Final Blog Post

Final Project
Family Interview Transcripts
Mother
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jpzbki9rqHOGRFhlWiWgbGjHmv5UKgRoTrrf8VF6LDw/edit?usp=sharing
Father
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nIcT09oE1aKq2vz0zSRbHug_xwmUDcyMQj4Y3hEl9Do/edit?usp=sharing
Family Email
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Rp7wEyEmorkCRilUGYpeC-nPw2-Yy66FHEMxkW-qLE/edit?usp=sharing
Family Echo
http://www.familyecho.com/?p=START&c=q55bp51zk4&f=609210053230738611
Olson Family Prezi
                Olson Family Life Map Infographic

Link to a Larger Image if it is hard to read
http://easel.ly/infographic/e4wa1g

11/24/14

Blog Post of the Day:
What are you doing for Thanksgiving? Do you have any traditions? Go in to detail about your plans for the 5 day weekend.

This Glorious 5 day weekend I am going to do absolutely nothing except for partake in the time tested tradition of eating my own body weight in turkey and stuffing or until I pass out from the sheer bliss of eating turkey while being away from school for 5 days.

http://www.politicalgarbagechute.com/instead-of-fake-pardoning-a-turkey-this-year/

11/19/14

Blog Post of the Day:
Reflecting on the comments and grade of your stop-motion animation... what you would do differently if you had to do it all over again? Would you manage your time better? Find better lighting for your photos? Come up with a better idea? Explain what you would change about your video.

In my reflection of my stop motion animation movie project I felt as if I did a swell job, although there are a few thing that, looking back, I wish I could have changed. First of all I would have picked up the pace of my video and made it shorter because--out of the feedback that I recieved--that was the number one complaint that most people had on my video. Also, I would have took more time and held the camera in a more constant position, whilst also focusing better on every picture.

11/17/14

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me about your weekend.

This weekend I spent most of my time keeping a watchful eye of my younger siblings while my parents were not home. I hung out with my friends and the Blue Valley football team lost so now they are out of the playoffs and done for the season.

11/14/14

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me about your experience with taking your stop-motion photos. What problems did you run in to? What did you find difficult about the process? What would you go back and change about HOW you took the photos? Explain yourself.

My personal experience of taking my stop motion animation photos was very invigorating to say the least. I didn't run into many problems, but what I found most difficult was getting the lighting just right for my photos. There is nothing I would change, as of now, with my photos because I worked rigorously hard, and kept an excruciatingly, diligent mindset whilst working on this project.

11/11/14

My ideas for a stop motion animation video are very innovative and creative. However, I have yet to choose a concrete idea. My heart is torn between a multitude of different possibilities for this project. First I was thinking that I could use some of the legos at my house to create a story of legos moving/building on their own. Although, some other ideas come to mind like scenes that involve people doing impossible things like jumping excessively high or far. These are only a couple of my unprecidented ideas on the stop-motion animation project.


http://collider.com/comic-con-the-lego-movie-panel-recap/

11/10/14

Blog Post of the Day:
What is stop motion animation? If you don't know, look it up! Explain.

Stop Motion Animation is an animation technique that uses material like clay or even legos to create a moving scene with inanimate objects. This is possible by taking a picture of an object in one position an slightly adjusting it in following pictures until you can put them all together in one scene.

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/thelegomovie/

5 Frame Storyboard

The Story of My School Day

 Arrival

 Team Sports in the Wrestling Room

Emerging Technologies

  Math

Field Biology/End of the Day

11/5/14

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me about your idea for your 5 frame story board. What is the plot? How do you plan to make the story creative? Who's the main character? What is the beginning, middle and end? Tell me about your plan of attack.

My five frame story is the journey of my studious school day. This story follows my well rounded agenda that takes place during an average school day. My story will show my hardworking self face the challenges of Blue Valley High School's senior class. The Beginning shows my arrival to school and progresses through my school day from team sports, to math class and eventually even field biology. 

11/4/14

Blog Post of the Day:
Yesterday you edited and uploaded photos to your blog. Tell me more about your photos. HOW did you edit them? Why did you choose the photos that you did? Explain your assignment.

My photos where taken with my phone, most of which at the school. However, there were a few taken at my house, for example the one taken of my little brother Nick. The way chose these photos was fairly random, although they were most likely the best ones that I edited on photoshop. The five pictures I chose were a close up of a friends blue shirt, a medium shot of something significant--my little brother, a close up of my eye, a medium shot of someone seated--Nick Allen, and a long shot of someone waving--Mrs. Scheuereman. This is a wide variety of the types of photos that we were assigned to take.

