bluezone By: Jericho

In the last few videos of bluezones they talked about the eight secrets of longevity. They talked about the food that they eat to have longevity. They eat alot of fruit and vegetables. The people that live there do not eat meat as much as we do. They save alot of there meat for celebrations.

The peninsula.

Today theywere focusingon longevite. Then they viseted the small peninsula of costa rica.

If the shoe fits...

You wear it!! Today the bluezones team talked to a guy about his shoes, and how he has lived a long peace full life. I have noticed that every person that they have interviewed (that i can remember) has had a really strong faith, lived in peace, and mostly ate the same foods. Well I hope you have visited the site lately and see the man that man who has gone through many shoes. (I had a picture of some really cute shoes(Costa Rican too!!))
"live large,"
Tasha

BlueZones 2-13 by Tim M.

I learned from the bluezones that a healthy life stile and steady exersize can keep you healthy. It also taught me that enof work to keep you buisy but not enof to get you stressed is more important than the money you make doing it.And that what realy matters is family.

Nicoya, Costa Rica

Today in bluezones we were supposed to work according to or rows. We divided the people into sections of the site to do the daily checks. I got to do the " Direct The Team." Today the team asked where they should go next. They gave me 3 choices, and I picked the one that sounded the best to me. Well, thats all that i have for now.

BLueZones on Tues. Febr. 13 BY JAMES

learnd about old peaple. showed us a map.shoed us there religin.showed us picturs of there familys.

Bluezones

Fillipe is 99 years old. Fillipe waited 18 years befor marrying his second wife, and they were together for 40 years before she died a few years ago.




Daniel W

Bluezones

Fillipe is 99 years old. Fillipe waited 18 years befor marrying his second wife, and they were together for 40 years before she died a few years ago.




Daniel W

Bluezones

Felipe was 99 years old, he also had basketball shoes but he uses them for chopping wood, clearing brush with his machete, and hunting varmits. He lives in Nicoya, Costa Rica, he got had a wife but they were never married. They were both together for 20 years until she died of tetanus. Then he married his 2nd wife which they were married for 40 years until she died.



Matt Ulrich

Bluezones

Felipe was 99 years old, he also had basketball shoes but he uses them for chopping wood, clearing brush with his machete, and hunting varmits. He lives in Nicoya, Costa Rica, he got had a wife but they were never married. They were both together for 20 years until she died of tetanus. Then he married his 2nd wife which they were married for 40 years until she died.

Bluezones

They talked about Felipe a 99 year old mans life and how he liked a pair of shoes they also talked about how he had a job and he had to carry 80 pound bags for 12 hours each day. He was never married his first wife died of tetanus. He remarried and they were toghter for 40 year! She has just past away a few years ago. The team also talked about how they would be leaving Nicoya soon and how they would miss everyone there.






~Molie~

Daily Dispatch for Feb. 12

Blue Zones Daily Dispatch for Monday Feb. 12 told about Nicoya's longevity formula. It went on to say that 2 heads are better than one. It tells about a book where a professor fills a jar with 850 beans and the class guesses on how many are in the jar. The class says there are 871 beans and only one person in the class had a closer guess. It gives examples to support that 2 heards are better than one in the stock market and in the democratic system. Even in the game show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire". The people who polled the audiance got the question right 91% of the time and those who phoned a friend got the question right 65% of the time. Then it told you the 8 top things that we voted on for the reasons on Nicoya's Longevity.

1. The Water
2. Emphasizing Family
3. Having Faith
4. Eating Fruit
5. Nixtamal
6. Passion for Work
7. Having a Plan de Vida
8. Finding Happiness

This is about it for Blue Zones Daily Dispatch on Monday if you missed it.

Blue Zones Update-2/14/07

To begin, I would like to wish everyone a happy Valentines Day!! On Blue Zones the team finished the quest at Costa Rica on Tuesday. Beacause of this fact, I got to really explore the website. General information about the secret to longevity was obtained along with info on Costa Rica's geography. Research shows that 30% of longevity comes from genes that are giving to you, and the other 70% comes from lifestyle you choose to live. From the geo. end today I discovered that Costa Rica is a rich tropical rainforests region that is surrounded by the Caribbean Sea, Pacific Ocean, Nicaragua, and Panama. The map that is up at the top of the page may help you better understand the geography of this rainforest area. You can learn more about the secrets to longevity by going to www.bluezones.com and creating an account. So long and don't forget to have a HAPPY VALENTINES DAY.

Heidi H.

Costa Rica behind the lenes

The video showed us how they lived and that they do some stuff that we do here in the US. Like they celebrate birthdays like we do and other things. It also showed us the kinda of food they eat. during the video it played a snong that they might listen to there.
BY: Jenni forslund

February 13, 2007 bluezones by Tim H.

