Google 20% Project

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Swiss School

Sustainability Management School

• Teach students how to bring sustainability in a business empire
• Innovative unique school based totally on sustainability
• The first of its kind in Europe
• Is in the international union on the conservation of nature
• Located in Switzerland. It is very appealing to students around the world because of its location. It is in the center of Europe and provides a variety of activities that are ecologically friendly, swimming by the lake, skying, festivals.

Case Study

• By 2050 if we don't  make any changes to our way of life, we will need twice the Earth's surface to absorb our waste and CO2
• Factories and companies are focusing on improving products so that they are more ecological
• Citizens are responsible for the type of products they buy and their impact on the world. We have the choice on deciding if to buy the product helpful for the environment or not.

An Inconvenient Truth

• There have been significant changes in the environment because of human pollution. Pictures of mountains show global warming and allow us to predict how it will look in the future if we keep going like this
• It is not a political issue but a moral one
• Water will start to fill cities, leaving hundreds and then thousands of people homeless. This is if the ice starts to melt

Flight Moffet to Phoenix

• Attempting to fly around the world in an airplane empowered only by solar energy

Arizona State University: Graduation Ceremony

• In 2015 they are planning to fly an experimental airplane that is in Switzerland
• They faced many hardships and times were they thought they would not be able to make it. One day the tail blew off, making them need more money and at least one more year to repair the damage
• Went around The United States
• Knowledge is not enough, to be truly successful you have to experiment

Assignment: Sustainable consumption in Starbucks

Starbucks started introducing plastic cups throughout cafes in the US and Canada to reduce the amount of packaging waste. Each cup will cost $1, but every time the customer uses it, they will  receive a discounted drink. Therefore after having had 10 drinks, the cup would have been "free". According to Starbucks 600 the amount of people using plastic cups increased by 26%. Starbucks has also been doing other things for the environment. They have also reduced their water consumption by 5% and their energy by 4.5%. Starbucks is also planning to source 100% of its palm oil from certified sustainable suppliers in 2015. The impact of small but significant actions that this multinational company is taking will be huge. Starbucks receives thousands and thousands of customers throughout the world, and by managing their water and energy wisely, they do not do as much harm as many other companies do. Starting with little changes like having customers pay for the cups will lead to bigger ones that will eventually help our environment increasingly.

Growing up Online

Things that did not surprise me

1.       Children know more about technology than their parents

2.       Teenagers are not reading books anymore, instead look for summeies  in sparknotes

3.       When school is over most teenagers go to social media networks

4.       Everybody: geeks, nerds and popular people have facebook or myspace

5.       Many have competition of having the most friends

6.       Fights began happening online

7.       Relationships are online, but do not interact in school or actually see each other many times

8.       People have different identities online than how they really are in person or high school life

9.       Parents don’t know their children’s online identities

10.   Teenagers mostly know how to handle sexual comments and prepositions

11.   Some teenagers feel that they are able to express themselves online

12.   Parents don’t know about the websites their children go to (anorexia websites)

13. Words hurt and affect teenagers. Constantly reading them makes many believe it  

14. Cyberbullying is way more common than physical bullying nowadays

15.  Parents are very concerned about their children and the internet, they often look for ways to protect them

Things that surprised me

1.       AOL can allow parents to see what their children are doing on the internet

2.       Children have more trouble focusing now than 30 years ago becaues of the itnernet

3.       Turn it in is a website that looks for papers that have been copied off the internet

4.       Parents fear online stalkers or predators

5.       There is a computer safety unit

6.       Teenagers should be looked as participants and not victims

7.       Teenagers who want to be anorexic praise the goddess Ana

8.       When there was video of a group of teenagers went to a concert , most of them were vomiting

9.       A child killed himself when he was about in 7^th grade. Ryan had been victim of cyberbulling with the rumor that he was gay.

10.   Girls that flirt with boys and then tell them that it is nothing

11.   There are websites of how to kill yourself and the best ways you can commit suicide

12.   Educators blame the internet for increase of student’s cheating

13.   Parents blame the social media for their children’s behavior

14.   Many children have been suspended from schools from cyberbullying

15.   A graduate student has realized how much he spends in the internet and decided to leave it for two months

Things that changed

1.       Bring desktop computers with monitors to each others home

2.       Using Myspace

3.       Club Penguin

4.       The phones

5.       Video cameras

6.       The video games and Xboxes have improved

7.    Youtube

8.    iPods

9.    Programs and websites

10.   Computer Viruses 

11.   Sparknotes have more variety of book summeries and have more users than before

12.   Many people who read books don't use hardcover anymore, they use kindles

13.   CNN has been changed since then

14.   Smartboards have changed and improved

15.   There is more anorexic awareness and young girls are being taught other ways to take care of their body

What topic in the video did you most strongly identify with and why?

I think that parents try to control their children's access to internet and websites, thinking many of us are naive of the dangers there are. I relate to many teenagers who get mad at their parents because they want passwords and their activity online. In my opinion we have more knowledge of what goes on in the internet than they do. We have grown up with the internet and its dangers. We have heard the stories about predators thousands of times. Having said this, I think that if parents know that their children are not troublesome , they should have more confidence that we won't do anything stupid online. They should not try to control us because frankly, with technology and internet being everywhere, they will not be able to.

What topic in the video was the most UNLIKE your own experience online and why?

