Wiki Research

1. How can a wiki be used in a current class on your schedule (not this course)? Pick a class and be specific how the class could create and use a Wiki on a regular basis (tip: Use the Internet, here is a good source).
• A wiki can be used in many classes that I have throughout the day, but the best one is probably World History. Wikis are good to use for history because it makes it a lot easier to share and look up information about historical figures and events. Each student of my class could log on and each add their own bit of information and answer questions that someone else in their class may not be able to answer.
2. What are the benefits of using a wiki in class?
• The benefits of using a wiki in class are that everyone can be informed on the same thing, as long as ONE person writes it into the wiki. Another benefit is that it is easy access for all students to get to and log on. It also makes it a lot easier to keep everyone on the same topic as they all add their own personal opinion/knowledge during the class discussion on wiki.
3. How can we create a wiki in this class, what would we contribute to it and how would we utilize it on an on-going basis?
• We can create a wiki by having one person create a page and sending the link to everyone. Then, we can split apart the positions each person would have on the account. For example, whatever the topic is the classmates could each answer specific questions about the topic, giving us all the answered questions at the end. We could use wikis on an on-going basis because it makes it much each to share our tech articles or important links/videos that we find.
4. What experience do you have using or creating wikis?
• I have a lot of experience using wikis because I use them all the time for history projects. Our class separates into groups and then each group uploads their topic of research. It works great because in the end everyone in the class can go on the wiki and study from all the information other groups wrote about.

Tech Post 11/14

• This is a power adaptor which provides it's  own plugs.
•  It also has mini wire connections for phones
• You can use it as an AC output
• You can charge two USB devices at the same time
• It's also easy for transport because it folds up into a flat sided box 
• It's around 3.5" small

Do Now 11/10/14

      Over the weekend I did one main thing, watch Gossip Girl. Gossip Girl is a show on Netflix, that no longer airs on TV. The show is extremely entertaining and I am obsessed with it. The characters are all so creative and the actors are amazing. I enjoy watching Netflix because it relaxes me and it is much better than sitting around doing nothing all day. Although, I probably should have done something more productive, I just could not turn my laptop off; I regret nothing.

10/27 Do Now

Do Now

         To me, a presentation is something that is done to represent a subject you have worked on. A presentation should be interactive and interesting. The point of a presentation is to get the audience engaged in a topic you are talking about. Whether it be bribing, asking questions, eye contact, or even playing a game with the crowd- you have to capture the focus of as many people in the audience as possible.

Tech Article 10/10

Curing Blindess With Lasers

• Of over 250 million people suffering visual impairment around the world, four in five cases are preventable or curable.
• Blindness a key priority of the WHO, and a growth area for treatment. An expected 32 million cataract operations will take place in 2020, up from 12 million in 2000.
• Leading the charge is Dr. Josef Bille, the pioneering scientist who invented eye surgery using laser.
  
• Bille has gained dozens of patents and launched multiple companies that have together provided the majority of the 280 million laser surgeries carried out in the world to date.
• "There shouldn't be any blind person ten years from now in the world," says Bille.
• Key to his ambition are femtosecond lasers; ultra-short and focused beams of light that efficiently target the bumps and film of a cataract without any cutting that can cause collateral damage or complications in the healing process.
• The lasers are precise enough to pinpoint individual molecules and subtly adjust their focus while leaving healthy material alone. Numerous tests have proved they offer significant safety advantages over existing best practice.
• "It's a treatment which can make every eye perfect," says Bille. "We call it perfect vision, it is twice as good as normal vision, so you see twice as fine detail at much better contrast... Five times better contrast vision at dim lighting conditions, rain or in foggy areas."
• Perfect Lens, a Californian company that Bille works with, has adapted the cut-free process to plastic for advanced contact lenses, and the scientist expects it to make the jump to "in vivo" - in a living human - within a few years. Technolas, another of his clients, in one of the few companies to offer the femtosecond service.
• But Bille's assault on blindness is on several fronts. Development of another of his inventions, "wavefront" scanning, provides a map of the retinas of each patient so that surgeons can tailor their procedure.
• "There are first signs of deterioration of the functioning of proteins inside the cells twenty years before onset of any detectable micro-morphomatic change in the eye, so we have to look at the 50-year-old patient, and then if you detect it early you can set treatment which interferes with the metabolism of the cell. 

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Tech Article 10/3

• In the next few years drones will become much more common and will be scene everywhere.

• The latest aerial offering is the Plexi Drone by Dream Qii.

• This drone is for photographers, who don't want to mess around with the new camera technology.

• It is NOT a toy and is designed for the average person to use.

• It can capture a true 360 degree view without obstructions. 

• Airborne photography is the most popular use for drones.

• This drone is definitely going to take over the market!

Do Now 9/29

          An editorial is an article written by or on behalf of an editor that gives an opinion on a topical issue. In the past my teachers have told me that Wikipedia is a bad source to use for work, for it can be changed and edited by anybody on the internet. Because of this, we are not allowed to use it for papers, homework, etc. They say it is an unreliable source and should not be trusted to have factual information because since anyone can edit the pages, than they could essentially write whatever they wanted. After reading this editorial my views on Wikipedia have definitely changed. I feel that Wikipedia should be allowed as a source on all papers because after reading this article, I know it can be very trustworthy.