Google Day 2

Goals

1. Watch video tutorials to create detailed buildings.
2. Apply what I learned on my previous house or making a new one.
3. Add details to the interior of the house.

Links

http://www.sketchup.com/intl/es/training/videos/new_to_gsu.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZwJntmJxi78#!

Evidence

 Today I learned how to be more detailed with my buildings. I learned how to enter exact dimensions for the rooms, be more detailed with the roof, windows and doors. 

When I finished learning about some of the details for the exterior of the house, I continued with the interior, adding details to the windows on the inside and some parts of the wall pop out.

For the next Google Day

• Continue with the details of the interior of the house.

What animal lives in the Yangtze River and is represented by its own rare Xingyiquan form?

http://www.tcmabta.co.uk/whatweteach/xingyi.html
 Yangtze River Alligator

Search Stories

Link

https://searchstories-intl.appspot.com/en-us/creator/

Purpose

This tech tool is used to make a little story based on Google searches. It can be about anything you like and with images, map, web searches, news, blog searches, product searches or books.

How to use it

1. Type in the searches that you want to appear in you video story.
2. Select the type of results (images,maps,web searches,etc.) that will represent your story. Click Next.
3. Select and preview the background music you want for your video from the different genres (Family, Country & Western, Sci-Fi, etc.) Click Next.
4. Preview your video story and make your final changes.
5. Give your story a title.
6. Add a description if you like.
7. Click on "Upload to YouTube" to submit your story.
8. Sing in to your YouTube account

Example

I typed the searches that I wanted on my video and selected the kind of results I wanted.

I selected the first option in the genre "Family".

I previewed my video story and I liked it.

I gave it a tittle and submitted my video, but I had some trouble with uploading to YouTube. So you can't see my video.

How can students use it

 Students can use this tech tool to make little stories about anything they want. It can be useful for a class when your looking for a creative way to show your peers a new idea or tell them a story.

Digital Nation

1. I agree with how technology is slowly separating families by having each member in  different worlds while being in the same house because everyone is doing their things and even communicate by technology with each other, when they are in THE SAME HOUSE (even I do it).
2. I agree with the fact that many people think they are the greatest multitaskers because they might be doing lots of things but are they really processing/understanding what they're doing? Ex. You're in history class and using your phone, are you understanding what everyone else is discussing in class?
3. I agree with the fact that we can't avoid texting while driving because I might not drive but I know how tempting it is when you feel your phone buzzing or hear it beeping. It's just inevitable to just reach for it an answer a text.
4. I agree with the program Koreans have to show kids since little on how to use computers responsibly because the earlier they are taught how to use them correctly the more we will be able to stop people from using technology for the wrong reason/purposes.
5. I agree with involving technology in our education because now it's not only a new and different  way to learn, it's fun, creative and it gives us more options to learn.
6. I agree with the fact that technology is also educationally interrupting us because you can use to technology to learn but people also use it like a  "shortcut". Ex. You're assigned to read as book and instead of reading you look up for summaries on the internet... TADAA BOOK DONE
7. I don't agree with what a girl said on the video "I'm on my laptop 24/7 and I think it's great because we have to embrace technology " YES we are surrounded with technology BUT not because we are surrounded by it, do we have to stick to it and not do anything else.
8. I agree that video games can "change our lives" because the surrealism and the effects attract us. It's a fantastic world and since we find that unusual, we play it. 
9. I disagree with how people get so obsessed with video games because I find it exagerating. How can a person spend more than 10 HOURS a week playing a video game? It is just a WASTE OF TIME.
10. I agree with how technology can and is used right now for beneficial reasons. Ex. Post-traumatic war soldiers use programs to help the trauma go away, etc. 
11. I agree with how the use of cellphones have become vital for us because we just can't stop using them and it has come to a point where we actually stop having real conversations. It is simply not right.
12.  I know that the video game market can be beneficial in terms of income to companies but I do not agree with how the video games those companies make just make us lose our lives completely, wasting it.
13. I disagree with what a woman said that our abuse of technology is not the reason why we are failing in some aspects because IT IS distracting us and IT IS giving us more options to "shortcut" life
14. I agree that technology is powerful because it opens to us the doors of new opportunities and discoveries.
15. I agree that everyone should be aware of the technology surrounding us because it is what is happening now and it is what will happen in a distant future.
16. On terms of communication, I agree that technology can help us communicate with those who are far BUT
17. I disagree on how people exaggerate this use because they come to a point in which technology is the only way they communicate and stop having face to face interactions/conversations.
18. I agree that by the things you do with technology you can also meet new people online BUT 
19. I disagree on how they keep their relationship online. The person on the other side can have the wrong purposes by talking to you and your identity can become exposed to other people.
20. I agree on having rescue camps for people who abuse internet because those kind of things can save a person's life quality, having a healthier life and spending his/her time on something else that is WORTH IT.