Technology

Technology is any highly developed product that is new and more useful. Technology doesn’t necessarily mean that it has to be all computer chips and metal, it could be a sewing machine or a pencil.

In school, I’ve noticed that we’re using a lot of technology. Some examples of the technology we use in school are; smartboards, laptops, internet, projectors, and much more. In Algebra, there is quite a bit of technology use. My teacher uses a smart board to draw pictures, a camera and a projector to look at homework. In science, we use the projector to look at science videos. I could give many more examples of technology use in school. Using technology in school is a good idea, IF there are no problems when you use it.

The 5 most important technologies today:
1. internet
2. ultrasound (to determine the sex of a fetus so that the parents can get ready for it.)
3. iPod
4. mobile phones
5. bicycles

The 5 least important technologies today:
1. ultrasound (people can use it for female feticide if they prefer boys)
2. guns (if you want to fight, do it the old fashioned way!)
3. bombs
4. dryers
5. tanning machine

End of 3rd quarter

My goals for last quarter were;

•To have AR done within the first month of this quarter
•To study harder for tests and quizzes (spend more time studying…. Maybe half an hour more)
•To research more thoroughly for the projects that I will have in this quarter

When it came to AR, I didn't get it done within the first month, but I got it done quite soon. I could still use more work on studying for tests and quizes. I am definitely researching more thoroughly for projects. (UbD!!!)

My goals for next quarter are;

• Take more efficient notes
• Read more
• Get more descriptive for writing
• Get to know how to balance my homework and my free-time

This week's feedback

The phrase "Holy War" is an oxymoron, because no war can REALLY be holy. All the religions go against killing. When these people came up with the phrase "Holy War", they were only thinking of the clash of religions. Many conflicts are based upon religious differences, because some people can't accept that people have different beliefs than them, and some people just don't like people who are different.

Cold War Simulation

In the Cold War simulation, there were five teams; USSR, U.S.A., Latin America, Africa and Europe, & Asia. The goal of the USSR and the U.S.A was to get as many allies as they could. The goal of the other three teams was to get as many points as possible from the U.S.A. and the USSR. My team was the U.S.A., and we did a good job getting more points, but when it came to getting more allies, we had less than the USSR. The continent that had the most points was Africa and Europe. The team who won was probably
Africa and Europe, because they managed to ally all of their countries and get the most points in the whole game. No-one really lost. If anyone did; it would be Latin America, because they had the least amount of points. This game was a fun experience and I hope we can do a simulation like this again.

VC Project

At first, my group decided to do our project on the Cuban Missile Crisis, but then we couldn't make up our minds and changed our subject a few times till we decided that we liked the Cuban Missile Crisis. When we were using Visual Communicator, we had a lot of trouble. At first, the audio wouldn't work, so we called for help from the teachers. After that was fixed, we had trouble with a particular picture. Every time it got to that one picture when we were recording, the screen would freeze and we wouldn't be able to read our next parts.

Three tips when using Visual Communicator:

~ each work on your own parts on different computers (actions, pictures, transitions.etc.)
~ Save!!! as often as possible
~ LEAVE THE MIC. ON!!!

TWO BEST ASPECTS:

~ learned something useful for future projects
~ found a creative way to present info.

TWO WORST ASPECTS:

~ V-screen didn't work at times
~ the audio was annoying

Animal Farm (the movie)

The Animal Farm movie was not the best movie, but it wasn't bad either. The voices of the characters made the movie a bit... weird. For example, Napoleon's voice was very strange and was somewhat creepy. I found it strange that Jessie was one of the main characters, whereas in the book she was only mentioned once or twice. The fact that Napoleon used a movie set in the movie, to show the deaths of animals and the announcements wasn't very effective. This movie mainly stuck to the main point, so I found it okay.

The movie Animal Farm, and the book itself were different. First of all, Jessie was never mentioned in the book except for in the beginning when George Orwell was introduced the characters to the readers. Also, in the beginning when Old Major was talking about being free and sang the song, the entire song was different. Instead of "Beasts of England", they sang something else.Something called, "Beasts of the World". The cat wasn't even mentioned in the movie. Also, after the revolution, there was a flag. In the book, there was no flag whatsoever. In the movie, there was a television used to entertain the animals. In the book, there was a mention of a television when they explored the farmhouse, but there wasn't any mention of it being used to entertain the animals. Also, when the traitors were killed in the movie, it was by hanging and it was shown on film. In the book, the dogs (chekka)killed the traitors right in front of the other animals' eyes. When things got bad in the movie, Jessie took some of the animals to a hide-out. There was definitely no mention of a hide-out in the book. Also,in the movie, we never found out what happened to Molly. The book ended with Mr. Pilkington and Napoleon playing cards. The movie, however, ended with Jessie going back to the farm with the animals and meeting her puppies again.



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boe.poca.k12.wv.us
www.turnerlearning.com
www.whatisgoingon.org
www.thepsn.org

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