February was their last day in Costa Rica. I wasn't able to watch the video because the video took awhile to load. So, I just read the daily dispatch and did the votes on where they would go next time. I thought that they should go to Crete because it would be a different religion (probably) then costa rica. Plus, the location is different too. Well I'm done with this blog so see ya later.
Tim Hansen(tiny).

Bluezone Blog By colon Eler

For here i have a couple of great wonderful people, this video was about this elderly lady and her life. She is rather old.

Jessica Marvin Febuary 14,2007

Bluezones told alot about how to have longjevity (that means live a long time) i watched yesterdays video and it was just a whole bunch of pictures that they took over the whole trip, they were really cool it also showed what they learned they learned about the 5 main ways to have longjevity. they are valuating people faith plant based diet hard work and a nice lifestyle.

blog by tim

the point is about the how the researchers at bluezones are doing. They're doing very well with finding longjevity. In costa rica they are finding a lot of people over 90. They have done surveys and have figured out a lot about their history and their ways of staying healthy.

Bluezone By: Jericho

The point of bluezone is to find out what longevity is and how it works. The people who have longevity live to be 100 or more.

Bluezones so far

What is the point of Bluezones?

It is about people reaserching how people in Costa Rica live so long.

What's the message from bluezones?

The message is that reseachers in costa Rica are making movies and a lot of other stuff and puting it on bluezones.com for us to learn about how the people live so long.

well that is all that we have to say about bluezones.com. If you wont to learn more just go to the website and go to all the links you are interested in.
SEE YA

BY: Jenni Forslund and Danielle Peter

bluezones.com

Hey peoples!!!
bluezones.com is an awsome website that that goes surching for a "myth". this round they are finding the source of longivity. if you go there you can see the movie of what they did today, vote how to solve a delma, a mystery photo, and more!!
I hope you visit it, you'll really like it.
LOL,
nrowe

Blue Zones So Far By: Heidi and Jennie

Blue Zones in now visiting Costa Rica and is still trying to solve the mystery to longevity. Today we learned how the water might be linked to this. The reason being that it is rich in calcium. Other days this week have explained why their taco shells may also be a key to longevity. Having a purpose for tommorrow may assist in having a longer life. The message of this site is to discover how you can live longer.


Heidi and Jennie

BlueZones

The point of BlueZones is so we can see what they are doing and try to discover why they are living longer in that part of the world. To tech that people can live long if you take care of yourself over a long period of time.





~Mollie~

Jessica Marvin January 25,2006

hey guys

today Mrs morrow told us how to make a really good powerpoint. to make it look good and not sloppy she showed us a really ]

good power point and how to use it correctly

she gave us work time to do power point and other things like that

we have to interview a person and make a power point on the tecnology they use

coming from

Jessica

January 23, 2007

Today we began by having some free time. During this time we could either work on our songs in GarageBand or work on our 60 sec. commercials for NETA. Jennie and I are the only ones that chose to create a project for NETA. The topic is The Winning Ticket. During are free time, Mrs. Morrow prepared a presentation to show us about power point design. From this we learned how colors blend together and how to not use to many colors on each slide. Out of Tech Trends the JH Boys play Valentine. We would like to wish you good luck.

Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007

Hi, Today we are working on our Isafe packets. The Isafe packet deals with alot of sutff, for example how to keep safe from online predators. For example, we learned not to give out any personal information at all, Credit Card numbers, home phone work phone numbers, street adress. So we all hope we could share this info with all of you people that chat on IM places or in chat rooms. So you can all still be safe but still be able to have fun. Thank you for reading my post :)!

blog by tim

Hello, this is "Tiny" Tim.Today Mrs. Morrow told us that next week we are going to do interviews on people with jobs that have progressed in technology. I dont know who I'm going to interview, but I'll figure out something. I wish I had more, but there's not much were doing today except mess around and go on garageband. Well I'm going to the game tonight, hopefully we win. My next game is at the high school gym and were playing Valentine. They have more people than the last teams we played so more players will go to the game. So more people will be happy and the team might be better with more people there so they can rest. Well, that's all for me. See yah all later.

January 18, 2007

Today we when't over our isafe Drivers test. Then we presented what we learned on the macbooks that we didn't know before. At first we were having some troble with the projector and the smart board.

January 11, 07

Today i learned that the presedent ordered more troops in irag, then today in technoledgy we learned about garage band and how to mickes music and sounds have a grate day.

Daily Blogger By Jericho January 10,2007

Today in technology we worked on our worksheet packets. We learned today that F9 shows you all your windows at once. We also learned that F10 makes everything dark except the screen you are on.

January 9, 2007 by Jennie

To start off the day in technology class a few of us finished up our comic lifes and printed them. Then once everyone was done with that and we got the computer to work we looked at somethings that Mrs. Morrow could do with the computers. She then told us that today we were going to do a Meet My Macbook packet. The Meet My Macbook packet shows you how to take care of the macbooks. By Friday this week we have to find something on the macbooks that we didn't know about, and show it to the class. She also told us about blog entries and that I was the first one that would have to post a blog for today that told about what we did in class. So thats whats going on in tech. class today. Other news is that the 8th grade girls started their tournament team in basketball. We had our first practice last night. This year we are going to be in a lot more tournaments than we have been in past years. We are all excited about that. This is all the news for now in tech. class.

