Tech Tool Evaluation

Links to the two tools you evaluated

Creaza

http://www.creazaeducation.com/

murally

http://beta.mural.ly/

Three things you like about each tool

Creaza

1. its a very easy way to create a mind map
2. you can upload images onto your mind map
3. you can add links for extra information

Murally

1. its free
2. its just a mural you can use it for whatever you want
3. you can put pictures, calendars, videos etc
4. its a way to put all your ideas together
5. your final piece looks fun

Three things that you think are drawbacks of the tool (things you don't like or you think can be improved)

Creaza

1. It doesn't save for its self if something happens to the computer you will loose your work.
2. You have to pay for the premium one
3. make more backgrounds more optionms instead of just colors

Murally

1. if your not organized it can look m
2. it doesnt esplain very well how to use it
3. make more template option so that some people can make it more serious

Two ways you could use each tool

Creaza 

1. you  could use this tool whenever your asked to make a mind map about a topic (any class)
2. you could also use it for a presentation to make it organized

murally

1. can use it to make a project (like an online poster)
2. ion classes when they ask for for videos graphics and it has to be fun or creative murally provides all that
3. for projects in any class like science so you can place youtube videos explainning the topic better.  

Biometric security

 

-What you know about the topic before your research

I really dont know anything about this topic I look forward of learning about it.

-What you wonder or questions you have about the topic before researching (at least 2)

Is it safe ( is it difficult to fake) , Do they only use it for security?

and What is biometric?

-Links to where you found the most useful information (at least 2, NOT Wikipedia, although you can use it to help you)

 

http://www.findbiometrics.com/biometrics-security/

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Technology-Article.asp?ArtNum=16

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/biometrics.html

 

 

-Bullet list of things you learned about the topic (at least 5)

1. In biometric security they use physical characterstics like fingerprints, hands and eyes to identify a person.
2. They do it with something that wont change ( thats constant) like fingerprints and thats difficult to copy.
3. types of biometric security:  Face Recognition biometrics security, Fingerprint Identification, Hand Geometry biometrics security, Retina Scan, Iris Scan, Signature biometrics security, Voice Analysis
4. None ofthem is considered the "best one" it depends on what your going to use it for.
5.  they think that in the future computers could have a fingerprint scanner where you could place your  finger and it will recognize you and log you in.
6.  Fingerprint identification has the problem that it requires clean hands in order to work.
7. finger print identification is the most common.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finger print identification

-A short summary of how this topic connects/relates to you or your life

Biometric Security is used in our daily life because every day when we get to school we have to use our finger print to enter. Also because now it getting really poppullar and a lot of companies and offices use it to enter like our parents offices.

-Questions you still have (at least 1)

 

 

 

What happens if the sensor gets dammaged? How easy can you fix it?

 

 

College Exploration on Naviance

TO DO

1. log into your blog and open a new post titled College Exploration on Naviance

2. Label it College/Career

3. Go to College and Career--Useful Links page and click on Naviance link

4. Log into your account on Naviance and go to the college tab

5. On your blog write two colleges that interest you that you know about right now.

I dont know.

6. Go on Naviance, click on the COLLEGE tab, and using the college super match option, click your preferences on the list on the left side of the page (if you don't know the answer to something, leave it blank) and find two colleges you have never heard of but that interest you and write those on your blog.

Julliard 

7. Choose 7 areas about college life that interest you or matter to you that you will research about each college (I.E. cost, does it have ____ major, what is the weather, what special programs do they have for foreign students, ....)

Campus,  people size, teams. location, GPA, cost, 

8. Make a chart on your blog showing the information you found in all 7 areas for each college. It should look like this...(obviously yours will have the college names, the actual areas you chose and real details comparing them...)

	Julliard	Columbia	Emerson collage	University of chicago
Campus	In the city. downtown ,safe. large urban area	large urban area	large urban area	large urban area
people ( women and men)	they  help  international students. Students come from diffrent parts of the world , theres a lot of diversity	49% Men, 51% Women	36% men 64% women	57% Men, 43% Women
size	995 students	25,208 students	4,566 students	15,152 students
job placementservice		yes	yes	yes
location	New York city	new york	boston	chicago illinios
gpa	3.78	3.78	3.29
cost	$35,140	$45,290 / $45,290	$32,728 / $32,728	$42,783 / $42,783

Graduation rate                              93%                80%              93%

9. Write your GPA on your blog from first quarter. Now, list under that, the average GPA needed to get into all 4 of those colleges with the college name next to each. Where do you stand? 
quarter 1 3.4 gpa

10. If you have time, continue to explore colleges on Naviance until Ms. Shawn says to stop.

11. When Ms. Shawn tells you, summarize what you learned from this experience and tell how it will affect your habits as a student.

it affected me because I realized that theres a huge compeence and that a lot of collages ask for a high gpa but theres some other that the gpa is lower and are still very good schools.

