Post on 25 Days to Make a Difference

25 Days to make a difference is a website a girl named Laura made. It tells us about all of the things she is doing to make a difference in the world no matter how big or small it is. She is doing this all the way up until Christmas (hence the 25 days). There are also posts on her website from other people telling what they did to make a difference.
Laura tells all about things that she has done to make a difference for her parents, her pets, her friends, etc. One day recently she cleaned her fish bowl for her fish, Sushi. She also helped her mom make dinner one night. She has been doing things like that for the past 14 days and she says she will be doing them for the next 11 (until the 25th). I think it is really nice that she is doing these things during the holiday time and at such a young age.

Missing Child Hoax

I just read a post of a missing child named Evan Trembley. I completely believed it for a couple of minutes then I realized that it wasn't true. After a while I realized that there was no information about Evan, no information about what he was wearing when he went missing, where he was, stuff like that.
I then went to Google and typed in his name and a lot of things about him "missing" came up. I skimmed through a couple of them and I read that it was a hoax. Evan was never missing, he made it up to freak out his friends and it got sent all around the Internet. He is now what people call an accidental Internet star. After the police spoke with his mother, she reported that the police weren't going to press charges against her son.
This posting just goes to show that you can't always trust everything that you read online no matter how much you want to believe it.

Slide Show

As I watched that clip i found it really moving and scary at teh same time. I can't imagine things becoming more technological but they will be. For all we know computer will be following us around so we can access them at any time. It's really scary. It was also very interesting that all of the 2006 graduates in India speak English.

Safe Blogging

The first clip that I watched was about posting pictures of yourself. It was basically saying don't post pictures if you don't want the whole world to see it. Any one could see it; your parents, relatives, people from school, any one.
That really opened my eyes to see that any one could really see it. If one person sees it they could show their friend and then it would spread like wildfire. You really do have to be careful.

The second clip that i watched was about not saying things you wouldn't say in person. Any thing you say can hurt/offend any one. If you wouldn't say it out loud then don't post it.
This showed me that people don't always realize that even though they are posting the comment but think its safe it really isn't. Once again any one could see it. Think before you act.

The last clip was about predators. People can say they are how ever old they want to be. That doesn't mean they are though and that is really dangerous.
That clip showed me how dangerous things like talking with people you have never met before really is. People can manipulate you over the computer and you don't know what is on the other side of the screen typing. It could be your grandfather or a 10 year old kid. You never know so be careful.

Globalization

Today we went over how small the world actually is. For example we listed about nine different tennis players that played in the U.S. open and there were players from all over the world. We went over this in class to help us realize how small the world actually is because there are all of these people coming from all different places all over the world and they are all coming to one specific place. If you really think about it the world really is much smaller than it used to be due to all of the technology such as e-mail, Internet, cell phones, etc. The world is getting smaller.