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

Current Event 10/23/12

1. Topic:

The topic of my article is how they have discovered a new way to protect passwords and user names on websites and other online services.

2. Article Title:

             To Keep Passwords Safe from Hackers, Just Break Them into Bits

3. Article Source: 

• Where did you get the article? Hyperlink it.

          

4. Summary:

The article is about a new system that lets online services and websites protect peoples passwords. What it does is it separates the information into two different locations.

This way if a hacker does try to steal the information he has to break into two different systems. This way it is protecting the information better.

5. Reaction:

  I feel that this is a great new thing because it will keep peoples information safer. I think this is a great achievement for the people of the creating program.

It will keep my information safer from people online because someone had broke into my account from Japan. This will hopefully keep this from ever happening again. I believe that hackers will figure away around this system.

6. World Impact:

 This event will impact the world in a good way. It will keep peoples information a lot safer.  It will hopefully keep cut down on some of the robbery's that are done electronically.

This will change how hackers  have to break into information therefore making criminals a lot smarter. This will also make it easier for police or other law enforcement to catch these hackers.

Cyberbullying

This week some of the new terms we learned about were cyber-bullying. The terms we learned for this horrible thing is the type of people involved in it. The first term we learned about was the target. The target is the victim of the bullying.

 Another term we learned about was the offender. The offender is the bully. If someone is trying to harm you or hurt you physically or verbally they are considered a bully.

The next two terms are up-stander and bystander. An up-stander is someone who takes up for the victim. The bystander is a witness who does nothing to help the victim in anyway.

The last two terms we learned about this week was escalate and deescalate. Escalate is to intensify or increase. Deescalate is to decrease in intensity.

A way for the target to not make the situation between you and the bully more intense you could ignore them. If it is on a social media site you could block or even report them. You could even confront them about it and just ask them to stop.

 Cyber-bullying is our digital literacy component for the week. Most people do not know what this is and do not know this is a growing problem not just in the United States but all over the world.

 Cyber-bullying is the exact same thing as bullying in person except worse.
When you cyber-bully, it is online for everyone in the world who wants to see. It is also there forever.  So, this is very bad for our children of the world. It is bad for every one in the world to see because it could lead to the point were everybody gets in on it and could make you do something you would regret. This is also not good because when it is out on the internet it could cause you problems in the future. It is bad for the children of our world because it can leave scars on there life

 If you are a bully or just a bystander, stop bullying and for the bystanders and the bully become an up-stander.  Our teacher had us make this video on how to go from being a bystander to an upstander.

She showed us this really cool site called WeVideo.com. It is this website that allows you to make and edit videos.

The negative aspect of this website is it is very complicated to use if you are not very good with computers.
The positive aspect of this tool is it can be used to teach people about things, entertain people, or let people know about important topics or events.

This will help me make better decisions in my life because we have seen things that kids have done through cyberbullying and I do not want to be apart of it. I will start treating people better online and off. This will hopefully change my life and point it in a better direction.

Overall my week has been fantastic and could have probably not went any better. I have learned alot from my teachers. I am liking the Gaston Early College Program alot and Hopefully going to graduate from this magnificent school.

Always I am ready for a good restful weekend.

 Tiger resting

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photo taken January 10, 2009

Sexting

This week in Mrs. Payseurs class we learned some new terms that I really did not know much about.
The term that really stuck  out to me was Sexting. This is when you either request or send a nude picture of yourself or someone else. This is really a bad thing the way my morale's are set.

The other two terms that I did not really know about were reciprocate, and self disclosure. Reciprocate means to give in return, and self disclosure is sharing private, sensitive, or confidential information about yourself to other people. 


Don't ever sext anyone because it could hurt you in your life in the present and in the future. Just one example is if you have sent a sext and it gets out there for everyone to see you could get teased about this and possibly leads you to the point where you commit suicide.

This has happened before and probably not be the last if this does not stop.

 The new web tool we learned how to use this week was makebeleifscomix.com.  
We had to build a comic on a way to avoid Sexting and one on how to build a stronger relationship online. This is what I come up with so I hope you enjoy it.

How to build a relationship online

How to Avoid Sexting

A good thing about this is it is a great way to be simple and get a point across about something. On the other hand it does not have very many features that lets you create your own comic the way you want.

 It only has about twenty characters to choose from therefore making anybody who uses this website like someone else comic.  

The  Digital literacy we learned about this week is health and wellness. It taught us to not text and drive which know one in the world should do. 

We watched videos on how people text and drive that have killed young children an older adults and it made me have sorrow in my heart. So please do not text or talk on your cellphones while driving.

This new information I have learned this week will help me stay safe while I am driving  and hopefully keep my parents, and family safe also.

Overall my week has been very good it flew buy so fast I guess this what happens when you are having fun with your friends. Unlike the other Grammar test this week I did way better with it and it was without notes.  I had a little trouble with geometry this week but I worked it out with my teacher.

As always I am ready for a good restful weekend to regain some thought and just have a little fun.  I am so excited about this weekend with my wonderful but annoying family.

very excited puppy
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February 1, 2009

current event 10/10/12

Current events assignment

1.Topic:

          The topic of my article is talking about the price of the new Iphone5.

2. Article Title:

        The iPhone 5 really costs you $1800     

3. Article Source:

• Where did you get the article? Hyperlink it.

4. Summary:

This article is talking about the price of the new iPhone 5. It describes in detail how much the phone is and what you are actually paying for.

The majority of the cost comes from the service that you have to buy. Also in the article it talks about  how you have to buy new accessories because the old ones will not work.

 You have to get new cases if you want them, a new charger, then there is still money to spent on apps. The minimum for this with the cheapest  service is easily $1800.

5. Reaction:

       

This is not really good for the customers point because this is a lot of money just for a high quality phone that is almost identical to the iPhone 4. I feel like if the service was not as expensive then some people might to be able to afford it.

 To me though I'm happy with my $30 dollar Tracfone. It may not be fancy but it gets the job done. It does not affect me much in any way because I can not afford it.

 It also does not affect me because I do not need a phone of this quality.

         

6. World Impact:

I do not think this will affect the world very much because it is so expensive. If some people have this kind of money to spend then it could help the economy of the U.S  extremely.

 This technological device is another small step for technology.  This will affect the world  because it is another step to making everything electronic.

 This will also impact the world because the increase in technology every time is making another great tool for the people of the world.