Skills needed for the 21st century
We are not being completely and properly prepared for the 21st century. We need to learn more of what will always exist, some sort of trade system and economy. We need to prepare for jobs that will still be around in ten years like lawyers, business men, and people in the financial rush. We could also get ready for things like politics and government. Although I keep saying what we could use, I can also say that I agree with lots to. I like that we have the opportunity to use computers, smart boards, and audio and visual presentations. That said, with our laptops we need to change programs recently and update but also try different programs. We need to learn mechanics and how to build things but the problem is that we only get little of that and that is woodshop. We should have a complete mechanic course at the school and not just for half of the year.
Personally, I think overall the teaching needs a little bit of work. Sometimes I will have a computer problem and I will go to my teacher and tell him/her. They will then say “grab a different computer and try again.” I will do what I’m told and try on another computer. If that does not work I must go down to the 1st floor from the third and ask the one person that knows most about computers. That takes about one full hour sometimes and that is almost the entire class so I will only get twelve minutes to write. By this time I know my paper will be overdue and I will lose work ethic marks. So after all of this I am trying to get across that we need to be able to walk up to our teachers so that they can fix the problem and not take more than an hour. Plus we can learn what to do in this situation. I know that not only people coming out of college may not be the only ones that don’t know all of the technology but it is also the people that use to be amazing with technology back when there wasn’t much. All of that technology is now outdated and there should be a course that will teach the importance of the programs. There are even certain downloads that we must use than no one has ever heard of before. One of the downloads for example there is comic life. It is not simple to learn but it is way worse when the teacher doesn’t even know how to use the program.
This is such a big world. It is filled with opportunity and success but it is also packed with depression and failure. We have to know what is happening in the world. We need to see great and inspiring things and people like Bill Gates and great businesses. We also need to learn the depression of the world like earthquakes and tsunamis but also failures such as the economic downturn. So after all of this I think I have made my message pretty clear and if you did not get it, it is that I think there are lots of little flaws in our programs. This said all can be fixed over time. So think, what should we be prepared for?
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
Skills needed for the 21st century
Personally, I think that we are not being completely and properly prepared for the 21st century. We need to learn more of what will always exist, money and economy. We need to prepare for jobs that will still be around in ten years like lawyers, business men, and people in the financial rush. We could also get ready for things like politics and government. Although I keep saying what we could use but I can also say that I agree with lots to. I like that we have the opportunity to use computers, smart boards, and audio and visual presentations. That said, with our laptops we need to change programs recently and update but also try different programs. We need to learn mechanics and how to build things but the problem is that we only get little of that and that is woodshop. We should have a complete mechanic course at the school and not just for half of the year.
Personally, I think overall the teaching needs a little bit of work. Sometimes I will have a computer problem and I will go to my teacher and tell him/her. They will then say “grab a different computer and try again.” I will do what I’m told and try on another computer. If that does not work I must go down to the 1st floor from the third and ask the one person that knows most about computers. That takes about one full hour sometimes and that is almost the entire class so I will only get twelve minutes to write. By this time I know my paper will be overdue and I will lose work ethic marks. So after all of this I am trying to get across that we need to be able to walk up to our teachers so that they can fix the problem and not take more than an hour. Plus we can learn what to do in this situation. I know that not only people coming out of college may not be the only ones that don’t know all of the technology but it is also the people that use to be amazing with technology back when there wasn’t much. All of that technology is now outdated and there should be a course that will teach the importance of the programs. There are even certain downloads that we must use than no one has ever heard of before. One of the downloads for example there is comic life. It is not simple to learn but it is way worse when the teacher doesn’t even know how to use the program.
This is such a big world. It is filled with opportunity and success but it is also packed with depression and failure. We have to know what is happening in the world. We need to see great and inspiring things and people like Bill Gates and great businesses. We also need to learn the depression of the world like earthquakes and tsunamis but also failures such as the economic downturn. So after all of this I think I have made my message pretty clear and if you did not get it, it is that I think there are lots of little flaws in our programs.
Personally, I think that we are not being completely and properly prepared for the 21st century. We need to learn more of what will always exist, money and economy. We need to prepare for jobs that will still be around in ten years like lawyers, business men, and people in the financial rush. We could also get ready for things like politics and government. Although I keep saying what we could use but I can also say that I agree with lots to. I like that we have the opportunity to use computers, smart boards, and audio and visual presentations. That said, with our laptops we need to change programs recently and update but also try different programs. We need to learn mechanics and how to build things but the problem is that we only get little of that and that is woodshop. We should have a complete mechanic course at the school and not just for half of the year.
