Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Tuesday, February 24th
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.
1. The bar graph is the most commonly used graph in an infographic.
2. Sans Serif is the most commonly used font for infographics.
3. The average number of sections used in an infographic is 2.
4. The most popular base color for an infographic is white.
5. When connecting ideas, lines are more commonly used than arrows.
Monday, February 23, 2015
Monday, February 23rd
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!
Over the weekend, I spent time with friends and I went to Richmond, Missouri. On Friday, I went with some friends from choir to see FNL at school. The show was really funny and I enjoyed watching it! I spent most of Saturday hanging out with friends. We played videogames, pool, and ping pong. On Sunday, my family and I dove to Richmond and spent several hours there. We were looking through my grandma's attic and found her old record player. Then we played her old records for a while. After we left Richmond I led worship with my friend at Legacy Christian Church. We sang for our youth group, which has about 40 high school students in it. This weekend was much less busy than a normal weekend because I didn't have volleyball. Overall I had a very relaxed weekend.
Friday, February 20, 2015
Friday, February 20th
Blog Post of the Day:
If students were to only take classes that would prepare them for their life, they would need to know at a young age what they wanted to do as adults and stick with it. That way, their classes could be fit to their own needs. If a student wanted to be a musician, they would focus more on musical classes and not have to take geometry or European history. If a student knew they would be a mathematician, they would not be required to take musical theory or emerging technology. The schedules would be uniquely formed for each person as an individual. If this were the case in all school systems, the students would actually care about what they were learning and all of the information they were learning would be applicable to their future. If I were to be in this type of school system, I would take basic science classes like biology and anatomy, but I would also take a variety of musical classes such as choir and chamber singers because that is what I enjoy doing. That way I could study music, but also have the structural foundation of an actual classroom through science classes. We would spend class time listening to helpful lectures and doing hands-on experiments in the actual classroom, and in music classes we would sing and work on a lot of different pieces to widen our musical capabilities. These classes would be similar to the ones we have now, just used in a much more helpful way.
If students were to only take classes that would prepare them for their life, they would need to know at a young age what they wanted to do as adults and stick with it. That way, their classes could be fit to their own needs. If a student wanted to be a musician, they would focus more on musical classes and not have to take geometry or European history. If a student knew they would be a mathematician, they would not be required to take musical theory or emerging technology. The schedules would be uniquely formed for each person as an individual. If this were the case in all school systems, the students would actually care about what they were learning and all of the information they were learning would be applicable to their future. If I were to be in this type of school system, I would take basic science classes like biology and anatomy, but I would also take a variety of musical classes such as choir and chamber singers because that is what I enjoy doing. That way I could study music, but also have the structural foundation of an actual classroom through science classes. We would spend class time listening to helpful lectures and doing hands-on experiments in the actual classroom, and in music classes we would sing and work on a lot of different pieces to widen our musical capabilities. These classes would be similar to the ones we have now, just used in a much more helpful way.
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Wednesday, February 18th
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: pasta
Foods I'd like to avoid: sushi, spinach
My favorite things to learn: singing, performing arts
My favorite color: light blue
My best friends are: Lydia, Natalie, Audrey, Kailey, Kelsey, etc.
My favorite games to play: Apples to Apples, Life
My favorite books: The Fault in our Stars, The Hunger Games
My favorite movies or TV shows: A Walk to Remember, American Idol, The X Factor,The Voice
My favorite holiday: Christmas
Things I do well: sing, perform
Things I need to practice more: math, writing
My favorite place to go: farms or country roads
My favorite family activities: boating, camping, going to the lake
My favorite thing to do outside: camp
My favorite chore: cleaning my room
My least favorite chore: cleaning the bathroom
What I want to be when I grow up: not a clue
A place I want to visit: Paris, France
My favorite part of the year: Summer
My favorite part of each day: sunset
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: pasta
Foods I'd like to avoid: sushi, spinach
My favorite things to learn: singing, performing arts
My favorite color: light blue
My best friends are: Lydia, Natalie, Audrey, Kailey, Kelsey, etc.
