FINAL PRESENTATION

Growing Up Online

No Surprise

• Our continuous use of YouTube.
• Youngsters playing social kid games like Club Penguin.
• Teenagers dedicating their time to upload videos to the web of them sharing their experiences and what they did in the day.
• Going away on vacations and keep on texting friends.
• Teenagers master technology while adults stay behind.
• Fooling adults to make them think you`re doing something else (productive) online.
• Schools wanting to be more tech-interactive to catch the students` attention.
• Our inability to focus.
• Teenagers looking for book summaries on the internet rather than read the actual books. (I've noticed this many times among my peers)
• Copy-pasting.
• Going online as soon as we get home.
• Using Facebook.
• Having thousands of online friends but only really knowing like 50.
• Cyber-bullying.
• Internet slang.

Surprise

• How the guys at the beginning didn't mind taking their heavy desktop computers just for some hours of computer video games with friends.
• How Club Penguin was actually that popular to appear in the video (I even remember playing it myself though)
• How the school in the video even had smartboards to catch the students` attention.
• The broadcasted classes for students to go back to them (I thought that was a great idea)
• We "don`t know what to do with ourselves" if we`re offline. I don't know about the rest but I have TONS of books I want to read and when I have even the shortest free time I like to spend it more on reading rather than going on Facebook, etc. 
• The parent on the video that said that it was easier to get his son's attention by emailing him rather than calling on him while at home.
• There are programs that help teachers tell if the student`s work is not "copy-pasted"
• How one of the teachers thought than if you look at it closely some aspects of our "copy-pasting" skills can be useful later on.
• Some teenagers recognized the risk of uploading pictures of themselves and limited it.
• How much Jessica changed herself to fit at least in the online society.
• How Jessica says she would have done anything to keep her secret identity safe AT AGE 14!
• How she assures that many girls in her school took very similar pictures that everybody knew of but only targeted Jessica as "the whore"
• How that mom was aware of internet stalkers, many parents don`t pay the slightest attention to what their sons and daugthers do on the internet and the risk of it.
• Internet stalkers being more vicious than those found in parks and other public places.
• The mom in the video asked her children to give her their Facebook passwords.

Changes

• We now own more laptops rather than desktop computers.
• We now have more modern and sophisticated video game consoles.
• MySpace isn`t as popular as before.
• Internet Explorer isn't as used as before. Now we have countless browers, some safer than others.
• Teenagers are online almost all the time now, since we have smartphones and light laptops to carry everywhere.
• Most of us have smartphones now.
• When looking for book summaries you now don´t only have Sparknotes, but thousands of websites can assist you on that.
• We don´t have to wait to get home and go online we have our smartphones for that.
• We don`t really have competitions for who has the most friends, now it`s more for who gets the most likes or comments on a profile picture. 
• Now it`s more like: who has more followers on Twitter and/or Instagram.
• We don`t upload videos of fights, we most likely take pictures or videos to make fun of a situation but not fights.
• Many parents don`t pay that much attention to all of the things their children do on the internet like the mom they presented in the video.
• Internet predators and stalkers are more common.
• Fighting off these predators is also more common and more effective nowadays.
• Many more schools and teachers have changed to tech tools and devices.

Questions

  

What topic in the video did you most strongly identify with and why?

I still don't get why would someone accept and unknown person in social websites. I never accepted anyone I didn't know when I had my Facebook and MSN obsession. Yet, a "predator" still got to me. A friend had accepted the person on MSN, kind of befriended him and in the end she got fooled and the person hacked her account, granting him access to other people's profiles and emails. He did the same to me because I thought I was talking to my friend, I even had my camera on. Since then I get the chills with just people mentioning "internet predators". It is very shocking how they have increased. I still recall how scared I was and sometimes I even keep warning my friends to be careful online.

What topic in the video was most UNLIKE your own experiences online and why? 

I never knew of anyone in my school that uploaded a video of people fighting. Maybe I was too young to know that stuff, to know about what the older kids did online at my school. I barely was online anyways. The thing I found most entertaining in my computer, as a 7 year old, was Paint and writing a short story in Word. I was really surprised at the kid with the same age in the video playing Club Penguin. I discovered it maybe around the time after this video/film was even made, when I was in 4th grade, but I also know it`s more common now. I barely log in to Facebook now, it's pointless. Every now and then I go on Skype with friends but I mostly use my computer now to look for books to read (Not summaries, BOOKS). I guess social networks have become less and less amusing to me, but I know many people still can't get over them.

