Monday, May 27, 2013

Growing up online

Didn't surprise me

  1. People were unconscious of everything online 
  2. those days everything was less secure and I could imagine how it's the beginning of online life they only wanted attention 
  3. It's easier to do stupidity's online were you don't know most of the people 
  4. Relationships online grow a lot because you can be who ever you want 
  5. you can say anything you want 
  6. Bullying can be easier 
  7. It's easier to fight online 
  8. you can change your whole status online 
  9. you don't know who is watching everything online \
  10. some people are fake and some aren't 
  11. people are constantly online not paying attention of their families 
  12. there is no break for kids 
  13. parents weren't as good in the internet as today 
  14. internet may cause depression for kids because of fights and other things 
  15. turn out in suicide or other problems 
  16. teachers make children do all their assignments in class so they can't cheat with online resources 

What surprised me

  1. 1 in 7 kids has gotten a sexual solicitation 
  2. there are sites with tips for people like anorexic 
  3. parents have no control over the online world 
  4. on little thing could affect your whole life online and offline 
  5. internet crested the biggest gap of ages after the ages of rock 
  6. most of the things done in the internet stay there for there 
  7. when trying to protect their children the parents were very mad 
  8. sharing in the internet is like letting people into your house 
  9. why tell their parents when they can tell the whole online society 
  10. facts state that kids have been in more dangerous situations online 
  11. why don't their children give the password to their parents if they are doing it for their safety 
  12. websites use online tests to help people commit suicide
  13. online gaming has become one of the biggest things of the online society 
  14. when parents think of internet they would think of any sexual habit or activity done 
  15. how things were in 2008 in the whole online society and how they affected family relationships 
  16. people that were asked for info or pictures sometimes would send their things even if they didn't know who the person on the other screen was 

What has changed since 2008

  1. MySpace isn't used often any more 
  2. people have more advance technology 
  3. monitors have changed a lot threw out the years 
  4. youtube now a days doesn't  let everything online 
  5. Know a days everything online is more secure but the predators are better at what they do 
  6. know a days internet can be used in most things 
  7. all templates of online have changed 
  8. people know more about the internet 
  9. parents know a days know more about the online world 
  10. parent guidance is better online 
  11. parental controls sites are much better and parents don't have to do much to do that 
  12. Their are new social networks 
  13. public wifi 
  14. knowledge about online security and online society 
  15. teachers know a days have more control over students work and if they cheat 
  16. more people of every age express their thoughts online from 6 year olds to 90 year old people
- What topic in the video was the most unlike your own experience?
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

GAFE


Chrome extensions for students and teachers...what are they, what do they do, how do you use them, who would benefit from using them?

What it is:
- A Chrome extension will normally sit in your browser toolbar next to the URL box and normally allows you to do something with the web page you are currently viewing. To get these you need to learn how to install them.
- Number of extensions that help make the life of students and teachers easier and more productive.

Some examples:
- Ever-note extension: May send web page or part of web page to Ever-note account
-Screenshot tool: lets you take a screenshot of all or part of the current webpage you are in

What do they do: 
- They make working on Google chrome wit other applications much easier than ever. They are like short cuts to some applications that can work with Google to use on the web page you are using.

How to get these extensions:
- You need to go to the Chrome web store and into the extensions section to find them. 

Then can see them by filter or popularity. If you want to do a more accurate search just go to the search bar in the web store and look for it and if a jigsaw piece appears on the bottom right corner it's an extension. After that you press the "add to chrome" button. It will be added to your Google Chrome.

How do you use them:
- When you have them installed on to your Google Chrome then it depends on the extension you got, but click on it and you will get what you can do with it.
- I will show you how to use some like:
> IP-Address: press on the icon and Shows your IP address with some additional Information and adds easy copy and paste functionality. Features:   
- shows country and DNS details
                   - copies your IP adress to clipboard automatically or with a simple click
                   - paste your IP via the rightclick context menu

> Categorizer: Right click the mouse on something that's not an image, canvas or the like. Then choose the "Categorizer" menu and the options are right there. Features:
- Categorizer lets you manage and categorize the websites you visit regularly         and the ones you only visit on certain days of the week. 

And there is Hundreds more to download and use. There are games, help tabs, dictionary's, and many other's. 