January 8, 2007 by Mrs. Morrow

Anyone's mind feeling "squished" by all the cool stuff our Macbooks can do?

tv,radio

I can't do a I movie

Stuff will get faster and smaller.

1 tv, cumperter, video games, and phones

2 can make power points, like to lern how to make Imovies

3 cordless video games

answers

1)At my house all I have for technology at my house is a playstation, computer, T.V. ,CD player, DVD player, and a microwave.

2)I can do power points, I don't know how to do a pod cast.

3)I think that in the future there will hats with built in mp3 players, shoes with rockets that will help you run faster.

ANSWERS BY TIM M

CALCULATER,TV,RADIO,
I CAN MAKE POWER PIONTS BUT NOT IMOVIES
COMPUTERS WILL BE ALLOT SMALLER

1st assignment by Dylan

1. mp3, ipod, computer, t.v.
2. Power point

answers

1)mp3 player cd player tv dvd player
2)good on enternet ,word dont now how to post web page.
3) We will have electronic cars. With ipod insted of cd players.

Assignment 1

1) The tech access that I have is a computer, digital camera, television, nintendo, mp3 player, and a dvd player.

2) I don't have the best tech proficiency but I do know how to work with some things like powerpoints. I also know how to type. I would like to learn how to create more things in powerpoint and in podcasts.

3) My prediction for the future is that I think everyone will have a lot more technology and a lot of things will be even simpiler than they are now. I think that when we are older mp3 players and ipods will be found in everyones shoes. I think that GPS will be in every car.

technologey with me!!

Tech access :I have a(n); ipod, tv, dvd, phone, cell phone, ihome, computure, pens & penciles, microwave, digi camra, calculator, boombox, Expodition, blowdryer, humidafire, vacume,remote, typewriter, & dryer.

Tech proficiency(a): I'm good at; typeing, shopping on the web, finding things on the web, working on the computure, doing powerpoint, takeing and developing pictures, and up and downloding different programs.
tech proficiency(b): i want to learn; how to pod cast, how to make my power points better, and how to do things i will need in the future.

Prediction for the future:I think the tech in the future will be; people will be able to go long distanses faster.

Jenni forslund

#1. PS2, T.V, computer, digital camera, video camera, iPod, phone, cell phone, stereo, palms.

#2. I am really good at using tech.

#3. houses would clean themselves and make your meals for you.

Answers

1)Ipod,Computer,TV,dvd player,VCR,phone

2)I'm ok with power points I don't know how to make an Imovie or any thing like that

3)Shoes with tv in them, Coats turn into an Airplane

Tech Tools

1. I have access to computers, T.V., dvd players, video games, cell phone, microwave, vcr, mp3 player, phone, cd player, humidifier, vaccum, remote, dryer, calculator.
2. I'm Good at researching, and emailing, powerpoints.
3. I would like to learn how to make podcasts.

Matt Ulrich's answers

1) I use computers, Television, Pals, video games, VCR, Pinball machines, dvd player, keyboard, a digital camera ,a Ipod, and cell phones

2) Im good at making power points, and typing. I also want to learn how to do podcasting.

3) Flying Cars, phones in your shoes, and cell phones that don't need charged

3 Questions By:Mollie

1) I use computers, televsion, dvd player, video games, VCR, pinball machines, keyboard, digital camera, labtop, Stereo


2) I know how to use the: Powerpoint, kinda podcasting, I want to learn to how to make my own web. I'm good at typing


3) A refrigerator that could read your mind, nothing will have batteries and they will have to charge things, cars without gas,robots,

assignment 1

1. The kinds of tech. I own include a computer, palm, TV, mp3 player, playstation, dvd player, playstation, portable dvd player, and a digital camera.

2. I have made powerpoints, web pages, i movie, and podcast. I also know how to use word, sketchy, garage band, the internet, e-mail, msn messenger. I have also used smartboards and macs.

I would like to learn how to post a podcast on the web and get better at making a webpage.

3. In the future I predict that things will be a lot more advanced. Some of the tech. we use today will not even be known. One thing that might be common that not many people have today is having a GPS system in there car telling them exactly when to turn.

assignment 1

1. The kinds of tech. I own include a computer, palm, TV, mp3 player, playstation, dvd player, playstation, portable dvd player, and a digital camera.

2. I have made powerpoints, web pages, i movie, and podcast. I also know how to use word, sketchy, garage band, the internet, e-mail, msn messenger. I have also used smartboards and macs.

I would like to learn how to post a podcast on the web and get better at making a webpage.

3. In the future I predict that things will be a lot more advanced. Some of the tech. we use today will not even be known. One thing that might be common that not many people have today is having a GPS system in there car telling them exactly when to turn.

