4/4

I would say throughout a large portion of the day almost everybody in the school is on and or using an app on their phone. Doing anything from listening to music to snap chatting friends, to playing a game. But we use apps on the computers too, for productive things as well such as google docs, word, excel. So its hard to imagine life without apps. I think everybody could live without them it would just be a big adjustment. 

my Weekend 4/3

I had a very good time this weekend, on Friday about six of my friends and I, went to my grandfathers farm and rode dirt bikes, and four wheelers till dark after school.  It was a blast, then to follow that I went to prom on Saturday night. My date and I went to dinner with a group of our friends, and ate at Garozzos. Dinner was good, then we went to the dance and had a great time. After the dance we attended After Prom, and that was a lot more fun than I expected. There was good music and a lot of fun stuff to do. So overall prom weekend was a blast.

3/31

today in Emerging Tech:

Blog Post 3/31: NCAA Reflection

I learned a lot on this project over the NCAA project on google sheets. I learned things on google sheets, that I had no idea that you could do. For instance I would have never guessed when you make a spreadsheet, you can plug in formulas drag it down and it does calculations for you. I had already had my bracket filled out before you told us to make our picks in class, so that was pretty easy to decide. Most of my free time as well during March Madness was spent watching basketball. 

3/30

Today in Emerging Technology: (please be good for the sub)

Blog Post 3/30:

There a a huge variety of television series available, and i am going to tell you why you need to watch the series Supernatural. Supernatural, is a series based around two brothers who since they were born, have been brought up to hunt and kill the monsters everyone thinks that they don't exist. There are wide spread of things anywhere from vampires, shape shifters, to demons. Why this show may sound a little different and like you might not be into this type of show I would definitely recommend watching the first season and trying it out. The first 11 seasons are on Netflix, and it is worth the watch.

Current Event #5

Sal Vitale
Emerging Technology's
4/20/17

Google home

https://store.google.com/product/google_home

4/17/17 App Reflections

Name of APP	Name of Student Presenter	What you found interesting about the APP	How will you use the APP?
Silo A.I.	Alex K	That it was the same technology as siri but more advanced.	To search different things on my software
Quiz let	Bryn	That the app is a very useful, and commonly used.	To study for school
Hunt Wise	Brady Rick	That it will tell u hunting times	When i am going hunting
Big man on Campus	Brandon Noah	The different programs it offers	To become stronger
Sleep Cycle	May Havens	That it will wake you in the lightest part of your sleep.	While sleeping, and as an alarm.

Overall I enjoyed this project. It was not very difficult, because I had previously used My fitness pal for football. I enjoyed this project, especially the presentations, because I learned about a few new apps that I could use to work out, or as study skills. There was even a couple apps on Tracking your sleep patterns. So overall I enjoyed this project. 

Survey

College Sports Survey

App Presentation

App Presentation

NCAA Spreadsheet

NCAA Spreadsheet

NCAA bracket

NCAA Bracket

Current Event #3 3/3/17

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/18/aviation/sports-car-with-wings-icon-a5/index.html

For my current event I picked to do mine over ICON A5 which is a new type of aircraft. This aircraft costs about 207,000 dollars but is an amazing piece of technology. While equip t to fly thousands of feet into the air, its like no other air craft, the steering is i identical to a cars steering made easier to learn, taking about thirty hours to almost master. Then for the throttle and controls is similar to a plane. To take off it works like a plane with skis on it, it builds up speed flying across the water and raises in altitude from there. While only weighing 1,510 pounds and is only 23 feet long, so storing this amazing toy would be pretty easy compared to any other air craft., it would be similar to storing a boat in the process you use.

Canva vs Lucid press

Blog Post: 2/21/17 Canva vs. Lucid Press

Now that you have been exposed to two online design programs, write a 5-10 sentence reflection on your thoughts on both of them.

• Which one was the easiest to join & use?
• Provide 2 pros/cons of using both Canva & Lucid Press
• In your opinion, which program created the nicest, trendiest documents?
• Which program provided the most "free" features?
• Overall, which one did you like the most? Explain...

Today -- finish up your Lucid Press assignment from Thursday.  Make sure all three of your documents are posted to last week or today's blog post.

