My Jing Project

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A Jetliner For A Fuel-Starved Future

• An MIT team has turned a multi-million-dollar NASA contract into the most advanced rethinking to date of the classic passenger jet. 
• The design, nicknamed the Double Bubble, calls for an extra-wide fuselage and rear-mounted turbofan engines. 
• The configuration would allow the craft to burn 70 percent less fuel than a Boeing 737 while producing significantly less noise and nitrogen oxide, a pollutant that causes acid rain.

Double Bubble by Popular Science on Sketchfab

Double Bubble by Popular Science on Sketchfab

Web 2.0 Diigo Project

1. What's another way you can organize and store information on your computers?
     You could save documents and photos to the computer through the folders in the computers memory system.
2. What have you learned from researching the above topics? What do you know now about those current events that you didn't know before?
     I had no clue about the Nigerian school kidnapping, the girls are still missing and they have not been able to find them yet.
3. What are other social bookmarking apps/websites?
     Wall wisher, Speed Tile, Bonzo Box, Toobla, Think meter, and many more.
4. Will you continue to use social bookmarking?
     I will probably only use it for Web 2.0

Tech Article: Sky Lock

• Skylock uses a solar-powered lock that syncs with your smartphone and the cloud. 
• Instead of using a key mechanism, there are integrated electronics that let you either unlock it with your smartphone or tap in a numerical password.
• This means that a person cannot pick your lock. 
• There is no key hole and if someone jostles your parked bike longer or harder than what's expected on the street, the built-in accelerometers will be detected and sent to your phone an alert. 
• The same detector can sense if you had a sudden stop and you fall. 
• If you do not respond when the alert pops up then emergency responders are alerted.

Do Now: What is digital organization to you?

• A digital organisation is a digital computer application that one can use to arrange their day to day schedules and their to-do list in a computerized format.

Web 2.0: Finding a Web 2.0 Tool...In Class Assignment May 8

Tools for Creating Review Games

• These study tools can be used in any class.
• They are especially great for final exams and studying for tests
• For example, for my Teacher Ms. Garvin, I can use sites like these for her class; Purpose Games, Stencyl, TinyTap, Code Monster, ClassTools.net and many more to help review for tests.
• Most of these are apps, and they can help me review for tests and for the end of the year exams.
• The site I use the most is Purpose games, all I have to do is type in what i'm studying for, and it helps and makes free study guides.

Put A Camera On Your Eyeball

• Google filed a patent for a camera-containing contact lens.

• Sensors on the contact lens would detect blinks and respond to commands based on those blinks. 

• The camera sits below the pupil on the contact, so it shouldn't obstruct vision. 

• Because the camera is on the eyeball, it follows the wearer's gaze, potentially recording anything he or she sees, as he or she sees it. 

• Right now, the patent is to secure future innovation and is not yet linked to a marketable product. 

Are selfies a good thing?

Lisa Nielsen, director of digital literacy for the city Department of Education, posted some social media advice for career-minded students. She gave some of the Staten island students some of the best advice she could.

The Top Ten Advice

• Develop your online reputation- describe yourself in a nice way

• Create interactive content to enhance business- don't embarrass yourself, your boss could be looking.

• Monitor social media privacy- don't do any thing stupid that can get you caught when you post

• Don't become a news headline- don't be compared to trash

• Lay off the F-bombs- stop cursing!

• Somebody is always looking- Remember, your family will see this.

• Do it for the right reasons- don't post anything that will get you or someone you know in trouble.

• Handle negativity with grace- just ignore it, don't feed it

• The more friends, the better?- have as many as you want, as long as it is not some 40 yr old man pretending to be a 16 yr old girl. double check that!

• "Selfies have to stop," said Ms. Bellesi. "The word selfie has been added to the dictionary. That made me cry. We live in a 'look at me' society."

                                                             

RSS Feeds Project Q&A

1. Why did you select the sites you subscribed to?
       I use a lot of the websites there and I know most of them.

2. Was it easy to find feeds and to subscribe to them?

       Yeah, It was really easy since the orange RSS button sicks out.

3. Which sites were your favorites?

       Mostly the gaming websites, which is what i play on when i'm bored.

4. What else can you use RSS feeds for?

       I can use them to help me see new news, which I can then later post on my site for my tech article.

5. How likely are you to continue to use RSS feeds in the future?

       I probably will only use them for my Web 2.0 class.