Wednesday, December 22 Essential Question

Blog about creating the home page for GFWC.  


Tell me what the GFWC does.

    They have already established 75 percent of the public libraries in the country. Developing kindergartens in the public schools, and even working for food and drug .

What is the purpose of the organization and what type of activities do they participate in?
   They donate money for charities and colleges around the country.  


What are the qualifications and requirements to be a member?  
  Minimum requirements:  You must have two or three years completion of undergraduate coursework, there must also be a familiarity with archival principles, and excellent communication and writing skills.
    
    Preferred requirements: Graduate coursework in archives administration, library and information science, or public history. Familiarity with PastPerfect collections management software and working knowledge of best practices for digitization.


Explain the type of web site you would like to create and why this would be the best type for the GFWC of Elkins.
   I'd use a type of website they have for the national webpage I forget what the name of that would be, but I think that'd be the best choice for layout of the website.

Thursday, December 16

Tell me about what you have learned in the assignments using Photoshop and while researching alternate ways to create websites?
             In Photoshop I learned how to alter text to make it look better than it would alone. Feathering to make it faded around a picture. I have only found one alternate way to create websites.


  What kinds of tools are available for web page designers and what kinds of tools do they use?
   Paint brush, feathering tool, text tool, eraser. They are mostly graphics tools, and editing tools for text and pictures.


  Do you have to be a professional or hire a professional in order to make a web page?
     You do not have to be a professional or even hire one to make a web page, if you have at least some experience with Dreamweaver or another program you should be fine.


  What does this tell you about the types of websites that are available for viewing and accuracy of information?  Are you surprised at what you have learned?
     It doesn't tell me much it just, says that some creaters of web pages may not be professionally trained. I'm not too surprised but I did think it would be extremely difficult to create websites.

November 19 Essential Question

What is Thanksgiving about to you and your family?  What are some traditions that you have in your family for Thanksgiving or other holidays?  Do you or other members of your family hunt during Thanksgiving week?  Tell me a little bit about your view on hunting.


Thanksgiving is about being with our family and giving thanks to the people who helped build this country. Traditions are me and my cousins breaking the wishbone. My stepdad hunts whenever he gets a chance, I am going to go when I get my hunting license. I don't see a problem with hunting because, if we didn't hunt before winter the animals would for one reason overrun us, and starve to death when there isn't enough food for a lot of deer or anything else you hunt, and as long as you do it for sport or food I do not see a problem with it. 

Tell me about a veteran or a current service member that you know or are related to.  Why is it important to honor veterans of our country?  Name at least one small way that youcan honor or thank a veteran or current service member. (Or maybe a way that you already did yesterday on Veteran's Day.)

My step uncle is going to be serving in a couple of months. It's important to honor the men & women who helped keep this country safe. On Veterans day, I went to a friends school and we went next the Veterans memorial next to Walgreens and sang to the Veteran's American songs.

Yay Buttons...not

While we were developing our game, I realized how difficult it was to code the buttons. The tutorials did help a lot with the navigation buttons though.  While we were designing our game we had an idea of how we could include buttons in our game and game demo. It was challenging finding the right layers for the buttons and the code, we got confused a lot during it.

November 5 Essential Question

1. Define: 
                 research scientist: A scientist, in the broadest sense, is any person who engages in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge or an individual that engages in such practices and traditions that are linked to        schools of thought or philosophy.                 
                 
                 stint: stretch: an unbroken period of time during which you do something; "there were stretches of boredom"; "he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary"                 
                 
                 developing countries: a term generally used to describe a nation with a low level of material well being.                 
                  
                GDP: General Political Department (PLA)                 
                 
                market research survey: is the systematic gathering, recording, and analysis of data about issues relating to marketing products and services.                 
                 
                rural: living in or characteristic of farming or country life; "rural people"; "large rural households"; "unpaved rural roads"; "an economy that is basically rural"                 
                
               contract-labor force: The total number of people employed or seeking employment in a country or region.

2. Why would people in developing countries be particularly likely to be interested in small jobs? Who do you think benefits more from mobile phones, people in rich countries or people in developing countries?      They take what they can get since their opportunities are limited.

3. Why do you think that the number of people in the developing world with mobile phones has gone up so quickly? Does this mean that people in poor parts of the world are now richer than they were a few years ago? No, prices for these phones have gone down, and there are very good deals.

4. What is local knowledge? What would be some examples of non-local knowledge? Why does some knowledge remain local, while other knowledge is recorded in encyclopedias and newspapers?
Mainly very, very important information that can have an effect on everywhere or a large landmass, not just a small town.

5. How can knowledge help people? How does crowdsourcing make use of local knowledge?



6. If relief agencies knew where malnourished people or people needing medicine were, how would the world be different? How do most people communicate their need for food, medicine, and other items? How are these needs a type of localized knowledge?  They can send letters or now use phones if they have them, or the internet with e-mails or even social networking websites.


