Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Movie Theme's

For the movie project of the two videos is "Fitness for Life".  In one video we'll see clips of active people of all ages, happy enjoying life and being healthy with positive music in the background and then at the end of the clip we'll show a obese person not doing anything, looking miserable, sitting on a couch, and then a question will be spoken saying, "what will YOU be doing today?".  For the second video we'll show a time line of 2 people being active as they grow up they participate in their kids lives and in their kids kids lives, and how happy they are and then we'll show a clip of a couple that are lazy just sit around have a picture of the child in the background sad because the parent said no to playing with them and then when they are older the old people are obese and moody and nobody wants to be around them.  Something along those lines. Or we may just show the time line of the 2 active people as they grow old and are interacting with their family still.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Internet Safety

Being someone that gets onto the internet for whatever reason whether its for school, for social reasons, entertainment: missed episodes, music, pictures, I feel it is important to be aware of internet safety for myself.  Then there is my mom and little brother and sister.  I felt that after reading up on internet safety it was important for not only myself to be aware of the safety guidelines, but also for my mom to be aware so she can teach and be cautions of my little brother and sister; and also to teach my little brother and sister some tips and awareness for themselves so that they can be protected.
From iSAFE the first thing that I taught my mom and siblings were the 4 R's which are:
Recognize techniques used by online predators to deceive.
Refuse requests for personal information.
Respond assertively if you are ever in an uncomfortable situation online. Exit the program, log off or turn off the computer, tell a trusted adult, or call the police.
Report to a trusted adult any suspicious or dangerous contact that makes you feel uncomfortable.
Because my little brother and sister get onto a game called Club Penguin they interact with other "penguins" which I believe are other people around the world.  I'm not sure what exactly goes on, but I informed my mom to have my little bro and sis to ask for permission before logging onto the game so that she is aware of when they are on; and to also make sure the laptops are in the family room for her supervision.  Now, I noticed sometimes my sibs get onto Google or Youtube so I informed them that even with one missed spelled word something bad could pop up.  So to either make sure you type perfectly or you ask an adult to get to the website for you.  My parents were already aware of pop ups and what not so I'm not sure what they did, but they blocked them from happening on the computers at home.
Something I actually learned from my parents before was to never give out my personal information on the internet for just anything, so after reading some safety tips I found it important to transfer that information to my little siblings so that they know not to put their address or full name, etc when signing up for games or whatever it is.
I'm glad that we have places to learn of internet safety because the world is so corrupt I wouldn't want my little brother and sister to be tricked into anything that could put them in harms way.

isafe.org 

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Internet Communication Project

I learned a lot! I just made my own class site =) that is so cool!  I definitely think this is helpful for when I become a teacher.  It'll not only help me, but also the students stay on top of assignments and up coming events outside of school hours. I feel this is beneficial because some times students may have a question about a test or assignment or whatever and its after school hours and I'm not responding to emails for some reason so it gives them a place to go to and solve their questions. Yes, I'd be able to make another website and I probably will in the future.  It was easier then I thought it was going to be, but was time consuming to figure things out and put everything in it. But, it was fun!  My URL is https://sites.google.com/site/daynaburgesssclasssite/

I chose to use picnik website to edit my picture as one of my embedded things.  I downloaded the pic then under edit I first cropped out some of the pic, then chose exposure and did some contrast then went to color and added a little saturation then I went to create and played around with touch ups such as airbrush, mascara.  Finally, I saved it and added it to my class site!

My Class Site

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Reflection 5

Okay this might be a little hard to explain, but on google doc. I was sent a lesson plan that I needed to print copies of.  But when I printed straight from google doc it printed smaller on the paper. So I wanted to just copy/paste it onto Word and then print it off from there, but then it wouldn't let me copy.  :/

docs.google.com