Changes In the Future

Life has changed tremendously from the 1950's to now, so there's definitely going to be great changes in our next 50 years. Technology keeps advancing each and everyday. One of the most biggest changes we will see in the next 50 years will be how technology has made life, education, and careers so much easier. Technology will be the main source of life for all human beings. I also think as our generation grows, we get more lazier, making obesity grow. I think the fields of medicine will change our way of life, by being able to sustain all human life, making the population increase greatly. I think their will be many huge changes in the mere future. 

Switzerland Exchange

This was the Switzerland Exchange that took place from October 14-23.

Reflection on Project: 

When I was making this video, I had a really fun time! I got to relive the memories of the Swiss Exchange. Some things that I found really easy in this video was adding the pictures and all the transitions to the slides. I loved being able to make this presentation all about me and the new friends I have made. I got to use my style and present the exchange in the way that I wanted to. Some things that I found difficult was adding a song to this presentation. It was a song by Taylor Swift and it was hard to find a song that didn't have a voice on it. Then, I figured out that I could use garage band to take out the voice, which was kind of fun but really confusing at the same time. Overall I really enjoyed this project and I loved making this video about a really great experience I have had this year. 

Check out my Rubric!

Switzerland Exchange

On October 14th, the Swiss students are coming to our school. This is an exchange program that students of CSIHSIS will take part in. Check out the swiss blog about this. It's really cool and interesting. I can't wait until they all come and experience New York for themselves. For many of the exchange students it's going to be their first time in America, so that will make the experience eve better for everyone! For a couple of days they will shadow us at school and then for the other days they will go and experience city life. I'm so excited that we're going to Six Flags together and especially that it's fright fest! I think we're all going have a really great time with the swiss students here.

SWITZERLAND MEET NEW YORK!!!

Flood in Philippines

Just the other day, there was a flood that killed over 90 people. The flood became so hectic, that the own National Disaster Coordinating Council became overwhelmed and didn't know what province to start helping next because one city after another just kept going down. On http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/philippines-overwhelmed-by-flood-disaster-20090928-g8ha.html you can see what people were saying about this disaster. On the internet there are blogs on how to help people cope with their loses and help them get back on their feet .

http://www.globalgiving.com/projects/philippines-flood-disaster-fund/

This website is a one for a recovery fund, to help the people who were in this flood. It's really great to see other people blogging about this and trying to help a good cause.

Michael Perham sailing around the world

The youngest boy has just sailed across all the waters there is in the world. It's always been his dream to sail across the world and he feels accomplished that he's actually had the chance to live his dream. He said it was a very lonely voyage, especially on the day of his voyage. "It takes a lot of strength to do this because you have to have mental and physical strength", said Mike Perham. Take a look at this website to see his amazing 9 month journey http://www.totallymoney.com/sailmike/ . The physical strength in this journey is being able to fix the boat when it gets damaged, especially being the only person on the boat. The mental strength is being able to coop with the loneliness for long periods of time. Read this blog to read the interview between Mike Perham and Gray Robertson.

http://www.cenewsblog.com/main_news/2009/09/sailing-the-dream.html

Blogging in Education

Blogging is beneficial to education. It benefits education by helping peers communicate with each other.. It is helpful to schools by letting everyone come together and speak their opinion without being judge. Using the internet to post up something gets the thoughts flowing and induces people to speak their mind and possibly inform others on certain events. Using blogging can help students and  teachers as well because it builds online collaboration and the teachers can reinforce the ideas they want their students to know. Blogging in schools helps them by bringing everyone together, peers looking out for each other, and everyone using their minds .

Blogging benefits education by helping peers communicate with each other. Peers come together to talk about anything that’s on their mind and get to let other people see them voicing their own opinion. It’s a great way to see kids talking about a matter and really getting involved with each others thoughts. Kids love to blog also. One time there was a flood in Maine and over 200 peers went on to blog and talk about it. Blogging for kids, isn’t always just in school, they even like to blog on their own free time to see what others are saying. As you can see blogging benefits education by helping everyone stay connected and share their thoughts with each other. 

Blogging is helpful to schools by letting everyone come together and speak their own opinion.  People come together on one site and can talk for days on end about anything. Blogging is a site where you can comment on someone else’s thought and it’s becoming the new trend because people are used to just looking at a regular website and not being able to communicate. Blogs bring students together and show’s each other they do care about other peoples opinions with agreeing with them or disagreeing with them. In a first grade classroom kids have said that blogs are fun because it helps them write and sound out the letters. This shows us that blogs have helped education by helping students improve their grammar and communication. 

  Blogs not only help students, but teachers as well because it builds online collaboration. Teachers use blogs to reinforce ideas they want their students to know. With that being said, the students find it rather enjoyable being able to use technology to do school work. It shows teachers the enthusiasm students have to do work and the motivation they have to complete the work rather then writing in their notebooks in school. In the classroom their are students who are asked to reflect on a question in class and the students all replied, “How about we blog about that?” Seeing that students love to blog about the things their teachers are talking about in the classroom really gets them involved with the lesson. Blogs show teachers that the students are fully understanding the subject and that they are ready to move onto something else. 

In general, blogging is very beneficial to education in many ways. One, it helps students communicate with each other and share their feelings with everyone. Two, it lets students voice their own opinion on anything at all and show each other that they are listening to what they are saying. Lastly, it builds online collaboration with teachers and students and reassures the teachers that students are aware of what they are teaching. Blogging is a big benefit to schools, education, students, teachers, and parents. 

Blogs in Education

Blogging is beneficial to education. It benefits education by helping peers communicate with each other. It is helpful to schools by letting everyone come together and speak their opinion without being judge. Using the internet to post up something gets the thoughts flowing and induces people to speak their mind and possibly inform others on certain events. Using blogging can help students and teachers as well because it builds online collaboration and the teachers can reinforce the ideas they want their students to know. Blogging in schools helps them by bringing everyone together, peers looking out for each other, and everyone using their minds .