Day 24 Blog

Watch the following clip on The Twelve Days of Christmas sung Shrek style. We are under the 12 day mark. Tell me what your plans are for Christmas, and what you have asked for on your Santa list.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=-UhcmUU0QpY

Christmas Class

http://www.abcteach.com/wordpuzzles/Crosswords/Christmas.html
http://www.crosswordpuzzlegames.com/christmas.html
http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/christmas/puzzles/wp-xmas.htm

print and do a crossword.


http://www.the-north-pole.com/carols/index.htm Plug your head phones in and sing along to these Christmas Carols.

http://www.mattlake.com/carol.htm Christmas Carol Trivia Quiz.


http://www.santas.net/christmasjokes.htm Find a laugh in these Christmas Jokes!

http://www.santas.net/howmerrychristmasissaid.htm How do you say Merry Christmas around the world?

http://www.merry-christmas.com/games/trivia.games/trivia1.htm Christmas Trivia Game

http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com/ Make your own snowflake.

http://www.santalady.com/xmasgames.html Games to play at Christmas with family and friends.

http://www.12days.com/playground/ 12 Days of Christmas Playground - fun games.

http://www.merry-christmas.com/games/games.htm# Interactive Games.

http://funschool.kaboose.com/fun-blaster/christmas/games/index.html More Interactive Games.

http://www.emailsanta.com/ Email Santa.

http://www.emailsanta.com/clock.asp Countdown to Christmas.

http://www.emailsanta.com/Christmas_Trivia.htm Trivia Games.

http://www.canadapost.ca/dec/santa/writesanta/emailform-e.asp Santa's Corner

http://www.northpole.com/Mailroom/ Santa's Mailroom

Day 23 Blog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGDwRYAsFFE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf8bRA6k0f0



View this clip of a metorite that hit earth in Alberta on November 20, 2008, 6 days ago! Comment on what you think about things falling from the sky, how might this affect us in the future, what can astrologists, and other scientists who study the sky, do about predicting future meteorite hits in relationship to earth?

Day 22 Blog

To post, or not to post...that is the question? The internet has become a sharing network for pictures and personal videos. Since every user is held responsible for what they post on the internet, it would be best to check a few details before posting any document on line. Think about the following:
1. Do you own copyrights to this file?
2. Did you obtain permission from the persons appearing in the pictures or videos for posting on the Internet?
3. Are there children in the picture?
4. Are the pictures embarassing?
5. Could their content be offensive to certain people?
6. Could the content be considered offensive, hateful, discriminatory or sexual?
7. Do you want the internet community to have access to your pictures?
Have you posted pictures on Facebook or Youtube? Have you considered the above questions before posting? Can you think of other guiding questions that might help people decide if they should post or not? What do you do if a picture has been posted that puts one of these standards in question?

Day 21 Blog

Piracy on the sea...not the net!

View the following clips. Did you believe that pirates are a thing of the past? What do you think governments are going to need to do to keep on top of the piracy issue?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjtwhWcpITo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypcI0fyD-qo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlCIGsy0sgc

Day 20 Blog

"29 000 convicted Sex Offenders were found on My Space in April of 2007". That is only a year and a half ago. How does that make you feel when using the internet? What are some safety precautions you should always take when talking to the "unknown". Has an incident ever happened to you where somebody turned out to be somebody other than who you originally thought?

Day 19 Blog

http://search.live.com/video/results.aspx?q=a+timely+remembrance&docid=2914460051126&FORM=TVVR4


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZp62yTy1Vk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHgRkTPpAvo

View these Remembrance Day Videos. In your own words, explain what the messages are.

Day 18 Blog

Some interesting, useless facts for you to ponder! What do you think?

The typical laboratory mouse runs 2.5 miles per night on its treadmill.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.

The elephant is the largest animal on land. But it is much smaller than the blue whale.

The SIBERIAN TIGER is the largest cat in the world. It weighs up to 300kg (660 lbs) and can eat 27,2 kg (60 lb) of meat at one mealtime.

The first kind of PENCIL was a bunch of GRAPHITE sticks held together by string.

Did you know that the average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil? Amazing fact!
Now imagine an eraser that could match it !!!
Someone decided it would be better to push the graphite into the inside of a hollow wooden stick.

Did you know there are two kinds of pandas? There is the Long-tailed Himalayan carnivore that looks like a raccoon and there is the Giant panda bear that lives in Western China.

It was the Romans who made the first popsicle. They took some ice and added flavour to it and then licked it. What a great idea! Yummy !

The Sumerians, who lived in the Middle East, invented the wheel in about 3450 BC.

The Sumerians also invented writing.

Did you know it was the Chinese who made the first wheelbarrow?

Day 17 Blog

Read the moderated comments from Y3W on Day 16 Blog. Now enter your new Y3W for the Gruen Von Behrens, the motivational speaker on Friday regarding Chewing Tobacco and cancer. If you were to sum up his presentation, what are Y3W? Explain the pictures you would use to depict Y3W.

Day 16 Blog

http://ugv.abcnews.go.com/player.aspx?id=681503

View this Y3W (Your three Words). Think of the Heather Laxdal Symposium and Alvin Law's presentation, what three words did you get out of it? Mine are: Treasure Fond Memories. If you were to put them into pictures, what would it look like? Describe.

