Link to the Google Project

Link to Prezi

Growing Up Online

I already knew:

1. Now, people spend most time online.
2. It is sometimes easier to contact someone through a text message, Facebook or a phone call even if you are in the same house.
3. The internet can help you feel like you are someone else.
4. It is almost impossible to control what kids do online.
5. Once something is on the internet there is no turning back.
6. Kids refuse to give their passwords to their parents, they feel it is a violation to their privacy.
7. People have different relationships online.
8. Most people like to have a lot of friends on Facebook, even though they do not know most of them.
9. 90% of teenagers are online. 
10. Kids use the internet for plagiarism and things like Spark notes.
11. Now a days because of the internet people multitask more.
12. Teens are bigger experts using new technologies than adults.
13. There are some obvious predators that people keep away, but others are like any other person.
14. Cyber-bullying can lead to suicide.
15. People lie about their age online.

What surprised me:

1. Kids concentrate even less now a days.
2. Parent-Child relationships are much weaker there is much less "family time".
3. Kids friend people that they do not know, even though it is dangerous. 
4. People feel like there is no other things to do than spend time online.
5. Stalkers are more common now.
6. Some people even aware of the dangers are very irresponsible online, ie. they friend people they don't know on Facebook.

Different now:

1. Myspace is no longer popular.
2. People use Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Youtube.
3. Internet Explorer is not a main browser any more.
4. I pods are way thinner now and people use I touches more, not mp3.
5. Computers are used in school instead of notebooks.
6. There are many more Facebook users.
7. People are less interested in adding people they don't know.
8. Picture and Video quality is better.
9. Layouts are different (ie. youtube, Facebook, etc.)
10. Internet is faster.
11. Laptops and smaller/thinner computers are more common.

What topic in the video does not relate to your experiences?

In the video many girls said that they competed to see who had more friends on Facebook, and they added random people that they didn't know. I've never done that. I think that when you are online it is important to know the people you socialize with, and take precautions. If you add someone that you don't know as a friend they can find out information about you, abuse you, stalk you or even kidnap you. I never add people that I don't know, just to be safe.

What are the biggest benefits of being online?

I have many friends that have moved away or that live in other countries and being online helps me so I can communicate with them and it is faster and easier. Online I can also do many things that I love. There are many webpages that are for editing pictures and listening to music. Others help me with school like the videos in Khan Academy. It is also beneficial to be able to research things for school like about certain periods in history, for projects or homework.

What topic did you most strongly identify with?

I felt identified with the fact that kids are online most of the time. Even though I also do other things I do many things online. I chat with my friends, Skype with the member of my family that don't live here or with my friends, I have a tumblr. Mostly, though, I listen to music, and I watch videos on youtube.

Swiss School

Sustainability Management School:

• Business school based totally on sustainability 
• It is the first one of its kind in Europe 
• It is in Gland, Switzerland
• It is in the building of the international union for the conservation of nature
• Teaches how to bring sustainability to life in the day to day work.
• Students go into many functions and apply sustainability into what they do, be it marketing, finance etc.
• It offers both the Bachelors and the Masters of business administration and sustainability management

Sustainable consumption and production: a greener world:

• transport, buildings, food, drink, waste, and CO2 emissions  are responsible for about 80% of the worlds environmental impact
• we have to change our ways of producing and consuming or by 2050 we will need twice of earths surface to absorb the waste and CO2 produced.
• there are products that are better it can be because they use less resources or require less energy when used or are recyclable, or reusable.
• Encouraging citizens to be responsible in their every day consumption and pushing industries to strive for more services that are friendly to the environment we can make a change.

Arizona State University: Graduation Ceremony:

• Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard are attempting to fly across america in an airplane powered only with solar pannels
• difficulties are opportunities
• It you only use the knowledge you have gained throughout these years of your life you will never be more successful than other people.
• If you want to be more successful you have to go beyond knowledge into exploration
• If you do this you will have a mind open enough to create and this is important because the world in order to have a brighter and better future needs creators and people who can change things who can fight poverty and fight for human rights but also who can create clean technology to achieve sustainability.

An Inconvenient truth:

• the 10 hottest years in history have been within the last 14 years the hottest was 2005
• we are causing global warming
• it is a moral issue
• the temperature increases is causing bigger, and stronger storms
• Our homes and ability to live is at stake 
• the attic is melting faster

Assignment

1. We can apply sustainable consumption here in many different ways. For one we can buy organic products because they were made with less or no fertilizers and chemicals so they did not harm the soil like the ones that were grown using chemicals and fertilizers. We can also buy local products because less energy is used in the transportation, than the amount used with products that are imported. Another thing we can do is recycle and reuse things. 
2. At Starbucks there are two main things going on that affect the environment in a positive way. First of all they are working on a project to make all their cups recyclable. They have stores in some cities where there is no recycling like Chicago. What they do is: they place trash-cans for the paper cups in the stores so the customer can throw out the cups there. Then they take out the trash like they normally do but these are picked up by trucks that take them to a paper mill and from there they are put in a pulper. Then that pulp is later used to make paper. So through recycling they can reduce their negative impact on the environment. Another thing they are doing is: helping the farmers. They help them run the business and with their crops, to ensure better quality of their products and less negative impact on the environment. All of this helps to minimize the environmental footprint that Starbucks makes.

GAFE

Forms and Flubaroo

 I created a Sample quiz (link) using Google forms.

Here is the process:
1. Go to http://drive.google.com/

2. Click on the orange thing that says CREATE and then on the green sheet that says Form.

3. A screen like this will appear.

Choose a title and choose the theme, then click OK.

4. You can write a quiz description if you want to, if not then just leave the space blank.

   

    4.1. Where it says Question Title    Untitled Question   write your question.

    4.2. Then choose the question type.

    4.3. For all except for text and paragraph text choose what the options are.

    4.4. Then press Done to finish with that question. And start on another one by pressing Add Item

5. When you are done press Choose Response Destination at the top left.

5.1. Make sure to create a new spreadsheet and press CREATE

6. Then press send form at the bottom and send it to whoever you want to take the quiz.

Today I learned what Google forms are useful for as well as flubaroo. I learned how to create a quiz with Google forms and how to grade it with flubaroo. I was also able to show how I created my quiz.