Friday, September 19

Now that you've been in Emerging Technology for several weeks... what do you think? Do you think the web tools (Drive, Evernote, Bubbl, etc.) are helpful to you? Do you think they will be helpful throughout high school or even college? Explain.

I think that the web tools are very helpful and I will use them for now on for other classes as well as this one.  It is a very easy way to organize, and is an alternate to taking notes with a pencil and paper. The web tools are also a better way to organize because they can be accessed on any computer or any electrical device. 

Wednesday, September 17

Do you enjoy writing? When do you enjoy it? What kind of writing do you enjoy? Why do you think the ability to write is so important no matter what kind of writing it is? Give an example that you enjoyed writing or hated writing. Why?

I enjoy writing, but only for school work.  I don't like to spend my free time writing because I just think it's boring. I like writing realistic fiction, and I don't mind writing essays if the topic is interesting to me.  The ability to write is important because that's how people communicate. If we can't write, we can't communicate in the most common way of communication these days, texting.  I hated writing in seventh grade when my ELA teacher made us keep a writing log and write in our free time.  I hate writing in our free time and I have to have a prompt, which we didn't get, so  I was not the biggest fan of that.  I do enjoy writing in ELA this year when Mrs. Bakalar gives us a prompt and some time to write about that prompt. 

Tuesday, September 16

Reflect on this quote. Give an example of a time in your life that this might have been the case.






This quote is saying that by not preparing you won't succeed; which is very true in pretty much every situation in life.  You can't expect the best when you haven't even tried to prepare for it.  One example is on a test at school.  If you don't prepare for a test, your results most likely won't be successful.  When it comes to dance, you have to be flexible to be a good dancer, and if you aren't naturally flexible, you have to work for it because it's not just going to come one day, you have to prepare and stretch to become flexible.  In life you have to prepare or you will fail, that's life.

Monday, September 15

What did you do this weekend? Share pictures if you have them!

This weekend I got a car for my birthday.  I got a 2015 white Jeep Wrangler Sahara.  It's a four door, and I'm super super excited.  I don't have my restricted yet, but I am able to get it on the 26th.  I also cheered at the first BVHS home game against West, and we smoked them 27-6. It was way more fun than I thought it would be, even though we couldn't hear the varsity captains calling the chants, so we probably looked like idiots but who cares.  I also celebrated my birthday with my moms side of the family. We didn't really do much besides eat pizza and cookie cake.  I like my dad's side of the family better because there are twelve cousins, and they are all girls, but they all live in Jeff City. Overall, I had a pretty good weekend. 

Friday, September 12

What is the importance of research? Why do you need to know how to research? What have you learned in high school about researching topics and finding quality resources? Have you had a helpful teacher that has taught you to research? Explain.

The importance of research is to learn about different things.  You need to know how to research because you do a lot of it in school, but also if you are curious or just want to know more about a specific topic, if you know how to research it is super easy to find information on whatever you want to know more about.  I have only been in high school for about a month, so I haven't learned much about research here yet.  I know that databases are the best resources to find quality information from. A helpful teacher would have to be Mrs. Edwards because she has been the only teacher that has talked about research so far this year.  

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Global Issue Selection- Sydney Renkemeyer

Global Issue Selection

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For my issue in Emerging Technology I have chosen lung cancer.  I have begun researching the issue and you can find my research questions here.

Wednesday, September 11

          Kids these days are crazy and unsocial.  All they do is play on their phones and their lives revolve around social media.  Kids need to socialize in person rather than snapchat or text them.  They are also spoiled rotten.  These days, there are seven year old's who own their own newest, most up to date iPhone.  Kids don't work hard for what they are given.  Everything is just handed to them, and they all think the world revolves around them.  In school, everything is so much easier than when it was back in the 70's and 80's with all of the new technologies. Kids need to realize what life is all about, and that it's not all about them.