Google 20%

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Growing up online

I was not surprised...

1.  a lot of young kids first online social experience is club penguin.
2. A lot of kids are just looking at the spark notes instead or reading.
3. everyday more schools try to use computers in everyday classes.
4. not all of the students actually work in school stuff.
5.  some people have a very difficult time working on computers, but that is something that they have to change.
6. people create different identities in online games.
7. some try to like make up for traits they feel are cool.
8. they are anonymous and have competently different personalities online.
9. There are a lot of pedophiles on messengers and social networks.  
10. people try to have competitions where they have the most "friends"
11.  The adults pretend to be teens and convince other teens do the bad "stuff".
12. they get a lot of naked pictures of minors and publish them.
13. they also black mail the people.
14. People become very addicted to the internet.
15.  the internet can be very dangerous if not used correctly.

I was surprised...

1. That people start at such a young age to send pictures. i personally wouldnt do that and havent considered it.  
2. That asians seem to be better users of the Internet.
3. it was normal for people to gather to see youtube videos.
4. Antivirsues isn't the same as spyware.
5. the antivirus companies create viruses to see if there softwares work.
6. it is very easy for people to get control of your webcam
7. they can even make the light that tells you when it is working to turn off so you can't be sure.
8. Asians also play more online games
9. the internet isn't just a rich school problem it happens everywhere.
10. people would get together in public places to play stuff online.
11.  Lan parties and all of their functions.
12. the number of students that don't read.
13. how aware the teachers are about students using sparknotes.
14. Some teachers didn't really care if the students were paying attention or not.
15. even back then schools were trying to incorporate more technology.

How technology has changed since then...

1. now technology companies are the biggest in the world. 
2. now even kinder gardeners have smartphones.
3. books are read online not just sparknotes.
4.  the games have become even more interactive
5. people became more addicted to video games
6. there are apps that entertain in different forms.
7. people download for free the music.
8. social networking is now all in facebook.
9. people post public pictures all over the internet.
10. wikipedia is a big resource for info.
11. there are pages that will do your work if you pay and it is not plagiarism.
12. samsung and apple competing for the smartphone market.
13. people still send a lot of nude pictures. 
14. teens are killing themselves because of pedophiles that blackmail them with naked pictures.  
15. people don't call anymore now everything is with watsapps and i messages.

Swiss School

                                                                   SUMAS VIDEO

SUMAS is the only school of Europe which offers both MBA's and Bachelor's degree in Europe.  It has a very good, and even important teachers. Pretty much all of them have doctorates and others are Oxford university graduates.  The video also talks about the advantage of the school being located in Switzerland   It talks about how fun and nice it is to live in the country.  It says how fun it is to go ski in the alps or do water sports in the lake.  Also there are some cool events, and good night life.  The other advantage is that it is in the middle of Europe, and it is extremely safe.   

    

                         Sustainable consumption & production: a greener world

The video is about global warming and how the planet is deteriorating.  It is said that by 2050 if we don't change the way that we produce we would need two times the surface of the Earth to store our waste and the CO2 produced.  People can check their impact by finding their ecological footprint.  In Europe govs are trying to control the impact by making the ecological label.  That tells consumers they are making a good choice for future generations when the buy certain product.  With that they can make sure the product doesn't use so much energy or have a rebound effect.  

                            An Inconvenient Truth | Film Trailer | Participant Media

The trailer is to a very impacting movie.  It is hosted by Al gore who was a candidate to the presidency but is said to have been robbed from it.  In the video you see how in the last 14 years the 10 hottest have been recorded.  That is impacting us by causing greater storm like Katrina, and also melting snow from places like the arctic mount Kilimanjaro and the Patagonia.  All of that is going to raise the water levels by 20 feet covering entire states like Florida  or cities like Singapore, and Calcutta.  It is the scary truth because that could make 100 million refugees.  The question he asks is interesting, "did the planet betray us, or did we betray the planet?"

   

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Starbucks

According to their webpage Starbucks is taking a lot of initiatives to making a greener planet.  They start by purchasing a high quality, but ethical product.  That means they make sure that wherever they buy it from its not a place where they waste a lot or where the workers are being exploited.  They also want to minimize their footprint as a corporation.  They start by building greener stores that don't waste as much water or energy.  One of their priorities is recycling and making sure that there are recycling bins available for the customers.  They also use Eco- friendly cup materials that have less waste.  They even pursue ways to help farmers get their land and try to prevent climate change.  They are taking big steps in trying to reduce their footprint, and keep on growing in a sustainable way.  

    

GAFE

Journal about Google Earth and Google Maps

Google earth is a virtual globe made by Google which uses different satellite images to make an interactive view of the Earth.  You can rotate the globe and zoom in and out of different geographic locations.  It has features were you can see 3-D buildings, and mountains. To download the program you just have to go in the Google search and type Google earth.  Then that will give you the option to download the program.  It has a very fun feature that is flight simulator.  To get the feature you just have to press CTRL +ALT+A.  Then you get the option to choose one of two planes, and even in what airport you would like to begin in.  Personally I enjoy how realistic it is with the airplanes flaps, and also how interactive it is.  You can fly through Dubai and see the huge hotels since they are 3-D.       

