Hello everyone.
Censoring is a thing that certian people (a.k.a censorers) do to things that they think are not good to be viewed by certian people because it is not appropriate for them. Some examples of things that might be censored would be nudity, intense violence, swears, rude gestures, and offencive phrases. There is also the matter of what age of people things are censored for. Mostly being for young children, some movies and rated inappropraite for that age of kids. Another example would be some song, because before they go on the radio, they usually have to be censored and the swears edited our before they are aloud to be played. Pictures, movies or paintings that display nudity sometimes have little black boxes over the naked parts of the men/women/man/woman.
Here is a link to some songs that have been censored.
And here is a picture that has been censored as well
Hello everyone.
To Stefano, Luis Carlos, Farhad, and Gino, who I have been working with in the last couple of months from Columbia, Virginia and Kuala Lumpur, I just wanted to say that I have had a lot of fun making this video and that it would not have been possible without all of your help.
On Friday (today is Monday), our teacher asked us 4 questions about our videos which I am now going to answer for all to here.
This post is about my reflection on the finished video on terrorism that I and my world-wide partners worked on for the months of March and April. I think that overall we did an excellent job in putting together all the different pieces of this of this massive project.
“What have you learned about your topic?”
One thing that I have learned about my topic is that terrorists would most likely not have committed these crimes, had they not been pushed to the edge of there limits. Had the world helped them in there time of need in a different way other than bringing troops into their country and killing people, things might have turned out differently…
“What have you learned about collaborating locally and internationally?”
Collaborating locally is much easier and different than collaborating internationally, as I found out in the last two months. When you are working with any group of people that are any distance away from you, it makes things more difficult because then there is the matter of communication. You may want to go and do something one way and go ahead and do it, then find out the next day that you buddy wanted to do something else instead. Doing projects this way has the advantage of getting many different points of view and that many more heads for ideas but it also has its draw-backs about having to confirm everything with the other people that you are working with which makes the process move a whole lot slower than normal.
“What would have made this project easier/better/more interesting?”
The project would have been better if there was an easier way for me and the other kids in my group to communicate better, but other than that, I doubt playing around with computers and learning to handle this new kind of soft-ware couldn’t be any more fun!
“What have you learned about telling a story combining pictures/text/music/video/voice?”
For me, I always hated it when a teacher assigned the class to hand write a story about this or that. But the world and the way we do things is changing, some things for the better, and other for the worst. But from my mind’s eye’s view, text and story telling has defiantly changed for the better. I have learned so much for doing this project that I don’t think I would have enough time in the day to write it all, so I will just give you the more important things. One, I learned how working with people form other parts of the world is like and how much fun it is to hear different opinions and ideas. Two, I learned how to gather information for a video, put it all together and put it out on the internet. Three, I learned to work and run computers and computer soft-ware.
Hello everyone, This post I am writing about today has to do with school.
Our teacher (Mr. Fisher) has assinged my class to write a post on saturated and non-saturated mixtures, along with homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures.
A saturated mixture is a liquid that has had another ingredient added to it in such an amout that it can no longer hold anything else. Any other thing added to the mixture will simply go straight to the bottom, like this iced-tea here.
A non-saturated mixtured is a mixture that still has room in it to contain other things like juice mixes or co-co. 
An example to this would be like a plain glass of water.
The next two mixtures are the homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures.
A homogeneous mixture is where two sudstances mix together so that they look and feel like the same thing. Take this steel for example…
The last, but not least mixture I am going to tell you about is the heterogeneous mixture. This mixture is made up of one or more particles and if you were to break them apart, you could see all of them clearly, like cement for example.
Making this radio play was by far the most fun assignment that we have done so far this year. It was something that people all over the world could listen to and enjoy, which made it all the more important to do properly. When the finished project was out on the web to listen to (http://www.divshare.com/download/318154-13ahttp:/www.divshare.com/download/318154-13a)
I had found that at certain parts, we either needed to be farther away form the microphone or closer to it. But other than that I thought it was alright, even great. It was a lot harder than anyone (me and my group members, Shyla and Tyler) thought it would be. One of the harder things that we had to overcome was our differences. We each wanted it to sound to our liking. But in the end we even managed to work that out, deciding to work together
Hello Grade 5 students, in this post I will answer the following questions the best I can:
When you post, where do you get your ideas for the post’s topic?
What is your favorite or most interesting thing that you like about blogging?
What makes you want to comment on a blog?
Does blogging help you more in writing and language?
Answers:
1.When I write a post, I usually get my topic ideas from either my teacher or
something interesting that has happened recently in my life. But there are also other ways to get topic ideas for a good blog post. You could try and find a good topic to write a post on by surfing the net and using google or any other search engines that you can think of. Or, if you are interested in, say, getting your community more in touch with the world, you could go and interview people on their opinions, their knowledge on certain topics or even about the history of the place you live in, which would give enough information to make a whole new blog if you were dedicated enough.
2.For my favorite thing about blogging, I would have to say the ability to communicate with other people from around the world at anytime of the day. It helps to connect people in whole new ways that 10-20 years ago, nobody thought was even possible. But my favorite thing about blogging and the most interesting thing about blogging for me are two different things completely. So to better answer your question, I will tell you about the thing that I find most interesting about blogging is that you can learn so many more things so much faster, while still being careful that you are really getting true information of course.