11/4/14 Before and After Pictures

11/3/14

Blog Post:
This weekend was a fairly eventful weekend, I was admitted to Kansas State University for the Fall 2015 academic semester. On a more important note I played soccer at Stanley Elementary with my boys, some of which are the 2014 XC Kansas 6A State Champions. In this intense game of hard fought will and determination my squad proved victorious due to my lock down defense--I was a metaphorical Rock in goal--and the astounding offence provided by the rest of dem'boys. Shortly thereafter we celebrated with a much need Quick Trip run, during which I through out all regards of decency and purchased not one but TWO toquitos. That sums up my fantastic, yet slightly sophomoric, weekend.

http://www.kickingworld.com/meet-matt-mccrane-k-states-future-kicker/

10/30/14

Blog Post of the Day:
What do you know about photography and/or photo editing? Do you take photos? How do you take photos? Do you edit photos before posting them on social media? How do you edit them? Explain any background or knowledge you have about photography and photo editing. Do you like it? Do you have any interest?

I know a very minimal amount about photography and/or photo editing. I do occasionally take photos on my phone of memorable events and/or people. I don't edit my photos because i am naturally beautiful and  I don't use social media that often. All in all I don't usually take pictures--but when I do I take them with swag.

Global Issue Presentation

https://bubbl.us/mindmap

http://www.asce.org/Featured-Images/The-Apollo-Program/

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/188479-astronauts-find-living-organisms-clinging-to-the-international-space-station-and-arent-sure-how-they-got-there

www.virgingalactic.com

10/20/14

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me about your weekend. Share pics!

My weekend was swell, probably the swellest it has been in a long time. My baseball tournament was canceled due to poor field conditions which did have me feeling glum. However, I made fantastic use of that time off because I slept for what felt like a blissful eternity...so like 24 hours in two days. This was so nifty that I didn't get my homework done until 2 in the morning on Sunday night, although, the essay I created during this wonderful weekend was probably among the best I have ever written, it was so good that I would, in fact, even dare to say that it is golden.

This Gold represents my essay

http://bullmarketthinking.com/comex-physical-drain-accelerates-with-over-7-8b-disappearing-from-all-depositories/

10/14/14

Blog Post of the Day:
Below is a letter written to the editor who wrote the article 'Enforcement of dress code creates negative effect' that your blogged about last week. Most of you wrote on your blog that you agreed with the writer. What are your thoughts after reading the letter below and seeing a different perspective. Are they the same? Are the different? Do you agree? Disagree? Explain yourself.

My thoughts are still the same as before. I agree with the first article, however I do appreciate an opinion from someone from a different perspective.

http://www.t444.co.uk/cgc1/id49.html

10/13/14

Blog Post of the Day:


My idea of a perfect curriculum would be one that could prepare we for my life after school, and only that, nothing extra like math or science. My perfect set of classes would be some of which I am already taking like the new International Relations class because that is one of the fields I am looking into for a future career in. I also think some foreign culture and history courses should be added as well. For example a class all about Japanese culture, or about a specific cultures food and the reasons for it being part of that culture. These are my ideas of ideal classes that would be on my ideal curriculum.

http://www.jackinthebox.com/food/tacos-and-sides

Infographic

easel.ly

10/7/14

Blog post of the day:
The following article was in the September issue of The Tiger Print. Read the article (even if you already have) and respond to it below. What do you think? Do you agree? Disagree? Consider all perspectives of the article while you respond.

This article may be of consern to many students and administrators  in this school, but I for one don't really care for the dress code. I believe students should be able to wear what they want, where they want because like the article said, we are supposedly being treated as adults. If this is true the teachers and administrators wouldn't tell us what we can and can't do, as long as it isn't harming anyone else.

"Don't tell me what I can't do!!!!" John Locke 

10/6/14

Blog post of the day:
Tell me about your weekend! If you don't have anything fun to share, tell me about the city you live in. What do you love about Kansas City? Do you have a favorite place in the city? Favorite team? :) Favorite event? Explain.

My weekend was super swell! It consisted of hours of driving between my house and Pittsburgh State University for a baseball tournament, which my team lost all of our games, which made all the driving that much more fun!:) Between my shenanigans at Pitt State I witnessed the Royal sweep the Angel, the best team in the regular season, in the ALDS. The Royals won this series in a dramatic fasion winning the first two games in extra innings, and then the third was a dominate 8-3 win with James Shields on the mound. To be honest the Royal's wins made my weekend and I also did take my time at Pitt State to see the campus despite my teams poor performance. All in all I did had a pretty good weekend.





























http://kingsofkauffman.com/2013/02/23/2013-royals-record-90-72-what-too-high/
http://www.campusexplorer.com/colleges/91A4284F/Kansas/Pittsburg/Pittsburg-State-University/photos-videos/

9/30/14

Blog Post of the Day:
What is an infographic? If you don't know, go look it up. Read about it and then in your own words tell me what an infographic is. What do infographics do? How do they work? What makes a really good infographic?

