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Tech Article 5/23

App lets you customize sneakers with Instagram pics

Adidas are trying to create a mobile apps that will let users make a fashion statement by printing any photo, including Instagram pics, on a pair of shoes. The app will launch for iPhone and Android in August. This is going to be a relaunch of "mi adidas,the shoemaker's customizable-sneakers program, and is available for its line of Originals lifestyle shoes, such as the ZX Flux. The ZX Flux sneakers offer a mostly clean, uncluttered canvas on which creative sneakerheads can print their favorite image. 

Social Bookmarking

What's another way you can organize and store information on your computers?
I can organise and store information on my computer using a flash drive or a hard drive.
What have you learned from researching the above topics? What do you know now about those current events that you didn’t know before?
I have learned that many things are happening everyday. I now know that the tensions between Ukraine and Russia are moving towards war and they are killing many innocent people.
What are other social bookmarking apps/websites?
The other social bookmarking apps/websites one can use is Tizmos, Speeditle, and Quicklinkr.
Will you continue to use social bookmarking?
Yes I will continue to use social bookmarking.

Tech Article 5/16

Cloud-Connected Bike Lock Is Just As Cool - And Crazy - As It Sounds

Skylock is a U-lock which uses a solar-powered lock that syncs with your smartphone and the cloud. Instead of using a key mechanism there are integrated electronics that let you either unlock it with your smartphone or tap in a numerical password. This means that a person cannot pick your lock with just a pen. There is no key hole and if someone jostles your parked bike longer or harder than what's expected on the street, the built-in accelerometers will be detected and sent to your phone an alert. The same detector can sense if you had a sudden stop and you fall. If you do not respond when the alert pops up then emergency responders are alerted. Right now if you preorder it will cost $159. Click Here to lean more.

Gen i Revolution - A Personal Finance Game for Middle School and High School Students

The Gen i Revolution is tool I chose. The Gen i Revolution can be used for Financial Literacy, which is taught by Mrs. Beck. Kids that take Financial Literacy can all have an account. This is online game designed to help middle school and high school students develop and test their knowledge of concepts in personal finance. Not only will this tool be efficient to teaching Financial Literacy, but student may also learn a lot about how the adulthood may really be. Gen i Revolution contains fifteen missions,which students pick operatives to assist them. Each mission helps someone make better financial decisions and each operative has a different skill set that can be of assistance in the missions.

Tech Article 5/9

Researcher Develops Smartphone App That Can Detect Skin Cancer

Based on early tests there is an app that will be able to detect if you might be afflicted and has a reported 85% rate of accuracy. The app was developed by George Zouridakis, a professor at the University of Houston. This app is not available in the app store because they are still undergoing testing and it will require a $500 dermascope, a magnifying glass, and a light source for it to work properly. The idea behind this app is to increase accessibility by doctors and those living in more rural parts of the country, where access to dermatologists might not be as easy compared to living in the city.

Do Now 5/7

After reading the article, I know that I must be very careful when it comes to social media. I always knew that I should be careful on social media but I thought that without my permission that colleges can see my social networking websites. In real life I don't take a lot of selfies or post a lot. I also don't post any curse words when I post or my dad would kill me! I learned a lot from this article.

RSS Assignment Questions

Why did you select the sites you subscribed to?

I selected the sites I subscribed to because they were what I enjoyed to read about.

Was it easy to find feeds and to subscribe to them?

I was easy to find feeds and to subscribe to them.

Which sites were your favorites?

My favorites sites were KpopStarz.com, Life & Leisure, and ABC News: Top Stories. 

What else can you use RSS feeds for?

You can use RSS feeds to check if teachers posted anything on their websites.

How likely are you to continue to use RSS feeds in the future?

I am not likely to continue to use RSS feeds in the future. I don't really like to read an new or articles. 

Tech Article 5/2

SnapChat takes on Facebook, WhatsApp with video and chat features

With SnapChat's new feature if a friend detects you have the app open, they can launch a video chat so that the video of them instantly appears on your screen. If you and your friend are both online simply press and hold to share live video — and Chat face-to-face. Recent figures are showing that teenagers particularly are turning away from other social media and towards chat services. The number of teenagers using SnapChat grew by 60 per cent in the final quarter of last year, the report says. Before buying WhatsApp for $19 billion, Facebook last year made an unsuccessful bid to buy SnapChat for $3 billion. The new features of SnapChat will be made available to its users in an update to the app. Click Here for video and article.

Tech Article 4/23

Travel back in time with Google Street View

Google Map's Street View has added time travel as a feature allowing viewers to go back into the past and view how a place has changed year-by-year. Google has been collecting images of places for seven years since 2007 and these are used in the new feature. Some pictures like the reconstruction in Japan after the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami are shown. You can witness the construction of important landmarks such as the Freedom Tower in New York City or the 2014 Brazil World Cup Stadium. You can even experience different seasons and see what it would be like to drive through the countryside in Europe during the summer, spring, winter or fall. To use the new feature, click on the clock icon in the upper left-hand of a Street View image and move slider through time to rewind to the past or fast forward to the present. Click Here to learn more.