Welcome to OPS 8th Grade Technolody Trends- 3rd Quarter!

Welcome 3rd Quarter Students!
For your first blog post and first assignment I would like everyone to create a post that tells the class at least three things:

1) Your current access to technology
(What tech tools do you own? )

2) Your current tech proficiency
(What skills are you strong at? What would you like to learn more about?)

3) Your prediction for technology in the future
(What tools and skills do you think will be commonplace and necessary when you are out in the real world workforce after graduation?)

You may try some formatting or adding an image, but MAKE SURE that you spell check before publishing your post!

If you finish early you may read previous posts to the blog from students during the first two quarters of 8th grade Technology Trends.

12-20-06 Paige

Today in class we worked on our Imovie. My group and I are working on Blackbeard the Pirate. I learned alot about him that I never knew. Blackbeard was a famous pirate. We acted out a skit! My technology choice is an article from http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/13/gentech/main1707449.shtml that talked about how technology makes life alot easier! They talked about how parents should be watching out for their kids. Technology is now a nice way to entain yourself! This article said they worry about kids and their little techno-toys! They said that technology's Myspace is just like hanging out with a neighbor. And instant messaging is meaningful communication. They said telivisions and computer screens shouldn't be put infront of kids intell they are somewhere older than 3-7 years old. Cell phones, computers, Ipods, etc. are far down the list from things to worry about kids. They also mentioned that the Internet is a big invention and that it is hard to measure such things in present tense!

Last Assignment by Ashlea

this quarter has been great i learned so much, and the best part is that i get to be smarter than my mom for a change since she is a teacher, and an adult, but she actually asks me what to do and i laugh then i help her if i don't want to be grounded. haha well i really liked this class and i would love to learn more about the mac books, and almost anything else related to technology, the fun stuff though. well this is all i think i have to go eat some lunch, well i just wanted to say thanks mrs.morrow for having the pactience to teach all of us kids. bye from ashlea

Dustin Blog Post

Today December 20th, 2006 we finished our iMovie projects. Josh, Alejandro, and Myself did ours on the Spies of the Revolution. We had to make a storyboard, and a script because those are 2 of the 3 grades we are getting for this project. Today is our last day in this quater class, Technology Trends.

The Sony PS3 can either have 20 gigabytes or 60 gigabytes. 20 gigabytes costs around $500 online. 60 gigabytes costs roughly $600.

Josh Blog Post

Yesterday in Technology Class we started our iMovies. Alejandro, Dustin and I are doing ours on the Spies of the Revolution. We should be done in plenty of time.

Wednesday December 13, 2006 by: Nathan

Today in class we worked on our imovie research and scripts. Blake was gone so I didn't have to do much. TECHNOLOGY IN THE REAL WORLD- the technology that I'm going to talk about is the new ipod remodeled. The new ipod nano is now available in 2gb, 4gb, and 8gb. They hold 2,000 songs and are available in 5 colors- black, silver, fuschia, lime, and turquoise. They hold 25,000 photos and play audiobooks and podcasts. They have 24 hours of battery life. It is still 99 cents for a song and they also made it 40% brighter. It is a slimmer design it is .26 thin, the lengh is 3.5, and the width is 1.6 all measurements are in inches. SOURCES: www.apple.com.

12/12/2006 by: Anahi

Well today at technology class we talked about our "iMovies"
iMovies are kind of fun, because you can teach other people about history.
For our iMovies we get 2 grades one for our Technology teacher and the other one for our History teacher.
Right now we were just picking our topics, and talking about our scripts.
Well thats about if for our technology class

In the real world;
Last week the "Roboexotica" festival of "cocktail robots" took place in Vienna, Austria. Around 35 robots mixed cocktails
Winner in the Cocktail Mixing category was the External Combustion Machine that mixes drinks through a recycled fuel injector from a Ford car
The Cocktail Serving award was won by the flamethrower-toting El Espanol Borracho - it apparently makes a mean flaming Spanish Coffee.


Source
http://www.newscientist.com

well thats about it.

12/12/06 By Emily

Today we are talking about starrting out imovie. We just fineshed our podcasts i did mine about llamas. We are making ou scrips for out imovie my partner kelcey and I are doing salem witchcraft trials and we have discoverd that it is very interesting. Mrs.Morrow talked to the class about what we could do in imovie we could do a blue screen and replace the screen with a diffrent back ground like u could be in a winter wonder land with shorts on. Now for my current event China is putting a band on some of there most popular games because of crud religous movements. www.news.yahoo.com

By Emily K.