Infographic-a visual image such as a chart or diagram used to represent information or data.

An infographic can be used to represent things such as the number of people that attended a sporting event, However it is represented through some sort of visual aid.


http://idealseatmlb.com/stadiums/al-central/kauffman-stadium-kansas-city-royals/

9/29/14

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me about your Homecoming weekend! If you didn't participate in the Homecoming festivities, what did you do? Share pics!

This weekend I had a baseball tournament, which consisted of four games on Saturday and two on Sunday. I was unable to attend the homecoming dance because I was at Kansas City Community College at 9 pm for one of my games on Saturday. In this tournament my team went 4 and 2 and we took 3rd place. 

http://bluedevils.kckcc.edu/facilities/baseball_complex

9/24/14

Blog Post of the Day:
Imagine Mr. Bacon has asked you to suggest one way of improving Blue Valley High School to make it a better place for students. Think about the changes that are needed at your school. Pick one change you feel would really make a difference and explain what it is and why you'd make the change.

Blue Valley High School is a great school that doesn't have much that needs to be changed. However there are a few things that could be improved upon. For example our lunches could be longer so we get more time to eat, and teachers should give us less homework with more time to complete it so we can get help with what we need help with and we are not crunched for time.

 

http://alternateimage.net/downsizingdarren/

9/23/14

Blog Post of the Day:
What are your favorite apps on your phone or tablet? Why?\

My favorite applications on my phone and/or tablet are Google search, because you can search for things and find answers to questions that you have, Snapchat because you can chat up your homies through pictures that you have snapped, and last but not least google maps because I am horrible with directions and i use it a lot to get where I need to go.

http://mobilemarketingmagazine.com/android-app-downloads-lead-ios-60-per-cent-app-annie

9/22/14

Blog Post of the Day:
What is email? When do you use email in your own personal life? List reasons and ways that people use email. What do you know about "email etiquette"?

Email is a way to send messages to people in a more professional way than for example twitter or even text messaging. In my personal life I use email to communicate with my teachers, my coaches, and people I work with because it is more formal than other means of communication. Proper email etiquette is important in order to portray yourself in a professional manner. Some ways you can show this proper etiquette is to use the correct greetings and salutations depending on whom you are communication with, and the topic on which you are discussing.    

http://www.rentcalculators.org/eawebma.html

9/19/14

Blog Post of the Day:
Now that you've been in Emerging Technology for several weeks... what do you think? Do you think the web tools (Drive, Evernote, Bubbl, etc.) are helpful to you? Do you think they will be helpful throughout high school or even college? Explain.

Yes, I think the majority of the web tools that we have used so far have been very helpful with not only this class, but I have also made use of them in a few other classes as well. I believe that I will continue to use some of these web tools throughout high school and perhaps even into college. These tools will continue to be helpful even after I am out of this class.

http://www.natebal.com/blog/free-web-tools/

9/17/14

Blog Post of the Day:
Do you enjoy writing? When do you enjoy it? What kind of writing do you enjoy? Why do you think the ability to write is so important no matter what kind of writing it is? Give an example that you enjoyed

I do not enjoy writing. I never enjoy writing. There are no kinds of writing I enjoy. The ability to write things is important so you can write things when you need to write something like for work or school or even to communicate with other people. I do not enjoy writing.

9/16/14

Blog Post of the Day:
Reflect on this quote. Give an example of a time in your life that this might have been the case.

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This quote is 100% true and I have personally lived through many examples of this throughout my life so far and I feel that these experiences in the passed have helped me learn to always be prepared no matter what life throws at me. A simple example that is also more recent is that I failed to be completely prepared for a math test. I thought I could easily ace this test without studying and preparing properly and in return I ended up only getting a C although I know if I was prepared I could have gotten an A. These life lessons are thing that help us learn to correct our mistakes and I feel like they have taught me to more or less always be Prepared.

9/15/14

Blog Post of the Day:
What did you do this weekend? Share pictures if you have them!

This weekend I went to the Blue Valley Football game on Friday, but before that I had a rigorous baseball workout at a new gym that I am thinking about joining. The following day which was Saturday I took the ACT and, as of now, I believe I got a perfect 36. After the ACT, which I dominated, I attended the Blue Valley Soccer game at the DAC or District Athletic Complex located at Blue Valley North West. To round out this weekend I slept in on Sunday and then went to Baseball practice. That sums up my weekend I hope you enjoyed this post about my intriguing weekend.

http://missourieducationwatchdog.com/dese-promotes-act-workkeys/

PSA

9/12/14

Blog Post of the Day:
What is the importance of research? Why do you need to know how to research? What have you learned in high school about researching topics and finding quality resources? Have you had a helpful teacher that has taught you to research? Explain.