Benefit: 
This can help teachers and students to share web pages or parts of web pages on to other sites like blogs, also there are reminder applications that can be used for homework or work. 
It can make everything faster and more efficient for every one. There are other ways to use this like mini games, Shopping, News, sports and others. 



Thursday, May 2, 2013

Google day 3

Goal of the day look at other details from colleges.

Schools that I thought of but have nothing of what i'm looking for 
-UCSB
-UCSC
-New Haven U   

Public or private
-UCLA: Public 
-Berkley UC: Public  
-The U of Arizona: Public 
-Barnard College NY: Private 
-California College of art: Private 
-Florida International University: Public 
-Art Center Design College: Private 
-RISD: Private 
Location 
-UCLA: California 
-Berkley UC: California 
-The U of Arizona: Arizona 
-Barnard College NY: New York  
-California College of art: California  
-Florida International University: Florida  
-Art Center Design College: California 
-RISD: Rhode Island 

International Qualifications 
-UCLA: 
Ability to Finance:Required
ACT:ACT or SAT
Campus Visit:Optional
Essay:Required
IELTS:


SAT I:SAT or ACT
TOEFL:Recommended

-Berkley UC: 

Ability to Finance:
ACT:ACT or SAT
Campus Visit:Recommended
Essay:Required
IELTS:Required
Interview:
Recommendations:
SAT I:SAT or ACT
TOEFL:Recommended
-The U of Arizona: Arizona: 
Ability to Finance:Required
ACT:Optional
Campus Visit:Optional
Essay:Optional
IELTS:Optional
Interview:Optional
Recommendations:Optional
SAT I:Optional
TOEFL:Required
-Barnard College NY: 
Ability to Finance:Recommended
ACT:ACT or SAT
Campus Visit:
Essay:Required
IELTS:Recommended
Interview:Recommended
Recommendations:Required
SAT I:SAT or ACT
TOEFL:Recommended
-California College of art: 
Ability to Finance:Required
ACT:Optional
Campus Visit:Recommended
Essay:Required
IELTS:Recommended
Interview:Recommended
Recommendations:Required
SAT I:Optional
TOEFL:Required
-Florida International University: 
Ability to Finance:Required
ACT:ACT or SAT
Campus Visit:Recommended
Essay:Optional
IELTS:
Interview:Optional
Recommendations:Optional
SAT I:SAT or ACT
TOEFL:Required
-Art Center Design College: TOEFL 
-RISD: 
Ability to Finance:Required
ACT:ACT or SAT
Campus Visit:Optional
Essay:Required
IELTS:Optional
Interview:
Recommendations:Optional
SAT I:SAT or ACT
TOEFL:Required

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Google day 2

Majors in the different schools which apply with what I want.
-UCLA: Architecture (Bachelors, Masters, Doctorate)
-UCSB: Not sure
-UCSC:  Not one of the courses I would like
-Berkley UC: Architecture (Bachelors, Masters, Doctorate), Architecture and related services (Doctorate)
-New Haven U: Not one
-The U of Arizona: Architecture (Bachelors, Masters)
-Barnard College NY: Architecture (Bachelors)
-California College of art: Architecture (Bachelors, Masters)
-Florida International University: Architecture (Bachelors, Masters)
-Art Center Design College: Architecture
-RISD: Architecture: Interior landscape and architecture
Every schools application grade. (GPA)
-Berkley: 3.5
-UCLA: 3.77
-The U of Arizona: 3.3-3.5
-Barnard College: 3.3 higher
-California College of art: 3.2
-Florida International University: 3.06
-Art Center Design College: Test scores
-RISD: 3.03

Friday, April 19, 2013

Google day 1

Goals:
- Look at colleges that will provide what I want to study (architecture or interior design).
- What is needed to get in
- Start a plan from know to college.

Topic:
- make a plan for before college, during college and after.
Majors: I want to take
-Naval architecture: naval architecture is the process or creation of boats; the difference with cars or motorcycles is that these boats are made depending on the buyer they are all different depending what it is for and how do they wanna use it (ex: a cruise would be different than a cargo ship). - - - -     http://139.30.101.246/schiffbaustudium_01/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50&Itemid=53&lang=en

- Architecture: definition: -The art or practice of designing and constructing buildings. -The style of a building with regard to a specific period, place, or culture. 
Architecture has the highest quality of design there is seen. Its art as well as science and a business career 

- Interior architecture: Interior architecture combines the study and practice of interior design with architecture. It explores how the interiors of buildings such as office blocks, houses, hospitals and galleries are inhabited, used and experienced.                                                   - http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/courses/options/interior-architecture/
It's in a way an interior design of a building or place. To see how it works lets say room's, offices, bathroom and etc.