Personally, I think overall the teaching needs a little bit of work. Sometimes I will have a computer problem and I will go to my teacher and tell him/her. They will then say “grab a different computer and try again.” I will do what I’m told and try on another computer. If that does not work I must go down to the 1st floor from the third and ask the one person that knows most about computers. That takes about one full hour sometimes and that is almost the entire class so I will only get twelve minutes to write. By this time I know my paper will be overdue and I will lose work ethic marks. So after all of this I am trying to get across that we need to be able to walk up to our teachers so that they can fix the problem and not take more than an hour. Plus we can learn what to do in this situation. I know that not only people coming out of college may not be the only ones that don’t know all of the technology but it is also the people that use to be amazing with technology back when there wasn’t much. All of that technology is now outdated and there should be a course that will teach the importance of the programs. There are even certain downloads that we must use than no one has ever heard of before. One of the downloads for example there is comic life. It is not simple to learn but it is way worse when the teacher doesn’t even know how to use the program.
This is such a big world. It is filled with opportunity and success but it is also packed with depression and failure. We have to know what is happening in the world. We need to see great and inspiring things and people like Bill Gates and great businesses. We also need to learn the depression of the world like earthquakes and tsunamis but also failures such as the economic downturn. So after all of this I think I have made my message pretty clear and if you did not get it, it is that I think there are lots of little flaws in our programs.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Dec.voice
One dark night the my owners went out for dinner. I heard them rambling on about in the kitchen while I was sitting on my plate. My eyes shut. When me and my family heard the door close loudly, we stood and started to talk. My name is chippy and I can't get enough of this world. I am a chocolate chip cookie, freshly cooked inside the dreamy smelling bakery. I was picked up yesterday and here I am. I see such exciting thins such as the peoples cloths,which are normally filled with colors and funky designs. The most exciting thing to me is the great and wise star on the tip-top of the Christmas tree. It is always states wise comments about Christmas but he also blurted out some frightening stories of cookies like me getting attacked and crumbled. After that they are often eaten or fed to deer.
It was that dreadful night the star was speaking of earlier, DEC.24Th or in other words for cookies death day. Me and my family decided to stay the night at a gingerbread house hoping he would not find me there. It smelt like cinnamon and candy. It was decorated beautifully, with stained candy windows, marshmallow beds and the best part was the dinner. It was chocolate turkey with Carmel sauce, there was candy corn smothered in marshmallow creme, and best of all mashed gummy worms with peanut butter over top. This was the family's Christmas dinner.
After dinner the family laid in there beds waiting for foot steps that sounded like bombs exploding, jingling like five hundred bells, and worst of all that deadly battle cry. we waited also for the funny stench of humans, unlike cookies.
The explosions started. Then the bells went crazy. And finally The furociouse battle cry that went "Ho Ho Ho." We were frightened for our live and then the roof was torn off of the house and the specianl aroma of the house was gone. All you could smell was fear. he picked the dog up and trew him in his oth and then my child. Me and my wife were both completly depressed. WIP
It was that dreadful night the star was speaking of earlier, DEC.24Th or in other words for cookies death day. Me and my family decided to stay the night at a gingerbread house hoping he would not find me there. It smelt like cinnamon and candy. It was decorated beautifully, with stained candy windows, marshmallow beds and the best part was the dinner. It was chocolate turkey with Carmel sauce, there was candy corn smothered in marshmallow creme, and best of all mashed gummy worms with peanut butter over top. This was the family's Christmas dinner.
After dinner the family laid in there beds waiting for foot steps that sounded like bombs exploding, jingling like five hundred bells, and worst of all that deadly battle cry. we waited also for the funny stench of humans, unlike cookies.
The explosions started. Then the bells went crazy. And finally The furociouse battle cry that went "Ho Ho Ho." We were frightened for our live and then the roof was torn off of the house and the specianl aroma of the house was gone. All you could smell was fear. he picked the dog up and trew him in his oth and then my child. Me and my wife were both completly depressed. WIP
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
dec. voice planning
- I am a chocolate chip cookie
- My name is chippy
- I can talk when the family leaves and so can everything else
- I will be left out for Santa to eat
- On the 23rd the family decides to put all of the ornaments up
- They also leave a plate of cookies out in case of company
- They leave at about 5:00pm on the 24Th to go out for a nice family dinner and movie
- All of the cookies stand and start talking to each other but we still sit on the the plate
- As a chocolate chip cookie i am absolutely fascinated with all of the sights around
- All of the sudden there is a large crashing noise
- It is Santa coming down to grab his cookies and leave presents. He eats all of them but since only we can hear each other he does not know that they all have families .
- They scream for there lives but are chomped down He is about to eat me but puts me in his pocket for later
- I end up going on the sleigh ride and dropped in another house in Greece
- I inspect that but before i can see all of it I am eaten
Friday, November 27, 2009
Top Ten Words
1. blazed
2. suspected
3. abyss
4. apocalypse
5. randomly
6. shimmered
7. amazed
8. rapid
9. raging
10. exotic
2. suspected
3. abyss
4. apocalypse
5. randomly
6. shimmered
7. amazed
8. rapid
9. raging
10. exotic
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
One morning the sun was shining through my blinds on to my plain face. I awoke from my deep sleep. I had a hard time getting up but when my blinds flew up i saw the glimmering snow shining back at me. This reminded me of a story. "The Greatest Snow story ever", was the name. This is how it went.