Google maps even though it is a similar program since they are interactive and use satellite images, but Google maps functions more like a free gps.  You can use it to get directions and it has a very cool feature which is street view.  You can take a virtual walk through of cities for example Paris.  It has other cool features like google sky, google mars, and google moon.  In all of them you get different options on how to look at the map.  For example in google sky you can see the historical map which is how people have been graphing the galaxy throw-out time.   Google maps can give you directions to a certain place in different ways, like for example they can show the directions if you’re waking, on a bike, car, or even the bus routes.  The street view is possible thanks to google vans with cameras that would go around the cities taking pictures of everything however they do protect the privacy of cars they find or people by blurring out the license plate. All of these google map ideas came from diffrernt google employee's 20% project   

street view

historical view of the galaxy

interactive moon picture

                

Google Day#3 AND PRESENTATION

Goal
1. Seeing examples of people who have gotten both academic and sports scholarships.

A lot of athletes today have received scholarships and now play in the major sports leagues of america.  For example people like Derrick Rose who won the NBA MVP.  Yet he was never really a good student, and wouldn't met the expectations to receiving a scholarship.  That discredited every single stat he got in college.  Other players like Dwayne Wade Miami Heat franchise player also received a scholarship to a division 1 team.  since he was not meeting the standard all the time he decided to study harder.  That show how really the most important thing in scholarships are the academics.      

Google Day #1

College and Careers
Goals:
1. What are they looking for?
2. How probable is it for people to get into scholarships?
3. Take the super match quiz to see a good fit for myself on naviance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKARNadxshU
This link goes to a very interesting video made by a college, Vanderbilt, were they talk about what they want to see in the applications.  For example they say they don't care if the student is in 95 different groups or just 2, because what they want to see is not only participation, but they want to see that you had a big impact on the group and actually changed how things were working there.  They also talk about stuff like the essay also were they say that they want you to write your own essay, so they can say how you judge yourself not a counselor   they want to see the true you.

 http://www.thecollegesolution.com/the-odds-of-getting-an-athletic-scholarship-2/
Here an article talks about how the scholarships work.  It says that honestly it is very unrealistic for a person to expect a scholarship, only 2% of seniors get scholarships to NCAA affiliated colleges.  Most of those scholarships don't surpass 11,000 dollars.  It says that it is good to be in athletic programs however that that will never make up for grades.

The picture represents the results of the supermatch quiz I took.  During the quiz i tried applying some of the tips i had learned from the video to see what college to choose.  I would put info like my gpa but choose the option of a college were i could possibly surpass the average for greater chances of getting financial aid.  Also i choose the state were i plan to live my senior year to not only make it easier to get in, but also cheaper.  it says to choose a place were you can have some "free time" to maybe join more groups and make your resume even better for when you apply for a masters.  

       

Design Project LEARN day

The students weren't at the classroom when we went, and they wouldn't come back.

Our biggest problem was trying to find a ball to would work as a pinball without damaging the game but worked.  Also trying to make the paddles work.

Our big successful idea was making the paddle work that was made of carton.  It was like the special part of the game, and it gave it a homemade touch.  It was also very simple to use and even make once we knew what we were doing.

 Juan Fra resisted a lot of ideas like how big to make the machine and also the decorations.  He also wasnt sure about to which age group to address.

I had a lot of doubts of whether the game would be durable enough for the kids to play with and when we saw it today it was still in great condition.  I also taught they wouldn't like it that much  however, the teacher said they loved it.          

I acted a bit as devil advocate with Pedro Juan since we would keep on questioning each others ideas; however,we ended up putting them together and it came out really cool.

I learned that i like taking a major role in the group and giving my ideas.  I also don't mind working a lot on the project as long as everyone else tries to help also.  I like when we divide the jobs and everyone is responsible of something as long as everyone does their part.  

CWW Product

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To Do Day #2

Juan Fra's has the best design and the most accurate.  however we will have to include the levers that i designed in mine and the game objective Pedro made.

Since Juan Fra's was the best one especially in the way the traps were set.  we have to add the mechanism Pedro made for the objective since it is the only one we can actually make in the class, also the levers i designed because they are the most effective for the project and they won't break easily.

Design project-day 1

Gregory Goldemberg
Jun Fra Mantilla
Pedro Juan Mesa
Define Phase:
Elementary Kids(both)
Difficulty challenging
What makes a game fun?
1.challenging, but possible to complete.
2.  not tiring
3.  not so repetitive.
4.  visuals
5.  addicting

Research Phase:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbiXbcQszhQ fuse ball machine:  its fun and classic game.  it has a very simple design, however i think they could make it bigger so it can be more like a normal sized one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vFWbeoz0wk pinball machine:  it looks very fun and professional.  but it looks like it is hard to make and maybe a bit too hard to win for elementary students.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QyG1W56C5k basketball game:  i like how simple it is to make and play also the ball wont get lost because of the string.  it is is a bit too easy we would have to find a way to make it harder.  


Ideation Phase:
brainstorm:
pinball game
stair game
prices
carton
color decorative
doable

its fun for the kids and they can do it without us there.  that makes it funner also its like a classical game with a sort of twist to it.

After brainstorming we decided that the best option for the game would be a pinball machine where once you can get a ball that is held by a magnet to move by hitting it with the pinball you win.  we will cut holes into the cardboard to make it  more difficult and also but barriers and blockers.  that makes it fun because its challenging yet doable.  

could go wrong:  the game might end to quickly so we have to make it harder.  it could be very easy to break since it is made out of cardboard.

Virtual Field Trip 2

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Google FInal Presentation

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