Thursday, February 26, 2015
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Tuesday February 24th, 2015
Blog Post of the Day:
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.
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.
- Have relevant, timely, and accurate data
- Choose a color scheme and stick with it
- Make it in an interesting topic
- Keep the design interesting to keep the reader entertained
- Develop a theme to stay consistent
Monday, February 23, 2015
Monday February 23rd 2015
Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me about your weekend. Give me a story, something funny that happened, an experiencing you had, the way you felt, etc. Include photos!
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 was very.... interesting. First off I had a three day weekend because I was participating in the Kansas 6A State Swim meet in Topeka Kansas. Our team left for the meet at 6:30 on Friday morning, we took two school vans to the meet. After we swam on Friday, where I did horribly, we found out that our coach decided to book hotel rooms for us; however, we were not told about it before-hand so we had to go back to the school so that we could gather our own things. We then returned to Topeka to stay at the Day's Inn Topeka hotel. After four and a half hours in the school vans we arrived in the questionably sanitary hotel room that smelled like smoke. We all swim pretty poorly on Saturday but we still got 8th place at the meet. On Saturday night we held a gathering of some swim team people! We had a lot of fun! Sunday was spent working on homework and going into my job at Lionsgate Pet Hospital.
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| My friend Tillston in the school van! |
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| Me and my pals at our swim team gathering! |
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Friday February 20th 2015
Blog Post of the Day!
A perfect curriculum is one that lets students learn at their own pace. It allows each and every student to have an education tailored to their own needs and interests. If a person is very interested in science; then they should pursue science courses, and not be stuck in 4 years of English that they don't need. Obviously some form of general education is required so that everyone knows how to read and write, but there should be more specialized classes available to students that wish to push themselves. These classes would be called LifeClass, they would be for students that are interested in a specific type of education and it would be very tailored. It would be much different that classes today where students are only focused on getting credits and credits and not learning things that actually matter to them.
A perfect curriculum is one that lets students learn at their own pace. It allows each and every student to have an education tailored to their own needs and interests. If a person is very interested in science; then they should pursue science courses, and not be stuck in 4 years of English that they don't need. Obviously some form of general education is required so that everyone knows how to read and write, but there should be more specialized classes available to students that wish to push themselves. These classes would be called LifeClass, they would be for students that are interested in a specific type of education and it would be very tailored. It would be much different that classes today where students are only focused on getting credits and credits and not learning things that actually matter to them.
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Thursday February 19th 2015
Blog Post of the Day:
Copy and past these over to your blog and tell me a little about yourself. If you have a picture or two that might represent one of your answers make sure to include it.
My favorite food: IHOP Pancakes
Foods I'd like to avoid: Onions
My favorite things to learn: Mathematics
My favorite color: Orange
My best friends are: Jack Weber, Grant Daugherty, @relatableposts
My favorite games to play: Swimming
My favorite books: Harry Potter Series
My favorite movies or TV shows: Harry Potter Series
My favorite holiday: 4th of July
Things I do well: Listen to others
Things I need to practice more: Working Hard
My favorite place to go: My Bed <3
My favorite family activities: Family Dinners
My favorite thing to do outside: Bonfires
My favorite chore: Folding Laundry
My least favorite chore: Cleaning Cats Litterbox
What I want to be when I grow up: A Veterinarian
A place I want to visit: Italy
My favorite part of the year: Spring
My favorite part of each day: Winter
Copy and past these over to your blog and tell me a little about yourself. If you have a picture or two that might represent one of your answers make sure to include it.
My favorite food: IHOP Pancakes
Foods I'd like to avoid: Onions
My favorite things to learn: Mathematics
My favorite color: Orange
My best friends are: Jack Weber, Grant Daugherty, @relatableposts
My favorite games to play: Swimming
My favorite books: Harry Potter Series
My favorite movies or TV shows: Harry Potter Series
My favorite holiday: 4th of July
Things I do well: Listen to others
Things I need to practice more: Working Hard
My favorite place to go: My Bed <3
My favorite family activities: Family Dinners
My favorite thing to do outside: Bonfires
My favorite chore: Folding Laundry
My least favorite chore: Cleaning Cats Litterbox
What I want to be when I grow up: A Veterinarian
A place I want to visit: Italy
My favorite part of the year: Spring
My favorite part of each day: Winter
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Tuesday February 17th 2015
Blog Post of the Day:
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 believe that this cartoon is trying to inform the viewers that other countries, specifically India and China, are more focused on subjects like math and science than the United States. I don't exactly disagree or agree with this cartoon; it portrays the youth of China and India are not having full youth experiences, while students in the United States are more concerned with material goods and having a good time. From the perspective of a person who analyses data from test scores would say that this is accurate because other nations have higher academic standards than we do. My perspective is that of a teenager in the United States; however, I focus a lot of my time of my education. A teacher or educatior in the United States would say that we work just as hard to get educations, but an educator in China or India would say that we slack off all of the time.
