current event 12/17/12

Current events assignment

1. Topic: 1 pt.

• What is the topic of your article?

The topic of my article is a drone that can deliver burritos.
2. Article Title: 1 pt.

• What is the title of your article? Exact wording.

Burrito Bomber UAV delivers edible payload
3. Article Source: 1 pt. 

Burrito Bomber UAV delivers edible payload

4. Summary:
           Basically the article is about a team of designers at Darwin Aerospace built this drone that can deliver food orders within minutes. It can be done from wherever you are at because it uses the app that is on your phone as a way point for the drone to find you. It drops it right from the sky and floats down to you with a parachute so it doesn't become destroyed.
5. Reaction:
 I think this is really cool yet creepy at the same time. I feel if people can do this then what else can they do. I think this is really cool because if you have to wait in a real long line for something and you get hungry you can get a burrito dropped to you. This would probably affect me because i would get hungry and want to just see it float down.
6. World Impact:

This will impact the world by leading to more obesity and yet less pollution. It can lead to more obesity because people they can have food whenever they want it wherever. It can lead to less pollution because it will lead to less cars having to drive which leads to less gas being put into the air. It can also put people out of jobs because with this you do not need delivery boys. This can lead to the economy becoming worse.

11/19/12 current event

Current events assignment

1. Topic:

• What is the topic of your article?

            The topic of my article is about how a guy broke the 

Guinness World Record for longest video game marathon.

2. Article Title: 1 pt.

• What is the title of your article? Exact wording.

          Guinness World Record for longest video game marathon broken
3. Article Source: 1 pt.

• Guinness World Record for longest video game marathon broken

4. Summary:

• Briefly, and in your own words, summarize the content of the article.
• 3 sentence minimum

          The article is about how this guy is has been playing call of duty black ops 2  for 121 hours straight. He has broken the Guinness world record for longest video marathon. He is still playing as we speak and continuing this long video gaming streak.
5. Reaction

•  I think that this is not really that big of an accomplishment. I feel people should find something better to do with their time like get a job. This event does not affect me in anyway because I have better things to do with my life besides play video games all day. There is not really an issue but it is encouraging more people to play the game. Which in turn will make more money for the company.  

6. World Impact: 6 pt.        This event does not really impact the world that much. It may cause the call of duty makers to buy some companies out and put them out of business. It will also probably cause some peoples vision to get worse because they are starring at a T.V screen all day. It may cause the obesity rate to go up because kids are not going out side and playing as much. Which can cause the death rate to go up.

Identity theft

 This week we learned about a few things that are very useful in everyday life when on the intranet.  We learned about identity theft, people how they try to scam you online, and the information they try to steal from you.

First I want to describe a couple of terms that we learned. The first one is scams. Scams are an attempt to trick someone with the intention of stealing your money or your private information. It is like when you get emails that want you to confirm your bank account number.The next one is Identity theft. Identity theft is where someone steals your private information and uses it for criminal activity. The word is vulnerable and it means a position that makes it easier for you to be harmed or attacked. The last one is phishing no not with a rod and reel. Phishing I when people send you emails texts pop-ups to lure you to a fake website to try to get your personal information. Which will lead to our digital literacy component.

The main thing we learned about was how and what kind of information people try to steal from you online. The types of information that people try to steal from you are : bank account numbers, social security numbers, addresses, your full name, and your drivers licences number.

Some of the following things can happen to you if your identity is stolen: accounts hacked, jail, money stolen, get in trouble with your parents, debt, and you could go bankrupt.

The five rules to protect yourself from scams can help from these things ever happening.

• Avoid opening the message or email in the first place if you know its a scam.
• Don't click on any links or download any attachments that may contain spyware or viruses.
• Don't reply to these messages or emails.
• Mark these types of messages or emails as junk mail or spam for your email provider, or report it to your social network site.
• If you are concerned about an account you have with a company, contact its customer service department by phone. Make sure you verify the companies information elsewhere online first.

This new information about how scamers try to steal your information online will hopefuly keep my information safe from scamers. It will help me be more careful online.

As always I am ready for a fun restful weekend as I am sure everyone is. Now all y'all viewers be safe online and use the information shared.

 'NTF_100405i - Solved; spoilers in 'machine tags''

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This photo was taken on April 14, 2010.

Data Tracking

This week in Ms. Payseurs class we learned about how people track your data online. We learned how people track your data through schemes and other types of ways. We also learned how to use this online scrapbook called Mixbook.

The new terms we learned this week were track, target, demographic, cookies. The first term we learned about was track. Tracking online is when companies collect information about you based on your online behavior. Another term we learned was target. A target is when companies tailor content to you based on the information they have collected about you. When you go on Google or some other kind of search engine it gives you suggestions this is the same thing. Demographic is common categories of the population such as age, gender, and race. Cookies are data files stores on your computer when you visit certain sites, which are often used companies to identify a repeat customer. They use these to personalize a customers experience.

This all tied in with our digital literacy component. The digital literacy component is why companies track your data and what they do with it. The reason companies track your data is because when they track it they can sell it for money.  A couple of main  ways you can avoid this are When you play a game online that you have to sign up for make sure you read the terns of use. Another main way you can avoid it is by changing your computer setting to restrict cookies.  Then after they collect your information and they sell it you may start to get a lot of spam on your E-mail and other types of things.

