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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