Tuesday December 5th by Sam

Hey it's me Sam again telling you whats going on in the Technology world, The Real world, and in Technoogy class. I'll start with Technology class first. Well today all we really did was work on our podcast. Some of us added in music and pictures to our podcast, while others tried to finish up. Those who got done with their podcast worked on their imovie project by researching their topic that they have picked. In the Real world, or I geuss you could just say school, we had a Science test. Lately in History we have been studying about how America became independant from England. Honestly I find it quite interesting to learn about America's history. In the Technology world I found out that Nike and Apple computer worked together to form a sports kit. This sports kit is an ipod that goes in your shoe. It tells you the speed that you re going, how many caleries you have burned, and the distance you have gone. Researchers are afraid that thieves or stalkers could track you down with this device. They are now saying that it is safe now. Until next time, Sammi Hammi.

by Carl

I read that the president George W Bush is going to try and make enough money to set up a base on the moon in 2020. 2024 it'll be done. They lost 6 people . They say that they are ready to set one up on mars. For every expedition to the moon it caused $124Bn. They astronauts are scared that bushes plan wil interfer.

Monday, December 4, 2006 by Daniel

Today in class we had to go to the library and Mrs.Morrow was talking about an imovie about history.And she said to pick a topic that we would like to work on and then she said we could get in groups of three. So me and matt moloun picked the first submarine ever made. then mrs morrow said that we could research on the computer and print information?

Hello everyone I am going to talk to you about last friday. Well on friday we finished up our podcast about whatever we wanted to make it on. Like I did mine on golf because everyone knows I love to play it. But a lot of people did other sports and other things that they like to do. Making a podcast is a lot of fun if you know how to use it, otherwize it can be difficult.
The technology I found on the internet was that kids are getting vilent video games that either show killing, cursing, and shows bad things about girls and boys. Some of these games are "Medal of Honor" and "Need for Speed Underground." So if you are not over the age 17 I would not play these games. Well this is Blake from Nebraska saying so long. This was posted on 12/5/06.

Friday, December 1st

It's Finally Friday!! Friday December, 1st. Today in Technology Class we are working on our podcasts. Some of our podcast's topics are on baking cookies, taking care of your hair, and how to shop! We are using Garageband to record our podcasts, and we will be publishing them using Itunes.

In other news, The Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers wants videos, posted on the popular video site "YouTube" to be checked before they are published. Daily over 100 million videos are watched on "YouTube." Last month alone 30,000 videos were taken off "YouTube" at the request of the Japanese entertainment group. YouTube's policy has always said that it will remove any copyrighted material upon request. The Japanese group has written to YouTube asking for a screening system for all the video clips that are going to be uploaded. Other measures such as posting messages in Japanese about "illegal uploads." The group also wants the YouTube uploaders to register their details and even face bans if they violate copyright. YouTube, owned by the popular search engine Google, has negotiated with some major copyright holders, and they've reached an agreement, that will let YouTube post copyrighted music videos and other videos in exchange for advertising. YouTube has licensing deals with CBS, Warner Music, Universal Music Group, and Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
(information found at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6209414.stm)

Well thats all for now!
~morgan

Monday Decemeber,4 by kelcey

Friday we worked on our podcasts that we have to do about something. Alot of people are recording their voices now. Some of the people that have their voices recorded are asking questions about their topic to other classmates.
My news aritcle is about the playstaiton 3 costs $599 to $499. when you buy the new playstation 3 it will not come with a memory card so you have to have one. well that is all for today i guess i talk to you later

Wednesday, November 22, by Mrs. Morrow

I'll start with my current event in technology. Many of you may have played "Bejeweled" or "Bookworm" on the Palm last year. This article : http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061127/ap_on_hi_te/casual_gaming is about the creators of these two palm games called "Casual Games." I have also heard recently that these same games can be downloaded to video ipods... for a fee, of course. That is what the article is about... simple, easy-working, stress-relieving games that you can play on portable electronics. The article said how successful they are recently, and the company said that it is because they don't get stuck on fancy graphics or sounds, but rather focus on a game that works and plays well. I know that even I love a good old fashioned game of Tetris every once in awhile to relieve stress!

Last Wednesday in class we were able to tie up several loose ends, starting with the remainder of our presentations about "Technology in the Real World." I learned some neat things-- from that handy doodad that UPS guys carry around to an amazing assistive technology device that Kelcey's mom uses to help her get around. I also learned about a brand of Twinkie-like cakes and stuff in Mexico that Anahi's brother drives truck for. Andrew, Matt, and Ashley all still need to share their Powerpoints and those will be due next FRIDAY.

We had a little bit of time to actually work on whatever we chose, as we will not start producing our podcast productions until Monday after Thanksgiving. I am excited to see what topics students choose for their first podcasts and ready for them to once again amaze me with their creativity and quick-learning in Garage Band.

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving Break! Only 3 1/2 weeks until Christmas!

Tuesday, November 21, by Mrs. Morrow

Today we spent the first half of class putting the finishing touches on our PowerPoint presentations entitled, "Technology in the Real World." I was happy that most of the students chose some interesting people to interview. We had a variety of professions, from teachers to the medical profession, from agriculture to office workers. Students began sharing their presentations to the rest of the class. I could see good design principles put to use such as: similar color schemes and background templates to give the presentation consistency, no more than 4 colors per slide, keeping bulleted text short and simple (not writing too much text on a slide), and using transitions and animations with purpose. I want to encourage the students not to read their slides word-for-word, but rather, to add in personal insight and added information with a relaxed, informative quality to the speaking. No one really did anything more than was asked in the project. But we still have about half of the class to view tomorrow, so maybe someone will still impress me!

