For my SBC8 post, I visited three different blog posts and left comments in all of them. I went to Caleb’s blog post about the number of comments he was getting, to FP’s blog post about what he does after school, and finally, I went to Jacob’s blog post about what he would do if he was a principal. I found all of these posts very interesting and left some comments on them. The number of comments Caleb is getting is insane compared to mine, and Jacob has some interesting ideas for his school. What I enjoy about commenting is the fact that we can explain what we think about people’s blogs, and get some answers from them pretty quickly. A negative aspect of commenting is negative comments. It doesn’t happen to me a lot, but it can happen that people put hate comments, spam comments and other kinds of comments that I don’t allow on my blog. I have only gotten three comments so far, and they were all good quality comments. I have not received comments going out of my guidelines, and it is something I really appreciate.
janjf93. “Free Image: Comment.” Pixabay.com, Pixabay, pixabay.com/en/comment-response-message-statement-1727483/.
Genius Hour
For Genius Hour, my topic was: “How to use HTML and CSS to help people?” I chose the topic because I’ve been wanting to learn HTML and CSS for a long time, and I had done a bit at home, but I really wanted to do it at school. This free topic choice was a great opportunity for me to try it out. The helping people part is because we had to chose a topic that can help people. I chose codeacademy to do this project, and their HTML & CSS course is very useful.
During Genius Hour, we had to research a topic of our choice, and then make a presentation about it for the whole class. The presentation had to be from 2 minutes 30 to 3 minutes. They had to contain a very small amount of text and have a lot of pictures. Another requirement was correct MLA citations for our pictures and sources. My research question was: “What are HTML and CSS, and how can we use it to help other people. I spent about two months researching my topic and making a presentation about it, and it taught me a lot. The fact that it had to be done under three minutes was the hardest part about it, because I had to practice my presentation, and I often times was too short on time or had a lot of time left. Getting rid of the text was also a challenge, because I have always done presentations with a lot of text, and having to learn my speech by heart was really hard for me.
This project helped me grow as a student because I can now handle making good presentations, and it has helped me get over my deadline problem, that is still occurring in 9th grade. I think that what I learned might have inspired other people to go on Codeacademy and try to learn about this. They can also teach other people about this, and share the knowledge around. I think this is helpful because HTML and CSS is the base of what makes a website what it is. HTML and CSS are the codes that make websites look like what they are, it is the code that makes it change colors, font and a lot of other features. This can help, because websites are a fundamental resource for sharing information around the world, and you can share anything you want by simply putting it online. It can be a blog, an article, or even just Facebook, they all use this type of coding.
My next Genius Hour will be about Video Game Development, and our way of learning will be completely different. For Genius Hour 2, we have to find experts on Twitter, get in contact with them, and finally get some information from them. It changes from our normal research format, and I think that it is very beneficial. It can help us get in contact with actual people, who can give us good advice and can answer specific questions. Did you ever notice how articles on Google don’t talk about what you’re searching for when your questions are very specific? That’s why we use actual people so we can get some good and thoughtful answers. What I will learn in my next Genius Hour project will be able to help people around me, because Video Games to me means creativity. I think that making video games enhances our creativity and can help grow a passion. I have always been passionated by Video Games, and have always wanted to learn how they are made. This might be the occasion.
Link to presentation
The picture above looks pretty complicated. And I won’t lie to you, it is. Memorizing all of the different tools is really hard, and I am not done learning about this. I do not think that two months is enough to learn the integrity of this.
Works Cited
Riva, Elisa. “Free Illustration: Light Bulb.” Pixabay.com, Pixabay, pixabay.com/en/light-bulb-idea-genius-yellow-1872376/.
Raza, Mian Shahzad. “HTML”. Pixabay.com, Pixabay, https://pixabay.com/en/code-programming-coding-web-2434271/
I spent a long time thinking about a topic that I loved. I have so many hobbies that it was pretty hard to chose, but I finally decided to write on Soccer. Soccer is my favorite sport, and I don’t have a lot of occasions of playing it as I don’t have a garden and most of the people in my school like to play Basketball and Volleyball. My still school still has a soccer team, and our first training was on Saturday November 4th, the day before I write this post. The soccer training is two hours long, and is pretty tiring considering we are under the sun all the time.
My favorite soccer team is Arsenal, which is a team coming from London. Even though they are portrayed as a bad team by most of my classmates, I still support them. My favorite players are Mesut Özil and Alexis Sanchez. I like them because of their style of playing. They are both very talented players and are capable of scoring beautiful goals.
The last thing I want to talk about is WAISAL, here is the link to their website if you want to check it out. WAISAL stands for West African International Schools Activities League. There is one WAISAL for each sport, and it is a competition that takes place once a year for each sport. Volleyball WAISAL already took place, and Swimming WAISAL is soon. I’m talking about it because I do trainings for High School soccer, and Soccer WAISAL is in April. It takes place at LCS, Lincoln Community School, which the International School in Accra, Ghana.
This is a picture of the view that I have from my apartment. I edited it using BeFunky so that it looks like this.
I took this picture with the worst tool to take pictures, a smartphone. But this smartphone in particular has its ratings going down because of its camera. So I consider that I did a good job with my phone. Hope you enjoy it. (And maybe make it your wallpaper.)
Try to guess what the sentence is. This time it won’t be a free cookie but a free ice cream. Trust me, it isn’t a scam.
All images come from Pixabay. No attribution required.
Image comes from Pixabay. No attribution required.
Jake always loved to go see the sunset. He ran out of his house with his two brothers Henry and Jim to go admire it. When they arrived, they noticed something had changed with their habitual spot. There was a car wheel where they usually sat.
-“What is a car wheel doing here?” Jake asked
The brothers tried to come up with some theories, but they were all completely crazy. They finished on the conclusion that a car had passed. Here? Where no one ever comes? The sun was about to finish setting when they hear a tire brake noise. Jake saw the car from the corner of his eye, it was coming straight at them. He jumped on Henry and got him out of the way, but when he turned around, it was too late. The car had passed and was already a very far. He was glad he was able to save everyone, or at least that’s what he thought. When he looked at where Jim had been, he was…
Finish the story for me and get a free cookie. This is not a scam, you need to trust me.