Schools that offer what i'm looking for:
UCLA
UCSC
UCSB
University of New haven
Los Andes

- From all these schools the one I mostly like is USCB University of California, Santa Barbara  because it has a great campus and all the majors I would like to study. Also it has a great athletics program for students.


Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Phishing

What I know
- I don't know anything about the topic itself

Questions
- What is fishing?
- How does fishing work?

Useful Websites
- http://cybercellmumbai.gov.in/html/cyber-crimes/phishing.html
- http://www.csoonline.com/article/221737/phishing-the-basics
- http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/security-info/cybercrime/phishing/
What I Learned
- Phishing: the act or attempt to take or steal information from users such as usernames, passwords and credit card details; by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.
- What they do to get your info is send mails saying to update info in a website but the link on the mail is false so you put your info in these special websites.
- They can take your info of any type such as credit cards, bank account passwords and others then they will or can sell it to other people or to the black market. 
- Phishing is based on real fishing because they put out bait and some will ignore others will be tempted.
- There is a technology known as sender authentication which will go into the mail sent and see if it's really sent from the website "the original" so let's say you get an e-mail from bancolombia saying you need to change your password; it will trace were the mail is sent from. this is called pharming a type of phishing.

How this topic related to my life
- This is related to my life because know a days there are alot of things that I may be using the internet for. So I could acidentaly give my information to a false site that will use this against me. 
This can turn in very serious consequences for both parties. 

Questions I still have
.- Is the illegal act rear or very frequent? Why?


Thursday, March 21, 2013

design project day 5

Like
- The idea
- that it was fun and not that challenging

Didn't like
- to easy
- it was made out of boxes
- and that some parts were a little tilted so it made it easier

What was the biggest problem you encountered? How did you solve it?
- The biggest problem we had was that are idea was complicated are plan was hard, so we needed more time to create are idea. We solved by making something more simple and easier to work with. 
When did you get your biggest "AH HA" idea? What was it?
- At the beginning when we drew the sketch out. This was because we had every little detail drawn out so that made the idea of the game great and cool. We thought about how it was going to work the prizes everything was thought or said that moment. 
Who in your group resisted new ideas the most and why?
- I did because I had a plan in mind and that I would stick to it. Because of all the thought we put into the design I thought it would work out; but at the end I went with the new idea so that there was enough time to finish the project.
What doubts did YOU have about the project and how did you overcome those doubts?
- I had doubts about how it would work, how the whole mechanism would work out. How the ball would come back to the player. I overcame those doubts by doing them carefully and putting lots of thought to it and with help of my partners. 
Who in your group played "devil's advocate" (a person who questions everything, even good ideas) and how did that help the process? 
- Ana Maria Lara because we always said something and she would question the idea, she thought it wouldn't work out because she didn't understand. It didn't help because most of the time we were explaining to her what was happening. 
What did you learn about yourself, teamwork, and the design process? 
- I learned that not always it can finish as you expected. I learned that teamwork is the best way to progress your way to a better product of any kind, because all ideas are explained and will be thought about everyone can help. The design was easy but to create it was the hard part all the ideas and problems we had were because not much communication happened.  

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Design project-day 3

Choose
- We thought are game was for 8-10 year olds so we wanted to make this game challenging for the kids so that they wouldn't get bored. The game had to be fun, fast, challenging, and had to have prices. Yes they do match are game because we used that as a guide. It wasn't stable enough to hold everything up, the layers weren't connected well. By having a more accurate sketch that helps us guide in the building of are game.
Build Plan:
Get materials 
- Get wood (willy) and do the sketch mathias sends on it
- Get springs for base (mathias)
- silicon gun (ana)
- tubes (mathias)
- carb board box (ana)
- Connect and talk about what we will do on the wood a box 
- Start with the base 
- Create the labyrinth 
- Add a way for the marble to go back so the person gets it again if the ball falls 
- Put the springs on add everything on "details"
- Try it and if fails repair