Final Google day

goals
I would like to pracice all the skills that i have learned.
usefull websites
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Google day # 4

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we went to the mass so we only had like 30min to work.

3 goals for the day

1. keep practicing my skills 
2. work on my presentation 

Links with description of why they are useful to your goals

Today I was only practicing what I have already learned.

Cande tought me something.

Evidence of what you learned or learned to do and a description of your new knowledge or skills

presentation

show all our pictures with the progress from when we started to now.

One thing that you want to learn next Google day

Google Day #3

3 goals for the day

1. keep changing colors in pictures

2. learn how to change the background of a picture

3.learn how to write on the background

Links with description of why they are useful to your goals

today i was just practicing what I learned our last Google days.

next Google day: next Google day I want to work on our presentation and how we are going to do it.

Evidence of what you learned or learned to do and a description of your new knowledge or skills

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Google Day 2

3 goals for the day

1. learn how to change color in photo shop
2.  keep cropping pictures
3. change only parts of the pictures color

  Links with description of why they are useful to your goals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHTSskf8prU

this is a video that explains step by step how to change the color in a picture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=031yxG8yUN4

This is a YouTube video that explains ho to change the color on only one object really easilly. it expplains step by step and even telling you where you can click.

What I want to do next Google day: next Google day I want to get better on cropping and placing one picture on top of another one. I also want to learn how to placing a different background on a picture.

Evidence of what you learned or learned to do and a description of your new knowledge or skills

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Challenge Question

150 south African rand = 17.3147 US dollars
350 Kuwait dinars=1,245.06
200 Japanese yen=2.53836
http://www.oanda.com/currency/converter/

Present

http://present.me/tour
present.me is a web page that they created to be able to record a video very easily just explaining something and you can record yourself but at the same time having pictures so that it seems like you're talking to someone face to face. its very good because you can see it anywhere and its like talking to someone face to face when its not possible because of any type  inconvenient. some people might say that that why Skype exists but for Skype you both have to be in at the same time while present.me you an just record it and the other person can see it later.
present.me would be very useful for school and students for projects especially group projects sometimes you can meet up with you're group and you cant decide an time for all  of you to go on Skype it could be very useful because you could record a video of yourself with all of you're ideas and even picture of your ideas and send it to you're partners.it could also be useful for a presentation you could record you're self and at the same time show pictures of what you're explaining so that its just like if you were presenting in class.
how to make it?
its very easy to make a present.me here are the steps:

• first you need to now what you want to say
• you need a slide show it can be a power point
• then go to the create tab which is in the top right corner
• in the create tab go to proceed which is on the bottom of the right side
• in proceed upload you're slid show and wait a minute until the webpage process it
• then you record yourself with you're webcam using the arrows and space to move slides forward in the speed you want
• after you're finished recording you're done just save and there you go!!

I have to make an account and a web camera to do the video.

Digital Nation

Agree:

· I agree that people live in a technology world because we do everything by technology and we don’t even realize. I think we do this because it simplifies allot of things.

· I agree that teachers now have to find new more interesting ways of teaching to make sure that the students are not on the web and not paying attention because if they don’t its very easy for a student to get lost by logging into Facebook, e-mail etc.

· I agree that students can multitask and do more than one thing at a time because i think we can concentrate in more than to things a time.

· I agree that technology can be addictive because once we use it once we really like it because it makes a lot of things faster and simpler like doing a research or communication.

· I agree that its good to teach kids to use internet safely because internet can be good but it does have allot of dangerous things.

· I agree that people that were born in today’s world will be better with technology than their parents or grandparents because we were born in the technology world learning what it was and how to use it since we were born.

· I agree that being too much time on internet can affect your learning because in internet there’s a lot of ways you can get easily distracted but, i also think that if you learn how to use it wisely it can be a very good tool.

