September 30, 2014

What is an infographic? If you don't know, go look it up. Read about it and then in your own words
tell me what an infographic is. What do infographics do? How do they work? What makes a really good infographic?
Find an example of a really cool infographic on the web and place it on your blog.

An infographic is a visual image that represents a piece of information. It's a simple photo that can easily be understood and can be used for many parts of the information it's representing. Some popular infographs that people use are graphs and charts. Most infographs have many bright colors and animated pictures.

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September 29, 2014

Tell me about your Homecoming weekend! If you didn't participate in the Homecoming festivities, what did you do? Share pics!

This weekend was quite busy. On Saturday, I was planning on waking up on Saturday morning late with plenty of rest and get my hair and makeup done and have more than enough time to relax before homecoming pictures came at 5:45; but that's not exactly how it went. I had a volleyball tournament at Shawnee Mission Northwest so we had to be at Blue Valley at 6:45 to catch the bus that took us to the tournament. Our last game was at 3:30 so I went home and get ready really fast! My group had pictures at my friend Sydney's house and since there were so many people at pictures, it took a while. Once pictures were done, the picture groups split up for dinner. My group went to Newport Grill in Prairie Fire. After dinner we all went to the dance. It was a lot of fun to see everyone so nice and dressed up. Once we were ready to leave the dance, we went to my friend Drew's house for the after party. It was a great night with great people. :)

September 24, 2014

Imagine Mr. Bacon has asked you to suggest one way of improving Blue Valley High School to make it a better place for students. Think about the changes that are needed at your school. Pick one change you feel would really make a difference and explain what it is and why you'd make the change.

A change that I would make to improving Blue Valley High School would be to get bigger lunch room tables. At lunch, we can never fit all of our friends at one table so we either have to pull up chairs or they have to sit somewhere else. We have had to pull up chairs every single day this year and it get so crowded. Another solution could be to maybe get smaller lunch tables so people would be forced to move to another table. 

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September 23, 2014

What are your favorite apps on your phone or tablet? Why?

My favorite apps on my phone are Twitter and Snapchat. I like Twitter because I can communicate with people and keep up to date on what they're doing just by reading their tweets. I like that I can so keep the people who follow me updated about my life. I like snapchat because it is like you are having a "selfie war" with your friends. I have had snapchat for a long time and I think I will be using it for a long time in the future. 

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September 22, 2014

What is email? When do you use email in your own personal life? List reasons and ways that people use email. What do you know about "email etiquette"?

Emailing is mailing things electronically. I don't really use email in my personal life because if I need to send something to someone or need to talk to them, I can just text or call them. Some people could also use email to send documents, to inform people about upcoming events or even to just talk. I don't really know what email etiquette is but I can imagine that is would be like being proper in your writing and using the right wording.

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September 19, 2014

Now that you've been in Emerging Technology for several weeks... what do you think? Do you think the web tools (Drive, Evernote, Bubbl, etc.) are helpful to you? Do you think they will be helpful throughout high school or even college? Explain.

I think that Emerging tech so far has been very helpful in learning new tools on the computer. I have enjoyed doing the blog posts everyday and the different projects that we are doing in class. I think that the tools that we have learned will help me in the future like Google drive will be so much more useful so I don't have to email myself the word document every time I write an essay. I may not use bubbl.us because I really like writing out my outline on paper rather than on the computer but its still a really good tool to know how to use. 

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September 17, 2014

Do you enjoy writing? When do you enjoy it? What kind of writing do you enjoy? Why do you think the ability to write is so important no matter what kind of writing it is? Give an example that you enjoyed writing or hated writing. Why?

There are times when I enjoy writing and times when I don't. I mostly like writing if I'm involved with a topic or when it's something that I'm interested in. I think that writing is a very important tool that you will use for the rest of your life. Writing is a way that you can express yourself. I enjoyed writing when I am talking about things that have occurred or relate to my life. I really don't like writing papers that I feel that I'm forced to write such as research papers and things where I am given a specific prompt. I like writing about things that doesn't take that much thought, that I can just write carelessly.

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September 16, 2014

Reflect on this quote. Give an example of a time in your life that this might have been the case.


I think this quote means that if you do not take the time to prepare for something, you wont be successful. When I am studying for a test, I know that I am getting ready to do my very best on that test. Another example is when you go to practice for a sport. If you don't go to the practices, you wont know what you will need to be prepared for for the game in the future.

