Blog Post 12/21

Tour the White House through Google Cardboard VR

The white house published on their YouTube account a 360 virtual tour and if you have Google VR you will enjoy it more. You can still watch the video even if you don’t have Google Cardboard of course. If it’s in VR mode through your headset all you need to do is choose the cardboard icon from the YouTube app, put your smartphone into a Google Cardboard viewer. Choose the highest video setting, either 720 or 1080 so you can fully enjoy the video. You can get this through Google stores.

Click here for the video

1. 1. What's another way you can organize and store information on your computers?
2. You can make floders on your computer.
3. 2. What have you learned from researching the above topics? What do you know now about those current events that you didn’t know before?
4. I learned about bullying laws that I didn't know about before and I learned more about Isis and terrorist attacks.
5. 3. What are other social bookmarking apps/websites?
6. You can bookmark news websities.
7. 4. Will you continue to use social bookmarking?
8. No

Do Now: 12/14

If I were chosen to wear a invisible cloak  for 1 day I would do a lot. I would try to stop bad things from happening. I would do these deeds when people don't know its me. I would try to stop people from getting hurt and doing bad things. I would help someone out if it looks like they are a hard time. I will stop people from doing bad things.

If I can do these things it can pervent people from doing bad things, getting hurt and stop bad things from happening. I will help anyone that looks like they really need help. If I see a teenager about to do somethings that might not be a good idea I will try to stop them. If I see someone about to do a bad thing like stealing something, someone about to get hurt or something even worse I will stop it from happening.

Do Now 12/7

  The class that I would be adding to this school is fashion design. You can take this class from freshman to senior year. This class will be at second, fourh and last period everyday. In this class students will learn how to design and make their own things. They will be learning how to use a sewing machine if they do not know how to already.They will be making pattern making, drawings, and more.
   In this class to show if students ar learning or not the students will get a assignment explaing what they learned tha5 week. Students will also be given tests every once in awhile. Students will also be presenting everything they make. In this class students will watch videos that we have made showing how to do things. The teacher for this class is always willing to help anyone. At the end of the year we will have a fashion show of your best work from this class.

12/11

Amazon Drones

• Amazon built a "hybrid" drone
• Backyards will be key for Amazon Prime Air
• Amazon sticks with a different approach than Goggle
• Its going to be a lot faster than your local delivery truck
• Its a bigger drone

Click here for more!

Questions

1. Why did you select the sites you subscribed to? 
2. I picked make up and clothing sites because it's something I'd go on and look at a lot. 
3. Was it easy to find feeds and to subscribe to them? 
4. Yes it was easy. 
5. Which sites were your favorites? 
6. The DD and clothing sites were my favorite 
7. What else can you use RSS feeds for? 
8. I would use them for easier access for information 
9. How likely are you to continue to use RSS feeds in the future? 
10. Not likely. 

Do Now 11/30

One person that I am thankful for is my Mom. I am very thankful for my Mom because she always does everything for me. She buys be things, puts up with me and does a lot more for me. She's always is getting me the things I want and she always trys her best to make me happy. She's always there for me and she always is there is help me with anything. I am very thanful for her.

 Another person that I am reallyt thankful for is my Dad. My dad is always helping me with my homework when I need help. He's always there for me. He is always nice to me even if I am sometimes mean to him. He's always going out of his way for me.My dad is always giving my money when I go out with my friends and he always buys me things. He also always buys me my favorite foods. I am very thankful for my Dad.

 I am also really thankful for my grandparents. My grandparents always go out of their way to make me and my sisters happy. They are letting my older sister move in with them and I am thankful for them to let her move in. My grandparents are always buying me things. They always get me little things that they find around stores or if they find something they know I like they get it for me. They are always driving me around to go shopping, to go eat with them or even from Moonachie to WR. They are always there for me no matter what and I am really thankful for them.

11/20

                                             Apple Watch Charging dock

• New Apple Charging dock is going for $79
• You plug the whole dock into a wall charger 
• You plug it into the wall with using the lightning cable that it comes with
  
• You can place your watch flat on top of the dock with the band undone
• Warp the watch around it to charge
• It charges in Nightstand mode
• Charging disc built in

Click here for more!

W-R Wikipedia Page Findings

1. The principal Dr. Sue DeNobile isn't the principal anymore Mr. Petrocelli is now the principal
2. It says Wood-Ridge High school when it's Wood-Ridge Jr/Senior High School
3.There is no longer gold as a sport
4.There is no longer tennis as a sport
5.There is no cross country as a sport
6. The Wood-Ridge Student Handbook link doesn't work
7. The Wood-Ridge Junior Wrestling  link doesn't work
8. The number of students is out dated
9. Misisng the administraton members 

Do now 11/9

    This 4 day weekend I didn't do anything that fun. One night I went out with my friends and got pizza. We also hungout after that. On this break I watched a movie with my family and hungout with my sisters. On this break I watched Netflix alot and did homework. This break felt really long for me.

