Monday, September 22

What is email? When do you use email in your own personal life? List reasons and ways that people use email. What do you know about "email etiquette"?

Email is a way to send stuff on the computer through your email account.  I use email to get my schedules for sports.  I also use email to send my stuff at school to myself so I can access it at home. Lastly, I use email to receive tons of junk mail!! =) Sometimes adults use email to send out important information and seem a little more professional or sometimes they just communicate through email because that is what they are used to. I don't know a lot about email etiquette but I know to keep it professional and first class. 

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Friday, September 19

Now that you've been in Emerging Technology for several weeks... what do you think? Do you think the web tools (Drive, Evernote, Bubbl, etc.) are helpful to you? Do you think they will be helpful throughout high school or even college? Explain.

I think this class has been so helpful in many ways.  The tools that I have learned how to use will be extremely helpful in the future.  I will definitely use them in the future.  I can stay organized way easier and way more efficiently. It makes it so easy to save something onto my Google drive because I can access it anywhere and I don't have to worry about it not saving or me forgetting to email it to myself. All these tools especially Evernote and Bubbl make it so much easier to do research and save the information we found fast and easy to get to.  Researching will be so much easier from now on.

Wednesday, Septmeber 17

Do you enjoy writing? When do you enjoy it? What kind of writing do you enjoy? Why do you think the ability to write is so important no matter what kind of writing it is? Give an example that you enjoyed writing or hated writing. Why?

Sometimes I enjoy writing, but it depends what I am supposed to write about.  I enjoy writing when I can choose what I want to write about.  I don't enjoy writing when it is a timed write and it is argumentative when you need to grab evidence from every article you read.  The ability to write is very important in every kind of writing because if you are told to write a certain way but you only write the way that you enjoy, then you will have a lot of difficulties trying to write a different way. One time I hated writing was when it was a timed write and I couldn't think how I could answer the question that was given so I spent a lot of time trying to think and then I was rushed writing so it wasn't my best quality of writing. 

Tuesday, September 16

Reflect on this quote. Give an example of a time in your life that this might have been the case.

i agree with this quote one hundred percent. In life you can choose to ready yourself for what is coming up that may be difficult or you can wing it and end up doing poorly. This quote could be used for a lot of things. If you have a big test coming up and you hangout with your friends instead of studying, you would be preparing yourself to fail the test that you could have done well on if you had studied. One example, that suits me more, is in sports. Softball isn't my favorite sport so I don't necessarily make it a top priority and sometimes blow off practicing at home.  Then in games I immediately regretted not spending that extra time because I messed up on something that I know I could have done right if I practiced it more.  Sometimes staying up late and being stressed out before a big test or a game, will turn out better for you rather than you blowing it off.

Monday, Septeber 15

What did you do this weekend? Share pictures if you have them!

This weekend I played in a basketball tournament on Saturday and we won!  It was really fun an I love to spend time with my teammates.  We are always laughing.  This weekend I also went to the Blue Valley game on Friday with all of my friends.  It was so fun to be a part of the high school section even though the freshman section was the worst at cheering.  We won against West and I also got to see my friends that go there, that I haven't seen in forever, so it was nice to see them again. Also, I watched the movies Cyberbully and Nonstop.  They are both really good and I liked watching both of them.

Friday, September 12

What is the importance of research? Why do you need to know how to research? What have you learned in high school about researching topics and finding quality resources? Have you had a helpful teacher that has taught you to research? Explain.

Research is important in many ways. It gives you a lot of knowledge on information you want to know and it teaches us about topics that we may need to know more about in the future.  Knowing how to research is very important.  If you don't know how to research, or set yourself up to make it easier for you to research, getting the facts that you need will be much more difficult to find.  I have learned a lot in high school so far about finding credible sources and how to make my research a lot easier.  Mrs. Edwards has taught me so much about how to know if a source is credible or not and to use databases over websites when you can. 

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Global Issue Selection-Catherine Szukalski

Global Issue Selection
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For my global issue in emerging technology, I chose homelessness.   I have begun researching the issue and you can find my research questions here.