Tom’s Super Blog!

After hearing and reading recent articles about the teen beating video posted on youtube I feel that the kids involved in the beating were totally 100% at fault but also the big stage of youtube can also be held accountable. 

I dont believe that youtube could be blamed or should have any penalties against the site but i beleive that sites like youtube and myspace are a big cause for kids to do things that wouldnt be done without knowing it would be seen by everyone. 

Youtube and Myspace allow videos to be viewed from New York to California and everywhere in between.  Without the notority of these videos being seen i believe that less of this would happen. 

 Youtube cannot be blamed individually for this, there are over 100 million videos added each day and to monitor each one is nearly impossible.  Just because their website is the most popular the video was uploaded onto it.

Working all week with our groups has been a learning experience for me.  I worked with Jack and Mary and we did a tutorial on how to work with Microsoft Power Point 2003.  Both Jack and Mary were very informative and helpful in how to use power point considering I knew very little on how to do so. 

I was the speaker and my voice was recorded during the encoding.  It was an adventure reading all the words clearly and the pressure of messing up caused me to stumble across certian words.. it was nothing to drastic and rather funny when it did happen. 

I hope we do more group work like that in the future.  I became close with my classmates and learned alot in doing so.

sooon to come

Recently ive been up to a whole lot in Mr. Stengels period six online communications class. We recently uploaded our videos and created a portfolio page on our edublogs site.  The videos we updated were our technology atobiographys that we worked ever so hard on.

We also worked on an about me page that tells a little about me what i like and what im interested in.  Visit that page to learn more!! We also started some group projects where we are going to be making tutorials. 

 My group is myself,jack and mary we are going to be working hard on a powerpoint tutorial teaching how to put on animations, backrounds and make your slide show the best you can have.

This has been a great adventure. I also changed my backround to my favorite artist Dave Matthews who i will be going to see in concert in June!!

Online communications period six has been an adventure since day one.  No one expected the work load or the gruling hours that we have spent making our blog amazing and exactly what Mr. Stengel wants to a T. 

The work load has been nothing short of impossible with millions and millions of directions but to tell you the truth i have really learned something.  I never knew how to manage a website or blig before this class and im really i stuck it out along with everyone else in here.

My favorite part of having our new blogs is that fact this it is something that i created and something that i worked hard on.  Know it is on the web and other people could view it, it makes me happy to know that one day i might come up on someones google search when they look how to manage a blog or they are looking into doing what we are.

Im actually glad i took this class, besides the huge work load that in the end is managable i have truly learned alot