Friday, May 27, 2011

Final Blogger

1. My reflection on Flat Classroom Projects is that it is a collaborative, interactive, communitive site that is used as a way of communication from all parts of the world. For the Flat Classroom Project, I was assigned with the group of Connecting the World from online. My task was to research ways of communicating across the world through online resources, and post up my information by creating it into a presentation slide. Flat Classroom Project was used in a good way because it was a helpful way of connecting with people from all areas around the world. Flat Classroom was also not good because, the layout of the site is as if it were a "Myspace or Facebook". It contains information about you, your age, school, what you are "thinking" at the moment, your friends, and a lot of confidential information that should not be allowed on online resources for people to see. Flat Class Room could be improved by finding a better way of communicating with your partners from online because during my project, i found it very hard to communicate and stay in touch with my partners, and got very little information from them.

2. My favorite internet tool used in class was the ability to make your own website. When we created our websites, we had the access to getting any kind of information we found to include into it. The topics i researched were Strawberrys and Monkeys. I find both topics very interesting and fun! I ended up finding out a lot of information about each individual topic more than i have ever known before! I thought that was a great project to do because not only does it help you retain new information, you can actually enjoy what you are doing and have fun!

3. I think the subjects that we have discussed in class will be very useful in and out of school. We have talked about internet safety, to not plagarize, helpful ways of researching topics, locating places, communicating with friends, family, and people from all around the world, how to create your own website-if someday you make an online store and create items and gadgets to put on there, and much more! All of these items will become very helpful and useful in the future.

4. Collaboration to me, means connecting and coming together to work on a project, event, or whatever it may be. I believe it is helpful because it brings people from across the world working with someone from a different country, or even the U.S. It makes you realize how important it is to work together as one, make sure you get things done on the deadline, gathering information, and how communicating can par take in such an important role throughout this world.

5. I believe the internet 10-15 years from now will affect who we are as citizens of the world. I believe it will affect us in a good way. Computers and Cellphones didnt come out until the 20th century. Now as you look today, people are communicating and using the internet through their phones, on the computers, and everywhere around us. As of today, our world is up to technology, but 10-15 years from now, i guarantee there will be more gadgets dealing with online internet sources aiding with a school project, financially, reasearch, shopping, word documents, emailing, social media sites, and so much more! When collaborating online a lot of things may get in the way. Such as: If your on a school project wensite like Flat classroom project, and your awaiting for a partners request so you can be there friend, and they never confirm, that could put you behind and you may not be able to par take in the project any further because you dont have that information you need from them.

6. I believe it is very important to cite your information that you get from other cites because you dont want to be caught or accused of plaigarism.

7. You could set your confidential information on private on any social meida site or when you apply to buy something on a website, dont put out any information about where you live or how much money you have on the internet, dont give out your number, and more importantly dont talk to strangers, be smart!!!



Arianna Anderson Final A4

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Arianna Anderson

2.Candy -O- Matic

In this experiment, it shows you how much and how many different kinds of candies. Every type of candy has a set temperature of what it has to be, and it can be made. It also gives you tips and information of the individual candy you are experimenting or on any other candies you would like to research.

Exploratorium.

3. Remote Control Roller

In this experiment, the materials you will need are a soda can, balloon, and your hair. put the soda can on its side on a flat ground surface, then get a balloon and rub it very fast and quickly across your head, Hold the can about and inch or so from the can, and it will start rolling due to the electrons from the friction of the balloon to the soda can.

4. Scavenger Hunt

In this experiment, it explains how not only do we eat meats, yet we use it daily, and dont even realize it. Some meat products are found in makeup, film, wax paper, deterogent, lotion, shampoo, "china set", strings, sugar, tires, marshmallows, and plywood.

5. Your Weight on Other Worlds

In this experiment, you calculater you weight here on earth, and then under each planet, it has a space where you fill in your normal weight, and when you submit your weight on all the planets, then it will tell you what your weight would end up being on all of the planets in our solar system.

Everyday Sciences

Lightning in your mouth

materials you need are a pack of winter green mints, a dark room, and a mirror. It is said that once you bite down into the mint, a spark and glittering appears in your mouth showing off a blue light. the winter green oil that is in the mint gives off the ultravilet light which we see as blue.