My favorite games to play: Apples to Apples, Life
My favorite books: The Fault in our Stars, The Hunger Games
My favorite movies or TV shows: A Walk to Remember, American Idol, The X Factor,The Voice
My favorite holiday: Christmas
Things I do well: sing, perform
Things I need to practice more: math, writing
My favorite place to go: farms or country roads
My favorite family activities: boating, camping, going to the lake
My favorite thing to do outside: camp
My favorite chore: cleaning my room
My least favorite chore: cleaning the bathroom
What I want to be when I grow up: not a clue
A place I want to visit: Paris, France
My favorite part of the year: Summer
My favorite part of each day: sunset
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Tuesday, February 17th
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?
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?
This cartoon is trying to say that in comparison to other students across the world, students in the USA have difficulty focusing on one task and get easily distracted when it comes to studying. This cartoon shows students from China and India that are fully engaged in their studies, but are distracted by the USA student. This could also be trying to say that the USA is distracting to other countries and that we are the problem. I agree that some students in the USA get distracted when it comes to studying and that we are often multitasking instead of focusing on one task, but not all USA students are like this and there are some students from other countries that do the same. From my perspective, the cartoon is designed as an insult to students of the United States, and it is showing how we can't focus on anything. From a teacher's perspective, this cartoon is an insult to the teachers of the United States. It is saying that while other countries can control their students and make them learn, the USA teachers let students get away with too much and the students suffer the consequences.
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Tuesday, February 10th
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 saying that if you have a smaller task to work on, you can focus on it more than if you had a lot of different tasks to complete. I could apply this to my life by choosing to focus on one thing at a time and put all my focus into it, then moving on to the next task. I could apply this to my school work by working on one subject at a time instead of trying to do all my homework at the same time. I think that if we completed smaller tasks in this class then we could focus a lot more on the task, and not have to worry about how much we have to do. We could spend more time perfecting the task instead of rushing through it because of the little amount of time we have. This is a helpful quote to remember in a lot of aspect of my life.
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 saying that if you have a smaller task to work on, you can focus on it more than if you had a lot of different tasks to complete. I could apply this to my life by choosing to focus on one thing at a time and put all my focus into it, then moving on to the next task. I could apply this to my school work by working on one subject at a time instead of trying to do all my homework at the same time. I think that if we completed smaller tasks in this class then we could focus a lot more on the task, and not have to worry about how much we have to do. We could spend more time perfecting the task instead of rushing through it because of the little amount of time we have. This is a helpful quote to remember in a lot of aspect of my life.
Monday, February 9, 2015
Monday, February 9th
Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me all about your weekend! I sure hope you have photos to share.
Tell me all about your weekend! I sure hope you have photos to share.
Over the weekend, the school musical, 42nd Street closed. We had a show on Thursday, Friday, and two on Saturday. I had a lot of my friends come watch the show also. My weekend was exhausting because I stayed at school until at least midnight every night of the show. After a late night of striking the stage on Saturday, I had an early volleyball tournament at 6:00 AM on Sunday. This weekend was one of the most fun weekends, but it was very tiring.
Friday, February 6, 2015
Wednesday, February 4th
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.
On January 31st, I went to the sweetheart dance with a couple really good friends. My best friend Lydia and I asked two guys from our youth group and we had a blast. We went to dinner at Red Door Grill so dinner wouldn't be too fancy, then we went to the dance at Blue Valley High School. after we left the dance, we decided we wanted to go bowling and laser tagging. We didn't really want to change so we just went bowling in our dresses and suits. It was a really fun weekend and one that I will never forget!
Monday, February 2, 2015
Monday, February 2nd
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.
Email is a messaging system that people use online. It is often used to communicate more professionally to people at work. People my age use email mainly to communicate with teachers and receive special offers from stores. Businesses can send coupons or deals to people that subscribe to them. People often have email accounts so cluttered with coupons and deals that they can't be used to talk to actual people. Email etiquette is often referring to the language you use while talking to people via email. I know that you should speak professionally with greetings and proper grammar if you are emailing a coworker or teacher.
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