Friday, May 17, 2013

Screencast Reflection

Screencast Reflection
1. How do you think you did?
I think I did well.
2. Do you think your audience will be able to complete that tasks given based on your tutorial?
I think that my audience will be able to complete the tasks given based on my tutorial.
3. What was easy and what did you have trouble with?
It was so easy to just record and explain things and go with the flow. I had trouble with talking loud enough so no background noise was heard.
4. How could you use this web 2.0 tool in the future?
I could use it to record and explain how to do something on the computer.
5. Other thoughts ...
I think this was a simple and easy way to record yourself on a computer.


Thursday, March 21, 2013

Emerging Technology, Part 1

Egg Stem Cells:
This technology helped increase older women's chances of having a baby. As a woman gets older her eggs become fewer and it becomes harder for the sperm to fertilize them to make a baby. This technology takes egg stem cells from the same woman or another woman's ovarian tissue to make the regular eggs more viable. These experiments first took place in mice and the eggs that received the egg stem cells ended up being fertilized. Additionally, 30 babies have been born using this medthod. However, it can be dangerous since the children receives DNA from the donor, the mother, and the father; this combination of DNA could possibly result in a genetic mutation. However, none the babies suffered any severe health consequences from this method of conception. I believe that in future technology advances will lead to women being able to have children at any age because they would always be able to make their poorer quality eggs viable again. This surprised technology surprised me because it how these scientists are able to take something so tiny from the ovarian wall to give a couple the opportunity to have a baby at almost any age. I bet that after this technology that these scientists will innovate on how to make the male's sperm more viable as well.

Technologies From 2009 in Use Today:
-Intelligent Software Assistant
-Liquid Battery
-$100 Genome
-Traveling Wave Reactor
-Racetrack Memory
-Nanopiezoelectronics
-Biological Machines
-HashCache
-Paper Diagnostics
-Software-Defined Networking

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Theodore Roosevelt: The River of Doubt Expedition

Theodore Roosevelt: The River of Doubt Expedition
A year after a tough loss in the 1912 election as the Progressive Party nominee; Roosevelt decided that he would take a daring trip to Brazil to explore the River of Doubt as a way of coping with his loss. To assist him in his expedition, the Brazilian government supplied him with a guide, Candido Rondon. Before reaching the River of Doubt, the entourage had to traverse over 400 miles of land. After these hundreds of miles traveled, the journey has just begun.
Once the group finally reaches the river, the trip is anything but simple. As the group started their journey along the river, they realized that the canoes were not going to be able to carry them along the river. The group’s poor preparation for the trip left them only a few feet away from 15 feet black caiman and piranhas. Eventually, the group stumbles upon a series of rapids leading to a 30 foot waterfall that was almost insuperable. Several days after overcoming the waterfall, the local cannibalistic natives make themselves known as Rondon was hunting with his dog. The natives killed his dog and almost massacred the entire group. As the expedition dragged on, Roosevelt slips on a rock and slices open his leg and soon afterwards contracts malaria. As the journey continued Roosevelt’s condition worsened and became critical. After his injury Roosevelt requires surgery and as the doctor is operating, Roosevelt bravely faces the pain without even wincing. Shortly after all of these mishaps, the journey comes to a close once they find civilization.
Roosevelt wanted to prove to other people that he was a strong leader and man in addition to being an exceptional president. After to Roosevelt’s harrowing expedition he had never returned to his previous health. Roosevelt succeeded in charting 1,000 miles of the River of Doubt. In honor of Roosevelt’s bravery and charting of the river, Candido Rondon decided to rename the river, Rio Theodoro.


Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Online Safety

Anthony Caputo, a teenager who goes to Milan High School posted a bomb threat about blowing up a wing in his school on Facebook on October 8th. This threat was taking very seriously as police searched the school for any traces of a bomb. After that the police arrested Caputo after he confessed to posting this threat on Facebook because he was "bored". This teen has been charged with two felonies Monday and he is scheduled to go to court on October 24th.

Threats like this should be taken seriously since they could cause immense damage that could be preventable. People wouldn't post threats like this unless they were dedicated to acting upon them unless they thought that they would try to be 'funny'. Also, if this threat was carried it would have endangered many lives, according to the police and the school administration "safety" is their primary concern.

This young man should be punished because he threated to endanger many peoples' futures; so why should I care about his? Additionally, he had a choice on whether to post the bomb threat or not. Ultimately, the decision was up to him and he chose a poor decision; therefore, he should be made an example of to prevent future generations from "getting bored" and posting a bomb threat on Facebook.

I think a fair punishment for his young man should be a felony and four years in prison. I believe that this is a fair punishment because four years in prison is the minimum punishment for a bomb threat. Another reason is that if Caputo received two felonies it would be extremely difficult to get a job. However, even if you are granted one felony, it is still nearly impossible to get someone to hire you. The one felony will give Caputo more chances to put his life back together because once you get three felonies you are sent away to prison for a long time, and since this young man thankfully didn't act on his threat he should get the minimum punishment.