Tag Archive 'middle school'

Jan 18 2012


A is for Apple (and Audits)

…B is for Business, C is for Child Labor……and so on…. Finally, another installation of Article of the Week! Not that I was looking forward to it or anything, that exclamation mark is misleading… Ok, this week’s topic is on the many audits that Apple has done this year for the farther branches of their [...]

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Nov 16 2011


So Much Potential!

Welcome back to another round of Article of the Week, starring an article about the possibility of colonizing other planets. Also featuring notes that I took during my reading, because, hey, it’s required. Recently, two possibilities have been brought to light, one of which I will be discussing in this first paragraph. It has been known that [...]

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Nov 08 2011


When Life Gives You Floods, Make….

…nah I got nothing. Hey, creative titles are hard to think of sometimes! I used diigo to take notes on the article. WELL ANYWAY, the focus of this week’s post is an article about the recent massive floods in Thailand, the aftermath of three months of heavy rain and the cause of over 500 deaths.  Families and [...]

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Nov 08 2011


My Face Twofold

Previously we were working on a project using Photoshop and Animoto to represent our personality through our face. We retrieved eight photos from Flickr of eight objects/ideas/food we liked and incorporated it into our faces, showing our true colors and our true self that our normal face cannot always show. It was a very fun [...]

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Nov 07 2011


Now On To the Subject of Goals

…and I’m not talking about soccer…. In the beginning of the year, I had a goal to gain at least 3,000 pageviews on my DeviantArt account, which I achieved (I have 3,501 pageviews at the moment). I had to draw and submit more drawings and I tried to draw more popular fanart instead of artwork [...]

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Nov 07 2011


Algebra Unit 2 Assessment Reflection and Goal

“ Now that you have completed two assessments, does your final grade (to-date) represent your learning of our Algebra thus far? Why or Why Not?” 87.5% is my final grade for Algebra. I think this grade DOES represent my learning so far because there are a few topics I’m not very clear about, but otherwise most [...]

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Nov 02 2011


Connecting the Dots

In 2005, Steve Jobs, the man we all know to have brought Apple into our daily lives gave a captivating and moving speech at Stanford University about his past experiences and how they had driven him to pursue his career and live his life to its own potential. He spoke of the three main events in [...]

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