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New Bodai Restaurant

     My favorite restaurant is New Bodai Restaurant. It is located at 59-8 Main St, Flushing, NY 11355. This restaurant opens at 11:00 am – 10:30 pm.They serve vegetarian chinese food. There are many chinese dim suns and typically Taiwanese food you can choose from. It is one of the best vegetarian chinese food in Flushing.

Happy Buddha Restaurant

Hot Salty Soy Bean Milk

     I love many foods that this restaurant serves. One of them is Veg. Roast Meat Noodle Soup. It is contains noodles, tofu meat, and soup. Another is Hot Salty Soy Bean Milk. This is what we drink in the morning with other foods. If this restaurant closed down I would go to Happy Buddha Restaurant because it also a sells vegetarian chinese food just not as good.If you were to come to this some other food you should try are 
Mango Pudding, Fried Salty Custard, and Spinach & Corn Thick Soup. 


This restaurant originally started somewhere else in New York.The original restaurant shut down and the owner's son then decided to reopen the restaurant. So he opened New Bodai Restaurant. My parents were good friends with the old owners of New Bodai Restaurant.  I am so glad this restaurant reopen. 

Tech Article 4/11

T-Mobile to sell 4G iPad at Wi-Fi price

Starting Saturday, T-Mobile will sell 4G iPad at the price for a Wi-Fi iPad. Other typically charge $130 extra for 4G devices. The company is offering customers around 1.2 gigabytes of free 4G LTE data each month for the rest of the year.  In 2015, tablet data plans will start at $10 a month when purchased along with voice service. T-Mobile's plans have led to other companies too also decrease their price. Click Here to learn more. 

Wiki Dissection

What is the purpose of this Wiki?
The purpose of this wiki was disruptive technology in the Classroom.
When was the last post?
The last posted in November 7, 2007.
How was this Wiki created?
It was created by many people.
What would you add to it?
I would add charts and graphs about this topic.
What did you learn from it?
I learned that there are many wikis in the world that can teach me a lesson.
If you had to create a Wiki with a team, what would be the specific topic (s)?
Space
How can Wikis be used in the classroom or in education?
Discussions

Tech Article 4/4

After a long partnership and a trade-in spat, BlackBerry severs ties with T-Mobile

The feud between CEO John Chen, from BlackBerry, and T-Mobile led the company BlackBerry to  the April 25 expire T-Mobile's license to sell BlackBerry products. Given the recent spat between the two companies over a T-Mobile offer that encouraged users to trade-in their BlackBerrys that Chen deemed an "inappropriate and ill-conceived."Even before the offer launched, the carrier had already pulled BlackBerry devices from its store shelves. According to Chen, ending its partnership with T-Mobile comes with some regret but BlackBerry is holding the door open for a future deal. Learn More Here

4/1

How can a wiki be used in your current classes? (tip: Use the Internet, here is a good source). Be specific to your classes!

          Wiki can be used as a discussion page between the students and the teacher. In World History, we use wiki's to post projects or study guide for the class. We can also use wiki as a place for debates between students. 

What are the benefits of using a wiki?

           The benefits of using a wiki are we are able to edit projects between students and see what others wrote that can compare. If we are peer editing someone's paper we can just make the corrections on his or her wiki.

How can we create one in this class and utilize it?

            We can create one in class on wiki-spaces and use it to share projects or tech article. We could also use it to do a big project among the students.
What experience do you have using or creating wikis?
             I have used wiki-spaces and wiki-dots for projects the past years.

Wiki 3/31

Wikis are websites that allows people to edit the information on the website. Wikis are used for discussions and also for looking up info. It can be used for research. I have used Wikipedia, Wikidots, and Wikispace.  

Tech Article 3/28

Facebook looks to drones, lasers and satellites for Internet access

In order to get families with basic Internet so they can use Facebook, Facebook's new Connectivity Lab will research and test experimental technology including drones, satellites and lasers to spread the reach of the Internet to isolated locations that currently do not have Internet. Major tech companies are working together to lower barriers to Internet access using more traditional methods, such as making it cheaper to get Internet on cell phones. Those efforts have been responsible for getting 3 million more people online.The group is working with drones that can stay in the air for months at a time, bringing Internet connections to suburban areas. Learn More Here.

Do Now 3/24

When I want to purchase something I see others reviews think about the product. I don't really trust commercials but I am always pulled in if the product's appearance looks nice. Still I somewhat trust people that actually presentant the product. There I can see how the company sees its product and how other believe the product is.

Tech Article 3/21

Virtual reality gets a new player with Sony's 'Project Morpheus'

Project Morpheus, a virtual reality system that will pair with its top-selling gaming console to immerse players in the virtual worlds in which they're playing, has been rolled out by Sony. This system was announced Tuesday in San Francisco.  Virtual reality headsets gives the wearer a 360-degree field of vision, allowing them to interact with their surroundings as if they were really there. It will feature a visor-style headset and interact with the camera on the Play Station 4 using sensors that track the player's head movements. It is not announced when it is going be released or how much it is going to be. Learn More Here.

