1. My favorite assignment was either the podcast or the slides presentation it was fun to just talk about random things and yourself
2. I did not enjoy the google sheets
3. I wish we spent more time on the podcasts bc they were so fun
4. uhhh not really

An advertising technique used by companies to subtly promote their products through a non-traditional advertising technique, usually through appearances in film, television, or other media. Some examples are, Talladega Nights, Happy Gilmore, ET, Back To the Future.

My favorite voyage was the volcano one, I’ve always loved volcanoes and always have thought volcanoes were fascinating. I found that there is a line of active volcanoes stretching from Alaska all the way to Mexico down the California Coast. Volcanoes are really fascinating when they erupt and lava and other things come out and fly out, now while its cool it can also be very dangerous to people nearby or who live nearby.

Famous street artist Shephard Fairey created the Hope poster during President Obama’s first run for presidential election in 2008. A photographer later came on and claimed that it was his photo used in the poster and wanted credit for it. The photographer was grateful that the photo blew up and what Fairy did with it but still wanted credit. The artist and the AP press came to a private settlement in January 2011, part of which included a split in the profits for the work.

Three ways you can tell if a Website is credible or not:

• “Author – Information on the internet with a listed author is one indication of a credible site. The fact that the author is willing to stand behind the information presented (and in some cases, include his or her contact information) is a good indication that the information is reliable.
• Date – The date of any research information is important, including information found on the Internet. By including a date, the website allows readers to make decisions about whether that information is recent enough for their purposes.
• Sources – Credible websites, like books and scholarly articles, should cite the source of the information presented”

“How can I tell if a website is credible or not”- University of Wisconsin Green Bay

https://uknowit.uwgb.edu/page.php?id=30276

Websites are becoming more and more easy to fake, are becoming much easier to find credible. And if you dont know which websites are real and which are fake, you can easy get scammed or something. Knowing how to identify which sites are real and which are fake is a very good asset to have.

Personally, I feel like texting, and calling people can really help you talk to people face to face, it can give you a feel about who the person is and who they are so you can relate to them in person, it gives you more of a sense of what to say when you don’t know what to say face to face. Sure if some people never leave the house or just sit on their phones 24/7 it will not help them in face to face conversations but by putting yourself out there in both person and over the internet or over the phone, or text, etc. It can help you be a better social person.

Cloud computing is really cool and interesting. Its cool that everything is just streamed to you instead of running on a hard drive and all that. Sooner or later everything is going to be on the cloud. Soon people wont need to have consuls and everything to play games, they’ll just need a screen and a stable connection.

Cloud Computing is also cool in case you lose everything on your computer, instead of losing it forever it will just be on the cloud. Its like a personal digital storage unit that you use to store your digital needs. It stores things such as, pictures, documents, videos, texts, etc. So when something happens to your computer you can just buy a new one and upload all the stuff on your cloud onto your new computer.😎

The article I liked the most was the article about the “Brazilian Aardvark” I think its a really interesting and really funny. A 17 year old changed a Wiki page about a type of raccoon to make it seem like the raccoon was also referred to as the “Brazilian Aardvark”. It soon caught attention and made many other articles. This shows that anything on the internet can be changed and be made believable so we cant believe everything we see online.

After reading three articles about fake news and how it can spread it has become clear that people and the internet have become blind to what is real and what is fake. As time progresses and technology and the internet beginning have more power, fake news can spread faster. All it takes is one unreliable source making pretty much anything they want up. This wouldn’t be such a big deal if everyone didn’t then believe it and re-publish it. One article I read discussed what happened when a young student called a normal Coati, a Brazilian aardvark.

Seventeen year old student from New York made a edit to a Wikipedia site about coati’s just mostly making a joke. In his edit he claimed for the coati’s nickname to be the “Brazilian aardvark.” He figured that within a couple days someone would flag his post for not even citing it then it would be taken down. Although, after a couple days that is not what happened. Another source ended up publishing about this so called aardvark, so instead of someone flagging to take it down, someone edited and added a cite to the nickname going back to the second website. Then the nickname quickly spread and when you started to google “Brazilian aardvark” you would get many websites about Coati’s.

This proves that one piece of fake news can quickly and rapidly turn into much more then that.

Over Christmas Break I did alot of things, I hung out with friends, I had basketball games\practice, and lots of other things. We had a 6 game tournament over break that was held at Juan Diego. Varsity went 2-1 and JV went 3-1. It was a good tournament and we all had alot of fun. I also hung out with friends alot over the break, we watched movies and drove around and a bunch of crazy stuff. And thats all I did over my break.