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Design project-day 2

My drawing-
-weakness: to complicated to make
-strength: it shows the inside and the outside of the labyrinth

Mathias' drawing-
-weakness: shows only one part of the labyrinth
-strength- its easy to make, and is a challenge for the player
Ana Maria's drawing 
-weakness: to difficult to play
-strength- very detailed

What needs to be added
-the outside part how the finish product will look like

Details that  will be added

-barriers

What this game needs to improve is the difficulty or age group and how it works 

Friday, February 1, 2013

Design project day 1

Group:
- Ana Maria Lara
- Mathias Kling

-This game will be made for Middle and Elementary students.
-This games difficulty will be medium
-The game has to be fun, competitive, challenging, creative and able to win cool prices

Three links
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd7x-F5irBY
in this video they have to catch the tickets in the air as the dust buster makes them go flying threw the box.
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ-RE0ZJB50
this video shows a pinball machine made out of lego it has all the parts of a normal pinball machine
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cEWELoxEsY
this is a labyrinth which you use by to axis, you have to put in a marble and guided threw the maze avoiding the falls or pits. You can take the maze out to put in a different difficulty  

We will do a labyrinth which will have two floors with axis handles to move it to avoid the wholes, when getting to the end of the first floor then you go in the whole and it takes the marble to the second floor

We could also do to labyrinths beside each other so that it's a race against some one else.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Tour Colombia







find 10 photo of the place
each photo should be explained so people know and see what to do
use a web 2.0 tool to present your perfect vacation
post link on website
Email link to miss shawn sallen@cng.edu


Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Tech tool evaluation

Easybib

Three things I liked about this tool.
- I liked that you could really in a way create an online p bibliography page for your self.
- It's very easy to use you only put the keywords and many sites will appear that you can choose from.
- For the bibliography you can and things from cites, books, newspapers, journals and more.

Three things that I didn't like about his tool.
- Some thing that I didn't like was it was only for adding information from others notes not your own like it would be great to use as a portfolio.
- It could improve by having a facebook login so that you don't have to remember more passwords.
- It could be cool if you could do online collaborating with other students and/or teachers.

I Could use this tool to gather up information for a paper that I have to do. I can have the cites and all bibliographies all ready to help.

Philterlt 

Three things I liked about this tool.
- I Liked that it was easy to download and is a side bar on google chrome and gmail.
- It's very secure because it ask you if it can scan your inbox so that you don't need to put in a password. It helps google know you authorized it.
- It shows the brands it recognizes from your mails and it asks you which ones you want.

Things I didn't like or can make better.
- You can only organize the brands and not the personal mail which aren't from these brands.
- Only works on google chrome; they should let it work in other browsers.
- Only works for gmail; should work on other mail sites such as hotmail.com, yahoo.com and others

I could be able to use this when i'm going to travel and i'm expecting emails from big brands and/or travel agencies.
Can use it when you need jobs and you send all your papers and when you receive a mail you know exactly were it comes from.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

white hat hackers

I really know a little about white hat hackers:
- It's a term used for a computer hacker or a computer security system.

Questions:
- What do they do?
- Is there other types of hat hackers and what do they have in common or different form white hackers?
- Whats the definition of white hat hackers?

Good links I used:
- http://www.secpoint.com/What-is-a-White-Hat.html

Things I learned: 
- White hat hackers definition: A hacker which try security systems to see if there any vulnerability of the system and will tell the page or place this is used (vendor). 
- Theres not only white hat hackers but theres also black hat hackers and grey hat hackers. The black hat hackers are hackers which hack intending a crime. The grey hat hackers are much alike as the white hat hackers but they don't only tell the vendor they also tell crackers.  
- The white hat hackers are said to be ethical hackers which only hack to see if the security system is good enough so that other hackers which are trying to do bad won't be able to hack it.
- These people are employed by the organizations to be the network security professionals. Most come from the CNS 4011 which are teams of hackers there red which act in aggression and the blue team which act in a defensive mode.
- White hat hacking started as a "security evaluating" by the U.S Air Force, they found out it had some vulnerability's. They also found out that the U.S had being doing this.
- The tactic of ethical hacking was made by Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema.

