Current Event 5

New Cargo Scooter produced by Lit Motors

     This article is about a new product that is made up of internally electric power. It is called a cargo scooter. They cal this the cargo scooter because its like a car but has two wheels. This new vehicle has a seat to sit on and room in the front to put your stuff.

     This new item will probably help me later in life because I can't drive yet. The reason that it will help me is because when I'm getting a new car I want something convenient and inexpensive. This new car will give me both. It is made up of electronic fuel so all I'll have to do is charge it. Also it's probably the easiest thing to park because it's not so big. The room in the front will help out so much. The article says "Items measuring up to 22 inches (55 cm) in width or height can be put inside the square opening in the frame, then held in place using integrated tie-down hooks, loops, and rails"(Coxworth). With this statement I know that all my junk will fit.

     This will affect the society in the cities. The cities are so jammed pack full of people there's no room for cars. With this new motorcycle it will give the people a better choice of transportation. Also with all that room in the front then people can go places with their stuff instead of holding it and walking. There are many different ways that the new motorcycle can help out our society. Another way is that when people are driving a motorcycle there's only a little compartment to put your stuff. Now you can the joy of riding a motorcycle and now the join of riding in a car at the same time.

Coxworth, Ben. "Lit Motors launches crowdfunding campaign for its kubo electric cargo scooter". Gizmag. Gizmag, 20 Nov 2013. Web. 21 Nov 2013. <http://www.gizmag.com/lit-motors-kubo-electric-cargo-scooter/29858/>

Current Event 4

Digital Sticker Tattoos

       The topic of my article is about digital tattoos that you can put on your neck. These tattoos are not permanent so they can be removed. The purpose of the tattoos is to be used with your smartphone. You can record your voice even if you're in the loudest room in the world you can still record only your voice.
         My opinion on this new technology is that I think it’s a great idea. It would effect me because now I have this nifty new thing that records my voice. Also its not hard to carry around its just on your neck. According to this article “What you’ll be able to do with this invention – if it becomes a real-deal device – is slap it on your throat and be heard in a noisy environment as clearly as you would be in an empty room (Burns)”. So what the statement means is that when I’m in a room thats really busy and loud I could still use this thing. To me recording something with a microphone with a bunch of loud people around I have to redo the recording time after time. With this new tattoo device I want have to worry about that now.
           This new device could affect the world tremendously. Like I said before it’s not a burden to carry around. This device could help out people with certain jobs. Like for instance an interviewer. They could walk around and just talk to themselves. There's many other jobs in the world that could use this new tattoo device.       
        Burns, Chris. “Motorola smart tattoos hit throat:lie detector mics abound”. SlashGear. SlashGear, 7 Nov 2013.Web. 8 Nov 2013. http://www.slashgear.com/motorola-smart-tattoos-hit-throat-lie-detector-mics-abound-07304584/

Current Event 3

Google letting you hand-write your e-mails
Emails

My article is about how Google is bringing in old fashion hand writing with your email. The way you do this is by just simply take your mouse or cursor and draw the word. Even if your writing is crazy and unreadable Google will decipher it. This program even has different language so that a foreign person can still use it.

My opinion on this is that its a great thing. I believe that people should write more often than type. I do know that now the world is coming towards the more technological side so writing by hand will get very rare. So practicing your writing style is a great thing to do. This will affect me in my life because now when I write out emails I’ll be able to actually write it out.

This will affect the world because like I said before people will now be able to not only type out things put also write it out. According to this article “ While English is an option, it's more for complicated alphabets where drawing out a character is sometimes easier than typing it, like Japanese or Hindi ”(Kelly). So what this tells us is that really the main thing that this will help out is the foreign languages. It also said that when you write something in one language it can be deciphered in another. This will help because now we can talk to foreign people easier.Kelly, Heather. “ Google letting you hand-write your e-mails”. CNN Tech. Cable News Network, 23 Oct 2013. Web. 24 Oct 2013. < http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/23/tech/innovation/google-handwriting-support/index.html>

Blog 3

Some of the vocabulary that we learned this week in introduction to publication is:

• Online Predator- a commonly used term for someone use the Internet to develop inappropriate relationships with teens or kids
• Risky - potentially harmful to one's emotional or physical well being
• Manipulate- trying to influence someone to do something they might not otherwise do
• Stereotype- a popular belief about a group of people, based on assumptions that are often false

One of the new web 2.0 that I learned about is Toondoo. Toondoo is a site that lets you create comics for free. The positives about this website is that it lets you save it so that you can go back and work on it later. Another thing is that it was a good variety on the backgrounds, people and lots of other things. Theres only one negative thing about this web 2.0 and it is that getting the comic and sharing it can be difficult. It took me some time to figure it out.

A new digital literacy component that we learned this week is risky relationships. I’m glad that Ms. Payseur went over this Because now I know to be safe online. This lesson taught me about the uncomfortable situations that strangers can make and how it get out of it. It also taught me how to have safe online relationships. This new component helps me online because now I know what to do in the positions that are inappropriate, uncomfortable and not safe.

Overall my week has been great. There has been two projects given out and my stress has gone up. I knew getting into this program was going to be tough but I don't care. I've met some pretty amazing people and my teachers are great. We got report cards this week and in my opinion did great. Other than that I’ve had a good week.

Jern, Phil. "report card 1944". Photograph .flickrcc. 28 Dec. 2007. Media. 4 Oct. 3013. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2056/2150873799_ce456520c9_m.jpg

Current Event 2

Colorful post-it notes digitally

Evernote Post-It notes trigger actions based on color

Burns,Chris. “Evernote Post-It notes trigger actions”. SlashGear.SlashGear, 26 Sept 2013. Web. 26 Sep 2013. <http://www.slashgear.com/evernote-post-it-notes-trigger-actions-based-on-color-26299304/>

This article is about post-it notes going digital. They say that this will help you organize your stuff better because it sorts them automatic. They have also said that theres is new holders for the notes.

I personally think that this is a great idea. I think this because if you sit and think about all of the people that use post-it notes and of all the paper that it takes to make, it is a lot. If people got new digital notes then we would save a lot of paper. I think that this will help me because its really easy to lose your paper and with this you always have it with you. Another thing that would help me out in my life would be the automatic sorting because I am very unorganized and I lose things so this would help me tremendously and according to this article
“Capturing notes not only organizes the ideas you’ve jotted down into categories automatically, it see the sometimes-off-kilter photograph you’ve taken and centers / clarifies it for you with ease (Burns,Chris)."  That is how I feel about the new post-it note.

With this new device that is coming out it would help the world out a lot. The world we live in today is very technology based. Everyone has the next big thing and when this new device comes out then everyone will have it. This will save on paper and it will save on time. Instead of having to get a pen out every time you want to jot something down now you will be able to do it quicker because this device is digital . This new note taking device will be both eco friendly and time efficient.

Blog Post 2

       This week in my Intro to Publication class we have learned many things. Some of the new words that we have learned in Intro to Publication class is about web evaluation. Those words include:

• Publish- to present a finished piece to a public audience
• Trustworthy-accurate and dependent
• Evaluate-to carefully examine something to determine it’s value
• Criteria-standard on which you base your judgement
• URL- Uniform Resource Location
• Authors Credentials- look for the contact us and about links 

One of the web 2.0 that we learned in this class is Prezi. Prezi helps you make PowerPoint's and organize my information so I can present it to people. The positives about this web 2.0 is that it can help you present a good PowerPoint. This can be useful when you have a project. There isn't really any negative things about this web 2.0 the site lets you choose your theme and it lets you put it the way you like it to be. There's also free pictures too so that helps me a lot.

Another thing that we learned this week was a new digital literacy. This literacy is called web evaluation , this helps me know what website to use. This is good to know because it helps you evaluate the good websites from the bad ones. I'm glad to know this new information because it taught me to evaluate a site with the right information. Some of the elements to evaluating a site is first you have to check the authority and ask yourself is the author identified and who are the audience. Then you have to check the accuracy, where they got their information, when was it published and last updated. Finally you have to see if its bias or not.  This helps me in my school life because on my projects I will now know the right websites to use. 