What advice do you have for parents about kids and being online (should they worry, what about, should they monitor you, why or why not, what should they do?)

I would recommend parents to be aware of the risks, but not monitor their children 24/7 and wanting to have their passwords. Maybe have a chat with them to make them also aware and make clear what's safe and what's not. We should all be very careful, but I would hate my parents if they were behind me looking at my screen all the time. Many parents don't even care about what their kids do online and they should, but the example from the first 30 minutes of the film was a bit exaggerated. It's good for them to be aware and care, but not take it to that point. For younger kids, it might be a good idea to have parental blocks for safe browsing. They might look at an add on a website that's looks fun, click on it and end up in inappropiate websites.

Why wasn't this uploaded before...

The day we saw this video, many of the computers didn't have internet. The ones that did were being used to complete the assignment or my peers were occupying the seat in front of it, talking to each other. We had a short class and only got to about 30 minutes of the video, but I couldn't get most of it because some of the people in my class were talking, it was kind of hard to listen. I tried using my phone's hotspot, but it was atoo slow on my computer so I wrote down what I could on a Word doc and saved it. I forgot to post what I had, but I also thought it was useless to post 3 or 10 sentences when at least 45 sentences would get me a 4. However, today after I talked with you and got home I found this link to the video so I watched it again until the part we left off. I was able, then, to complete my poor notes.

Swiss School

Sustainability Management School

• SUMAS, innovative business school in Gland, Switzerland.
• It's established in the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature)
• SUMAS brings scientific knowledge for sustanaibility and business management together.
• SUMAS offers different innovative subjects form different disciplines to build up future leaders that will be able to solve complex issues.
• Students that leave SUMAS go away with a great understanding of sustainability and how to apply it to life and everyday work.
• SUMAS is the only business school in Europe that offers both bachelors in the masters of Business Administration and Sustainability Management.
• Academic programs at this school are characterized by excellence and quality of content.
• Switzerland is said to be a wonderful place to live, it safe and it offers several recreational activities and it very well located at the center of Europe.

Case Study

• Transport, buildings, food and drinks account for 80% of environmental impacts including wastes and CO2 emissions.
• The ecological footprint helps you measure accurately the damage the world is going through.
• The ecological footprint measures surface area needed to produce the resources we consume in a daily basis and  to absorb the waste these same resources produce.
• If by 2050 we don't change our way of producing and consuming, the Earth's surface won't be enough to absorb the wastes and CO2 production.
• The European Commission wants to start a major action plan due to the urgency of the situation.
• European ecolabels provide a guarantee for the sustainability of the environment.

An Inconvenient Truth

• The hottest year in the last 15 years is 2005.
• We are causing global warming, glaciers and snows are melting rapidly.
• The huge temperature increment all over the world is causing stronger storms.
• The Arctic is experiencing faster melting and if it continues like that the worldwide sea level can go up to 25ft. 

Flight Moffett to Phoenix: Best of

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Arizona State University: Graduation Ceremony

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Activity: Unilever Sustainable Consumption Practices

 Since 2010, Unilever has been committed to ten year sustainable plan: Unilever Sustainable Living Plan. They are not only aiming for being more responsible on the company's operations but also how their consumers use their products. Their plan is divided into three main categories: Improving health and well-being, reducing environmental impact and enhancing livelihoods. They have a total of seven goals.

For improving health and well-being they have two goals: health & hygiene and improving nutrition . Unilever wants to assure the hygiene habits and safe drinking water for over a billion people. By doing this, they can reduce life-threatening diseases. As for improving nutrition, the company is constantly improving the taste and the quality of their products meeting the highest nutritional standards.
For reducing environmental impact they have three goals: greenhouse gases, water and waste. These basically consist on reducing the production of these three by consumers. Reducing the greenhouse gases produced in manufacturing and from washing clothes. Reducing water use in laundry and manufacturing process. Recycling packaging, reducing manufacturing and office waste.
Finally, to enhance livelihoods, meaning farmers, they have two goals: sustainable sourcing and better livelihoods. They are committed to supporting farmers and gradually using 100% of all raw materials sustainably. They'll support small-scale distributors and farmers to assure sustainability of the sources.

GAFE

Google Calendar

Use
Google Calender is a free and easy app to organize your schedule and events. You can access your calendar  online, from your phone and even when you're offline. You can share your calendar with friends and also add their calendar to know when they are free. You can customize reminders through SMS or email to never forget your events/appointments.