Exploartorium.

Monday, March 28, 2011

Flat Classroom Project

Today i researched on my topic about connecting the world online. I looked on Creative COmmons and it gave me some ideas. I already made a request on my outsource video and next class i am planning on making my outsourse video, hopefully.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Flat Classroom Project

Today I researched and looked up more information on connecting the world online. I tried contacting and getting a hold of the people in my group but they havent been able to tell me or get the chance for me to see how much information they have collected, so far i only saw the information i posted from our group. if i need to i will post more information, but i would be nice for the others to atleast contact me and do their job in the project.

Friday, March 4, 2011

Flat Classroom Project

Today I worked on the flat classroom project website by looking up people from my group to see if they have gathered any information that deals with our topic, but no one from my group has communicated back with me so i dont know how much information they have collected, although i have collected quite a bit of information; dealing with connecting the world online.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Flat Classroom Project

Today i researched and sited my sources. So far i have four different sources and watched clips from previous projects over my topic, "Connecting the World Online." I think it is very interesting because i have learned a lot about the internet and how important its usage is throughout the world online.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Flat Classroom Project

Today i researched about my topic, Connecting the World Online. Globalization is a very important key when relating to connecting the world online. Countries from all around the world can use this tool to communicate with eachother. The online resource is one of the most famous inventions known to man; I think the internet and online usage is an excellent idea to connect with people from all around the world, and im glad it was invented.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

FCP introduction

My name is Arianna, I am 15 years old and a sophomore at Pleasant Plains HighSchool. I live in Springfield, Illinois. I love playing soccer and enjoy dancing for our school poms team. Life in Springfield, Illinois is however you want to see it, you are mainly independent and on your own for most things, unless family members and friends, but everyone is very friendly and willing to help for anything.

Collaborating with other students from around the world will definitely be different, yet i think it will be a fun experience, and a chance to see how others from around the world live.
Some advantages could be if you live close, you can always rely on them if you need help, and have them come over at your house or a "meeting" place to talk about the project and do it together as a team.
Some disadvantages could be that you dont live as close, and cant really rely on that person mainly because they live half way around the world, and your not familiar with who they are.
Some new skills i can learn is communication.

Friday, February 4, 2011

The World is Flat Chapters

Chapter 1: Through Jerry Freidman, he has helped organize globalization and process of information exchange online and the effect it has on businesses to perform various duties from remote locations with everything from tax preparation to hair appointment scheduling to hospital bookings cited as examples of outsourcing. I agree with Friedmans theory, with all of the following.

Chapter 2: Ten forces that flattened the world.
1.Collapse of Berlin Wall
2.Netscape:
3.Work Flow Software
4.Uploading
5.Outsourcing
6.Offshoring
7.Supply-Chaining
8.Insourcing
9.In-forming
10."The Steroids"
These forces started out with the Collapse of the Berlin Wall,symbolizing the Cold War and ending with The Steroids, digital devices that help become very useful around the world when communicating with others globally.

Chapter 3: More globalization throughout different parts of countries were opened so internet use was very helpful and useful to the people of the world. GLobalization had opened from all boreders, allowing for faster and cheaper development of more planes as Friedman demonstrates the need for individuals and businesses to be able to compete in a global marketplace.

Chapter 4: Freiman calls for a reality check as we explore the manner in which countries and societies will cope with and adapt to the dramatic changes that globalization brings to the way we do business, as individuals and entities. Freidman uses an examination of intellectual property of law meaning to put in place to protect other countries and how they interact with globalization.

Chapter 5: Friedman considers the banning of outsourcing, an action called for by many, to protect our country’s workers and the effect such an action would have on globalization. He also talks a bout how globalization might be considered a problem or better yet a good thing for people around the world, yet globalizatoin.

Chapter 6: The untouchables” is explored in detail as he identifies three broad categories of workers who will have job security in the flat world. Synthesizers, explainers, leveragers, versatilists and more are identified and explained as career options or stratagies for preparing positions.

Chapter 7: He explores the "right stuff" meaning educational requirements needed in the flattened world, and the availability used in our current area, or more importantly around the world, globally.

