Do you ever notice how you never seem to have enough time to do stuff? Even if you know that you can do something in an hour, and you give yourself 2 hours, it takes the whole 2 hours to complete the task! It happens to me alot - and I end up not doing alot of things that I'd like to do because of it.
I know it's a random topic, but I'm bored, and thought I'd enter a blog entry. OH! There was a survey about technology that we took the other day. I didn't think about it then, but now, I think about it, it's hard to integrate technology into classes because the darn internet blocker that the district uses blocks so many things that could be useful. Like blogs. And youtube. I'm sure they have the fear that we'll abuse the privilege of sites that aren't blocked. But I feel as a high school student, most of us have proper judgement, and shouldn't be subjected to an internet blockade that allows us to visit sites that are only appropriate for 6th graders. Well maybe that's a bit exaggerated, but it becomes frustrating. Sure I may look at a non-school related Youtube Video, but shouldn't the teachers or staff be able to monitor those uses? That's why our computer lab allows the teacher computer to view the other desktops of the students - why not integrate that into the classrooms too? And with youtube, they should be able to disable to "log in" feature, but still allow us to view videos, which can be beneficial to our school work. For a school that's trying to find new ways to use technology in the classroom, there are alot of things they could try now, that are cost effective, and could create a big impact.
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So today is Rowland High School's Prom. I'm not going. Instead, this afternoon, I went to a presentation by Northwestern University, at the LA Downtown Marriott. Oh well, it was worth it I guess - there's Prom next year! Northwestern is in the Chicago land area just fyi, seems like a nice place though. Well, here's the gist: I like the show NCIS, I just got hooked a couple of months ago, and since then, I've been watching most of the 3 hour weekday marathons on USA. But that's not the point. CBS has new episodes every Tuesday of NCIS. So 2 weeks ago, they aired "Legend, Part 2" which basically focuses on a 2nd NCIS team as a backdoor pilot episode. And I thought that was going to be their season finale, wrap it up by introducing a new team. And at the end (spoiler!!!) one of the agents got shot. And I thought, great! Well, it is stereotypical for a season finale to kill off a person, but not uncommon, so I thought they'd pull the camera out on the body laying on the street and we'd find out next year if he lived or not. Then comes the end credits. "Next week, on NCIS." Woah, that caught me by surprise, so I watched the commercial eagerly, and they say something to the extent of "someone will not survive." And so the whole week, I was excited for the NCIS season finale, but with some dread as I'd be sad to see a major character go. So I'm in the middle of AP and IB Testing right now - and I have my IB SL Music on Friday! It seems ok, I have to discuss musical, structural, and contextual features of music I listen to. Which is okay, but I also need to learn the music of this Opera - Dido and Aeneas, one of the first English Operas. Not that I don't like operas. It's just it's so darn old! But anyways, if you want to check out what I'm listening to, Well, this isn't my first website, but it is my first blogpost. I dont think I can compete with Joseph Mallozzi's Blog, in either updates, length, or views. But I will drop in here to talk to the 0.5 people who actually pay any attention to this. |