Swiss School

I was excused from tuesday 28 to friday 31

Growing up online

Did not surprise me:

1. Teens can be a different person.
2. Many teens are being disconnected from society and are being more connected to the internet.
3. Some teens create a different person online without their parents knowing.
4. Some teens insult themselves through myspace.
5. Teachers use turnitip a program that detects if students are doing plagerism form the internet.
6. While people are online they tend to be more agressive because nobody knows whos behind the computer.
7. Regarding to #5 in surprised me some kids dont give their passwords to their parents
8. Hearing things many times tend to make it seem as a reality.
9. Criminals are with pseudonyms on the internet.
10. Addiction to the internet is now possible.
11. Girls take nude pictures
12. Kids post videos and pictures of themselves drinking.

Surprised me:

1. Teens play games on the internet and call it parties.
2. There are webpages that teach kids to suicide
3. Also some webpages do an aptitude test and tell you what is the best way to commit suicide.
4. Not so many kids accept a message or request from an online stranger
5. Some parents have the internet so restricted they ask for passwords.
6. out of 7 kids only one is stalked by a sexual predator.
7. A girl after knowing the mistake she made by showing pictures of herself online, goes back to the internet to show pictures.
8. Some parents support their children in the missuse of the internet because they think it is the only way they can express themselves.
9. Some parents do not carae about what their children do on the internet.

Changed about technology:

1. Myspace isnt used anymore.
2. Internet was mostly used socially
3. Computers now have more restrictions.
4. 
   

GAFE

Google Maps and Google earth.
Google maps is a a page from Google that has maps of all the world. It has street maps of almost anywhere, you can also choose the option of satellite map.
Google maps has many characteristics:

• On the right side
• You can place any direction and it takes you there
• You can see your current location
• You can also ask for directions from one place to another, print it and share it.
• On the left top corner
• You can see multiple pictures of some places
• You can also see wikipedia articles of some places, like cities, countries, and museums
• You can check the climate of multiple locations in the world
• Videos
• Traffic
• And the topography of the world

Some advantages of Google Maps are:

• It is fast and efficient
• You can view any part of the world
• You don't need an account

Google earth is a 3-dimensional map of the world, more like a digital globe. It isn't only a globe of the earth it also has a globe of Mars, the Moon, and it has a sky map of the stars. Some characteristics are:

• Detailed astronomy maps
• Street view
• 3d- trees
• Go back in time (until 1969)and see old maps
• Navegation
• Draw http://www.google.com/intl/es/earth/learn/beginner.html#tab=drawing-and-measuring
• There if a hidden flight simulator
• To activate press ctrl+alt+a
• choose a plane
• To accelerate: avpage, to decelerate: repage
• Flaps: activate:F, Deactivate:Shift+F
• Gear:G

Well the best way the school could use this is in social studies classe studying maps, climate and all the characteristcs that this gives. Also for an astronomy class the sky map might be helpful.