Overall my week has been good. There has been a lot of projects that have been given to us and there has been a lot of homework too. I like all the teachers and I had good days all week. This week went by so fast.

Gabino,Davide."Thumbs Up".Photograph.FlickrCC.Davide Gabino,11 April 2013.media.13 Sept 2013.http://www.flickr.com/photos/56743832@N04/8641783821

Current Event #1 ,Apple

"Apple Testing Bigger  iPhone Screens"
The topic of my article is about the testing of bigger iPhone screens.
CNN
 Gross,Doug."Apple Testing Bigger iPhone Screens".CNN.Turner Broadcasting INC.6 Sept. 2013.Web.6 Sept. 2013.http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/06/tech/mobile/apple-bigger-iphone-screens/index.html.
            My article is about making the iPhone screen bigger. Apple wants to make the screen 6 inches rather than the original four inches. Apple is trying to do this because there competitor Samsung has out done them with the Galaxy.
            My opinion about if Apple should make a bigger screen or not is that it could be good but it also could be bad. The reason why it could be good is because if you had a bigger screen than it could be easier to read. The reason why I think it would be bad is because if your screen is 6 inches where would you put it. A phone that big could be cumbersome to you. It could also be harder to hold, it would be more like a tablet than a phone. This event could affect me because having that huge phone would be hard to hold to my face when I'm talking to someone. I hope they will keep it the same as the iPhone 4 and according to this article "iPhones unveiled next Tuesday will likely have the same size screen as the current model (Gross 2013)."That is my opinion about the phone size enlarging.
            The iPhone getting larger would affect the world by having everyone with their phones out because there's not enough room to to put it in your pocket. The phone would be more like a tablet so people wouldn't have a place to put it. It could also affect the world because people will have more of a hassle with the huge phone. It will become a hassle because talking on the phone and carrying it will become annoying to some people.It also could be a good affect too, because there will be more people buying these phones because there the new thing. So this new phone size could become a good thing and it could become a bad thing. 

Blog Post 1

   Overall I've had a pretty good week at Gaston Early College. I've meet some new friends and we’re having a great time together. My teachers are really nice and even though they give out a lot of work they are still are great. There’s been a lot of new stuff I've had to learn like where to go and what to do. I've enjoyed the fun activities that the teachers have put together for us. I also enjoy my club I'm in on Friday too. I can tell that Girls Club is going to be so much fun. So far this school has been better than I expected. I'm starting to really enjoy this school and I can't wait to what's next.

Even though this is a great school there is a lot of books to carry around because of all the homework and classwork, I'm really not used to that so its definitely something different. Other than that everyday this week has been fun and there's always something you don't expect.

One of my classes that I have is Intro to Publications. This class was taught me a bunch this week. Some of the words we have learned in the last two weeks from my Intro to Publication class is:

• Copyright- A law that protects a creators ownership of and control over the work he or she creates requiring other people to get creators permission before they copy, share, or perform that work
• Creative Commons- A type of copyright that makes it easy to use as long as you give the creator credits 
• Public Domain- Is work that is not protected by copyright and so you can use it as you like.
• Fair Use-to use a small amount of someones creative work without permission in a certain way.
• Commercial Purpose- to use a small amount of someones creative work without permission
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We have also learned some new web tools in Intro to Publication too, like Schoology and Quizlet. Schoology is a website that helps you keep up with what the teachers here need us to do, also websites and information that we need to know. Quizlet helps me with my schoolwork too by letting me practice my stem words. Quizlet offers you tests word games and much more. The positives about these websites is that it helps me do better in class and the negatives are that now everything is online.

In class we have learned a new digital literacy component this week called copyright. Copyright is a law that protects information that is your own work. This component helps me know what the rules are to copyright and how to do it reasonably. By me learning this new component it will help me do my projects at school the right way. Also it helps me when I'm online searching a picture or information.







Roberto Bustamante, Copyright Symbol,http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1387/4607566698_ebbf099c59_m.jpg, 14 May,2010