Chapter 8: A quiet crisis is happening slowly but surely as multiple and complex forces are at work creating the perfect storm; demographic, political, social, cultural, economic, leading america to fall behind in science and other technologies. Also exploring the differences with the quiet crisis and preparing ourselves for the future into motion before we are left behind.

Chpater 9: I agree with Friedman that he is completely right. I agree that not a lot of people are willing to go from across the world to communicate with others from globalization rather than just do it from there own home.

Chapter 10: I agree that countries are competing with business. Different countries are on the rise of competing throughout many things each day.

Chapter 11: Friedman opines that companies willing to change and accept change are more likely to do things than have things done to them. I disagree because just becayse you accept that fact of change, doesnt mean you dont expet change to be done to you.

Chapter 12: The Unflat World is about Friedman sharing stories of the world flattening but announces that he does indeed realize the world is not yet flat. He wants to draw attention to the flattening and the increasing pace at which it is occurring. Part of this understanding must come from a recognization of factors that are preventing globalization from occurring in some people.

Chapter 13: Globalization is very important from local to all parts around the world. Globalization is used almost every day, especially in the Flattened Classroom Project.

Chapter 14: I agree with Friedman about the war situation. I think there is no need for any wars, i think we can work our differneces out.

Chapter 15: 11/9 is positive and 9/11 is a negative influence. The wall of Berlin was created in 11/9, but on the down side of this positive, is a world wide destruction that affected people from all around the world.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Flattening the World

1.
a) The berlin wall is a symbol to flattening the world for general global shifts towards democratic governments and free market economies.
b)this operating system was so much easier to use than previous versions that Friedman argues it is in large part responsible for popularizing personal computing.
c)The reason that personal computing is influential is that it
fostered people’s interaction with digital media content manipulated and shared an infinite number of ways.
d) It impowered people by given the tools to author and share new
information faster and easier than ever before.

2.
a)Tim Berners-Lee created the programming language for writing webpages called HTML.
b)allowed authors to do things like make “links” from one page to another and to store and share images
c) The Netscape web browser in December 1994.
d)The laying of miles and miles of fiber optic cable, which could carry billions of times more information than the previous medium: the twisted-pair copper wire that is inside telephone lines. When the bubble burst, the American public still had this information superhighway, which is why high-speed (broadband)Internet service is now so inexpensive.

3.
a)Work Flow Software is a software that enables workers in different locations to collaborate efficiently.
b)The writers work from home: Florida, London,New York, and Chicago.

4.
a)Uploading is a process of transmitting information from your computer to a network.
b)Community-Developed Software is he result of the careful planning of small teams of experts who work for big companies like Microsoft. hese people work on the program as a hobby, usually with no expectation of financial reward. It is used around the world by all servers.
c)Cnsists of one person’s online journal, often with the ability
for others to post comments.

5.
a)Ithe process of taking work that used to be done in-house and paying another company to do it.
b)Outsourcing 1) a huge amount of fiber-optic cable was laid in India by U.S.companies in the 1990s, which became incredibly cheap after the dot-com bubble burst in 2000,giving Indians a nearly-free broadband connection to the U.S.; 2) India’s Institutes of echnology provide world-class education in engineering, computer science, and management; nd 3) thanks to its history as a former British colony, India has the world’s second-largest opulation of English speakers.

6.
a)Offsourcing is when a company moves its production from its home country to anothercountry, where it can be done with “cheaper labor, lower taxes, subsidized energy, and lowerhealth-care costs”.
b)The fact that China’s wages have such a big impact on the
wages of workers all over the globe is another example of how the world has become “flatter.”
c)Postivie Offshoring is U.S companies can sell people the same items as in stores but for cheaper and better prices.
7.
a)Supply-chaining is increasing the connections between suppliers, retailers, andcustomers.
b)Although Wal-Mart has come under heavy criticism for its
treatment of employees, an often-overlooked factor contributing to its domination of the retailmarket is how intelligently it handles products

8. Insourcing UPS helps small businesses because it is helping their company grow larger in profit, and increasing ranges of customres.