Summary: So what I learned was that there hackers that are used for good. This connects to my life because theres many people which maybe want to make other miserable by hacking there private things and the white hackers would already tell the security system of the vendors; like if I have my bank account and the hack the system to see whats wrong and need to be strengthened.

Questions I still have: How do you ask a white hat hacker to help you see if you security system is good?

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

College Exploration on Naviance

2 colleges that interest me that I just found out of about:
- RISD (Rhode Island School of Design)
- NYU (New York University)

     College
      name 
 Irvine      UCLA     UC Santa cruz  pen state main campus 
Applications accepted 45% 26%64%76%
Graduation%83% 90% 74% 85%
GPA to enter  3.58 3.79 3.30 3.39
Sports team Volleyball  yes yes yes but only chosen  yes 
Public or private  public  public  public public 
cost tuition $36,000$35,564$36,294 $28,066
 Room and board $11,611$13,979$14,727$9,420

My GPA is: 2.87
Irvine: I need better score im low
UCLA: very low from the asking GPA
UC Santa Cruz: Close but not enough
Pen-state main campus: close but not enough

What I need to do to get in 2 of them and get closer is have a 3 or higher on each of my classes and if I have a 3.2 on each class I will get up to a 3.6; but not close to UCLA for that I have to be great student.

This lets me know how theres many different colleges which are good too not only stanford or harvard and that to get into these colleges I need to bump up my grades the lowest GPA for one of these is 3.3 of UC Santa Cruz. I really liked this and will really look into UC Santa Cruz which was the one I liked the most.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Google day #4

Goals for to day:
1. Name the project (what i'm going to do)
2. Start the project and go step by step an write them down for the video
Goals for the project make a house with 3 rooms, 1 living room, 1 kitchen, bathrooms, 1 dining room, 2 stairs, 1 studio or work area, roof and windows/door.

What I did:
I started an finished the plan for the first floor  I did the Dining Room, The kitchen, One bathroom, one of the stair cases, and the Living Room area (space)
This is the first floor but still doesn't have the stairs(UP).  Here they are in the process of making.



Friday, October 19, 2012

Stixy

link-  http://www.stixy.com
This site was made for online collaborating with others, online bulletin board. Which you can write on to add or to comment. There are some glitches that will make this really hard to use. Also there are many ad's popping out during the time in the website.

How to use website.
1) Create your own account
2) Create a new stixy which is a bulletin board
3) Write notes, add photos, add document and comment on others bulletins.
4) help friends collaborate with each other.

This website was really slow and hard to use on Mac computer. So I really can't show what I did because of all of it's problem. It had many advertisements and made it all slow.

This site can use by students to do online collaborating learning and helping each other with comments.

Marines

http://www.military-quotes.com/mottos/USA.htm

http://www.medalsofamerica.com/SubCategory--Coast-Guard-Medals-and-Ribbons--m-598

Us coast guard facility
Marines
4000

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Digital Nation

1. I Agree that kids get distracted easily because we are thinking about everything else not school or homework.
2. I don't agree that this is a psychiatric disorder because we use it for other things in life not only gaming and social things.
3. I agree that it's bad to be always using electronic devices because you will never do anything else but also I disagree because we use this a communication device.
4. I agree this can become a deadly addiction it can hurt you, your, family, and friends.
5. I agree that it's great that they learn the internet rules because they will make them more careful in these things.
6. I disagree that technology is oxygen because you can live with out it as well as with it.
7. I agree that google makes you smarter because theres everything to learn from.
8. That I disagree that they shouldn't spy on the kids because it's there privacy they should have trust in them because if there not trusted they will start doing worse things.
9. I think that their not the dumbest but not the greatest because maybe they don't do well in school, but they can do better in other things
10. I agree that it's a problem that theres no privacy because they can hack and see all your things and also most of your information is in the internet.
11. I agree that most people in age should learn how to use the internet because it's becoming everything.
12. I agree that gaming was giving them another world not isolating them because they are creating relationships and other things.
13. I agree that the internet connects people in different ways because they like the same things, they want to meet new people and other things.
14. If we keep on fighting our wars with droids we will become more computerized but at the same time they don't kill the men thats why I really don't agree or disagree.
15. I agree that technology has separated us from our families and friends because at first we saw all the movies together but know we start to separate to se them alone on our iPads and iPods.