What are you interested in learning about in the future?

Something I'm really excited to study in my future is making music and how to navigate the music industry. I hope to study this in college. I want to major in the music industry and production. Something that also interests me is acting and the acting industry. I often feel as if these two go hand in hand, and I'm excited to go to college and take classes that actually sparks my interests.

What do you find most interesting about class?

• What I find most interesting about the topics I chose to research on my wiki is reading both sides of the argument. Reading the pros and cons allows me to see sides of the argument that I never thought of. It's interesting to see that all issues have evidence to support both sides and its a good idea to see both of these sides before making an educated stance on that topic. 

What are you thirsting to learn? Why?

• Out of my topics, I'm most interested to learn about cybersocializing/social networking sites and how it effects our society. This topic is very interesting because it directly affects me and people my age. We are among the online world and many of our actions online affect us everyday and can unknowingly affect our future in positive and negative ways. I'm really curious about what kind of arguments are made for cybersocializing and how it effects society.

Research Essay

         The last class I was assigned a research essay in was AP Language and Composition which is a class I took last year. I had to choose a topic in Physcology and research it. My topic was the subconscious mind and how it affected our thoughts. We were given access to a website which gave us advanced essays from citable sources for our essays. I didn't like this project because it took a very long time to do, and it was an extremely tedious task looking through the sources to find one credible enough for our projects. I did like getting to choose a topic that interested me, though. There is not a lot we know about the subconcious mind, so many of the thoughts in my paper were personal opinions that I had to back up with other sources.

Sample Questions

• What did you already know of the material presented in the lesson?
• What did you learn? What material was new to you? What were the three most important things you learned in today’s lesson/independent practice?
• What did you understand most/least about today’s lesson and independent practice?
• What would you like to know more about about the material?
• What questions do you still have?
• How is the information you learned applicable to your other class assignments? How is this class helping you with research in your other classes?
• How is this class different from any others you've taken in high school?
• How is this class the same as any others you've taken in high school?
• What did you learn from reading someone else’s blog? Did it help you write your own blog entry?
• If there was a reading assignment, what did you learn from the reading assignment? What did you not understand? What prior knowledge did you bring to the reading material?
• Did you have a need for information today? If so, how did you go about finding it?

Some Additional Questions

• What are you thirsting to learn? Why?
• What connections did you make between today’s lesson and your own personal experiences?
• What was an idea/ experience that came up today that you think should be “trashed”? Why?
• What was the most important thing you learned today? Why was it important? How was it the same as or different from what you already knew?
• What was the CORE IDEA of the whole lesson? What makes it “core”? How did it relate to what you already know?
• What were some general things you learned today? specific things? How were they the same as or different from what you already know?
• What were some reactions you had to the information we addressed today (e.g., surprises, conflicts, regrets? joys? etc.)?
• What did you notice about your thinking when working on the hands-on activity?
• When did you realize that you could use other resources to help solve your information need? When did you realize that you needed other resources?
• How did you go about evaluating....? What did you focus on when evaluating?
• What evidence can you offer that shows your commitment to being accurate? seeking accuracy?
• What evidence can you offer that shows your commitment to being clear? seeking clarity?
• What evidence can you offer that shows stick-to-it-ness (persistence) even when the task was hard or unclear?
• When did you want to give up? What did you do to prevent it?
• How did others’ ideas differ from yours? How were differences discussed/addressed?

How is this class different from any others you've taken in high school?

This class is extremely different from any other class I've taken in highschool. During the duration of high school I've never taken a computer class. This class involves social media(blogging), which is also very different from other classes as this is usually blocked on school websites. We also get to learn about the history of the internet/learn how to use it as we do so, which helps us understand real time updates and how blogging works.

First Blog Post

Today in computer research class, we learned how to customize our blogs with the new information given to us.