9.Google contributes to in-forming because it enables people to find webpages that aremore relevant to their searches than any other search service.
b)Google is a risk because you can find out a lot of information about yourself and others.

10.
a)Digital steriods put all text, sound, photo, and video media into a
common standard – digital (0’s and 1’s in a computer) – that can be easily shared, stored,searched, and manipulated.
b)
Personal steroids shift power from institutions to individuals and including electronics, and people usage.

Flattening the world to me means by increasing our ways of communicating with people from all around the world. I think it is a good thing to Flatten the World that way we can communicate with people from different countries and nations. It affects me by communication beause if we didnt have it, a lot of people would be lost.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Flat Classroom Project Arianna A. A4

Home Tab/Flatten Classroom: The concept of a flatten classroom basing the principles of interacting socially with your teacher or other peers, understanding educational situations on the same matter, or (same page).

About Tab: The about tab is divided into 5 different sections. Organizers, Awards, Testimonials, Flat Classroom Media Page, and Presentations. Each tab interacts with the whole idea of "flatten classroom". Throughout this tab, it talks about the website itself, about organizers of this foundation, awards recieved for this site, a page that talks about the whole idea of "Flatten Classroom", and examples and original copies of presentations presented on this website.

Flat Classrom Project Tab:
Application Deadline: December 1 (previous calendar year)
Online Teacher Information meeting before January 15
Classroom and student handshake January 15-31
Wiki editing and collaboration: February
Non-participating classrooms removed from participating: February 15
Video pitches and creation: March
Student Summits and video judging: April 1-15
Awards ceremony: After April 15 as determined by the project organizer

Past Project Tab: (3 videos)
In the first video i watched, Mobiles in our Life, it shows how cellphones and other technologies used for communication are very important and can be used everywhere throughout the world, even at school education. I think it is unfair that they get to use cellphones during school because no phones are allowed to be used at our school, only during lunch hours. It is especially important to have cellphones on you incase of an emergency, or urgent cases. I believe it should be necessary and allowed to have cellphones at school.

In the second video i watched, Connecting the World, shows that the internet is much more than just Facebook or Myspace, rather than social network sites. There's more ways to connect to the world rather than online, explore and find out different ways on your own. I think that this is a good idea because there's much more to the world than social networking sites, adventure and find out how and what ways to connect around the world.

In the third video i watched, The World Wide Web, it talks about if we didnt have internet, the world would be disconnected. The world would be disconnected from communication, transports, emails, research and much more. I think its a good idea that we have internet because it connects people from all around the world, and its a great source of information.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Global Uses of the Internet from 1996 and 2010. Arianna Anderson A4

From 1996 until 2010, the internet relates and differs from over time through the past 14 years. It reflects on both different ages through time, determining how many countries used access to the internet, what they used it for, what it looked like from the past as of now, how fast the internet was capable of going, what major wed browsers were used, and what types of Communication Tools were available.
During 1996, most countries throughout the world used the internet, but not all of them. 100% of North America had access, about 98% of South America, 20% of Africa, 100% of Australia, and about 98% of Europe.
Compared to todays generation, the internet is used from all around the world, more than 195 countries have access to it. People in 1996 used it for allowing people and their networks to work with eachother, share ideas and comments to collaberate, to become a social and professional online network. The internet used today enhances, improves, and brings into existence many of these forms of communication.
Back in 1996, the internet was dull, "dead" looking, nothing to that seemed too appealing. As of today though, internet is used with colors, different websites, browsers, over time-progressing to become more appealing and thrives others to want to get on the internet more often. The internet was also much faster compared to then in the past. As of today there is wi-fi and much more other high apps that can help make your computer software speed things up.
A major web browser used in 1996 was the Netscape Navigator, it was used widely throughout the world during this time. As of today, major web browsers were Microsoft Windows, FireFox 3.0, Google, and much more.
Types of Communication tools used during 1996 were the only available phones in the house, letters, possible computer use.
As of today, internet is used daily for communication tools, as well as phones, email, social networking sites, and much more.
The internet today is used daily around the world, rather than back in the 1990's with very little graphic and incomplete internet information. Im glad we have internet because i use it all the time.