There was a loud crash and then all that he could hear was a ringing noise. As the aching noise went away there was another crash from a blazing meteor. The wind was howling like a wolf on a full moon. The blizzard's snow was exceedingly cold. Once the crashing noises stopped Bill turned on his flashlight to investigate the disaster. Bill was fightend. Bill was a meteorologist that went around the world making sure it would not end but something had gone terribly wrong in Antarctica. There were multiple meteor showers in the region and other natural disasters. The biggest were things like earthquakes, tsunamis, and tornado's.
There was a loud crash and then all that he could hear was a ringing noise. As the aching noise went away there was another crash from a blazing meteor. The wind was howling like a wolf on a full moon. The blizzard's snow was exceedingly cold. Once the crashing noises stopped Bill turned on his flashlight to investigate the disaster. Bill was fightend. Bill was a meteorologist that went around the world making sure it would not end but something had gone terribly wrong in Antarctica. There were multiple meteor showers in the region and other natural disasters. The biggest were things like earthquakes, tsunamis, and tornado's.
Filled with rage for the fact that he almost got hit, bill marched over and took a hammer and chisel out. Rocks that he was chiseling from were three times the size of a mansion. surprising it may be to you but the rock was a normal thing to Bill. He has seen bigger. Abnormal rocks he was taking off were melting through the bags. They were even reenforced with steel. Amazed, bill took a mini machine and set it up within two hours.
"Boom, Crash!" is all bill could hear. Something horrifying was there. An earthquake! Cracks grew and meteors broke. forcing bill onto the ground, the earthquake almost swallowed him. Bill was hanging on for dear life as the crack formed underneath him. Hands red and struck with a sharp pain, Bill was holding onto the side of the crack. He made his way up and there was a man sitting there watching.
Bill took out a knife and was scared more now of the man than the earthquake itself. Approaching the man, bill had a funny look on his face. He inspected the man closely. The man was old with a snow white beard. He had grey hair and was rinkly all over. "The end is near", the old man hissed. "and it will be unpleasant". At this point Bill thought that the guy was a nut job. "My name is sulvester", He said. Sulvester stood and lunged toward Bill.
Wait! I forgot my dad never told me the rest. Well I guess I will have to tell you next time.
Friday, November 6, 2009
"Bang!" "Boom!", is all Steve could here as he was hiding behind a slot machine and bullets were zipping everywhere. When he tuned his head all he saw was flashes of Tommy guns all around. Oh!, sorry I should start from the beginning. When this all started it was the year 1938 and poor Steve was out of money so he decided to go to his buddies Mafia warehouse.Obviously, they had a loan shark there and he needed at least three hundred thousand dollars to pay off his bills and keep living for a month. He was troubled.
After arriving he asked for Bill Johnston the head of the warehouse and more importantly, his friend. Greeted by a hand shake, Steve entered and told Bill his problems. Bill said that he would have a high interest rate and if he does not pay it back they will have to kill him. If he tries to run with the money to a different country, they will get him because of border connections. If you run into troubles after 2 months you will have a ten percent interest rate every day. He worried. He singed the contract that was placed in front of him oh so gently. The most horrifying look came upon Steve's face as the slimy Friends men were aiming rifles at Steve's head with an enormous smirk on their faces.
"Ring ring ring!" Steve moaned. He got out of bed early to think how he could make around 350,000 dollars within two months to pay the mafia back. As he thought he watched television. The greatest add came on about how a week in Vegas was only five thousand dollars. He fainted.
Later that day he woke up and called the flight company, West Jet, and made a first class booking on the last flight to Vegas. Easily, he fell asleep. suprisingly his first ever dream appeared in his head. The vision was about winning all of that money that he got for a loan and even more. Although it was only a thirty percent chance of working, he decided to be outrageously bold. The next day he overcame his fear of flying and went into the air for the first time. The plane had enormous letters spelling "WEST JET."
Inside there were multiple small t.V's on the back of the chairs. The seats were a creamy white color. He flew first class but there were very little people sitting there and that was because of people are just to poor. Well, at least that is what Steve thought as he was flying. A waitress came by and asked him what he would like to drink and all he said was "nothing, I'm good and those are to expensive." the lady looked at him funny and walked away. He closed his eyes and when he was almost asleep when an evil little baby started to scream and cry because her ears were popping. The pilots said that it will be ten minutes until they land. Steve got an giant smirk on his face. They landed roughly but he still walked off and he bolted off to the casino.