The next cool thing we leaned how to use was this website called Mixbook.  Basically  Mixbook is a online scrapbook. It lets you do almost anything you would want to do with a regular hard copy scrapbook. The best part about is it is free to make it just costs you to get it published. The positive things about this is it was pretty easy to use. It was kind of easy to navigate around the site  It was also easy to upload pictures. The negatives of this site were it was not very  easy to change the size of your text boxes. That was really the only main problem I had with it they could still try to make it easier to navigate around the site. This is the mixbook that I created to

The new information I have learned this week will help me keep my information safe from people that may be tracking me. For the most part this week has been pretty good. We are having a lot of fun in our brand new building. I am having a lot of fun with spirit week. Most of the teacher of been awesome. I am making good grades and have some pretty cool friends.

As always ready for a long restful weekend. Yall be good now ya here.

 'Henry hunting'

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 Photo was taken on December 29, 2009

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Current Event11/7/2012

Current events assignment

1. Topic:

       My topic is about how people were on twitter last night tweeting about the presidential election.

2. Article Title: America Tweeted Till Its Fingers Bled Last Night

3. Article Source:

America Tweeted Till Its Fingers Bled Last Night

4. Summary:

My article is about how so many people were on twitter last night.  It talks about how most of the posts were made by democrats.  It also talks about how the record was broken last night but record was beaten previous during the first presidential debate.

5. Reaction:.

I personally believe that people get to worked up over the presidential election. I think that people should not discuss things like this online. I feel that people should not talk about the election online because people can be offended. This event did not really affect me because I was not online discussing this event. It also does not affect me because I do not use twitter.

6. World Impact:

This event impacts the world because when people talk about things that can cause people to get into an argument over things such as the elections. It will give twitter a bad name also because of some of the things may do if they get mad. It could also cause twitter to lose users. It can also cause riots to brake out because things that happen online can cause people to do things out in the world. It can be very harmful to people because things that happen online can be seen by everybody and could cause people to lose their jobs. They can lose their jobs just because of what their political views might be or just the way they acted.

current event

Current events assignment

1. Topic:

• The topic of my article is about how hurricane Sandy has  knocked out 25% of cellphone towers in ten different states.

          

2. Article Title:

• FCC: Sandy Took Down 25% Of Cell Towers In 10 States

3. Article Source:

•  Hyperlink.

4. Summary

• My article is about how hurricane Sandy has  knocked out 25% of cellphone towers in ten different states.It is talking about how people think that Sandy's slow passing  is good but its not. It is going to make things even worse because it is going to take longer to get the power lines back up and the same thing for cellphone towers.

5. Reaction: 

          I agree with the article it is a bad thing that it is moving slowly. If it moves slower and lingers around these states then the repair crews cannot get out in the storm to repair the telephone lines and towers. If it hurry's and moves faster then they can go ahead and get out there and fix these things and restore the cellphone connections and house phone connections. I feel sorry for the people who had to live through this not because of just losing there cellphones but also there houses being flooded and all kinds of different things .This event does not really affect me  because I don't live near the coast and it did not really hit my city.

6. World Impact:

        I do not think this event impacts the entire world that much. It does impact the entire east coast of the United States. It may cause the phone bills of cellphone companies to raise their prices. They may do this because it costs a lot of money to repair these things. Then the raising of phone bills may cause people to drop there current plan and start looking for another company with cheaper prices.

Staying Real Online

This week in Ms. Payseurs class we learned about how to be true to yourself online. We also learned technology etiquette for when you are out in the world. It was a lot of fun in her class on how to use this really cool website called Glogster. We also learned some new terms that really helped me understand how to be yourself online.

The terms we learned this week are represent, persona, avatar, anonymous, and inhibited.  The word represented means how you present yourself to others.An example of this could be if you go to a fancy restaurant and you can either present yourself in a positive way or a negative way. The word persona means image you portray to others.  Sort of like a picture online. Avatar is a graphic that represents you online. It is a cartoon of mythical creature that represents you.Anonymous is a hidden identity. Sort of like an anonymous source on the news. Inhibited is careful about your actions or impulse. Kind of like when you were a little kid your mom always telling you to be careful about every little thing.

The next thing that we learned how to use was this really cool website called Glogster. Glogster is basically a photo blog. It was used by my 9th Grade class to make this glog about staying real online.
Some of the positives for this website were it was real easy to use. It was easy to upload pictures to the site also. It was laid out very good and was easy to navigate around the site. The Negative that I have mainly is that when resizing things it will not let you just make them shorter or longer you had to make the whole thing smaller. Those were the main problems I had with it. Otherwise it was a great site to use.


The next major thing I want to tell about is our digital literacy components learned this week.
The first thing we learned about was staying real and true to yourself online. This very important because it can hurt you and your future. It is important to be yourself online because if you are being fake and someone finds out who would believe you or trust you ever again. That is just a couple consequence but, there is many more consequences out there and don't explore them through experience. Stay true to yourself.

We also learned about technology etiquette. If you don't know what this is it is basically just regular  etiquette but, when you are on electronics. If someone calls you on your cellphone and you are in a movie theater. The wrong thing to do would be to answer the phone and carry on a conversation. The right thing to do would be to drop the call step out into the lobby and return the call. That is basically all technology etiquette is. We use this cool website called Digital Drivers License to learn this.

This new information I have learned will hopefully stay away from being fake online and also being respectful while using my electronics.

Overall My week has been pretty good. We got the exact move in date for when we can move into our new building. Iam ready for a happy restful weekend with my family.



Excited girl.

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                                                                          Photo was taken on June 19, 2010