**If you finish early, please work on something else quietly.  Thanks & see you on Thursday!


For me, I found that Canvas Site was easier to use. A pro for that was probably the variety of designs they had for templates. But a con was a large chunk of their templates you had to pay for. Lucid press was pretty good the best part about them is you did not have to pay for most of their templates. But a con for them was it was a little more difficult to work with. For the final product, I felt that Lucid press looked more professional through the designs and just overall. Overall if I had to pick one of the two to use again I would pick Lucid press, just because of the aspect of it looks more professional. 

Sweet Heart Weekend 2/14

Sweetheart weekend I did not go to the dance instead I went on a hunting trip with some friends and family. That Friday after school, about 12 of use pilled into cars and drove five hours to Cuba Kansas. Cuba, is about 24 miles outside of Nebraska. We went bird hunting for three days on public land around the cabin we were staying at. It was a lot of fun and one of the luckier hunting trips I have been on. Almost all of us maxed out on our limit at least one day that weekend.

report card Reflection 2/10/

My report card consisted of the things I do the most, and whats most important to me. First I had school, and I gave myself a B+ , because I do all of my homework and study, but I am a really bad procrastinator. Second ?I had exercise, I gave myself an A because I work out every morning and sometimes after school. Third I had my friends, which I enjoy hanging out with, and I do that a lot, Fourth I had family and gave myself an A because I do a lot for them, and spend a lot of time with them. Next I had organization which i gave myself a b - because I am the most organized. Last I had Music which I gave myself an A- because I listen to music a lot but is mostly old songs.

Extra Canvas

info graphic reflection

Blog Post: 2/27/17 - Infographic Reflection
What have you learned about Infographics?  Did you enjoy creating your own? (please explain). When might you use an Infographic in your school work, personal life, or other?  Which Infographic site did you use?  Was the site easy to navigate? Would you use it again or look for another site?


I learned a lot about info graphics,  for mine I used pictochart and if I have do another inforgraphic I am going to use that site. It was easy to use along with that, it had a variety of templates. This was probably one of the projects I enjoyed more because of the freedom we had on it, along with that it wasn't a very difficult project. I might use an infographic again in a project if I need to promote a certain thing. If I were to do that I would definitely use the same site. 

Lucid Press flyer

Info graphic Knowledge Feb 23

• What is an infographic?
• What is the purpose of an infographic?
• What type of information is best displayed in an infographic?
• How can an infographic help convey your message to an audience?
• How might you use an infographic in your class assignments?

An info graphic is almost like an online banner you can make on pictocharts website. Its a cool tool to use because you can pick out different designs.  The cool thing about this website is that you can use it for everything. There is not only one use for these online banners. The best way to display information on this though is probably comparisons. Comparing two different things. It is really easy to help you convey your message to the audience, because there is a lot of room to put charts, graphs, and text to describe your topic. Along with that you can tie it into the classroom, because you can use it for a variety of presentation styles, along with the fact it is easy to work with. 

Info-graphic 3/2/17 Final

Infographic

Report Card

2/16 My Dream Business

My dream business would definitely be a duct tape hardware shop. It would actually be a service where I would personally come to the customers' house and fix anything that needs a fixin'. I specialize in doorknobs of course. In fact, I have fixed one before at my pizza shop. The advertising would not leave this detail out because it will be our main hook to get the money rollin' in.

2/9/17 Current Event

The Talking Speaker

While everybody loves their speakers, they are evolving and being used for way more than listening to your playlist. The biggest hit of the variety of brands of speakers is Alexa made by Echo. This speaker plays your music with high quality, but that is the bare minimum of its capability. You can ask Alexa to play any song for example and it with surf the internet and find that song for you. Or lets say you have a question that needs to be looked up, all you have to do is say" Hey Alexa ..." and she will pull up the top responses on google. While along with these new features a unheard of one has come to play, now you can even ask Alexa to call and order food for you with he right model and settings programed into it. Its also very efficient wired with microphones around all the speakers covering 100% of the outside cylinder. This incredible piece of  technology will only cost you from 150-175 dollars on amazon. Which to me that is a good price on this piece of high end technology.

2/6/17 Project collaboration

I feel that this project was a very good learning tool. The reason I say this is because in the real world you wont always be working with people in the same building. You could be working with someone halfway across the world, so this was a good way to show us how to do this. This presentation taught us to take full advantage of the resources we have at our disposal. This showed us you can get the same product with out interacting with someone in person.