3.Commenting is the key ingredient to successful blogging. If you do not receive comments, then how will you even hope to fix your blog and learn new things? The same goes for giving comments. When you leave a comment for someone on one of their posts, your should be leaving your opinion on what you think on what that person has to say on that topic. What makes me want to comment on someone’s blog is how what that person is saying affects my view of things. For example, say someone has written a post that talks about Velcro (the stuff that you use if you can’t tie laces) and how it grows in fields (I give credit to my teacher for the idea). Now you and I both know that Velcro does not grow in fields but bear with me because this is only an example. Anyways, suppose I leave this person a comment saying that Velcro DOES NOT grow in fields and that it is made in factories of manufacturing plants. Now this person knows that he/she was wrong and will probably fix his/her error and he/she has learned something.
4.Yes it certainly does! Blogging can give you a larger vocabulary, enhance your writing skills and even help you in reading so that you understand what you read better. In the future, I think that schools would be much better off teaching kids their ELA (English Language Arts) on computers, typing and blogging. But you would still have to learn to write and stuff first.
I am here today to write about the different challenges and advantages of working with kids in different countries over the internet.
Some of the challenges that I have encountered when I was working on the my groupes wiki page was that if I disagreed with any of the other peoples ideas, I couldn’t ask him right then and there if I could use something else instead.
If, say, you want to edit a certian page on the wiki and someone else from a different country is already working on it, then you can’t really phone them up and tell them to get off or ask them how long they plan on being like you could if they lived in the same place as you.
So the biggest difficulty in doing a progect like this is the problem of communication between the different groups.
But for every challenge, it seems there is at least one advantage to be found! For one thing, the entire group has a wider range of ideas and palces to look for them and for another thing, the kids get a chance to work with people of different cultures that have different ways of doing things so that the others could learn form them.
Another one of the many advantages of doing stuff like this would be that kids would make new friends and in many ways, bring the world closer together.
Hi, my name is Darren and I am in Mr. Fisher’s class here in Manitoba, Canada. My teacher has gotten the wonderful idea of helping kids connect.
Introducing my class is a difficult task, but I will do it anyways. They are all a quite loud and friendly bunch (I am probably the loudest). But Out of all the places I have lived, this place is by far the best.
Now about the town itself. Snow Lake is a small town of about 800 people and has a few typical small-town businesses like a grocery store (where you buy food), a couple of restaurants, two gas stations and the occasional gift shop. Small town life is the best and I would choose it over city life any day.
Teen’s concerns when living in Canada
The number one concern for Canadian teens is probably peer pressure. I mean, living in a place where you are expected to look a certain way, wear certain clothes, etc…, it is no wonder that this is the number one concern There are so many stereo types here in Canada that many people kill themselves trying to fit in. or other people get bugged enough about not fitting in that they don’t even want to go through life anymore… but I would rather not talk about that. Moving on to…
…The number two concern for teens in Canada would most likely be global warming. Most people would not believe how many teenagers are look at global warming and saying “enough is enough”. With all of the ads, presentations, speakers and the like that talk to kids about global warming and how to stop it. It is no wonder that this generation is the world’s savior-to-be. But there are also those kids who refuse to believe in this stuff and will not do a thing to help stop it. This now brings me into my next concern.
The third and final concern of Canadian teens is, in my opinion, other kids suffering from poverty, disease, abuse and hunger. Kids worry about other kids for the most part. But like I said before, there are those who don’t really care about what the fate of other people are. These selfish people are people who don’t really deserve to be alive. We try to change them, but it doesn’t work. If there were less people like that and more people out there who cared, the world would be a much better place.
Hello readers, new and old!
So first of all, I would like to know how all of your holidays were.
Mine was terrific and to make it even sweeter, I get to go to the Dominican Republic in Febuary sometime!!:)
Over the two weeks that we got off of school here in Snow Lake, I was lazy all threw the first week, more actice than i have ever been during the second and became the biggest grump during the last few days (thats how much I want to kill the guy that invented the first school!). But like I said, during the second week I was crazy. I had tyhe best New Years party ever with Randy and Michael were we ate at least enough food to fill 5 fat guys and played video games almost the whole time.
Don’t forget to tell me about your holidays too!
Hi there everyone, My name is Darren and I would just like to welcome you all to bloging. My teacher has told me that I will be working with three new classes from all over the world. Me and my class are located in Manitoba, Canada. Now I am not absoutly sure about what we will be working on, but i think it has something to do with certian topics having to do with ELA (English Language Arts). For example, my topic is how values change over time and my partners topics are both about values too. My partners names are Matthew and Randy.
So that is all I have to say for now but i hope that you will leave comments for me to read as I will be leaving comments on your blogs to read as well.
D@rren
Hi,
ATTENTION: Calling all POWER OF THE MIND readers!
Just in case anyone of you have not heard of this site, here is its adress:
Infoaeststics
Now here is where I want you all to go to after you have reached the web site
Search for a post called Flickr Time. Now read this cool post. It may not be very long, but its subject is one of the colest things i have ever seen! Here is a link to the actua site. All you have to do is type in two of your favorite things and then it will put up a clock made out of pictures that relate to the things you have typed in. Flickr Clock.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I do!!!!!!!