Day 15 Blog

Good Morning. Please comment on what you got out of the Heather Laxdal Symposium in the theatre on Tuesday. Include the "message" that you got from Alvin Law's motivational speech. What can you take from what he had to say and apply to everyday life?

Day 14 Blog

Answer the following questions in your blog today:
1. You spend an average of how many hours a day with media? (3,4.5, 6.5, 8 hours)
2. Children with easy access to media tend to spend more time using them. (True / False)
3. Young people who spend the most time with media also report spending more time...(with their parents, being physically active, pursuing other hobbies, all of the above)
4. New media displaces the use of old media. (true / false)
5. What % of youth report having acces to TV, video games or computers in their bedrooms? (68, 52, 83, 37 %)
6. Those youth who are least content or get the poorest grades spend more time with video games and less time reading than their peers. (True / False)
7. The dominant medium for young people today is... (television, video games, internet, music)

Day 13 Blog

Comment on this quote: " To be media literate in this new environment, young people need to develop knowledge, values and a range of critical thinking, communication and information management skills and media education is an essential tool in helping them acquire these skills."

Day 12 Blog

View the interview from 60 Minutes TV clip with Kevin Mitnick, world reknown hacker. Comment on your views on hacking and using the internet and technology in unacceptable ways.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=8_VYWefmy34&eurl=http://digiteen.wikispaces.com/Digital+Law

Day 11 Blog

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=l5SmrHNWhak&eurl=http://digiteen.wikispaces.com/Digital+Law Watch this short video clip on Piracy is a crime! How do you feel about this? What is the regular practice of people your age in regards to copying music or movies? What are some legal alternatives?

Day 10 Blog

After reading last day's posts, some good relationships were made between playing video games and an addiction to speed. Obviously the physical signs and symptoms are not the same, but some of you could relate to the "addiction" as well as the "good feeling" you get while playing the games. Consider this: "Cyberaddiction is developed through the use of the computer. Let's specify that it is not the computer we are addicted to; rather we are addicted to the experience we have because of the machine...In the same way drugs and alcohol can be , the computer becomes a way to escape reality, deny problems, or forget about them by devoting time to something else." (Jean-Pierre Rochon, Internet Addiction psychologist). Comment on this psychologist's research.

Day 9 Blog

Read your classmates' blogs about the Oprah Show clip and the Crime Stoppers presentation. Perhaps comment back to a classmate.

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter found in the brain that is needed for normal functioning of the central nervous system. Speed is a drug that can be prescribed or can be found as a street drug, otherwise known as crystal meth. Its causes arousal in the brain and central nervous system. "Playing video games doubles the amount of dopamine in the brain which is equivalent to a dose of speed". What do you think about that quote? Believe it or not?

Day 8 Blog

I have considered all of your input to our rubric for blogging. You will find a copy of it posted through the ComFun Wiki space. Click on the left sidebar of this blog page, click on the Com Fun 9 Docs page that is holding our word documents from this class. From now on, your blogs will be marked as a 4 - strong, 3 - proficient, 2 - developing, 1 - beginner, 0 non-existent. Thank you for your input.

First, make some comments about the Crime Stoppers presentation you saw in the theatre on Friday. How can you apply some of the information that was presented to your every day life?

Today you are going to watch a 10 minute clip from an Oprah show. The individual speaking brings motivation and spirit to his audience. After watching, comment (keeping in mind the new rubric) on the speaker's main motivating points.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=BODHsU3hDo4

Day 7 Blog

Last day you had a chance to comment on criteria that should be considered for blog writing rubric. Please review other classmates' blogs, see if you can find a post that you disagree with and state why. Review the blogs and find one that you feel is well written and comment back on it. Next day you will have an opportunity to review the rubric that will be created using your contributed information.

Day 6 Blog

Today you are required to go back through the Blog archive and read other classmates' blog posts. We are going to be developing a rubric for the different level of bloggers. There will be four categories of bloggers; beginning, developing, proficient, and strong. I want you to find examples of blog entries from either of the two classes that might be good examples of each of these categories. Ask yourself what criteria is making the blog entry fall into a particular category. What do you think should be considered when marking a blog entry? Your input now, will help develop a rubric for this class.

Day 5 Blog

Use the following links about hurricanes to enter your blog today. Comment on at least five new facts you learned about hurricanes, their history and how they are named.

http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/hurricane/names.html

http://school.familyeducation.com/hurricane/natural-disasters/34258.html

Day 4 Blog

View the two videos on hurricanes in Texas (one in 1900, the other in 2008). Compare and contrast some similarities or differences between the two hurricanes. Click here to get to the National Geographic video archive, watch two videos; Hurricane Ike Devastation and The Hurricane Ike of 1900.
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/environment/environment-natural-disasters/hurricanes/

Day 3 Blog Semester 2

"Kids see more than 250 000 commercials aimed at their appearance by age 17". How do you think this may affect how kids feel about themselves? Do you think it may affect some kids' self-esteem and self-confidence? What do you see as the worst case scenario as to the results of some of these commercials for kids who are affected by them? Let me know how commercials of this nature make you feel.

Day 2 Blog

Watch the video posted on the blog site called Cyberbullying; Broken Friendships. Comment on the importance of safeguarding your own accounts on line, whether they are at school or at home.