Theme Park Presentation

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18pM73xtJj7UCEzlvxpZRZdqaUB6D29q4ipAHXdbYUcA/edit?ts=58938ce3#slide=id.p

Pictures

Social Book Marking 1-24-17

Social book marking can be used for a variety of reasons. The most common use of this is to star pages you frequently go to so all you have to do is click the tab and go directly there. But another common use for this is to use it when doing a project, and or doing research. The reason for this is so you have easy access to these websites, making it easier for use, while also faster. So these are two of the many good reasons to be using bookmarking in everyday life.

2/2/17 ted talk video notes

Ted Talk
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1__LN7_RGQ7n3erf_Ixh7l8m5GufwYK54eabB1TQByO0/edit#

1. According to the Talk, what are the places that technology is taking us to, that we don’t want to go?

It     

2. What are some examples of inappropriate use of technology that were mentioned in the Talk?

In meetings, at the dinner table     

3. What does Ms. Turkle mean by being “Alone Together”?

 That while u might be with people, if ur attention is on your phone you're basically alone.    

4. What does she mean by “Hiding From Each Other”?

     Versus talking each other they will text them

5. How does “conversation → connection” happen according to the Talk?

 It doesn't work for connecting with each other.    

6. What concern is raised with kids who would rather “Text than Talk”?

People are getting to the point where they dont know how to have a real conversation      

7. What impact does the feeling that “No one is listening” have on people?

It distances people away from each other, because they dont have the same social skills.      

8. Why are people tempted by machines that offer companionship?

They think no one will listen to them.     

9. Why are people expecting more from Technology and less from each other?

 Because with all of the new things technology can do and be used for, people get so dependent on it and start to lose social skills.     

10. What is the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship?

   It something people long for so if they can't find it right away in person, they will find it else where.     

11. What are the 3 things mentioned in the Talk, that we all want, in order to be comfortable and in control?

We can put our attention wherever you want

We can always be heared

we never have to be alone      

     

     

12. Being alone feels like a problem that needs to be solved, the Talk mentions the concept of “I share therefore I am”.  Explain what the following perceptions mean:

• I have a feeling → I want to make a call (past)

 You expirence it and want to share it    

• I want to have a feeling → I need to send a text (current)

 You have to share something and dont know how to say it    

13. How does “connection → isolation” happen according to the Talk?

 people lose social skills    

14. According to the Talk, “solitude is where you find yourself before you reach out to know someone else”.  What do they/you see as the power of this statement?

  You have to know yourself and be confident, and open about it before you can share it with someone   

15. How would you explain the following statement from the Talk, “If we don’t teach our children to be alone, they will only know how to be lonely”.

 If they don't have social skills they will never have relationships and be lonely    

16. How do we make our actual/real life, the life we love?

  Don't be locked down by technology, find what u like and do it   

17. Write three additional thoughts/reactions that you had to the Talk.

It was accurate on how people are losing their ability to be social

1/26/17 chrome vs symbaloo

Book marking and Symbaloo are very good tools and can be very helpful when working on projects, or just to get to the websites you commonly use. Book marking links is a faster way to approach it all you have to do is click the star and then save. But with symbaloo you have to go to that site and then add it. Either way they both are very useful, for example when in the process of doing projects, if you want to go back to that site later you can just add it really fast and the link is at your disposal.

My weekend 1-23-17

This weekend I did a variety of things. Friday night I went and hung out with a couple of my friends and we went fishing down in la Cygne at the heated lake. We stayed there for about two hours, and I caught three cat fish. On Saturday and Sunday I worked all day, I work at Original Pizza. Then Sunday night my family and I went to my grandmas house to eat dinner and watch the football game. 

1-20-17 Alphebetical Advice

Accept Everyone
Be helpful
Care
Dare to be diffrent
Excite people around you
Fight for what you think is right
Give to those of need
Help people who need it
Inspire others
 Just do whats right
knowledge is power
 Love
Monks are wise
Never judge a book by its cover
Others will come
people are amazing
Question Everything 
Respect your elders
Subtract negative people out of your life
Talk about it
Unity is stronger
Very many people are good in this world
Work hard
X marks the spot
You are amazing
Zealous is a good trait to have

Prezi

1-17-17 Prezi Reflection

After using Prezi for are latest project, I came to find out that I like using power point rather than Prezi. I realized a few things when using this, one that you can do a lot more on power point, such as transitions, and styles. Part of this may have to do with I am a lot more experienced in power point.  Along with this Power point is more professional and looks more formal as a presentation. Son those are my reasons behind liking power point more than Prezi.