· I agree that teaching kids how to multitask is good because in today’s world it’s necessary to be able to multitask.

·  I think that the free internet place in Korea is a good idea because even if internet is really good and useful there’s a person who use it in excess and are addicted and need help.

•  I agree that theres some kids are so involved into internet that they dicnoect from the world because theres people that are son invlved into technology they dont even now whats going around them.
• I agree that games can be addictive because people really like the chance of  being a diffrent character and games can be intresting especially when you can keep playing for a long time.
• I agree that people on virtual worlds are more socail because i think that by the internet they dont care alot because people ontknow who they are.
• I agree that people prefer the virtuals world because they can have everything they dreamed about or really wanted to have and couldnt. 
•  I agree with when they say that even when you are in the same place as someone they can be somewhere else because many people don’t pay attention to what they’re doing because they are very concentrated in whatever there doing with technology
• I agree that people should spend less time on their phones because we start to get to involved and it can start to affect your personal live.
• I agree that we should spent less time playing computers games because we get to involved and in is not real life.

 

Disagree:

· I disagree that there’s people that CANT live without technology and cant "disconnect" from technology because i think that if someone try’s they can do it.

· I disagree with saying that internet is like oxygen because there are people that don’t use internet and we don’t need it to survive.

•   I disagree that relashinships that started online can be rally good because online anu=yone can pretend to be someone there not.

•  I disagree that technology is bringing us together because before we talked face to fcae or met face to fcae and now with tachnbology you can pretend to be who ever you want and also with technology we dont  pay attention to whats around us, to people that are around us or even whats happening outside of the virtual world.
   

What things have a negative impact on my college application do they really look at Facebook?)

-Topic or question you are researching

-correct label-CAREERS

-links to websites where you found useful information (at least 3)

http://ezinearticles.com/?Facebook-Behavior-May-Negatively-Impact-College-Application&id=6595228

http://www.petersons.com/college-search/ask-experts-early-decision.aspx

-Summary of the information you found that answered the question/topic (this needs to be a well written, informative paragraph or two that others could read and find the answer to the question)

Colleges look at social networks. so we have to make good choices on what we post on our Facebook for example. Colleges don't only look at grades but they also look at activities you did out of school, behavior etc. They look to your commitment.

-New questions you have about this topic. (at least 1)

what what would hurt me the most for a college application?

Game design

-Topic name-Correct label (TOPICS)-What you know about the topic before your researchI know that you make games by programming.
-What you wonder or questions you have about the topic before researching (at least 2)How much time does it take to do a game?How many people make one game?What do you study to learn how to make a game?What program do you use to make a game?
-Links to where you found the most useful information (at least 2, NOT Wikipedia, although you can use it to help you)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvPZ8xG4LlQhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=---9fXPL4hg


-Bullet list of things you learned about the topic (at least 5)

• depending on the game it can take 9 months 1 year or even  9 years.

• game designers plan the setting, rules, structure, characters, objects, devises available to the character in the game.

• for programmers you need to have coding demos 

-A short summary of how this topic connects/relates to you or your life Game design realtes to my life because I have always wanted to know how video games are made. My sister did a game, and when I saw her doing it it intrigued my even more to know what she was doing. Since I was a little girl I love playing video games and not only I wanted to know how they were done but also how they painted in the computer. 
-Questions you still have (at least 1)what makes the difference in the definition of a game?

google day 1

goals today

• photo shop one picture
• learn how to crop and put in another picture making it look realistic
• learn how brush away the background

helpfull link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbDL6b97kY0&feature=fvst

next class:
play with colors on a picture and at the same time keep croping pictures

Google 20%

For my google project I want to learn how to do photo shop. I want to learn how to do all techniques photo shop has to offer. One of the techniques I would really like to learn is how to do special effects on pictures.  I want to learn how to fix pictures that werent well taken and how to make them better. On the project we will show how to change collors in a picture, make it black and white,  more color, half and half ect.

To present our google project we will create a blog with tutorials of how to use photo shop. In the blog we will put a pictures with everything we learned. We will say how we did this picture and tricks so that beginners can do it too. Besides explaining  how to do it and showing what the end product of that technique is we will give hints videos and other things to help who ever wants to learn.

LINK

C/C  website