Google Day 3

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This class I spent most time editing photos and the rest selecting the photos.I edited them using smugmug. My results are above. Next class I will also spend it editing pictures.

Google Day 2

This class I am going to research about the difference between professional photo editing and editing pictures for fun. I will find some pages or applications for professional editing, and more for regular photo editing for fun. Also I will edit a couple pictures and upload them.

Professional photo editing is all about enhancing the color of the picture. In professional photo editing, the details are very important. The biggest difference is that in programs that edit for fun the effects are basic; black and white, sepia, and changing the background. While in professional editing you can edit the colors, the quality, the shadows, and also the basic things like black and white and sepia.

some softwares for professional photographers
Links for Photo editing sites
Apps

professional editing software
-Corel PaintShop Pro
-Photo Ninja
-Photoshop Lightroom 4
-Capture NX2

fun photo editing
-Loonapix photo editor
-3deffects
-befunky
-Fun Photo box

Others
-Photobucket
-Smugmug
-Photoshop CS6

Next time I will like to be able to edit more photos and research three professional photo editors, their names and one of the pictures they have edited.

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Stixy

Stixy

Stixy is a site that is used to create "stixy board". A stixy board is like a bulettin board that you can create online. In your stixy board you can upload pictures and documents; you can also paste notes. You may keep your stixy board private or share it with others.

To create a stixy board you have to create an account/ sign up on stixy. Then you are ready to start. There is a bar with buttons in the bottom of the page. They have logos one is for notes, the second one for pictures, the third one for documents and the last one says todo. To upload anything, you drag and drop the picture of the button into the white space in the page. Then in the right side of the page there will appear a bar with different things so you can edit what you put. If it is notes you may edit the background color of the paper, the font of the letters, the size etc. The last button that says todo is to make comments or remainders on a calendar. On the left side of the screen there is a list of all the stixy blogs you've created. Once one board is created and saved you can always go back and edit it, and if you share it you can decide if you want to let the others edit it as well if they wish to do so.

View of Stixy

Students might use this to make posts of important dates and remainders. Also they could use it to post documents and pictures and share them. They can share information or notes with others. Another thing that they could use it for is to do group projects.

Finished Stixy Board

DIGITAL NATION

1. I agree with the fact that we are all connected to the internet all the time, or at least most of it. I agree because it is like this for me, when I am at home I am on my computer, on the TV, or on my i pod; at school I am on my phone or on my i pod or i pad. 
2. I agree with the fact that we live in a digital world, because we are all connected through the internet, for example on Facebook, through e-mail, and on twitter.
3. I agree with what they say about us all being in a same place but in different worlds because I have had that experience where we are all sitting down in the living room some  on their computers, others on their phones and the rest on their i pads, even if they are just playing Sudoku or cards game. Sometimes I ask myself, why can't we all just play cards together with real cards? I mean that is what we are doing but we are doing it alone against the computer. 
4. I agree with what they say that over half my life is connected to a digital world. That we all have a "digital life", I think that this is true because I live it I have a digital life on tumblr,on twitter on Facebook. 
5. I agree with what they say about how students try but they try in a way that is not effective because they are getting distracted. I get distracted very easily with things on the internet and my work does not turn out as well done as before, it is now done with less effort, because I just want to finish it and go online. When this happens my grades drop.
6. I agree with what they say about how some things cannot be done while doing something else. I believe that you can be multitasking with things that are simple or automatic but when something requires a lot of concentration or it is very hard because you do not put all your effort into what you need to do, somethings require full attention on them. 
7. I disagree with what they say about how multitasking is impossible. I think that it is possible, yet not as easy or effective, also that it is only possible to do fully with things that are easy.
8. I agree with what they say when they say multitasking are slower and do not do such a good performance because I have been in the place where I think that I can do many things at a time but end up not finishing anything. 
9. I agree with what they say about how multitasking is not as effective. I believe that to do everything as best as you can you have to put your full concentration on it, but if you are doing more than one thing then it is impossible to put your full concentration in both things. I think that to do hings faster and better you have to do each thing at a time. When you put you put full concentration into something it does not only turn out better, but it is done faster, if you do this, you may do more things and done in a better way. I believe this because I have lived this experience, when I try to do multitasking the final result is worse and sometimes I am not able to finish anything, but when I do everything at a time the final result is better, and I am able to do more things, better, in less time.
10. I disagree on the way how they look the research of the brain because I think that when we do some things our brain capability is bigger like when reading, so we do not need to do so much of an effort, that is why it turns out smaller, and when doing research in Google our brain capability decreases so we have to do a bigger effort and that is why it turns out bigger.  
11. I agree that spending time online that is addicting. I agree because when I am online it is very hard for me to get off line when I have to do something else because I have fun online and i do not want to go of. Sometimes I try to finish everything as fast as I can or I try to do many things at a time, so I can have more time online, but at the end I am not able to do anything well done.
12. I agree with what they say about how people stop communicating with their parents and other people that are in their lives, because we spend more time talking to people online who are not in our lives, or doing things online, some that are useless, but all we want to do is go back to doing them, so even when we are not online we are thinking about those things.
13. I also agree with what they say about how using to much technology may affect you in medical ways. An excess in use of computers may leave you blind or hearing to much music with headphones may affect your hearing. I agree because doctors always say this and I know people who have been affected negatively in their health because they spent to much time with headphones, or looking at the computer for too long for an really long time.
14. I agree that kids should be taught how to use technology responsibly when they are young because if not they will get addicted, and this can affect them medically and it might also affect their relationships, and education.
15. I agree with that there is a very big difference between people who grew up with technology and the ones who grew up without them because for us who grew up with technology we are more fluent in it, we explore it, going online and navigating online is natural to us, while some adults or most have more trouble on it, also because we are constantly online and adults online are not.
16. I agree with that having technology in schools is good, but also partly bad, it is good because we learn in the way that we should we need to learn to use technology because this is how the world runs today in the 21st century. It is also bad because we are distracted more easily with online games and different things.
17. I agree that teaching students to multitask is important because the world is evolving and in the future and in the present the world runs so fast that we need to adapt to it. 
18. I agree that students are not as academical anymore because of distractions because I believe that the temptation to use the internet and other thing that are actually fun will distract students from their academical things and they will not do an effort to do those well done.
19. I agree that the world has evolved but the education is not.
20. I agree that basic skills are worse than they were before because now there are things like sparks notes and we do not have to read the books, or spellchecker and we do not check our spelling, sometimes we do not even bother learning it.
21. I agree that they should still learn the basic skills like communication and other things, but the thing we need to do is learn it differently, in a way
22. I agree that everyone struggles with distraction
23. I agree that as a culture we learned to adapt to the new changes, but we 
24. I agree that we should embrace technology, because it is reality it is how the world runs now I just think that we should learn to embrace technology in a good way, and in ways that are good for us.
25. I also agree that we need to appreciate technology because it gives us many opportunities, and without it we would not be able to do it. 
26. I disagree with what they say that virtual worlds bring us together. I think this is true, they bring the world together because everyone is connected, but it is also false because we spend less time with the people that are real, that we know, and that we care about, we might be in the same room but we do not talk and we are all in our own little world doing different things online, there is no interaction between us.