September 15, 2014

What did you do this weekend? Share pictures if you have them!

This weekend, I didn't do much. On Friday, I went to the football game and the pizza dance after. The game was a lot of fun because we played West and that's always a big deal. After the game, I got to see a bunch of my friends that go to West and it was really exciting to see those people I haven't seen in a long time. After seeing all of my West friends, I went to the pizza dance. Even though I was forced to go because I am on student council, I still had a pretty good time being with all of my friends. For the rest of the weekend, I mostly played basketball. My team was in a tournament on Saturday and then had two more games on Sunday. We won the tournament and split the games on Sunday. Overall it was a good weekend!

September 12, 2014

What is the importance of research? Why do you need to know how to research? What have you learned in high school about researching topics and finding quality resources? Have you had a helpful teacher that has taught you to research? Explain.

Research is important because it helps you know what things are about. Research is very important and it is a very good tool to know for the rest of your life. In college, there are going to be many cases where you will have to do research and you will possibly need to know that for your profession. In high school so far, I have learned how to find good sources and where I can look for research in each database. This year is really the first year that I've ever used databases so it was interesting to learn about. One teacher that has really helped a lot with research and got me started researching was Mrs. Nocita from PSMS. Even though we never learned about databases all that much, she really helped teaching us how we know that a cite is reliable or not.

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Global Issue Selection

Global Issue Selection- Katie Upton


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For my global issue in Emerging technology, I chose poverty in America. I have begun researching the issue and you can find my research questions here.

September 10, 2014

These kids these day; I'll tell ya. They are just all over those cell phones. Kids just spend hours and hours on little black screens. Back in my day, kids would be out on the streets playing with one another. But now, they're all inside on gaming devices or another electronically gadget. Kids nowadays have lost all manners too. There's no holding the door for the elderly, no pulling a chair out for a lady, there's no class in the cities anymore.

September 9, 2014

Tell me about the global issue you selected. What do you already know about the issue? What are you looking forward to learning about it? Explain.

The global issue I picked was poverty in the US. There are many causes to poverty and a few are unemployment, natural disasters, malfunction in the government and more. I know that this is a large topic all over the world and is trying to be resolved or helped as much as possible. Some things I want to learn about while doing this project are what are the different types of organizations there are to help provide for those who cant provide for themselves. Another thing I would like to learn in this process is how many organizations and shelters there are and how many people have been affected by this issue in the US.

September 8, 2014

What did you do this weekend? Share pictures if you have them!

This weekend, I went to the Blue Valley football game against Shawnee Mission North West. It wasn't the most exciting game but it was very fun because that was my first football game being in the student section. Even though my friends and I were in the back because we're freshmen, I still had a great time being with all of my friends. On Saturday, I went to the Freshman Volleyball Jamboree here at Blue Valley. I had to go because I was refereeing, but I still enjoyed watching all of my friend and seeing some people who I haven't seen in a long time that go to different schools. 

September 5, 2014

If I were to make my own schedule, it would probably look something like this:

Sleeping: A+
Eating: A+
Running: F-
Procrastination: A+
Waking up early: D+
Being lazy: B

PSA

September 3, 2014

Yesterday I asked your to "think differently" and push yourself to be uncommon with your PSA project using Google Slides. Why do you think I asked you to do that? What is the point? Why not just use bullets and headers? Explain

I think you would ask us to be different with our PSA's because the topics that were chosen are very serious topics that should be taken seriously by everyone. By making each PSA different, some presentation could catch someone attention and they could really take it into consideration. Another reason why you may have told us to be different is because most of us have seen so many presentations about smoking and drinking and all those boring things so we needed to make something that people would want to watch and would actually pay attention to. 

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September 2, 2014

Tell me all about your Labor Day weekend. What did you do? Include photos!

This Labor Day weekend, I went to the Metro Volleyball Slam at St. James Academy on Saturday. There, my friends and I watched the varsity team play Olathe East. I also watched St. James Academy play Olathe Northwest. It was really fun to watch because I love watching volleyball games, especially high school varsity teams. I think they are really entertaining to watch because they are all so talented. The fun thing was, was that my friends and I got on TV! All the games were being filmed and from time to time, the camera men would show the fans and he happened to pick us.