7. What are some other uses you can think of for txteagle? 
It helps places have better productivity and reduce the prices for it.

October 29, 2010

What are the challenges of completing your personal web pages?  Explain.


The challenges i'm having with my webpage are, I forget how to make a lot of the elements we need for the webpage to make it look professional.  It's a lot tougher than it looks and seems. I am having a hard time knowing what the resume should look like. 

Friday, October 15

1. Define: 
               wiretap: A concealed listening or recording device connected to a communications circuit.                        
               
               encryption: a process which is applied to text messages or other important data               
               
               social networking: Social networking is the practice of expanding the number of one's business 
               and/or social contacts by making connections through individuals.               
               
               unscramble: To straighten out or disentangle (a jumble or tangle); resolve.
               
               broadband: relating to, or having a wide band of electromagnetic frequencies.                              
               
               service provider: is an entity that provides services to other entities.                                         
               
               coalesce: To grow together; fuse.               
               
               mandate: An authoritative command or instruction               
               
               freeware:  software that is provided without charge               
                
               retrofitting: the addition of new technology or features to older systems.








2. Are there any possible concerns about wiretapping the internet that they do not have about phone tapping?  
      Some concerns about wiretapping is that if you have all of your bank or business information on a website than the people who wiretap will have access to your credit card numbers, sales in business, everything.
        
3. If people communicate without using technology, how can government find out about this? What could the government do to more effectively track private conversations, if we were willing to grant government unlimited power?
      They would probably end up putting security cameras everywhere so there is no unseen place in America.

4. What does it mean to say that the internet has a “decentralized design”? What would a centralized internet look like?  
      Most websites now are "decentralized designs" and centralized designs will make it so you can log in with one username and password so all your data and business information is all in one place instead of jumping around different websites.

5. “We’re talking about lawfully authorized intercepts…We’re not talking expanding authority.” What concern is Caproni responding to? Is Dempsey concerned about expanded wiretap authority?     
           Caproni isn't worried about expanding authority, he's concerned that people knowing they are being surveillanced all the time will stop communicating on the internet and phone so the government won't know what's going on.

6. According to the article, under current policy communication service providers can be “served with orders to try to develop” interception capacities. Would the new proposal be a substantial change in policy?
     Yes it would be.
          

7. Should courts be able to issue such orders?
        No.
  

8. “Writing any statute in ‘technologically neutral’ terms would also help prevent it from becoming obsolete, officials said.” What does it mean to be technologically neutral? Do you think it is possible for technology to nevertheless make this law obsolete? Explain.
     Yes, I think it will make the law obsolete. If you are technically neutral than you aren't really for technology or against it, you use it but your not obsessed with it.

9. “It is not clear how [the law] could compel compliance by overseas services that do no domestic business, or from a ‘freeware’ application developed by volunteers.” Why is this?
     People don't see how the law can threaten a company to follow a law or rule with making them do no business or form a 'freeware application.
      
     10. “If they start building in all these back doors, they will be exploited.” Is he right? Should government be able to force private companies to make their products less effective in order to help fight crime?
       No, the government shouldn't force companies to change their products just so the government can spy on everyone. Their products, their choices.

11. “The investigative burden and costs will shift to providers.” Should government be able to force private companies to devote resources to helping it fight crime?
       No, i don't think the government should force private companies to do that, if they are there own company not owned by the government they should be able to have a choice to help in "fighting crime" if they want to.

12. If tyrannical foreign governments make similar laws, should companies comply in order to be allowed to do business in these countries? How should companies decide which, if any, governments to trust? 
      They should comply because they tyrannical government will probably put that company out of business if they don't. But they should not be forced to.

Essential Question October 7th, 2010

We are starting to work in Keytrain more.  What are the skills you are refreshing in Keytrain and why are they important now and in your future?  


We're learning or refreshing, how to read charts, and read the entire passage or question before moving on to the answer. I normally don't read the entire passage or question, I just move on the question and skim through the passage to find the answer. Now, I am probably going to learn to read the entire thing before moving on. They are important for the future so you know the entire problem or story before moving on.

Essential Question

-In detail explain the different coding skills and/or tools that you learned this week.  Explain to me things that were easy to learn and those that were difficult.  Do you have suggestions for me on how to improve my instruction?  What was your favorite activity this week?

The different coding skills we've learned are how to make the headings on the next section larger than the body of the section, change the background of the document. I thought everything this week was pretty easy but I'm sure it's going to get harder. I got confused on which project to do, so I could use some help with that, and i didn't really have a favorite thing this week.

My Wiki

http://fall2010webpage.pbworks.com/Casey-McKay

http://metallica.com/index.asp?skin_id=7


I think Metallica's website is the best because it's my favorite and the website has awesome effects.