Monthly Archives: February 2014

iPads

Posted on by Standard 6

iPads are great for school. They have infinitely many uses, and they make the lives of students easier and better. iPads Are an efficient tool in helping with education.

One great thing about having iPads for school is that everything you need is compressed into a single screen! This eliminates the need to carry heavy textbooks with you. Furthermore, being able to complete assignments on your iPad get rid of the time spent making sure you’re not forgetting any of your assignments at home. All you have to remember is your iPad, and you’re good to go!

Also, in this world of expanding technology, there are more possibilities for learning. iPads connect us to these new tools of education, and they can promote learning faster and better than without the use of technology. One app I use for school is Flipboard, which gives everyone in the class access to innovative, and informative news articles. Not everyone would be able to see these new forms of learning without the use of iPads.

Technology was made to help people with stuff, and learning is part of this stuff. By utilizing the more advanced technology, you are using the more advanced education system!

Star Wars Books

Posted on by Standard 2

I speak, watch, and read Star Wars. After watching the movies, I wanted more information, so I hit the books. After the first few books, I became obsessed, and I started reading more. After reading literally over 100 books, I still have hundreds more to read. Star Wars books are the best books ever!

One reason Star Wars books are the best is because of the story. When Star Wars came out, it introduced the whole new concept of the Force, so there are so many new conflicts that can occur that you have no idea how they will be solved. Then you have the 2 sides of the Force: Jedi and Sith. The 2 groups are the users of the Force, and the story ends with one side. Of coarse, it’s impossible to tell– through the action and mystery of the book– who is actually going to win, unless you finish reading the book, which makes it even better.

Another perfected piece of the Star Wars books is that nothing, NOTHING, contradicts anything else. If you’ve seen the movie Man of Steel, you should know that it contradicts the movie Superman 2. This is horrible, because for a true fan (not me for superman) you brain doesn’t know which story is right. Because there are absolutely NO contradictions in Star Wars, it has the ability to make sense, keep your brain intact, and make the world happy. 👍

Although I still have tons of Star Wars books to go, I’m saying it’s so-far-so-good for the Star Wars galaxy of entertainment. I’m hoping the key factors of a good Star Wars story will remain forever, but I will never wait to pry open the cover of any new Star Wars book I see.

The Super Bowl

Posted on by Standard Respond

Up 24-0? What are they advertising again? Wait, 28-0. Anyways, this year’s Super Bowl didn’t go so well. Commercials, halftime, the game itself–all bad.

The worst thingI’m not really a sports fan, but this is the Super Bowl, supposedly the best game of the year… Well not this time. They had a bad start, but then they went down more… By halftime I had 100% attention on my laptop playing Minecraft. It wasn’t that the Broncos lost that made the game bad, but the fact that the Broncos would have had to have a Super-Bowl-Record comeback to win, by the first quarter if the game. Sports games ames just aren’t interesting if the ending is already easy spoiled with a 30 point lead.

I usually like the commercials better than the game itself, but that didn’t turn out to well either. This year, each advertisement was telling you that you-want-to-fall-asleep, instead of buy-this-this-thing-it’s-awesome! Aside from a few commercials, they were just terrible-nothing interesting, no action, no humor, just plain old logos and narrorators. Unlike last year, when the ball went out of bounds you would go, “YES COMMERCIAL BREAK,” and then you would laugh your head off.

The entire game wasn’t very good. Neither were the breaks in between. I mean, if your going to have everyone watch the biggest game of the year- at least make it so the watchers want to watch for fun. I hope that for the next Super Bowl, it’s not the boredom that puts me to sleep.

The Arrival Part 7

Posted on by Standard Respond

The missiles hit the ships, and then the explosion happened-the smoke and light of the fire began to swirl around each ship like mini hurricanes. Then changing form into a whirlpool of golden light, and finally traveling into the cockpit of the ship. what’s going on? Darren thought. In the next instant, his eyes were filled with a blinding light from the screen he was watching. The next thing that happened was the circle of a glowing red tint on the cockpit windows of each ship.

Darren looked closer onto the vid screen, and then watched as a storm of magma erupted from the center of the red circles. After all of the smoke cleared, he saw several flaming creatures that looked like a snake’s body with a dragon’s head, and a sharp-finned spine. With bodies of sunlight, the creatures eyes were fixed at Darren’s through the camera, and the vid screen went into static.

Science Day

Posted on by Standard 4

On Friday, I got to miss half of school for Science Day. I went to the elementary school thinking I was going to do it because my friend had forced me to. After it finished though, I was ready to go help with the next Science Day. Science Day is the day where all of the little elementary school kids get to pick scientific topics, and then go to 5 of them to learn about the topic.

My job was to be one of the little kids’ “teachers” on one of the topics. I was in a group with my friends, and we were in charge of the station “Super Soda Fountains.” We were supposed to teach the kids how the science works when mentos are put into a carbonated drink to make a chemical reactions with the pores in the mentos to make the bubbles in the drink quickly rise to the top. Or, if translated to little-kid-talk: what makes a mento and soda go boom. We ran a slideshow on the scientific method, and then took the kids outside and actually put 7 mentos in 5 different kinds of sodas to see which one went the highest.

5 teachers, 3 kids per teacher, explosions- no problem right? We had 4 sessions in total- session 1: A kid pulled the string to early, and it blew up off time, and one of the sodas fell over while blowing up. Session 2 went okay: everything went correctly, but we finished early and had to stall for 10 minutes. Session 3 was fine-ish: everything was timed perfectly, but the results were waaaay off from epwaht hey were supposed to be. Session 4 was a mess: 2 of the sodas exploded sideways and got most people wet.

Now, this was what happened, but I never said I didn’t like it-Science Day was awesome! It was so fun to hear the little kids talking about random stuff, and we had extra sodas left so I got to take home a 2 liter bottle of rootbeer!