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 believe that this cartoon is trying to inform the viewers that other countries, specifically India and China, are more focused on subjects like math and science than the United States. I don't exactly disagree or agree with this cartoon; it portrays the youth of China and India are not having full youth experiences, while students in the United States are more concerned with material goods and having a good time. From the perspective of a person who analyses data from test scores would say that this is accurate because other nations have higher academic standards than we do. My perspective is that of a teenager in the United States; however, I focus a lot of my time of my education. A teacher or educatior in the United States would say that we work just as hard to get educations, but an educator in China or India would say that we slack off all of the time.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Tuesday February 10th 2015
Blog Post of the Day:
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 quote is very relevant because it is a philosophy that I embrace. It means that we could be doing more less, but because we are doing less we would need to be more focused when we are doing your work. This applies to my life because we are given an obscene amount of work to do in High School, but if we were trusted to spend our time wisely and be more focused, then we would do less. In school work, if teachers wanted to give us less work, and homework to work on, but with more focus, then we could do more, by technically doing less. I think that in particular in this class, because the work load is not very heavy, it would not be very good to give students less in return for more focus because the minimal amount of work would people would think of this class as a blow-off. I think that for me it might work, and might be benefitial, but for some people, it would not work for them.
Monday, February 9, 2015
Monday February 9th 2015
Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me all about your weekend! I sure hope you have photos to share.
Wow what a fantastic weekend! I did so many amazing things! On Friday I had EKL prelims swim meet, I was sick all weak so I did not do as well as I had hoped for but still made it back to the next day! After the meet on Friday we, as a team, went to SmashBurger for some grub! On Saturday, I had to be at BVNW for my swim meet by 11:00. I swam well on the second day and got 9th place in the 500 free. Our team got 3rd place all together! We had a lot of good swims and we are looking forward to state on February 20th and 21st!
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Friday, February 6, 2015
Friday January 6th 2015
Blog Post of the Day:
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?
I have learned so many interesting things during my research into my global issue. My topic, Oil prices, is a vastly changing field. I have learned that the more countries like Saudi Arabia produce oil, the lower the prices of oil. Also the price of oil is dependent on the fracking industry in the United States. The global industry of oil is interdependent on each other and relies deeply on the impact of other nations. The shale and fracking industry in the United States will take a hit with the lower gas prices, as it is an expensive extraction method.
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Thursday, February 5, 2015
Thursday January 5th 2015
Blog Post of the Day:
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.
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! Ahhh what an amazing time! I had so much fun with all of my friends. First off my date, Lucy Hall, and I were very unprepared for this dance - we did not even match flowers for the corsage and boutonnieres. We took pictures with our entire group, there were 28 of us total. Then we took a party bus to Carmens Cafe in Brookside, at dinner I ordered chicken Parmesan and a Coke. We however did not go to the actual Sweetheart dance :( but we did then go to our friend Anna's house for our after gathering. The night ended promptly at 12:00 when everyone left and went home for a good nights sleep!
Monday, February 2, 2015
Monday January 2nd 2015
Blog Post of the Day:
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.
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.
An email is an electric form of communication. It replaced traditional mail, and is sent over the internet. Email is used every day by millions of people, it's uses have no limit. I use email every day to communicate with other students, and also to send myself things that I know I will need in the future. I also need my email because I have lots of subscriptions on it and need to keep up with the things that are being sent my way. People use email to connect with their employees or bosses, to share information or projects, to get people to buy things, and many other things. What I know about email etiquette is that when you are emailing different people you need to use different language and formatting and it is important to come across as professional.
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