opening activity

If I were creating a photo essay titled a day in the life of forest lawn learners I would find a Calgary Transit such as the bus. The image  would be a wide shot of the bus, so that the whole image is shown and not just the front or something. The second image that I would take is the lockers in our school. I would take the image from a point of view shot because it will show the lockers on the right or left side while the person is walking through. The third picture I would take is a classroom. The shot would be a wide shot because it will include the students and the learning environment they are in. It will display students learning and focusing on their topic. The fourth image I would take is the lunch room at lunch. It would be a very wide shot of the lunch room because it is a large room and it would show everything from the front  to the back of the room. The final image I would take is the doors at our school. It would represent home time and freedom.

opening activity

I think that move in close, take some vertical pictures, lock the focus and watch the light would be the best tips. The other tips aren't that useful. Like get down to their level. We are already or close to the level, so there's on need for something like that. We are not going outdoors so we can't do flash outdoors. Adding things to the picture would be troublesome with these slow internet connection we have at school. However I think using a plain background is good because it's empty and all the main focus is on whatever is in the image. Moving in closer would be good too because if you didn't how can you catch the details. Locking the focus is important. Without focus the image may appear blurry or will look like some ghost or something and people won't be able to make out what the picture is. Watching the light is one of the most important tips because without enough light, the image would be a dark image and with too much light there will be all bright and either way you won't see anything.

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Opening Activity

I am following three people on Twitter. One of the person I am learning from is kmunroe because she post stuff up there and tells us to do things. The other two people that I am following are KHGProductionz and kingdomhearts. The only person that is actually helping me learn is kmunroe because it it related to school work. Other than that I don't think I think these are helping me learn. I don't think Twitter can be a useful PLN because Twitter has people who says what ever comes on to their minds. They say things about sex, and just talk about their lives and reveal how old they are and swear like they have no tommorow. They also don't share anything useful. I have changed topics twice already because there are people who says dumb things and don't say anything relevant to my topic.

Monkey thing

http://www.careerbuilder.com/monk-e-mail/?mId=37408133.2

The link to the monkey video I made. It's also on my twitter.

(Essential Question)Opening Activity

If I wanted to make this year the best one of my life,  the one attitude that I would change is how I look at people. People in the past have said that I always looked angry or depressed because of how I look. I just do my own things minding my own business, and people avoid me. The only people who don't avoid are people who I have known in the past. I like how they avoid me and stuff but I don't want to make a bad impression of myself. So, If I wanted to make this year the best one ever for me then I would start changing how I look

animoto video

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

What I learned today.

Today, I have played on a website called http://www.funbrain.com/. I was able to improve my math skills and review over some math equations that I had become slow at because I don't do those type of equations anymore. I learned that I can quickly regain a skill that I have learned in the past if I practice it, then I will be able to use it again. I also learned that playing on this website is a good way to refresh your skills on the basics of math. I also played this game where you try to get the ball into the hole. It's a puzzle game where you have to think and test. It was pretty interesting. Another game I played was a mini flash game on fyrebug.com where I shot these things from the classic series Mario and Luigi. I learned that you must shoot the plants flying at you and not the plants randomly flying around. But in the end, most of these games didn't teach me much at all. All it did was review my math skills and gave me something to do. It was still interesting in the end though because we just had to play games instead of doing work.

Joke movie

Essential Question

I have learned a new magic trick but I don't think I can use it yet. It is worth learning because playing with magic is fun. It is funny to watch people's reaction to these type of things. You can either get "WOW HOW DID YOU DO THAT" or the "IT'S A STUPID TRICK." It's also cool, so you can show off to random people on the streets or surprise you friends. Magic have been around for a long time and it is fun to show it off to people and it is a great way to gather a crowd.

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Computer Lab Rule

Quiz Results

Concepts post

1. In your own word, what is a Personal Learning Network?
A personal learning network is a place online where people can share information on what they know to other people and can recieve information from other people as well. It's mostly based on opinions of people instead of facts.

2. Why do people create Personal Learning Networks?
I think people create personal learning network because they want to share what they know with other people and learn from them too.