 I slept a lot on this break. One night my sister had all her friends over and had a bon fire. I had my two friends over and one slept over that night. I ate a lot of pizza on this break and spent a lot of time watching movies and sleeping. I also babysat my sisters friends daughter on Thursday which is always a lot of fun. This is what I did on this break,

Technology Article11/4

                          

Emoji Keyboard 

• On a Mac or PC they are further from each other
• Your keys are regular until you press the "emoji" modifier
• The keyboard requires you to install software to make it work
• The standard edition has 47 emoji's, the Plus has 94 and the Pro has 120
• The latter two have emoji shift keys that let you choose the emoji
• The standard 47 emoji model will go for $80, the 94 emoji Plus will go for $90 and the 120 emoji Pro is $100

Click here for more!

Educational Technology and Copyright Law

What I learned

• Copyright is a United States federal law that protects original “works of authorship” 
• Scholarship or research, is not an infringement of copyright
• Its important to know that copyright laws are on the books to encourage the creation of content

10/30

        A few things you didnt know about the new Surface Book or Surface Book Pro 4

• Change the Surface Pen battery by grasping  the shaft and then turn the end with the pocket clip on it counter-clockwise until it clicks. 
• There’s a hidden button that acts as right mouse click.
• You can swap bases
• The power bricks are different 
• The company has plans tomake a spacer to let the the thinner Surface Pro 4 
• You can customize the pressure sensitivity

Click here for more!

Web Article 10/23

    Apple nixes over 250 apps that have been snooping on users

• apple has been removing apps from the app store that collects personal data
• SourceDNA collected the information from these apps and got apples at attention
• SourceDNA's new tool "Seachlight" was used to track the apps that were taking personal information
• a total of 256 apps were found 
• 1 million total of downloads 

To find out more click here!

Do Now 10/19

I can use Google Forms for a lot of things in my life. I can use it for making surveys about anything. If I need to do a survey for a job I can use Google Forms to make it. Also if I need to use it for school I can make a survey to ask students about their favorite sports, their favorite subjects and a lot more.

Web Article 10/16

                   Hackers can now turn Siri and Google against you

   Apples new IOS 9 update allows you to train Siri to recognize your voice so your phone doesn't listen to anyone others voice. But researchers from the ANSSI a french government agency they have found away to use radio waves to silently activate Siri or on an Androids Google Now from only across the room. This hack only works if the device has headphones plugged in to it.

To find out more click here! 

Tech Article 10/2

                 The iPhone 6S and the iPhone 6s plus 

• It was released on September 19, 2015
• The new iPhone 6s comes in silver, gold, space gray and rose gold
• Apple added iSight that has live photos,true tone flash,brust mode and a lot more
• Facetime now has a HD camera
• Added new 3D touch
• Faster LTE and faster wi-fi 
  

Technology Article 9/25/15

                   Apple's WatchOS2 release

A few things you didnt know about the new WatchOS2 update

• watchOS2 lets you add multiple of 12 contacts
• the apple watchOS2 connects to open wi-fi when your phone isn't around
• on the apple watch you can ask Siri to open apps for you
• it allows you to reply to emails without using your phone
• apple added a new feature called "Digital Crown" which controls your house lights
• you can update your apple watch to watchOS 2 once your iphone is updated to IOS 9
• apple added "Apple Pay" you can now make credit card payments from your wrist
• they also added heart rate sensor, speaker, microphone and a lot more
• click here to learn more about the Apple WatchOS2 update!     
  

             In Highschool this year I am taking English 1. My teacher is Ms.Hunter. In the begining of this year I was expecting to do a lot of reading. To be reading a lot of books and plays. I also thought that in English 1 we were going to be writing a lot. In the first few weeks of school we have been learning how to write better. We learned how to write a one paragraph response. We have been taking a lot of notes about writing. We are also have been learning lititture terms.

     The grading policy in Ms.Hunters class is 40% Formal Assessments which includes test and quiz grades. 40% Performance Basaes Assessments includes essays, projects and presentations.10% Homework and 10% Informal Assessment which is a portion of your class work and class paticipation. 

   Something about this class that I find going to be interseting is reading new books and plays that I haven't read or heard anything about. I am expected to learn how to read, spell and write better. Also to just learn a lot new things. Someways we can use technology in English class is if we need to use the Chrome Book to type an essay. We can also use it if we need to make a presnation or if we have to look up anything online. 

    To find Ms. Hunter's web page you can go to http://www.wood-ridgeschools.org/Domain/185.  Some helpful websites on Ms.Hunters page is http://turnitin.com/ which can help you with essays and https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ that can help you with MLA format.