Do Now 9/29/14

     An editorial is a newspaper article written by or on behalf of an editor that gives an opinion on a topical issue. An editorial is a chance for a writer in a newspaper to somewhat give their opinion on a certain topic. A writer by the name of Bruce Maiman wrote an editorial about Wikipedia. Many of my teachers have told me about Wikipedia. They tell me not to use it because people can put in their own information in the articles. Many of these articles are said to be wrong because of this input of other peoples information.
    Most of my teachers do not want me to use Wikipedia as a source. They do not allow it in research papers and if they allow it they strongly root against it. I have asked and my teachers have said that  they do not want me getting false information from the website. They think that because other viewers of the website can add their own content that it is automatically wrong. this is wrong to think because Wikipedia has changed and is getting better with their content.
     My thoughts about Wikipedia have changed. I used to think that Wikipedia was bad because my teachers would never let me use it. Now I would not be scared to use it. I never understood why I was unable to use Wikipedia. Now I will use it as much as I want. I can show my teachers the editorial when they tell me that I cannot use Wikipedia as a source.

IPhone 6 and iOS 8:secret features

     The IPhone 6 has recently been released. With the new phone came a new update:iOS 8. With the new IPhone out, people are beginning to find hidden features not advertised by Apple. For example, Siri listens at all times. Siri will hear you say "Hey Siri" even when you don't press on the home screen button beforehand. Also the new IPhone can bend at the top but no more than 30 degrees. The new iOS update includes a new keyboard, messaging improvements,upgraded mail, and so much more. These features were not advertised in a big way so now people are discovering it themselves.

English III

     My teacher for english three is Ms. Hunter. She has been working at this school for almost 8 years. She went to the college of New Jersey for her teaching degree. When the class first started I expected to learn about Shakespeare or another boring writer. Now I know that I will not be learning about that at all.

     So far I have learned about the purdue OWL website to help me with papers that I will have to write for that class. Ms.Hunters grading policy is pretty simple. 40% is formal assessments, 40% performance based assessments, 10% homework, and 10% informal assessments.I like a lot of things about Ms. Hunters class. For example we work on the research paper very closely so that for history everything is perfect. I am excited to learn more in her class.

     This year we will be using a lot of technology for English. Now that the school has chromebooks we will be using them alot. We will use them primarily to go on the purdue OWL page.We will also use them for turnitin, a website that we use to check plagiarism in our papers.  I am excited for this because the new chromebooks are tiny and easy to use.I am also excited for this year because this is the fourth time I have had Ms. Hunter and she has always been one of my favorites.She is very particular about punctuation. I hope English three is up to the standards that I have set for Ms.
Hunter. You can see what she has planned on her website.

Educational Technology and Copyright Law

• Copyright is a United States federal law that protects original “works of authorship” which include literary, written, dramatic, artistic, musical and certain other types of works.
• You have four rights when using copyrighted work
• use the copyrighted work
• show the copyrighted work publicly
• prepare your work based on the copyrighted product
• Distribute copies of the copyrighted work to the public
• To use copyrighted work fairly use these step
• always reference to the original work
• bring up the nature of the work
• For class work projects you are allowed to use images from the internet
• Many images are licenced
  

Microsoft to stream Xbox games to PC browsers?

The tech firm at the Xbox offices are working to get their games to PC browsers. Microsoft is developing this technology to easily stream the Xbox games to your PC. Although this news has been rumored for a few weeks Microsoft is actively working on this technology. Last month, Microsoft Research published a report on a project named Outatime, which seeks to allow seamless gameplay over the company’s vast Azure cloud computing network. “The Xbox 360 games offer up the full experience, including the dashboard running in the browser too. So don’t think this is some hacked together project, this is the real deal. The product, as it stands right now, has Xbox branding and works outside the walls of Microsoft.”said the Microsoft offices.

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