TED talk: Will Wright

Will Wright wanted to come up with a toy that would make kids trip upon the interesting principles of life. He comes up with a game where you have a little creature that you walk around with. He made the game so that you can design the creature however you want. You can add limbs and other really neat things to your creature. The creature walks around and it has to find food and other creatures to make friends with. When the player creates their creature, they get to really use their imagination and do whatever they would like with it. The player can paint their creature whatever color they would like. After you create your creature, you can do different things with it. You can see how it fights, dances, and even how it poses for pictures. In this game, the creature is moving through generations. The other creatures that you interact with during the game are actually other players. Eventually your creature gets to go in space and explore the universe. You can click and see what other kind of creatures are there and see how much one needs to eat to survive. When playing this game you can heat up the earth and watch it melt down. The purpose of the game is to use your imagination and explore the world the way you want to.

Myspace and Social Networking

I get on myspace at least five times a day and I think it is a really good website. It's another way to communicate with your friends. It can be a way to meet new people, but I don't do that. I just talk to my friends and family on myspace. Myspace is a good way to interact with other people. I also have a facebook. Facebook is similar to myspace. Some of my friends only have facebook so I talk to them on there. I have one friend that lives pretty far away from me and it is a good way to keep in touch with her. Some people think that myspace is unsafe, but there are privacy settings that you can put on your page. My page is made so only my friends can look at it. I think myspace and facebook are very useful websites.

Internet Use

I'm usually on the Internet about 15 hours a week. I visit many different websites. On a daily basis I get on Myspace, Facebook, Mycokerewards, and Yahoo. About once a week I look at college websites and get on blogger. Thats about all I do in a week on the internet.

TED Talk: Allison Hunt gets a new hip

In this talk Allison Hunt talks about how she has to get a new hip. Her hip had been hurting her for years, so she finally decided to go to the doctor. Her doctor talk her to wait 10 months and then come back. Allison waited ten months and when she went to the doctor again, he told her that she was going to get a new hip. Her doctor told her that she would have to wait 18 months before she could get it. Allison's hip had been hurting for a long time and she didn't want to wait that long.

In the beginning of the talk she says that she is Canadian and that she is the youngest of 7 children. In Canada the youngest never gets to do anything first. She wanted to change that because she did not want to wait 18 months to get a new hip. One day while she was walking through the lobby of the hospital, she saw a sign in the gift shop that said "volunteers needed." She was signed up and soon enough she was getting her new hip. Her epiphany is "even when a canadian cheats the system, they do it in a way that benefits society."

Internet and Education

I have used Internet in my education in a few different ways. I have taken CIS, ITE 115, and now I'm currently in ITE 130. In CIS, I had to make a web page and that dealt with the Internet. In both ITE classes, I have had to make email accounts and I have have worked with Instant Messaging. I have also worked with making videos and uploading them in ITE 130.

Internet is already very popular now and in five years it will be even more popular. A lot of education will be taught through the Internet and young people need to be prepared for it. There should be more computer classes in middle and high schools that go into more detail about the Internet so that young people are prepared.

Sir Ken Robinson Video

Schools are killing creativity. They have a top priority of academics. Schools would be teaching mathematics before they would teach dance or art. Kids need more than just academics to help them focus. A lot of teachers don't see that. They see that students need to make perfect grades so they can get great jobs. Many kids don't want a career that has to do with academics. They want a career for what their good at and not all young people excel in school. So for the future, we should add more electives to schools. Classes such as dance and drama would make young people like school more. This would be the best way to bring creativity back into schools.

Extra Credit

The four new releases by Mac:

1. MacBook Air
2. Apple TV
3. Time Capsule & Leopard
4. iPhone & iPod Touch Updates

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My First Blog Post

It's my first blog post.  How exciting.  :]