Summer Programs

Links:

• http://brown.edu/ce/pre-college/overview.php
• http://www.summer.harvard.edu/programs/secondary-school-program
• http://summer.yale.edu/find-your-program/courses-by-subject

Summary:

•  Summer programs for people looking to get into good colleges are useful. This are most useful so you get to experiencing a little bit of each college, do you like it, which one do you want to go to, what classes do you plan to attend. This summer courses also help you see all the different subject there are to study such as languages, physics, languages, film and anthropology. Some of this programs, such as the one in Harvard lets you get University Credits you can use later on. They do not help you get into better colleges but they do let you experience them. Summer schools can also give you credits for high school if you failed the class but need to get the credits.

New Questions:

• Do boarding schools help you get into a better college?

Nanotechnology

What I know:

• Nanotechnology has been researched a lot in the last decade.
• It is very useful for governments and security agencies.
• It is very complex technology but also used for everyday life such as ipods, calculators and cellphones.
• Nanotechnology helps things be lighter and smaller but as powerful as big machines
• It has improved a lot in the last years for example in computers, they used to be huge but now they are small and light but still powerful.

What I want to learn:

• Who develops this technology
• Examples of some of this technology
• How it helps with health issues

Links:

• http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=46018 It explains how nanotechnology is used by health companies to cure different things and also to figure out what causes them.
• http://www.nano.gov/ It explains what nanotechnology is on the side and why it is useful to us.
• http://www.crnano.org/whatis.htm It explains a little bit more about nanotechnology the meaning of it and its organization.

What I learned:

• Nanotechnology is using molecules to build things the things built are very small and sometimes even smaller than a cell.
• Nanotechnology has found some spots in the DNA that decide whether you will or will not have the cancer gene.
• Thanks to nanotechnology a bio sensor was created to help diagnose if a person has cancer.
• Lots of things with the name nanotechnology are not actually nanotechnology because they are not built atom by atom.
• There are 4 generations of nanotechnology development, each of them is different and it goes from passive nanostructures to active nano structures to systems of nano systems to molecular nano systems. The order goes form least specified to more specific. The oldest one is passive nano structures and the newer one is molecular nano systems.

How it Relates to my Life:

• It relates yo my life because in a uncertain future nanotechnology might take over the building of things. Things might be build from a molecular level so they can be more exact and specific so there is a shorter margin of error. I am interested in nanotechnology because it is the smallest way there is to build something. In the future everything might be made by nanotechnology so it involves everyone.

Questions I still Have:

• Why is nanotechnology so important and why do people want things to be built from atoms not normal building blocks.
• What things that we might use might be created from this technology.

Google Day 1

Three goals I have for today:

1.) Download photoshop in my computer

2.) Find out what photoshop is used for
-Photoshop is used for lots of different things like editing images by correcting colors, adding text to image, reducing size, enlarging the imagr and changing the format. You can also create web pages and logos with different designs. Also you can create 3-D content and animations.

3.) Figure out why people use photoshop
-People use photoshop to edit images when the picture is not how they want it. This is called photo-manipulation

What I learned this class is that photoshop is not as simple as it seems, I learned there are lots of different tools and you can easily get confused with them. I also learn you can create lots of very cool things in photoshop if you know how to actually do it. Photoshop can be a very usefull tool if I learn how to use it correctly and how to do what I want.

What I want to do next class is try to put an image in front of another so it looks like something completely different than the image actually is. Also i want to learn how to put different effects on the image.

Google 20%

I would like to learn how to use photoshop in a more advanced way. Exactly what I would like to learn about photoshop is to edit pictures and be able to put words in it. It would be very fun to be able to edit your own pictures for projects. I think this would be helpful because my projects could be more original and I could do cool edits and post it on tumblr and get a lot of reblogs. I think learning this would also help me do something useful with my time. This could help me long term if I want to work as a media person or someone who creates advertisements. Id like to know how to move things in a picture and how to do collagues by cutting pictures and putting them together.

The way I would like to show what I learned is to do a webpage about photoshop. It would be kind of my own portafolio with all the work I have done and all the things I have learned. I'd show my learning by putting my own edits in several ways. The title would be created by me in photoshop and the background would also be personalized by me.

Link

C/C website