I'll tell you one thing that DID impress me... it was the patriotic collages that the class created and shared at the Veteran's Day program last week. Very Cool!! Here is Sam's just to give you a sample of the creative work the 8th graders are doing.


For our second time around the class for the blog post assignment, the students will still be required to write about what they learned during that day's class, as well as any outside information that they care to share. However, they will also be required to reposrt on one current event in the field of technology. They can get the information from the news and radio around them or they can choose to do some internet research. I have bookmarked several sites on our class delicious web links at: http://del.icio.us/kmorrow/8.

My choice of current event technology article for today can be found at:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127796/article.html
Microsoft's brand-new operating system (OS) named Windows Vista, will be available for consumer purchase on January 30. I saw a demonstration of Vista this past summer and it looked pretty sweet. It is supposed to be the most stable Windows OS thus far and they have been working on releasing it for quite awhile. If you want to buy a new computer now, you may be able to get an upgrade voucher to get it when it comes out. Office Vista is pretty impressive as well... you may be able to find its new features online in a news article as well.

Well, we are mid-way through another quarter of OPS Technology Trends. Mid-term reports are being sent home today and I have to say that this group of 8th graders are doing very well. I look forward to continuing to explore and expand our horizons with the technology trends of today and the future.

Matt's Blog about Monday, Nov. 20

Yesterday we were in the highschool library for technoligy trends class. We talked about podcasts and how we were going to make them later in the quarter. Then we looked at ones made by other kids from last quarter. We also talked about showing our powerpoints about technoligy in the real world. Thats all folks.

Friday, November 17,2006 by Nathan W.

On Friday, we finished up on our powerpoints in class about the person we interviewed. We put animations and actions to objects on our powerpoints. Over the weekend Nebraska had a bye and Denver played San Diego and lost 35-27. Indianapolis lost to the Cowboys. So for now, So long.




Nathan W.

november 16 by alejandro vergara

Yesturday we were talking about the kindergarden powerpoints
and mrs. morrow was cheking if we had our interviews done.
We went to a wrestling tournament were 11 towns competed,
and O'neill got 108 points. The only one that got 1st in the O'neill
team was nathen wabs.

November 15th by Paige

Yesterday we did powerpoints on someone we interviewed. I interviewed Mr. Gary Hostert. A teacher at OHS. I asked him questions on how he used technology in his life and for his job, Then I took that information and put it into a powerpoint. The other kids also did this. Some interviewed their moms, dads, uncles, aunts and some others. After school I went to basketball practice. Then I went home and did some homework. Well that's all for now!


Paige

November 14, 2006 by Dustin

Today Mrs. Morrow taught us a little bit more about Microsoft Power Point. We started making the power points for the kindergarteners again, because yesterday we were in the library, therefore we couldn't save them. We have to interview someone in the real world that uses technology in their job. I think I will be interviewing my dad, he must use a lot of technology in his job for like the vinyl cutting and all of that. That's pretty much all we did in class, but today we are wrestling at 4:00 pm. Good Luck to all of te wrestling boys!

November 13, 2006 by Ashlea

Today in class we learned what to do and what not to do when you make a power point, then to practice we started to make little power points for the kindergardeners. We were in the library though so we won't have those power points tomorrow, we'll probably have to start over, but thats ok. well I am gonna go make a power point for the little kids bye bye.
by: Ashlea

November 13, 2006 by Ashlea

Today in class we learned what to do and what not to do when you make a power point, then to practice we started to make little power points for the kindergardeners. We were in the library though so we won't have those power points tomorrow, we'll probably have to start over, but thats ok. well I am gonna go make a power point for the little kids bye bye.
by: Ashlea

11/10/06

Today is finally Friday and we are working on are "photoshop elements" some people are done, and some aren't.
Some other people are using "garage band" and some are finishing "photo elements"
Photo elements is a fun program where you can do fun stuff.
Mrs Morrow is helping Sam with her Macbook,

November 8, 2006 by Andrew Knapp

Today in 8th grade Tech Trends we learned about Photoshop Elements and shared some things we learned about our Macbooks.
Then 2 tests and plenty of homework. Outside school we play 21. Me and my friends play fantasy football. I stayed and played longer than the other guys but I practice because we are close to basketball seaeson and i am goin out for basketball and need to be good. there were no good football games on none that i liked anyway. This is Andrew signing out bye.

November 4,2006 by Josh Hoferer

On Friday we finished up our meet our Mac Book packet and then we messed around with garage band. Then we had to find something new with the Mac Book to present on Monday. Then on Saturday I went to Lincoln to the Nebraska Missouri game. Nebraska won 34-20.