Essential Question

I dont' have a favourite song because I do not listen to music. However I think music does reflect our personality because we do do things that we like to do. Like if we're cool and all then people would most likely listen to rap music or pop. And people who likes to party would listen to heavy rock or just normal rock music. And gentle quiet people will listen to calm music. Then again this is all stereotypes and I have no evidence to base this on.

What I learned today

I learned to interact with my classmates in a fun way. We got to play games instead of knowing each other by introducing our names with a project. We played splat and many people got killed instantly. We also played beaver tail and park bench. Shakeel is an all time champion on that game. I have been in his drama class before and he nevered even craked a smile at that game. We also played atom which made us move around alot. And the final thing I learned was some new drama games. Examples are beaver tail, the hand squeeze thing and the atom.

Essential Question

I think that for our next essential question we should either continue to do the essential questions that we are doing right now or do something like a warm up. For example playing games in the back room for like 10 minutes or how long it takes to do an essential question. Many people are going to be annoyed or forget their accounts on all these websites that we use and so I don't think twitter is not a good idea. Personally I don't like having too many accounts for anything. Or we could just go straight to work on our projects and stuff if we're behind instead of doing essential questions.

Essential Question

No I don't think I could've invented a better plan to address the problem because I don't really know how to invent a better plan. I just go with the flow and I just worked on the project as instructed. A better ending to my story would be making my poster better. A better message to the next generation would be that even though oil sands pollute the environment, they are still good. A better rule or law to address the problem would to have it broadcast on t.v. everyday telling people the pros and cons and have the people decide.

Typing Test One

Essential Question

I think some people can handle using the internet without losing their sense of self because they are use to it. Like me, a couple of years ago, every day all day when I got home from school or shopping or done with anything I would go on the internet and play online games. I mostly played a third person shooter game where I can kill people and move quickly as I want. I don't know why but I also knew when to stop playing the game like when it's time to sleep or eat. I guess I just have more control over the game then it does over me. I was addicted to it and played everyday but I was able to control myself from playing too much. I think mostly think that I was able to control myself because I had a life and not a life on the internet. I had to do other things as well like my homework and get some rest, so I couldn't play all day or I would have got in trouble. But I guess all the other people probably have the same reason as I and that's why they can control themselves.

Essential Question

If I were to choose a side I would go with totally with technology because technology is what revolutionized our era and started a better life for humans and possibly animals. People are now able to work more efficiently with more technology. People have been living in the past for many years but the life they had were more harsh. They had to start a fire out of a flint stone and steel to heat their homes in the past but now a days we have something called a furnace. It heats our home for us without scraping steel against a piece of stone. We would also have to dry our clothes in the sun or something like they did in the past, but now with advanced technology we have a washer and a dryer to wash and dry our clothes. The technology was created to ease our life, so it's a good things that we are able to live in this time with technology. Also, one of the most impressive invention was the television, it entertains and educates us. In the past we had to think of something ourselves and play with it or make something.

Essential Question

Censorship benefits only a little in society. It can help block some bad things that are on the internet that little children may look at such as porn, or other inappropriate websites. It benefits schools the most, because schools can block certain websites and not allow children to access it unless they can over ride it somehow. Censoring things will not allow it to be see or known to every one and some people like them because they block unnecessary objects or images from being shown to other people some may be to young to see certain things. In T.V.s some shows have censored swearing with a beep and cover it with a black box or they pixelize it to make it hard to see. So censoring things will benefit only  little children too young to see certain things and to people who do not want to see such filth or their child seeing such things that may affect them later on. Little children learn mostly from seeing things and later they may choose to copy it. So if they heard someone say the f word on t.v. then the chances of them saying it at school and getting into trouble is very high. Censorship is a good thing, but I guess only some people would like to have it because they either have a different perspective than me or they just like things not to be censored and blocked where anyone can see what's what.

Essential Question

I have learned how to make a chart and record data on it on igoogle. Another class I have that uses and manages computers is communication technology which is just across the hall on the left after I leave this room. There we use computers to make stuff and learn a lot of stuff. Any ways another class I thought of that can be used is math class. In case I need to make a chart of some kind, I can make it in my igoogle account and use any type of chart I want to present the data. There aren't many other classes I can think of that includes the things I have learned.