FreshmanTechBlog1-2018-19

Congratulations. You've passed your Digital Citizenship exam. Hopefully you are now more informed about the consequences of your online actions and the higher expectations we need to have of each other.  Please take a moment and write a paragraph of your reaction to the presentations of your classmates. What did you take away from the experience?

Giving presentations is hard. Many of us are extremely uncomfortable speaking in front of an audience. It takes practice and skill. Here are some helpful tips. Excerpts from:  https://hbr.org/2013/06/how-to-give-a-killer-presentation Frame your story We all know that humans are wired to listen to stories, and metaphors abound for the narrative structures that work best to engage people. When I think about compelling presentations, I think about taking an audience on a journey. A successful talk is a little miracle—people see the world differently afterward. Plan Your Delivery There are three main ways to deliver a talk. You can read it directly off a script or a teleprompter. You can develop a set of bullet points that map out what you’re going to say in each section rather than scripting the whole thing word for word. Or you can memorize your talk, which entails rehearsing it to the point where you internalize every word—verbatim. Develop Stage Presence ...

So now that you're ready to be a blogger. Great. Publishing your content is the easy part. Managing and preparing for the backlash or the fame that comes with posting your content on the internet is a whole other responsibility. For our next post you will be commenting on one review of someone else from our previous post. So follow this link: https://freshmantechblog3-2018-19.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-power-of-blogs.html and reply to someone else's post with your own perspective. Read their review and add your own thoughts to continue the thread started by your classmate.You can agree or disagree, but click Reply and add a paragraph of your own perspective to their post.

The great thing about blogs is that they can be about anything and it is a fresh perspective from outside the mainstream. Do you love to travel? Start a travel blog and it becomes your unique view on the topic. For this post I want you to pretend this is your blog. Write a post about a recent experience you had with something you have a strong opinion about. It can be negative or positive. Your post should be 6-10 sentences at a minimum. Compare and contrast what you are writing about with other things similar to your topic. For example: If you are writing about a record from a particular artist, compare it to similar artists or the artists earlier work. Same for restaurants, etc. See examples for ideas. The key is to be passionate. Ideas:  Movie review - Compare two movies you recently saw and what you like or disliked about them. Book review - see movie review... Music review Travel experience Restaurant review Fashion review Technology  Examples:...

For our final blog post of Q2 we turn to meme's. Meme's are a cultural phenomenon that evolved with the ability to add text to images and distribute them online... For this post I want you to put your creativity/humor/culture hat on and design your own meme. Your subject can be about anything but try to connect your meme to a subject your studying. For example here's a school/history meme idea... Most important, you must respect the guidelines for blogging that we setup in the beginning of the year. NO DEGRADING CONTENT. You may not make fun of, mock or slur anyone Create your meme using correct spelling, grammar and punctuation Never reveal personal information about yourself Never disrespect someone. As well, do not copy a meme.  Come up with your own original idea using one of the following two resources.  https://imgflip.com/memegenerator http://wigflip.com/automotivator/ There are a few options for sharing the meme on our blog. If there is...

Welcome back. Happy New Year. People typically like to take the opportunity to reevaluate some bad habits and try to correct them around this time of year. For our first post of the New Year lets share a few resolutions you are committing to making or discuss how it may have went for you in the past. Are you able to stay committed to a resolution you make with yourself? Or what would you like to change about yourself and what steps do you plan on taking each day?

Here’s a simple query of your personal life:  What are you reading?   What are you watching? What are you playing? For our first blog post of Q2, please answer each of these 3 questions in the comment section. Please include the question. Do not include school work.  You can have multiple answers to each question.  I'll get  itstarted:  What am I reading? Vineland, Thomas Pynchon What am I watching?  Narcos What am I playing?  Civilization V