November 6,2006 By Emily Keyes

Yesterday in technology trend we had to find something new about the Mac books that Mrs didn't teach us. It was really easy because there is so much things that are new to us on the Mac books. There wear a lot of things that we didn't no. It was really fun just adventuring with the Mac books we also learned about a new project that we are doing photo shop elements about patriotism. We got to review some of the projects that fifth graders did they were really great.

November 2 sammi hammi

Today in class some people worked on a commercial, worked on their "Meet my Macbook" worksheet packets, and worked on their comic life (like Josh). The "Meet my Macbook" worksheet packets are supposed to help us learn about things on the Macbook that we didn't know. I think you know about the comic life but I'll tell you anyways. The comic life is a comic book about our life. For example say that you just met some one you should be able to hand them the comic book, without saying a word, and they should be able to see what your into and what some of your charicteristics are like. Anyways what was really fun in class was watching Mrs. Morrow film the commercial. Morgan, the conciler, was helping Nathan, the smart board, and Matt, the chalk board, sort through thier problems with each other. The commercial is based off of a PC vs. Macbook commercial, but we just used a Smart Board vs. Chalk Board theme instead. Mrs. Morrow did this commercial with us and some 5th graders. She is planning on entering it in a competition. See ya around.
sammi hammi

november 1st by daniel dominquez

Today in first period we worked in our comic life and alejandro wanted to go to the restrom burt he forgot his planner and asked daniel d if he coul let him borrow his planner but mrs.morrow said could not it does not work that way. so alejandro had to hold it. And then Mrs.morrow gave us a work sheet package to do at home. When school was over blake,beau,cody,alejandro,tim,and I were playing basketball after school.

October 31, by Morgan

Happy Halloween Everyone!!! Today in Technology Class we finished learning about Isafe and how to be smart and stay safe while using the internet. We learned about things such as spamming and identity theft, and how to prevent things like this and other things that can happen on the internet from happening to us. We also started a new assignment called "Meet My Macbook." For this assignment we have to answer questions about how our Macbooks work and we also have to find one thing about the Macbook that we didn't know it could do.
Outside of Technology Class today, in American History today, we continued our studies about the colonies and things also happening in England at this time. We also did some Halloween trivia. In English we continued talking about complex sentences, in science we had a vocab test, and in Math we did problem set 37. After school some of the girls had basketball practice, some of the boys had wrestling practice, and everyone else, that's not in a sport, went to P.E.
So I hope everyone had a fun Halloween!! Until next time!! ~Morgan

Oct 30 by Carl

We talk about isave and we compared to canadains. We gave speech about the online stuff. The teacher explaied about the danger on the internet.The things we talked about were Drivers Education, Night Driving-Online Predators, Road Rage, Hich hicking on Highway 411, Traffic jam-Spam, Things you need to know, My Car Won't Start!-viruses, Word up!, Wanna Buy a Car?-Online Scam, Dude wheres my Car?-identity theft, Can I Get a Free Ride?- plagrism.

Oct 30 by Carl

We talk about isave and we compared to canadains. We gave speech about the online stuff

Wed. Oct. 25 Blake

On Wednesday we talked about making a comic life. The comic life means what we like to do when we are not doing anything or it means what we are about in our every day life. The first thing you do is go to the hard drive. Then go to applications and go to comic life. When you are there you then pick a template. Then you can pick either some pictures or you can just write in the templates. After you do all that you can put speech bubbles by your picture or writing. Then you are probably going to be done and you can go to save as. You will be done and you can print it if you want to. Well that is what we did on Wednesday and I had a great time doing that. This is Blake Bauer saying so long everybody!

October 24,2006 Kelcey

Yesterday in class we learned how to use the comic life that we have to do so the teacher can learn about what we like and what our personality is like. We have to look on the internet for pictures to put into our comic life. Doing the comic life is a lot of fun to do.

Cardinal's win NLCS and will beat the Tiger's

Cardinals beat the Mets 3-1 in game 7 and now play the Detroit Tigers in the World Series. Everybody knows the Cardinals will win but if they don't, o forget it there gonna win. Just ask anyone.

Hey, Mrs. Morrow


This is Nathan. I got this blogger figured out.






Sincerely,

Nathan W.

Hello Everyone

Hey this is Dustin Ross. Mrs. Morrow, my display name is D10, my brother calls me that. So how is everyone? This gaggle and blogging isn't that bad I guess.

Welcome to 2nd Quarter!

Just so that our loyal followers understand, we have switched students in honor of 2nd quarter and will also be changing some of the format of our blog posts. So, stay tuned to hear from Q2 Technology Trends at O'Neill High School!

Let's try this again-- Information Literacy

OK, 8th graders. Now that we have had a good lesson on information literacy... including things like MAKING UP FALSE INFORMATION AND PUTTING IT ON THE WEB and POSTING INAPPROPRIATE THINGS ON THE WEB...maybe we should try this assignment again.