He went down many streets passing many lights. He finally got where he was going. Killer casino was the name of the place and he cautiously entered. He noticed allot of men from the warehouse he was at and one pulled him aside. Mysteriously he said "Steve, I have always liked you but we will kill you if you blow all of the money. We have multiple men set up everywhere and nothing can save you. We know you will show up here every day and gamble but, I promise you would not like this to end before one week. You'll be dead." This of course struck fear into the mans heart but all Steve did was walk away. Steve ran to a taxi and said"take me to queens trailer park.
The taxi drove him away and there was a gang dressed in blue outside of the trailer he was headed to. That was the enemies color. Steve paused and all of the sudden there was a massive explosion that scared the gang away. As hill billies ran out of the house, Steve introduced himself to his long lost family. They welcomed him and he told them his problems. They said that the night was going to be his for if he lost they would have his back in case he lost.
They arrived at the casino and Steve went straight to the poker table. The name of the game was texas hold'em. Ont he first round he put ten thousand in to get the cards. When he recieved them they were double kings. This meant alot and he stayed in. The other cards were in play. The cards were two kings and an ace. Steve put all in and a man followed. Sweat was flying down his face. The next twocards were aces. A smilecame upon the mans face and steve knew he lost to four aces. Steve jumped up and said "now!" Men dressed in green jumped up with tommy guns and mafia started firing bullets off. Money was flying everwhere. Pain filled steves body and blood poored out. He fell liek a ton of bricks and things started to darken quickly. Soon everthing was gone and the pain had dissapeared.
After arriving he asked for Bill Johnston the head of the warehouse and more importantly, his friend. Greeted by a hand shake, Steve entered and told Bill his problems. Bill said that he would have a high interest rate and if he does not pay it back they will have to kill him. If he tries to run with the money to a different country, they will get him because of border connections. If you run into troubles after 2 months you will have a ten percent interest rate every day. He worried. He singed the contract that was placed in front of him oh so gently. The most horrifying look came upon Steve's face as the slimy Friends men were aiming rifles at Steve's head with an enormous smirk on their faces.
"Ring ring ring!" Steve moaned. He got out of bed early to think how he could make around 350,000 dollars within two months to pay the mafia back. As he thought he watched television. The greatest add came on about how a week in Vegas was only five thousand dollars. He fainted.
Later that day he woke up and called the flight company, West Jet, and made a first class booking on the last flight to Vegas. Easily, he fell asleep. suprisingly his first ever dream appeared in his head. The vision was about winning all of that money that he got for a loan and even more. Although it was only a thirty percent chance of working, he decided to be outrageously bold. The next day he overcame his fear of flying and went into the air for the first time. The plane had enormous letters spelling "WEST JET."
Inside there were multiple small t.V's on the back of the chairs. The seats were a creamy white color. He flew first class but there were very little people sitting there and that was because of people are just to poor. Well, at least that is what Steve thought as he was flying. A waitress came by and asked him what he would like to drink and all he said was "nothing, I'm good and those are to expensive." the lady looked at him funny and walked away. He closed his eyes and when he was almost asleep when an evil little baby started to scream and cry because her ears were popping. The pilots said that it will be ten minutes until they land. Steve got an giant smirk on his face. They landed roughly but he still walked off and he bolted off to the casino.
He went down many streets passing many lights. He finally got where he was going. Killer casino was the name of the place and he cautiously entered. He noticed allot of men from the warehouse he was at and one pulled him aside. Mysteriously he said "Steve, I have always liked you but we will kill you if you blow all of the money. We have multiple men set up everywhere and nothing can save you. We know you will show up here every day and gamble but, I promise you would not like this to end before one week. You'll be dead." This of course struck fear into the mans heart but all Steve did was walk away. Steve ran to a taxi and said"take me to queens trailer park.
The taxi drove him away and there was a gang dressed in blue outside of the trailer he was headed to. That was the enemies color. Steve paused and all of the sudden there was a massive explosion that scared the gang away. As hill billies ran out of the house, Steve introduced himself to his long lost family. They welcomed him and he told them his problems. They said that the night was going to be his for if he lost they would have his back in case he lost.
They arrived at the casino and Steve went straight to the poker table. The name of the game was texas hold'em. Ont he first round he put ten thousand in to get the cards. When he recieved them they were double kings. This meant alot and he stayed in. The other cards were in play. The cards were two kings and an ace. Steve put all in and a man followed. Sweat was flying down his face. The next twocards were aces. A smilecame upon the mans face and steve knew he lost to four aces. Steve jumped up and said "now!" Men dressed in green jumped up with tommy guns and mafia started firing bullets off. Money was flying everwhere. Pain filled steves body and blood poored out. He fell liek a ton of bricks and things started to darken quickly. Soon everthing was gone and the pain had dissapeared.
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