miércoles, 29 de mayo de 2013

Swiss School

Sustainability Managment School:

  • Innovtive buisness school based totally on sustainability
  • Located in Glan, Switzerland
  • They claim they need leaders that can combine buisness and sustainability
  • Offers both masters and bachlor in buisness administration
Sustainable Consumption and Production:
  • If we dont make changed by 2050 we will need twice the earths surface to survive with our consumption rated
  • Theres an eco label which shows citizens they are using products or services that do not damage the environment as much
  • The process goes both ways, consumers need to buy ecological products and producer produce them.
An Inconvenient Truth

  • Scientists say we cause global warming
  • The 10 hottest years occured in the last 14 years
  • 2005 was the warmest year of all
  • High tempetures cause super storms
Flight Moffett to Pheonix
  • The plane has no fuel so it can go on forever
  • There is only one seat
  • The sponsors are not aeunautical companies
  • Arizona is a solar state
Arizona State Univeristy Graduation Ceremony:
  • "Every difficulty is a potential opportunity"
  • One time the plane blew up which caused it delay
  • Exploration innovation and pioneering spirits are what make somebody successful not just what they learned at college


Please describe how you can apply sustainable consumption in your city.

  • Bogota can become more sustainable in lots of different ways, for example the car exhaust here is a lot and we should try to diminish that. Buses and public transport are not clean ways of transport so we could also change that like they do in NYC, using electrically powered buses. Another thing that should be changed is the environmental regulations on companies that produce waste that destroy the environment. Bogota is not a very sunny place but it does get lots of wind on the top so we should also locate wind mills to produce energy. We should also try to ride the bicycle more, improving the security around the city could cause people to feel more safe in the streets and ride their bikes to word and back. I believe we should all buy electrical appliances that dont consume as much energy to be able to not only save the environment but save money as well. There are many ways to apply sustainable consumption in different cities but I think Bogota has a great potential to be a "green"city.

Please visit the websites of the following companies, choose one case and describe its sustainable consumption practices
•Starbucks

  • Starbucks is doing lots of things to become more environmentally friendly. For example in Chicago they are getting their cups and recycling to make them into napkins. By 2015 they want all their cups to be recyclable. They are also building energy efficient stores and trying to minimize their waste and consumption of water, energy and paper. They have decreased their water consumption by 17% since 2008. Their stores are also powered with LEED lights so they dont consume as much energy as they did before. By 2015 starbucks wants to to reduce their water consumption by 25%. Starbucks has also decided to buy renewable energy as much as they can in the places that make it available. Slowly they have started buying more and more of this energy. They are also selling cups which you can reuse to decrease the cup consumption. Since this project started the consumption of reusable cups has gone up by 5%.

•Unilever
•Banco de Occidente
•Asocolflores
•Alpina

jueves, 23 de mayo de 2013

Growing Up Online

Things that did not surprise me:
-people have computer game parties
-children put more attention to computers than parents
-kids text a lot and not put attention on the current situation
-students can hack the aol privacy security
-people dont read as much
-kids use sparknotes instead of reading
-there are pages to see if you take writing from another source
-cyberbulying
-people videotape fights
-kids do not mind being public
-they do not take things as seriously as adults
-kids send nudes to other people
-people change their personality online
-kids change their screens when parents come in
-kids try to keep thir online lives secret

Things that did surprise me
-people can see when parents are tracking their computers screen
-teachers have to be entertainers
-people have a hard time studying
-people dont have time to read
-cheating is not always bad to some people
-people enjoy going to PTC
-people can walk to school just an hour from Manhattan
-mothers are scared of stalkers
-parents get informed on stalkers and rapists
-people sometimes dont use the computer are home but at other friends
-1 of 7 kids where solicited online
-kids are not always victims soliciting online
-there is something called thinspiration
-people change the name annorexia to anna and look up to her
-parents usually dont know about their kids being anorexic
-people rather post videos of them talking than actually talk to people

Things that have changed
-myspace is famous
-everyone had a myspace
-people played who could have more friends
-people fight online just because
-there is usually just one computer in the house
-parents found out about videos of what their children do on weekends
-parents publicly share info about what kids usually do
-people go to cafes to use the internet
-media was talking about predators and stalkers
-people used aol
-people played to flirt with people and then say they where kidding
-people saved conversations on the computer
-adults didnt have emails
-people didnt spend as much time on the computer as now
-some universities prohibit internet use for the first 2 months

Questions:
What topic in the video did you most strongly identify with and why?
Cyberbulying is something I identify with because I have seen cyberbulyying on the first hand. On tumblr I follow this girl that alway receives very mean comments. People tell this girl to kill herself and that nobody loves her. At some point this girl started putting attention to this comments and saying they where right, that she was useless. I saw how cyberbullying affected this girl self esteem and how bad it made her feel so I think it is really wrong. For example they showed how cyberbulying can lead to suicide in this video.

What advice I give to parents about kids being online?
I personally would not like my parents having me as a friend on fb. I do recommend them having their kids on facebook so they get to know a little bit more about their kids but not to constantly look through their profile. I think having the password for your childs computer might be important but not for their social media. I think monitoring the texts is the worst thing to do because it is like betraying your son. I think trust goes both ways so if you want to see your kids profile they need to be able to trust you and give it to you willingly.  For example in the video the kids didn't give the mother their password because they didn't trust her.

What are the biggest benefits of being online?
Being online had done lots of great things for me. I can got new information very easily and get informed about almost anything. I can answer almost every question I have and help people answer theirs. I am able to express myself more freely and show a side of me I dont usually show. I think being online really helps you manage your time and learn to ignore things you dont want. Even though there are benefits of being online there are also some bad things like cyberbullying. Like the video showed you cna express yourself like the girl in the vide that had her page with her pictures.

lunes, 6 de mayo de 2013

GAFE

                    Forms and Flubaroo


Here is a tutorial for both Forms and Flubaroo



Forms


How to make a form? 
From any device you have it is easy to do. It only has 3 easy steps.
1.) Click the Create button
2.) Click Form
3.) When the template opens you can put any questions you like and organize it.

What can they be used for? 
Forms can be used for different things such as planning events, sending a survey, making quizzes or collect information in an easy stream like way.
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How to embed a form on a blog or website?
This question took me a long time to answer and it was very long so I decided to `put the link to the most useful page that helped me answer this question. The page is HERE.



                                                                 Flubaroo
What is Flubaroo? 
Flubaroo is a page to help grade things faster. It is created by a teacher for a teacher  There are 5 easy steps to use it.

How do you use is?
You use is by following 5 steps. This are:
Creating an assignment
Creating an answer key
Assigning it
Grading it
Reviewing the grades

To get more in depth information on specifics of how to use this program click HERE.



What would it be useful for?
Iv'e seen lots of different apps and programs that help students with their homework and I never realized all that work has to be graded. I think this would be a great program for teachers to get their work done faster and more easily. It would also help students because they would get their score emailed to them as soon as it is graded. A downside to this is teachers would have more time so they could put more assignments which is not in my best interest.



Both of this programs can be used by teachers and students. Flubaroo is designed specially for teachers while forms is created for more uses. I think teachers can use both of them for next year and students can use forms to learn about their classmates or when they need a survey on different subjects.