Customize
You can easily customize your calendar however you want:

• If you want to change the calendar view you simply choose from Day, Week, Month, 4 Days or Agenda to change it.
• If you want to print your calendar yo click on more and then print.
• You can change the density of your calendar on settings.
• When you go to settings and click on settings you get the complete list for you to customize anything else you'd like to change like alerts, reminders, date formats,etc.
• When you click on My calendars tab on the lower left you can easily change your calendar's color or a color for specific events.

Other cool things

•                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 You can layer multiple calendars to have personal and business calendars in one place.
• You can use and manage your Google Calendar from other Google Apps like Gmail, Google Docs, etc.
• You can share with your friends your free blocks for them to be able to know when they can arrange an appointment with you.
• There are many keyboard shortcuts to make  Google Calendar even easier for you to use, here are some:
• s - calendar settings
• c - create a new event
• t - view today’s schedule
• d - calendar day view
• w - calendar week view
• m - calendar month view
• You can arrange countdown timers to know how much time you have left to finish the current event or/and go to the next.
• You can add events to you calendar through SMS.
• You can schedule Facebook post with Google Calendar.
• You can find other fun customizable features in Labs.
• You can also add events from browser extensions.
• You can also add you daily To-Do lists.                           

In conclusion...          

Teachers can use Google Calendar to easily share with their students future projects and homework. They can also save docs on calendar so they can upload the homework or project instructions. Students can have all their classes's events, homeworks and project reminders in one place and customize alerts/reminders to never forget anything                   

Google Day 3 & Presentation

Goals

• Go back to last class' articles.
• Write down important points.
• Prepare my presentation.

Questions

• Do summer programs help me get into a better college? If so, which ones, and why?
• What are the fastest growing career areas?

Links

• http://collegeprepu.hubpages.com/hub/College-Summer-Programs-for-High-School-Students
• http://www.careeronestop.org

Info

Summer Programs

• Helps you standout from other college applicants.
• There are many types of summer programs like musical ones*
• Volunteer work during the summer or learning another language are also plus.

     Music summer programs:

•  http://www.bostonconservatory.edu/vocalchoral-intensive-vci
•  http://www.rider.edu/academics/colleges-schools/wca/woce/summer-camps/vocal-institute
• http://www.rider.edu/academics/colleges-schools/wca/woce/summer-camps/solo-vocal-artist
• http://collegeapps.about.com/od/extracurricular/tp/summer-programs-music.htm

CareerOneStop

• A site sponsored by the US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration

Google Day 2

Goals

1. Pick one or two more questions.
2. Research more on scholarships.
3. Write down questions for later, if I have.

Questions

• Do summer programs help me get into a better college? If so, which ones, and why?
• What are the fastest growing career areas?

Links

• http://collegeprepu.hubpages.com/hub/College-Summer-Programs-for-High-School-Students
• http://www.summer.harvard.edu/
• http://www.boston.com/jobs/galleries/30fastest_growing_occupations/
• http://careerplanning.about.com/od/exploringoccupations/a/fastgrowing_occ.htm

I decided to read everything first and when I was going to start writing down the most important things it was time to go. Next class I'll go back to the articles and write down the most important points.

Google Day 1

Goals

1. Pick 3 questions.
2. Research.
3. Write down questions for later, if I have.

Questions

1. How do I get ready for college?
2. How can I get an academic scholarship? Can I lose it? How?
3. How do I decide what career suits me?

Info & Links

• https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/get-in/applying-101/how-to-start-getting-ready-for-college-in-9th-and-10th-grade
• http://www.asa.org/pdfs/asa_college_planning_docs/asa-cps-get-ready-for-college-en.pdf
• Getting ready for college:
• Get the habit of reading everyday, prepares you fro timed reading.
• Join clubs and try finding your passion.
• Find mentors/ Talk with college counselors.
• Take AP classes, to prepare yourself for college level classes.
• Take SATs or ACTs to prepare for college admissions.

• https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/get-started/know-yourself/5-ways-to-find-career-ideas
• Finding your career:
• Think about the classes you find inspiring.
• List 10 things you really love to reveal possible paths.
• Think about the experiences that made you learn more about yourself, choose the one that made you feel more satisfied and look for careers that can give you those types of experiences.
• List your qualities and try finding a career that fits your qualities.
• List down your strengths and weaknesses to identify which careers wouldn't really suit you and which employers would be interested in your strengths.
• Explore the activities and opportunities of various careers.
• http://www.internationaldoorway.org/academic/
• International scholarships program.
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Next Google Day

     After going through the tips decided pick out my biggest interests and explore careers.