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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

All About Me

Friday, October 19, 2012

                I watched a video on ted.com about a guy who knows a lot about computers. When he was a kid his teachers told his dad that he was good at math and art. But his dad didnt like that he was good at art only that he was good at math. so his dad bought a computer wich at the time could only show text and he wanted to learn alot about these computers. Then when he was older he got a different computer wich could show color pictures. Wich at that time was new and cool. And he wanted to learn more about computers. And they wanted to know why computers didnt respond to sound. then he created something that would.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Blog 12: learning styles

What kind of learner are you? Click the link below and discover your preferred learning style!
CLICK ME NOW! PREFERRED SYLE OF LEARNING

Define and explain which learning style said that you prefer.
KINAESTHETIC learner This means that i would rather have hands-on learning

On Thursday we discussed AUGMENTED REALITY. How is AUGMENTED REALITY being used in the classroom. CLICK HERE FOR EDUDEMIC AUGMENTED REALITY *Editor's Note: This is one of my ALL-TIME favorite websites.

After you've read through the article, list the five AR websites that interest you the most, describing them briefly (You may cut and paste the information from Edudemic):
1.Project Glass:One of the most ambitious augmented reality initiatives comes straight from Google, who believes its Project Glass holds potential far beyond the classroom.
2.Driver’s ed:Toyota teamed up with Saatchi & Saatchi to deliver the world’s cleanest and safest test-drive via augmented reality.
3.Experience:Third graders participating in the 12-year-old School in the Park program engage with AR via smartphones as they explore Balboa Park, the San Diego History Center, and the world-class San Diego Zoo
4.Second Life:Because it involves a Stephenson-esque reality where anything can happen, Second Life proved an incredibly valuable tool for educators hoping to reach a broad audience — or offering even more ways to learn for their own bands of students.
5. Imaginary Worlds:With PSPs in hand, Mansel Primary School students embarked on an artistic voyage, where downloaded images and QR codes merge and provide challenges to draw up personalized environments.

Choose three of the above websites from above and paste their featured links here:
1. blogs.imediaconnection.com   drivers ed
2. plus.google.com/+projectglass   project glass
3. /www.joystiq.com   Imaginary Worlds

Of the three websites that you choose to feature, which of them do you find the most beneficial to learning in the classroom with AR? Explain why you choose the site you did! (This is a two step question, answer both parts!)

I think that project glass would be cool. I want to try that. I think it was cool that they try to do that. And i think that we should try that.

Take a screenshot of the AR site that you liked the most and paste it here (ask a classmate if you do not remember how to do this - NETWORK!). Save the picture to your H-drive first, the use the BLOG tool PICTURE to post it.

The last think you'll need to do today is check out this link: HOW MUCH WOOD WOULD A WOOD CHUCK CHUCK IF..

Just kidding. After you've looked at the list of TED TALK lectures, list five that you would be interested in viewing in an upcoming class video/discussion forum.
1.arthur benjamin does mathemagic
2.Edith Widde: the weird, wonderful world of bioluminescence
3.Keith Barry does brain magic
4.Paul Nicklen: Tales of ice-bound wonderlands
5.Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

blog:9 symbolism and imagery

Fahrenheit

9/19/12

define SYMBOLISM

1. the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or

character.

2. a set or system of symbols

3. symbolic meaning or character.

4. the principles and practice of symbolism in art or literature.

define symbolism

define IMAGERY

1. the formation of mental images , figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively: the dim imagery of a dream.

2. pictorial images.

3. the use of rhetorical images.

4. figurative description or illustration; rhetorical images collectively.

5. Psychology . mental images collectively, especially those produced by the action of imagination define imagery

Blood

Blood appears throughout the novel as a symbol of a human being’s repressed soul or primal, instinctive self. Montag often“feels” his most revolutionary thoughts welling and circulating in his blood. Mildred, whose primal self has been irretrievably lost, remains unchanged when her poisoned blood is replaced with fresh, mechanically administered blood by the Electric-Eyed Snake machine. The symbol of blood is intimately related to the Snake machine. Bradbury uses the electronic device to reveal Mildred’s corrupted insides and the thick sediment of delusion, misery, and self-hatred within her. The Snake has explored “the layer upon layer of night and stone and stagnant spring water,” but its replacement of her blood could not rejuvenate her soul. Her poisoned, replaceable blood signifies the empty lifelessness of Mildred and the countless others like her.

The Phoenix

After the bombing of the city, Granger compares mankind to a phoenix that burns itself up and then rises out of its ashes over and over again. Man’s advantage is his ability to recognize when he has made a mistake, so that eventually he will learn not to make that mistake anymore. Remembering the mistakes of the past is the task Granger and his group have set for themselves. They believe that individuals are not as important as the collective mass of culture and history. The symbol of the phoenix’s rebirth refers not only to the cyclical nature of history and the collective rebirth of humankind but also to Montag’s spiritual resurrectio

Censorship

Fahrenheit 451 doesn’t provide a single, clear explanation of why books are banned in the future. Instead, it suggests that many different factors could combine to create this result. These factors can be broken into two groups: factors that lead to a general lack of interest in reading and factors that make people actively hostile toward books. The novel doesn’t clearly distinguish these two developments. Apparently, they simply support one another.

The first group of factors includes the popularity of competing forms of entertainment such as television and radio. More broadly, Bradbury thinks that the presence of fast cars, loud music, and advertisements creates a lifestyle with too much stimulation in which no one has the time to concentrate. Also, the huge mass of published material is too overwhelming to think about, leading to a society that reads condensed books (which were very popular at the time Bradbury was writing) rather than the real thing.

The second group of factors, those that make people hostile toward books, involves envy. People don’t like to feel inferior to those who have read more than they have. But the novel implies that the most important factor leading to censorship is the objections of special-interest groups and “minorities” to things in books that offend them. Bradbury is careful to refrain from referring specifically to racial minorities—Beatty mentions dog lovers and cat lovers, for instance. The reader can only try to infer which special-interest groups he really has in mind.

As the Afterword to Fahrenheit 451 demonstrates, Bradbury is extremely sensitive to any attempts to restrict his free speech; for instance, he objects strongly to letters he has received suggesting that he revise his treatment of female or black characters. He sees such interventions as essentially hostile and intolerant—as the first step on the road to book burning.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Blog:7 MY PIXEL ART

Thursday, September 13, 2012

9/11 remembering

Today is 9-11... i would like to send a special shout out to the poor people who died when the World Trade Center went down. Those people are missed. I just watched a video where you can see the plane hit the north tower. I had chills when I saw that!! I am 13 and i have never seen that video.
There were many special people lost in 9-11 .... i am sorry!!