What do you think kids should know so that they know how to use the internet?

"If it's on the Internet, it must be true!"

What do you guys have to say about this statement? This morning I want you to start class by reading the following article, located at: http://www.edutopia.org/1638 Tell me what you think. Are teachers not doing enough to teach you how to evaluate what you find on the web? Check out the "spoof sites" and see if any of them are believable to you. Try the "Steps for Skeptics" with websites you have seen recently. Does it give you more insight into how they were created?

After reading the article, exploring the links, and reflecting on the topic, it is time for you to write about what you think.

Click on Comment and tell me about what you think about kids your age using the Internet and believing too much, or not enough, of what they see. **Make sure you leave your first name (and it wouldn't hurt to spell-check!) so that I can give you credit for this assignment.

See you Monday!
~Mrs. Morrow

wednesday, october 4, 2006 by revel

we have learend to use garageband, photo booth, safari, itunes, iphoto, and idvd. Right now we learend to make a dockrmenter in itunes.

Monday sep.18
Doesn’t every body love Mondays? Well I don’t but to start of the technology class we had to go to the library we learned about pod cast’s. We have to make a pod cast that is four minutes long we can make it about any thing. After you write your script you go to garage band and record in garage band you can do a hole bunch of cool sound effects. Hope you have a good Monday.
Amanda

Sidney's Blog! 9-22-06

Today in Technology class was REALLY FUN, because we get the chance o make some AMAZING podcasts! (which are really cool)
You make a podcast on garadgeband, you can have pictures and music and even a self recording!
We are making podcastings from hunting to fall sports, theres some great ones out there on the net already so watch them and enjoy!

sept 20 by brooke

today Mrs. Morrow was gone and Mrs. Smith was the sub. We had to write a scripted and then work on ower podcast. today randy was gone so it was ectremly quite in hear. well thats all for now.

september 19, By Randy

Today Mrs. Morrow had us start on our podcasts. Podcasts are online broadcasts that just about anyone can make. Sometimes you can find podcasts about news and a good thing about that is if you miss the news on TV or the radio you can still listen to the podcast anytime you want. People also make podcasts where they talk about things they are interested in and other people can listen to them that share the same interest. I’m pretty excited about making my podcast; I’m making mine about drifting. I’m not sure that most people know what drifting is quite yet but hopefully my podcast will inform a few people about drifting.

9/15/06 by Katie

Today was kind of a slow day. We watched the powerpoints people made about Technology in the World. After we all interviewed someone we turned their answers and opinions into a slide show. We watched most of the powerpoints but ran out of time and didnt see all of them. The ones we did get to watch were very interesting to watch and learn about different jobs. I dont think it really occured to all of us how much technology effects our lives today. Well that's pretty much all we did today. Until next time...

~Katie S.

Thhursday September 14, 2006 by Anthony

Today we are presenting our powerpoint presentations to the class about technology in he real world. We will also be trying to finish the teacher wall today. Today the whole school is taking pictures as a whole class or group im not sure. We are also making short movies about how technology will affect us in twenty years. Well Technology Trends is going well and is fun.

sep 13/06 By Erin

Today in Technology we were finishing up with staf directory and power points. Are power points were about technology in the real world. Are next power point will dell with social studdies.



Well keep having fun in technology!

Kasey's blog

Today in class we are working on are powerpoints about technology in the real world. We are also working on pages about the teachers at are school. We are going to make pages about what they teach, how long they have taught and some of their hobbies. We are then going to put the pictures on the wall in school so that people will get to know the teachers here. Another thing we are doing is working on another powerpoint on what we think technology will be like in the future.




~Kasey~

Friday, September 8th, 2006 by Dillon Jakubowski

Sweet! Our first football game is tommorow. Today we found out that on the dashboard there is alot more options to click on like ESPN, Flight Tracker, Dictionary, Buisness etc. It's acually pretty cool. Well i dont know what else to wright so I think I'm gunna go for now.





Dillon Jakubowski

9/6/06 Derek

yesterday we worked on the Macbook for a wile and it was fun.robert found a dead bird on the grill of a car,and like usual randy was just being randy
Later we went and did reports on some of the teachers in the high school, I did Gary Hostert, and whane Hesse. So far school has been going good, but like usual it is sometimes boring with all of the home work.
And that is about all that we hav been doing this year.

9/1/06 Brooke Devall

Today we are going to work on our 90 second movie. We are making music to go with the movie. We are having lots of fun in this class. We like working on our bran new mac books. It is so much fun. The room is filled with weird sounds. Well thats all for now.

Sheila: Friday September 1st, 2006

hi,
now here at O'Neill Public Schools, we are getting ready for a huge technology contest. Everyone is working very hard to make it there best! We are very excited to enter the contest called TTL- this years theme is technology in the future. The winner gets to go to Dallas, Texas. we got our gaggle emails today.

Sheila