Royal Lady, "Including crew and guests, we believe that 766 passengers are presently ill. That is certainly not an epidemic. In fact, there is no reason to believe that this illness has anything to do with the food or facilities."
Does this excerpt illustrate fact, opinion or bias?

At first, I thought the excerpt was opinion, but now that I have re read it, the excerpt is bias. The Deputy Director is saying on their side of what has happened with the illness. Only they do not have "a reason to believe" that their facilities was the problem. From google, the definition of bias is "prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair."

[5]Your group has selected the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska as a research topic. As you are researching, you read a fantastic quote attributed to attorney Paul Achitoff of Earthjustice. What should be your next step?

Actually, I was going to pick the right answer, Verify that the attorney works for Earthjustice and learn more about the organization, but I started to doubt myself and ultimately picked, Discuss the appropriateness of the quote with the members of your group. I now see why the right answer is right, since you would have to see if who said the quote was actually who they said they were. Anybody could say anything, so you should always check the facts and verify.

Books and Reading: Topic 8

 Write about the site you set up an account in: 

• What was the most difficult part of using the site?  What did you enjoy about the site? There wasn't anything too difficult about using this site. The only 'problem' was it taking a long time to load up some of the books once I typed them in. Overall, the thing I enjoyed most about the site was how it looked, and how it showed all the books you put in on a virtual shelf. 
• Why did you choose this one over the other two? To be honest, I chose Shelfari over the other too because this one looked the best because of the reason I said above for why I enjoyed it the most. It had more 'style,' so I chose this one instead of the other two.
• How do you think you could use this technology for school projects or for fun? I think that this would be used more for fun, so you can log all the books you have read on a website that is easy to use. You could also show your friends and compare books between all of you if you wanted.

Shelfari: Book reviews on your book blog

Documents & Presentations: Topic 7

Hello!
This week I: explored Google Drive, looked at similar tools, and went to Glogster to make a Glog. 

1. I have used Google Drive a lot through high school, with a bulk of it being used in my English classes. It was extremely helpful when working on group projects that involved any sort of collaboration on typed documents. Here I also included the timeline for my book trailer. Here.
2. The tool I decided to use was SlideShare. The first thing I did while looking at this tool was when I looked at the Featured SlideShares. After looking at them, to me they looked just like normal powerpoint presentations or even the presentation tool from google. The tool was very easy to use, and felt like a different version of powerpoint. It just has a more modern looking interface than powerpoint, but is basically just the same. 
3. My Glog (click fullscreen for better picture): 

Creating Animations and Videos : Topic 6

Hello, and sorry for me not posting last week.

I used dVolver for making a small movie.

I chose the tool because it looked easy to use, which it was really simple and easy to make a short movie using the tools it gave me. One tip I have is that you are able to go back and keep the settings you have if you want to change anything, so be sure to go back and make sure the movie is how you want it. Another tip is to make the movie how you want, and to share the movie with others so they can enjoy your movie too. If I were to use this tool in one of my classes, I could use it if I have to make a movie or a short animation for a project.



Also the link to the movie

Creating Your Own Images: Topic 5

The Assignment

My two mash-up images:

ImageChef is helpful for making small little images or gifs. Since I did a picture for my second mash-up, I decided to use a animated one for this one. Some things this site has are: photo frames, signs, and other fun things. This website could be used in school to add something else to a project, and could be used in power points or other presentations; it could also be used for at home use, and for fun.

















Huge Image Labs is good for making several picture based things, like the one puzzle I made below. This is just another way to view pictures that you have. The one in my puzzle is one that I took a few years ago while hiking, and I thought that it looked cool to have as a puzzle. This site also has several other options that could help in school to enhance any school projects one might have, like making a poster.

Iron Mountain

Photos, Images & Giving Credit: Topic 4

Hey hey! Welcome back!

Topic 4: Questions
Two questions regarding copyright, public domain, and fair use:

1. What happens when you break a copyright?
2. How long do you have a copyright?

Answering my questions:

1. If you break a copyright without getting permission, then you have to pay a fine if you do not remove it. In some cases you can go to jail. According to Chron, "Anyone convicted of criminal copyright infringement faces a maximum of 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine or both."
2. A copyright only lasts for a long time, the rest of the authors life plus another 70 years. But if the author is anonymous, then it can last anywhere from 95 to 120 years. 

What is a Creative Commons license and why is it important to us?: 

• A Creative Commons license is a copyright license that gives copyrighted work the ability to be freely distributed. It is important to us (and for the assignment) because it lets the authors share their work without making people pay, and also so people can use their work quickly and easily without any worry about copyright issues. 

Pictures for my book trailer:

1.

The entire book involves time, and what better way to represent time than a clock. Instead of using a plain clock, I decided to use one that was a little more 'fancy' to show something different than regular time. "Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward." ― Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

"The Clock." Miriadna.com. Miriadna.com, 24 June 2014. Web. 29 Oct. 2015.  http://miriadna.com/preview/the-clock

2.

The second picture I chose was of a dog, which in the book is the narrator's nonexistent but ontologically valid dog. Since it does not say what breed the dog is in the book, I just found a picture of a 'mutt'.  "Ed is just this weird ontological entity that produces unconditional slobbery loyal affection." ― Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Barber, Chris. "Rosie." Flickr. Yahoo!, 17 June 2007. Web. 29 Oct. 2015. https://www.flickr.com/photos/95609644@N00/557613775

3.

 

Since I went with the dog, one of charles companion, I decided to represent TAMMY as computer circuits." Sometimes at night I worry about TAMMY. I worry that she might get tired of it all. Tired of running at sixty-six terahertz, tired of all those processing cycles, every second of every hour of every day." ― Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Computer Circuits Jupiterimages Corporation,  2006 . Image.
Discovery Education. Web. 29 October 2015. <http://www.discoveryeducation.com/>.