Friday, March 8, 2013
Thursday, February 28, 2013
The Bahamas Project
I enjoyed this project because I like doing powerpoints. I had a very beautiful country and I thought it was cool to look at all the places to visit. I don't like having to present though. But besides that, I don't mind doing research projects because I always learn something new and interesting.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Stevie Wonder
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Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
Many
people know Stevie Wonder just as a singer, but he is actually also a composer, instrumentalist, and humanitarian. He was born on May 13th, 1950, in Saginaw, MI as “Steveland Hardaway Judkins.” He was born 2 months premature, so he was placed in an incubator for
life support.
But because of too much oxygen in the incubator, he developed Retinopathy of
Prematurity,
(blindness). He grew up with five brothers and
one sister, but
one brother died later on. He was known as a child prodigy, because at age 11 he was known as
Little Stevie Wonder and had a record deal with Motown for all of 1960. At age 13, he had his first number one hit, and is still the youngest person to ever top the
charts. Even though he worked hard on his
music, he still managed
to graduate from Michigan School for the Blind. Although he had much success with Motown, at age 21 he broke away from Motown and demanded full
artistic control for creating and producing his own music. Even after doing that, he still produced many more successful albums that
everyone considered “ground-breaking achievements”. In 1972, at the age of 22, he was the first African American to win a Grammy for the best album of
the year.
This continued for 3 consecutive albums. But on August 6th, 1973, something horrific happened.
Stevie Wonder got into a car accident, which put him in a coma for 10 days. He eventually recovered, but many people were worried. 3 years later, he teamed up with Paul McCartney for
another number one single, “Ebony and Ivory”. All of these number one hits have
led him to win 24 Grammys, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement award in 1996. But his biggest achievement of all was when he was inducted
into the Rock and Roll hall of fame in 1989, and the youngest solo artist to do so. Later on in 2009, Wonder was awarded the Gershwin Prize for Popular
Music by the US Library of Congress. This
award was presenting to him at the White House by President Obama. He was also awarded the Kennedy Center Honor at a different
time. Currently, Stevie Wonder is still well-known. He serves as a United Nations Messenger of Peace, and he won the rights to publish
copyrighted works into formats that make visually impaired people throughout
the world able to read. Thank you for listening.
Friday, January 25, 2013
Flickr & Fair Use Policy
Having a site like Flickr is good because of it's public domain. Anyone can use the pictures in the public domain, free of cost. The copyright law is no longer in effect for the pictures in the public domain. You could use the pictures in a magazine, book, or whatever you wanted without having to worry about contacting the photographer and possibly paying just to use the picture. There is also a fair use policy for things not in the public domain. It is usually the 10% rule, which mean you can only use 10% of most text and data. You can use up to 10%, but no more than 1000 words of
essays, articles, or stories, of a single copyrighted work.
You may use 10% of data from a database, but no more than
2500 fields. You may use up to 10%, but no more than 3
minutes, of a single movie, TV show, or video. You may use of to 10%, but no more than 30
seconds of music You may use a single photograph/illustration.
You may not use more than 5 images from a single artist or photographer. You
may use up to 10%, but no more than 15 images from a publication.
Friday, January 18, 2013
Reflection
Over the past few weeks, we have been learning about online safety, ID theft, and cyberbullying. It is important to follow online safety rules so that ID theft and cyberbullying doesn't happen to you. ID theft and cyberbullying are both against the law. ID theft is when someone gets your social security number, credit card number, or other private information and acts as if they were you. Cyberbullying is when someone harasses someone else over the internet. Tips to stop ID theft are shredding all important papers, and don't give out your information to unsecured websites. Tips to stop cyberbullying are: don't retaliate, report it, and block them. You can follow all of these tips by using online safety, also known as netiquette. Some netiquette rules are: follow the same standard of behavior online as
you do in real life,know where you are in cyberspace, respect other people’s time and bandwidth, make yourself look good online, share your knowledge, help keep flame wars under control, respect other people’s privacy, don’t abuse your power, and be forgiving of other people’s mistakes.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
RSS Feed
What does RSS stand for? Really Simple
Syndication
How does it Work? You get a reader (ex. Google
Reader) and subscribe to blogs or news sites.
What are 2 benefits to using one? You don’t
constantly have to check every single website, and you only have to subscribe
once.
Compare and contrast “RSS Feeds”, “Feed Reader”,
or “Aggregator”? RSS feeds is the news you already subscribed to, and the feed
reader is what you used to read it, and the aggregator is how it works.
What Google product is an RSS Feed? Google
Reader
What do you need in order to sign up for an RSS
feed? An account on iGoogle, or other reader site.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
New Technology
After a man got tired of having to make his bed every morning, he decided to create something so the bed could make itself. Sensors under the mattress detect when the sleeper gets up, and a few seconds later, the robotic arms open.
The arms secure cords along each side of the comforter between two rollers, then move forward, pulling the comforter up. As this is happening, cords attached to the pillowcases straighten them. Trays holding the pillows then lift, allowing the comforter to pass below them.
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-09/bed-makes-itself
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Christmas Break
Over Christmas break I went to church on Christmas Eve, then i went out to eat with my whole family (aunt, grandma, grandpa, etc.) to Golden Corral. Then the next morning,My brother, sister, and I opened presents from "Santa". Then more of my family came over, and we all opened presents from each other. Then we had egg casserole and biscuits and gravy for breakfast. After that,we got more food ready for the rest of my family to come over, and we all had dinner together. The rest of my break consisted of basketball practice, except when i spend the night at my best friends house on New Year's Eve.
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