February 24, 2015

Use the internet to find an infographic about infographics. Place it in to your blog post. Read it and then give me the top 5 things you learned from it that will help you make a better infographic

1. Info graphics make things 67% more interesting and get the readers attention much better. 

2.  Info graphics make you seem 44% more appealing

3. Make you seem 18% more knowledgeable about your topic. 

4. Anything presented will seem 53% more dynamic.

5. Info graphics make you 32% more relevant. 

February 23, 2015

Tell me about your weekend. Give me a story, something funny that happened, an experiencing you had, the way you felt, etc. Include photos!

This weekend i did not do much. Friday night i had some friends over to sleepover and we just hung out around the house. Saturday I went down to the farm and hunted with my friends and a turkey popped out of the trees and scared us so bad. We tried to shoot it but we couldn't because it flew away. We came back to my house and showered and got changed and then went over to a friends house and came home around 12:30. Sunday i had a rec basketball game and we won by 10 points. I went home and did homework, made dinner and went to bed. 

February 20, 2015

If school had a perfect curriculum it would be classes that prepared everyone for the outside world. Every kid would graduate and all kids would learn about things that will help them in the outside world. The title of the courses would be titled the things that you want your occupation after high school and college to be. You would study about the occupation you want to achieve and work to get better at that occupation every day. You would spend your class time working out problems and learning how to solve real life problems that may occur in that occupation. The ones we have now teach us stuff that we may never ever use again and these courses could actually prepare us for the outside world.

February 18, 2015

My favorite food: Steak
Foods I'd like to avoid:Vegetables
My favorite things to learn:Baseball
My favorite color:Pink
My best friends are:Blake Lillis, Grant Burns
My favorite games to play:Baseball and Basketball
My favorite books:Twelve Mighty Orphans
My favorite movies or TV shows:Lone Survivor and Criminal Minds
My favorite holiday:Christmas or The Fourth of July
Things I do well:Sports
Things I need to practice more:Studying and Chemistry
My favorite place to go:The Beach
My favorite family activities:Going to the movies, or watching Tv
My favorite thing to do outside:Play Sports or go swimming
My favorite chore:Dishes
My least favorite chore:Laundry
What I want to be when I grow up:Professional Baseball Player
A place I want to visit:France
My favorite part of the year:Summer
My favorite part of each day:When the bell rings at the end of the day

February 17, 2015

Tell me what you believe this cartoon is trying to say. Do you agree or disagree with this idea? Try and look at this from two different perspectives. What is your perspective? What would be an adult/teacher's perspective?

I think this cartoon is trying to tell us that other countries are more sophisticated than the United States. It is saying that the US is to caught up in technology and not enough in math and science. A teachers perspective may be that people in China and India study while kids in the US play on their phones. But my perspective is that people around the world are more sophisticated than the USA.

February 10, 2015

Think about the quote above. What does this mean to you? How could this apply to your life? How could this apply to your school work? I would love to give you less work in class if it meant you were going to focus harder on the work. Do you think you would get more out of it? Would that work for you? Why or why not?

This means that you should work or do less things but you should do those things to the best of your ability instead of doing a lot of things with less effort. This could apply to my life in baseball. I only play one sport instead of 2-3 so that i can focus more on the one that means the most to me. This could apply to school work by getting less done but making sure that you do it perfect and the best that you can instead of doing a lot of things at once with just half the effort. I think if i got less work it would benefit me a lot more. I believe this because than i could devote all my time to just those certain few things and not feel rushed and pressured. I think the quality of my work would be much better because i could spend my time focused on one thing not four things at once. 

February 9, 2015

Tell me all about your weekend! I sure hope you have photos to share.

On Friday I had some friends over to my dads and we just hung out there and watched movies and stuff like that. I fell asleep pretty early and had a friend stay the night also. Saturday I got up early and I went to breakfast. I hung out with my friend and we went and worked out and than showered and went to see american sniper. The movie got over at 12:45 so I took all my friends home and I went back home. Sunday was very busy, I got up early and went coyote hunting. Next I went and hit up at Blue Valley West outside on the field. I had a rec game at 6:30 and I scored 22 points. I came home and ate and we rented a movie called the equalizer and I fell asleep half way through. It was a pretty fun weekend overall.

This is a picture of the movie screen while seeing American Sniper

February 6, 2015

Tell me about some interesting things you have learned about your global issue so far. What have you learned that you didn't know before? Include a couple images from the internet if possible. (Make sure to cite images that are not your own.)

I have learned that "Tobacco smoke is a mixture of gases and particles. It contains more than 7,000 chemical compounds. More than 250 of these chemicals are known to be harmful, and at least 69 are known to cause cancer.” Second hand smoke is just as bad for a person around the smoker who is not actually smoking. Tobacco can cause cancer and even death.

http://utopianist.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/smoking-cause-cancer-us-label.jpg

http://www.changingstates.co.uk/images/smoking-packs-new/fatal-lung-cancer.jpg

February 5, 2015

You haven't had a chance to tell me about your Sweetheart weekend yet - tell me about it now! Include photos if you have them. Even if you just laid around on the couch and watched Netflix, tell me all about it.

Sweetheart weekend was actually pretty boring. Friday night I had some friends over that went to Saint Thomas Aquinas and we just hung out and got in the hot tub, and went to eat later that night and then came back and they left around 12:30. Saturday I went to lifetime and played basketball and worked out and did not go to sweetheart. I had a baseball meeting from 4-6 and then the same friends came over Saturday night but didn't leave till a little later this time. Sunday i woke up around 2 watched the Super Bowl and then got in trouble so i went to bed. Lastly i got up Monday morning and came to lovely Blue Valley.

February 2, 2015

What is email? When do you use email in your own personal life? List reasons and ways that people use email. What do you know about "email etiquette"? EXPLAIN.

Email is a way to interact with friends, family, businesses, teachers, etc. you can email and get in touch with anyone you want as long as you have there email address. I only use email when i need to get in contact with teachers or to retrieve passwords that I forgot. People use email to get in contact with family/friends,get in contact with businesses, or even negotiate about buying/selling an item. I know that when writing an email it is proper to  have a hello and a goodbye as well as typing out and not abbreviating.