Invisibility

As I was standing on the top of the Empire State Building, I felt for once I wanted to be able to be New York's invisible Harry Potter and his invisibility cloak. From the Empire State Building I could see most of Manhattan where the busy city is still running. Looking around, I started to think for once to live my life to help innocent people that can be helped. Just when I was about to leave the Empire State Building I saw a something.
In a little alleyway, I saw a little boy surrounded by a group of men. Unsure what they were doing I run there as fast as I could. There I saw the men trying to hurt the kid. I ran to the trash cans near by and started to throw them at the men. I then found a metal that I took and whacked those idiots, who fainted. I hurriedly took the little boy to the near's McDonald and left.

Genie

Tech Article 3/7

Facebook to revamp News Feed

Facebook has decided to launch another redesign for the news feed for only the web. It will keep older layout and navigation users liked, but mixes it with the bigger images and photos that they favored from the 2013 redesign. The new design also tweaks some of the icons on the Update Status and the Add Photos/Video tabs across the top, and has larger buttons for the People You May Know section. Facebook stated that it will not change any functions. In the new design all images are larger, both stories and ads will be the same size, similar to the way images appear on mobile. Learn More.

New News Feed

Tech Article 2/28

Cute icons, wicked witches: How Line reached $15bn

Line created a $15 billion company that gives their primary products away. This company was started by the Japanese.They get people with smartphones to pay for icons such as teddy bears and rabbits and game with running cookies and pudding. 

Since 2011, when the line started, it has gained more than 370 million subscribers. Line had a record of getting 2 million users in 24 hours. 85% of the users are not from Japan and most of the users are from Taiwan, Thailand, Korea, Mexico, and Chile. According to the BNP Paribas SA, the value of Line is estimated about $14.9 billion. About 60 per cent of Line’s revenue comes from games, in which users can pay money to enhance or add features, and 20 per cent comes from “stickers”, emoticons and cartoon characters that users can buy and include in messages. On Dec 31 Line's revenue was at 12.2 billion yen. Click Here to learn more.
 

Tech Article 2/24

Apple issues fix for security risk

Apple had a hole left unfixed which could allow hackers to read private communications sent over Apple devices: emails, instant messages, social media posts and even online bank transactions.Though Apple believes that is unlikely for hackers to see anything since they released a security patch over the weekend. It was issued for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touches, but not for OS X software. This lets hackers view the communications, such as bank deposits or Facebook and see other username and password. 

Tech Article 2/14

GoPro plans IPO

GoPro filed its IPO secretly, because they did not want to reveal their financials until later on. GoPro appointed Jack Lazar as chief financial officer on Tuesday to prepare for the IPO. GoPro is famous for cameras that are small, waterproof, or mountable video cameras that take great quality pictures and have a long battery life span.  Felix Baumgartner use GoPro camera to record his free fall from space in 2012. It is really thought to be used by action and extreme sports enthusiasts, but others still have found new ideas to how to uses for the compact video cams. Click Here to learn more.

Web 2.0: Multimedia Blog Posting

World History (Ms. Garvin)

Everyday 2nd period I have World History with Ms. Garvin. Though it is her first year teaching World History she is not a bad teacher. She went to Purdue University for a bachelors degree and now studies at Columbia University. Ms. Garvin maybe strict but I learned a lot from her. Her grading polices are 45% for projects, 45% for tests and, 10% for homework. 

When I first started that course I expected to learn about history starting from the being, but we started from the Renaissance and are going up to World War II. Though I was quite disappointed at first but I still really like what I am learning now. It may be better than learning about cavemen. Up to right now we have learned about the Renaissance all the way up to the Industrial Revolution. I am really looking forward to going to the Metropolitan Museum.  

In class, Ms. Garvin likes to use technology to teach us about what we are learning. Many of the times we work in groups to create to wiki-dots blog. There we post our projects or research on what we were assigned. We also made Prezi and Power Points for projects for review or a project grade. 

Tech Article 2/7

    HTC hints it will release an Android smartwatch in 2014

HTC,Taiwanese Smartphone Maker, is going to make a new wear gadget for customers in 2014 to compete against the Samsung Galaxy Gear. During an interview, co-founder Cher Wang said with the struggle in the smartphone circle they have come up with smartwatches. The smartwatches are said to be finally solved the issue of battery life that plagues other smartwatches such as the Samsung Galaxy Gear. This device is suppose to feature the same design as a regular HTC One but will offer improvements in display, processor and camera specifications as well as likely arriving with a built-in fingerprint sensor. Click Here to learn more.

Intro

Welcome!!

Hi my name is Catherine Huang. Just turned 14 in January. I am a freshman in high school. I like to play the piano and sing. I dislike meat, onions, and pickles. I live with my dad, mom, and a 8 years old brother. My parents decided that when I was in 6th grade it was a good idea to send me a boarding school in Taiwan to polish my Chinese. I am currently taking World History, English I, Italian II, Biology, and Geometry.