The Art Of Hosting Good Conversations Online

• Be kind
• Start a conversation with everyone
• Always set a good example for others to follow
• Stay out of conflict
• Don't take sides with anybody else
• Address a problem in private and not for everyone to know about
• Learn from your mistakes

So This Guy Goes For A Walk

On this particular evening, a police car stops him and orders him to put his hands up. He answers are unsatisfactory to the police. This car is the only remaining police car in the area. After the election last year, the force was reduced from three cars to one because crime was seen as unnecessary.

When Mr. Mead answers the question of employment by saying he is a writer, the police interpret his answer as "unemployed." They order him to enter the car despite his protests, and as he approaches he realizes there is no driver at all.

The Value Of Time

The time investments that I make today to help with my future are to listen to music in my room. I found this peaceful because it's a time where I can shut the world off and have a time to meditate and relax. One of my future goals that I want to accomplish in life is to learn how to manage my time better, which means to be capable on dealing with last minute time consuming problems while being under pressure.

Same Words Different People

Based on Today's conversations, I learned that words can have a simpler definition from what they originally come from. In fact, my group members had different meanings with certain types of words than to what I had already thought of at the first place. It mainly happens when one typical word has more than one different meaning.

Ex: 

• Meme- a humorous video/ picture
• Virus- infected/ sick

Investing Me

I've started to think about how I'm planning to fund-raise after high school and I thought of applying for a part time job so I can start earning money for myself. Hopefully, I get approved for scholarships that will help me get through my years in college; however, before I graduate I'd like to have job experience so it can help me out once I do get a part time job after I move on to adulthood. 

Letter To A Mentor (Draft 1)

Dear Mentor, 
My name is Yenifer Castro; who is sixteen years old. My interests continue to change as I grow. However, I have noticed that I'm very intrigued on Criminology studies. Being exposed to shows and articles that go more in depth on criminals/ serial killer's minds had me be more interested on the case, the criminal/ serial killer's background, psychological state within the person who committed the action, etc. I used to dislike crime shows that my parents would put on the television, but as I grew older I began to lean towards crime movies/videos.

Vocabulary We Need

• Meme- an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nonmagnetic
• Ex) Using Facebook or checking emails several times a day
• Virus- a piece of code which is capable of copying itself and typically has a detrimental effect, such as corrupting the system or destroying data
• Ex) Web Scripting Virus, Boot Sector Virus, Macron Virus, etc.
• Viral- relating to or involving an image, video, piece of information, etc. that is circulated rapidly and widely from one internet user to another
• Ex) A viral video ad

                    

• Blog- a regularly updated website or web page
• Ex)  An online journal on a certain interest

                 

• Wiki- a website that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users
• Ex) A free encyclopedia in many languages 

                

• URL- the address of a world wide website
• Ex) To a resource on the internet

               

• Website- a location connected to the internet that maintains one or more pages on the World Wide Web
• Ex) For more information

             

• WWW- combination of all resources
• Ex) Accessible information  

           

• Internet- a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities
• Ex) When two computers are connected over the internet

        

• 2.0- the second stage of development of the World Wide Web especially by the change form static web page to dynamic
• Ex) Social networking sites or social media

       

• Open Source- denoting software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed or modified
• Ex) Mozilla Firefox