Research is important because it gets us to learn about topics that we are trying to learn about. We need to know how to research because it will help us research what we need to research. I have learned in high school that you need to know how to research in order to research things that need to be researched in order to learn about those things. I have had many helpful teachers that have helped me learn how to research things that need to be researched in order to learn about them.

 
http://www.vumc.com/

Global Issue Selection

http://www.travelmarketreport.com/articles/Travel-Seller-in-Orbit-Over-Space-Tourism

http://www.easydestination.net/space_tourism.shtml

For my global issue in Emerging Technology I have chosen Space Tourism. I have begun researching the issue and you can find my research questions here.

9/10/14

Blog Post of the Day:

If I was in my seventies or eighties I most likely would not pay attention to kids these days and what they are doing, but if I did I'm sure that there are some things that I would complain about. For example kids music these days is too loud, and sports back in my day were better because people could actually hit each other in football, and baseball players could actually use steroids and other performance enhancing drugs that let them hit the ball farther.

9/9/14

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me about the global issue you selected. What do you already know about the issue? What are you looking forward to learning about it? Explain.

I have selected the global issue of Space Tourism. this issue comes along with much controversy and questions because it is viewed by many people as not economically plausible. This so called "futuristic idea" may be closer to present day reality than most people may think due to many things like the increase of private space programs and the constant improvement of technology. In the past 10 or 15 years the cost of space tourism has dropped to less than half of its original cost. It is also projected to be cost effective in the sense of commercial use in the next 20 or so years at its current rate. Space Tourism should be possible if not in the present then in the very near future.

http://www.travelmarketreport.com/articles/Travel-Seller-in-Orbit-Over-Space-Tourism

9/8/14

Blog Post of the Day:
What did you do this weekend? Share pictures if you have them!

This weekend from Friday September 5 through Sunday September 7 I took place in a baseball tournament at Johnson County Community College. My team and I went 2 and 2 on the weekend losing our first two games on Saturday and winning our second two on Sunday. The rest of the weekend when I wasn't playing baseball I relaxed and enjoyed my time away from school.

9/5/14

Sleeping in- A+
Playing Baseball-A+
Watching TV-A-
Emerging Technologies-A+
Getting Yolked-A-
Speaking French-F+



http://www.emmauschristianschool.edu.ph/report-card-schedule/

9/3/14

Yesterday I asked your to "think differently" and push yourself to be uncommon with your PSA project using Google Slides. Why do you think I asked you to do that? What is the point? Why not just use bullets and headers? Explain.

I think that you had us do this to get us to contemplate and think about the questions in depth. This process gets us to put more effort into the post and make it more personal to us and in turn gets us to create the best blog post that we possibly could. We also don't use bullets because the process of actually writing has close to the same effect as the first point of thinking differently about the post. and also gets us to take more pride in our work on the blogs.

9/2/2014

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me all about your Labor Day weekend. What did you do? Include photos!

My Labor Day Weekend

By Derek Olson

This weekend, August 30- September 1, was Labor Day weekend, thus we had three days off of school. To my understanding many students of Blue Valley High School, including many of my close friends used this blissful time away from the learning environment to do nothing but relax and in return accomplish nothing productive, but not me. Because I am such a studious and proactive individual I decided to go out and do many interesting things. For example I looked after my adorable siblings while my parents were away, I worked extraneously hard at JR's BBQ, and also decided to take initiative on the side and make a competitive baseball team called the BB Thunderbolts. I hope you enjoyed the simple story of my Labor day weekend an thank you for viewing my blog. :) 

http://www.gillbright.com/blog/labor-day

8/29/14

Read this small newspaper clipping and then write a blog post about it. What are your thoughts? How does it make you feel? Do you agree? Disagree? Explain yourself.

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This article really made me think. I believe that there is some truth to what it says in the fact that teenagers should use their time to help better the world. Although they should not spend all of it trying to do these things. All kids, teenagers, and even adults should put at least some of their time towards having fun in order to relieve stress that way they are able to preform the tasks talked about in the article to their fullest ability.

8/26/14

What is a Public Service Announcement? If you don't know what it is, Google it. In your own words, now tell me what it is? What are they used for? Can you recall an example of a PSA you've seen before?

A public service announcement or (psa) is an announcement most likely through commercial or some other type of advertising that addressees a problem or cause and often consists of a call to action that asks people to donate or take action themselves in order to fix the problem being addressed.  



http://musicdoesweirdthingstoyou.blogspot.com/2011/08/public-service-announcement.html

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/steve-jobs-biopic-ashton-kutcher-apple-322613