Class Reflection

Year Reflection 

I learned: 

• RSS Feeds
• Wikis
• Screen casting 
• Social Bookmarking 
• Create a blogger
• Surveys
• Google Drive
• Collaborating on documents  

What could be changed:

• New computers
• Aside from that the class doesn't need to be changed.

Tools:

• Blogger
• Rss Feeds
• Social Bookmarking
• Collaborating Documents 
• Wikis

Tech Article 13

"Drinking Mirror" App. Aims to Show How Alcohol Ages You 

   

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• For people who always have a drink or two at night they should start considering what it will do to their looks.

• This new app. was made to make people see what will happen to their body and looks if they keep drinking.

• The user is to upload their picture into the app. and it will age them according to how much they drink.

• As of right now the application is only for Android- Powered phones, but and iPhone version is coming out soon.

• It makes the user have deeper wrinkles, red cheeks, and a weight gain.

• The app. is used to encourage people to realize that there is a fine line between social drinking and heavy drinking. 

My Blog Tour!

Tech Article 12

Snapchat: Sexting Tool, or the New Instagram? 

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• Snapchat is an app that allows people to send pictures back and forth for up to ten seconds and then it disappears forever. 
• Mostly young people or using Snapchat.
• Some people have called it the next Instagram.
• People are warned not to put inappropriate things online, but Snapchat kind of opens up new opportunities to send naked pictures. 
• Seeing as the picture disappears, young people believe they can send naked and risky pictures.
• Surprisingly, the young people using the app are mostly sending silly pictures and small conversation just because its fun.
• But, for the people sending racy pictures, the person or people reviving the picture still have the opportunity to take a screenshot.

Tech Article 11

How to See Your 2012  Highlights On Twitter

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• Everyone is able to see that Barack Obama had the top tweet on Twitter, but how will you find out yours?

• For the first time Twitter is allowing its users to look back on their activity.

• Users will be able to see: Their most shared tweet, their tweet with the most words and their "Golden Follower.

• The "Golden Follower is the person that the user interacts with the most.

• There is a tool called "My Year On Twitter".

• The feature also shows the 10 words the user posted most.

• It allows the user to scroll through a timeline of their 2012 tweets.

Social Bookmarking- A method of organizing, storing and managing bookmarks online. It is basically tagging a website. A hash tag on twitter has the same idea. It is a way of grouping things and making them easier to find. This bookmarks can be shared with with anyone, or you can make them private. For example a teacher can share their bookmarks with other teachers. This way all of these teachers can get ideas of new websites they can use. 

Tech Article 10

    Instagram kills its own pics on Twitter

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• Instagram purposely stopped allowing their pictures to look good on twitter.

• They are already rivals and this made the rivalry worse.

• The images are showing up cropped and slanted.

• According to Instagram their pictures will no longer be uploaded to Twitter.

• Instagram has improved it's settings and Platform and they now want to exist on their own without other apps and websites getting in their way.