(Research purposal) At what age should we allow children to use calculators?

Posted on April 17, 2012 in Uncategorized by jhenry19

http://ezinearticles.com/?At-What-Age-Should-We-Allow-Children-To-Utilize-Calculators-To-Solve-Math-Problems?&id=5440057

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080127194635AABLznK

http://www.ton-lien.com/should-kids-be-allowed-to-use-calculators-in-school.html

http://www.homeschoolmath.net/teaching/calculator-use-math-teaching.php

This is a question that many peolpe ask. Researchers say that children in any grade can use them at any grade level, as long as it’s used properly. It should be used as a supplement to learning and not a replacement. Other researchers say when a child has learned the basic math skills, such as adding,  subtracting,  multipling, and dividing then the calculator would be a great tool.

Journal 2

Posted on April 12, 2012 in Uncategorized by jhenry19

“Get a Second Life”

Second Life is a 3-D computer game. Its like another life, and you can be anyone you want. The instructions say you pick an Avatar give him/her a name, then after dye the hair, change clothes, or even choose the type of body you want. There are 20 million users that sign in to Sencond Life. When you do sign in if you want to go to the place with the most peole theres a search box that you can go to and then type in most popular places. It will tell you some places that have alot of people and you can either teleport there or fly. Its really like a second life. You can own your own house, throw parties, and  invite your friends. Almost anythink you can think of you can possibly do it.

Reading Journal 1

Posted on February 28, 2012 in Uncategorized by jhenry19

“Let the robot drive”

In October 2010 New York Times wrote about Google and there autonomous car. New York Times reported that Google had built a fleet of “self driving cars” that drove 140,000 miles on California asphalt. This happens because the cars has what they call rooftop laser arrays. When the car is driving it knows how fast to drive and when to slow down by the data it receives, and as it continues to move the more data that it recieves the car will know when theres other cars around. As it gets closer to another car, the “self driving car” would rethink and figure out  if it would need to turn to the left a little or maybe to the right depending were the other car/cars is located. The “self driving car” is designed to drive safe and make the right decions on the road to make everyone on the road safe. This way there also will be less actcidents. There is also a video on some of the “self drive cars” and they look nice

Memoir Draft

Posted on February 28, 2012 in Uncategorized by jhenry19

                        I was always a gamer type person. I play on Xbox live and the play the game Call of Duty. But I wasn’t always a fan of Call of Duty. One day I went to my friends house and he was playing. After that I was hooked.Thats one day ill never forget. The day I first played Call of Duty.Thats what im going to talk about.

                        I remeber waking up that day and I was supposed to go with my mom to go food shopping. My sister ended up going so I called my friend and went to his house. When I got there I heard the sound effects of gun shots and gernades blowing up like I was in an actual war. As I walked in his room the first thing I said was what games is that. He told me that it was the new Call of Duty (Modern warfare 2). He was playing other people on Xbox live and I had to get in the game with him.

                        The first game I played I got recked. I got 3 kills and about 23 deaths.I was mad and had to keep playing. As I was playing I was amazed with the graphics. The soldiers face looked real, and if you pay attion to the back round you can see the grass and trees moving with the wind. There was just so much detail.

                         There are so many diffrent ways of playing. We stared playing team death match at 1st. Which is a group of people divided into 2 teams thats go aginst each other. The team with the most kills at the end wins. After awhile it got boring then we switched it up to Capture the flag. I like that mode because I stay at the base and kill who ever tried to come take the flag. Then we played free for all. Which is every man for himself.

                        The game mode (free for all) is my favorite mode. The reason for this is because while I was playing that mode I was getting alot of kills. I ran to all the spots on the map that had good hiding places. Then every time I saw someone I would kill them and run to another hiding place. That way when the other players would respond and try to get me back they couldnt find me because I was some where else. I thought it was funny. The game went up to 30 and I thought I was going to win because I had 26 kills. Next thing I know the game ends when I had 28 kills. I was mad because I came so close to winning, but atleast I came in second place.

                        While we were playing my friends mom had made us something to eat. I was so addicted I was eating end playing at the same time. Which was hard because everytime I went to take a bite I got killed. I was mad but it was funny at the same time. The reason I wanted to do good everygame is beacuse at the end of every game you get experince points. You need the points to level up. When you level up you unlock things such as new guns, diffrent type of gernades and smoke bombs, and also new perks. Perks help to do extra things. Some perks make it so no one can see you on the map, another is you can pick up other people bullets and gernades, and my favorite is if your hit by a gernade it doent kill you.

                        My most favorite part of the game is Zombies. My friend said he was getting board and wanted to play zombie mode. He told me about it and I wanted to try. Its up to four player in a game. How you play is you start on level 1 and your in a room with windows and the zombies come in and you got kill them. Everytime you get to the next level theres more and more zombies that come. When you kill them you get money. The money is used to buy weapons off the wall and open doors to run away when theres to many of them. We were playing that and got to level 31. That one game lasted an hour and a half. Then I had to go home and told my mom about it. She gave me the money for it when she got her check and I been playing Call of Duty ever since.

Technology AD

Posted on February 9, 2012 in Uncategorized by jhenry19

This ad is tring to sell X-box 360 systems. What they did was made a cartoon character out of an xbox. Which catches peoples eyes to look at it to see the detail of the cartoon xbox360. On top of that the ad as bright colors which attracts people to aleast glance at it. Its also diverse because it could be used in china and America which makes it easier to sell this item.

Theme Proposal

Posted on February 9, 2012 in Uncategorized by jhenry19

I would like to choose technology for my theme. Im around it all the time and im always using technology. I wanna talk about how people changed over the years from technology, and how peole are less active now. I also want to show how technology evloved. For example; when cell phones first came out the were these big things with long inteners. Now theres phone that are touch screen, takes pictures, has mp3′s stored in them,and so much more.I feel like technology would be an easy topic also because i have to do resaerch on it in my public speaking class.

Writer’s autobiography

Posted on February 7, 2012 in Uncategorized by jhenry19

When I was 2nd grade that’s when I started to like to read and write. I loved to read and really used my imagination. One of my memorable pieces when I grew up was when I had to write an essay on someone I thought was a hero and why. As I entered middle school for some reason I grew out of reading. The only time I did read was if I was in class. Even though I don’t like to read or write when I do I’m good at it. When I do write, one of my skills I learned was writing different topic sentences about the main idea. Then use each sentences as a start of a new paragraph. What I want to get out of this class is to learn how to become a more and successful reader and writer. I noticed when I read to my self I read faster than I do when I read out loud. I want to improve that. I think writing blogs and reading other students blogs will also help. Well anyways that’s my story.

Practice Reading

Posted on January 31, 2012 in Uncategorized by jhenry19

“Forget goofing off”

The main idea in this article is about kids having fun at recess and being active. Also talks about keeping the kids safe and keeping them out of trouble. Schools are also starting a program on bullying, and trying to teach them how to be active and how to have  fun outside. Instead of being in the house all the time in front of the tv playing video games all day.