Monday October 28

My favorite web tool that we have used is Google docs.  It is my favorite because it is easy to use.  For making power points, essays, and any other presentations it is very efficient to use.  Prezi and other tools seem to be more difficult to use than Google.  I like that everything is in one place also.  It doesn't just have my documents, but also my power points, e-mail, and everything else.  In the future if I ever need to write a document, create a presentations, make a table, or anything in any aspect of computer use this web tool would be very useful.

Digital Presentation- Prezi

Monday October 21

On Friday I had a doctors appointment at the end of the school day and then went home.  After I was home and figured out the plans I went over to Natalie's house.  Valeria and Natalie were at her house just hanging out.  We decided to not go to the football game so Austin picked us 3 (and Natalie's sister) up.  We dropped off Natalie and her sister at the football game for them to cheer at the game.  Val and I went to Austin's house until like 11:30 then we slept over at my house.  In the morning Valeria, Austin, and I went to Smoothie King then Lifetime.  After Lifetime we went to my house and picked up my brother Logan who is a freshman at West.  Us 4 went to Panda Express for lunch.  Valeria came to my house for the day when we got home.  Later in the night we went to dinner with all 18 girls at Sunset's.  I had to leave early for babysitting though.  I babysat from 8-1:30 on Saturday night.  The family has 5 year old identical twins named Jamie and Jon Jon.  They also have an 8 year old girl named Sammy.  The girl had a friend over all night who also slept over whose name was Sarah.  Sunday morning I had an 8 a.m. soccer game.  We won, but I don't remember the score.  I then had to babysit from 12-7:30.  This family has a 3 year old girl named Irelyn, and a 5 year old girl named Mailyn.  Babysitting took up my whole day.  At 9 o'clock that night I had another soccer game.  We won that game also.  After that I got home around 11:45 and just went to bed after showering.  I tried to finish homework but couldn't stay awake.  That's my not so exciting weekend!

Thursday October 17

What makes a presentation memorable is by doing something unique during your presentation.  By adding videos, questions, etc. To make my presentation better I will most likely add in a video to make it more interesting.  I am not positive of what I will be doing quite yet.  I plan on brainstorming and hopefully coming up with ideas to help  my presentation.

Tuesday October 15

What I learned from the Ted Talk is the need to learn correct usage of technology.  Too many people are becoming connected causing them to not be involved with the real world.  They depend on their devices for everyday activities.  They use their technology devices to turn to when in need of someone to be there for them.  Making times that you can and can not use your devices is important.  This idea is especially important for children.  People are using these items at inappropriate times.  During funerals, dinner, breakfast, meetings, etc. people have began to be connected.  There is a time and place for the use of everything.

Monday October 14

What I like about the digital age is the ability to communicate.  You can more easily talk with others and be in contact.  It makes communication between parents and children much easier also.  I don't like that conversations are less person to person than in the past.  Positive ways I use technology are to get directions, find places to go, talk to parents, talk to friends, and a lot of other ways as well.  Some things that come along with it that I dont like is the need to always be using these items.  When with friends everyone is only on their phones, laptops, ipads, etc.  It gets annoying to have to just sit there when friends are just using those items.  Overall I think that technology is a good thing, but is over used at certain times.

Infograph

Tuesday October 8

On Friday I went to the football game with friends.  After that I went to Kenzi's house with Valeria.  We slept over at her house Friday night.  Saturday I had a soccer game in the afternoon and we lost.  After my game I went home and got ready for Homecoming.  We had a group of about 30 people.  We took pictures at Sam Selph's house.  Dinner was at Hereford House and the food wasn't very good.  Our plan was to not go to the dance, but at dinner everyone decided we should go to the dance for a little bit.  We went to the dance for not very long.  We were there for only 30 minutes maybe.  After the dance we went to Matilda's house for the after party.  I only went to Matilda's for about 30 minutes before leaving.  I left because I had an 8 a.m. soccer game followed by a basketball game.  On Sunday I woke up early for soccer and we won our game.  We lost our basketball game to Blue Valley North by a few points.  After that my mom and I went to The Fresh Market to buy groceries.  The rest of my day was spent working on homework and a family dinner (plus Austin).

Wednesday October 2

I do not know anything about infographics.  I'm not sure what an infographic is and have never heard of it.  I am guessing the purpose of an infographic is to show you information, but in a graphic form.  I am also guessing it has something to do with editing or writing papers because that is what we are doing right now.