I don't think I would ever log in to a website that based on your personality, tells you the best way you can kill yourself. I don't think the creators of this tests online are aware of the negative impact they are having in the live's of many young and sad teenagers who view them every day. I use the internet to do other things and since I don't have a lot of free time, I like to use it well. Besides the fact that I am happy with my life, I don't trust many people who give advises online. After all, you don't really know them. People tend to say things online that they would never tell you face to face.

What are the biggest benefits of being online?
There are many benefits that the internet has brought to our lives. It is used as a tool for doing homework, for socializing and for discovering. There are so many positive aspects to the internet that it is very hard to name only one that I think is the most beneficial for me. Personally, being online has allowed me to stay in touch with friends I have in other countries. Having social networks make it so much easier to speak to friends I leave behind and therefore make the whole moving to another country a thousand time more easier. If there wasn't any internet, it would be most likely that I would lose contact with them. The only way possible to talk to them would be through mail, and given the distance between the countries I've lived, it would take long enough to forget about it. The internet has opened so many doors to this new generation and will keep helping and making future generation's lives easier.

Forms and Flubaroo

Forms and Flubaroo...how to make a form, what can they be used for, how to embed a form on a blog or website, what is Flubaroo, how do you use is, what would it be useful for?

http://www.flubaroo.com/flubaroo-user-guide#step5
General Information

• Flubaroo is a free tool that helps you quickly grade multiple-choice or fill-in-blank assignments. 
• Computes average assignment score.
• Computes average score per question, and flags low-scoring questions.
• Shows you a grade distribution graph.
• Gives you the option to email each student their grade, and an answer key.

Floobaroo can be opened in Google Docs for free. The test automatically grades the student's answers and emails it to the teacher. The process of making in it is very simple and easy, saving the teacher's time and allowing them to view in which questions most student had trouble with. Flubaroo allows teachers to make multiple choice answers, questions can ask for more than one answer and can request for a free write response. Basically teachers no longer have to waste time making their own test formats or waste papers. Tests can be conducted from the computer and automatically graded.

This is the format to make up the Quiz

After the students have completed the tests, their scores are sent to the teacher as shown below

Teachers also receive like the ones below

Google 20% Project Research Day 2

Ivy League College History, Scholarships and Recognized People

Goals of the Day

1.) What are different types of scholarships and how do you obtain these to go to an Ivy League College?

2.) How was the Ivy League created? What is the history including founders, their standards etc.?

3.) Who are some successful and famous people nowadays that graduated from this colleges?

http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/archives/000142.htm

• The only students who receive Ivy League financial aid are those whose families can't afford to pay full freight. They look at their economic background and family.
•  The first thing they look in applicants is their grades (usually a straight or close to A- student). They also look for people who applied to AP courses and honors classes, those who take risks and challenges
• The SAT are very important
•  Essays, recommendations, and extracurricular activities. Ivies look for people who excel in a variety of areas. They especially  take interest in students who have done out of the ordinary things like published books, danced on Broadway or founded a national charity. Athletes also get special attention.

http://parents.dartmouth.edu/news_and_events/news_articles/ivy_league.html

• The name "Ivy League" was credited to newsman Caswell Adams who first mentioned the name in the New York Herald Tribune in 1937 to describe football teams in elite Eastern Colleges. 
• Ivy league has come to symbolize academic excellence and spirited athletic competitions
• The Ivy colleges- Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, Brown, Dartmouth- have competed against one another in basketball, baseball, and swimming. This resulted in the first "Ivy Group Agreement" signed in November 1945.

http://www.businessinsider.com/30-most-famous-harvard-students-of-all-time-2010-4?op=1

• Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States (1901-1909), was a leader of the Republican Party. Graduated from Harvard University
• John Uhler “Jack” Lemmon III starred in over 60 films, and had a career as an actor, producer, director, and screenwriter. He worked with many famous leading actresses, among them Marilyn Monroe, Natalie Wood, Betty Grable, Janet Leigh, Shirley MacLaine.The recipient of numerous film and television awards, Lemmon became the recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1988.
• William Henry “Bill” Gates III, an American business magnate and philanthropist, was the Co-founder (1975), Chairman (1975-2000), President (1977-1982), and CEO (1992-1998) of Microsoft Corporation, one of the most recognized brands in the computer industry. Harvard university
• Obama studied in Columbia University.On October 8, 2009 he was awarded the year’s Nobel Peace Prize, “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
  
  
  Questions for next time: Is there a similar term for an Ivy League in other countries like Europe? What other countries that are not part of this organization are as recognized as Ivy League Colleges?
  

Google 20% Project Research Day 1

 Requirements for Studying in an Ivy League College

Goals for the day: 

1.) I would like to study in an Ivy League College when I am older, even though I still don't know what career I want to pursuit. Competition is hard and few people are able to get accepted. I would like to know some of the requirements, so during my years in High School, I can prepare myself for what is needed

2.) As I mentioned, I don't know what I want to be when I grow older. I'm hoping that by researching about the different courses you need for certain classes and to get admitted, I can decide what I want to study 

3.) There are several careers I have in mind, but I am also hoping to discover new ones to take in consideration. My future job might be one that I don't know exists. 

http://www.go4ivy.com/colleges/ivy-league-college

Brown University: 

• Acceptance Rate: 9%
• Enrollment: 6,100 undergraduates
• Most Popular Majors:
  • Social Sciences–23%
  • Biology–10%
  • Arts–7%
• Admissions Requirements:
  SAT and SAT Subject Tests or ACT, essay

Columbia University:

• Acceptance Rate: 10%
• Enrollment: 5,900 undergraduates
• Most Popular Majors:
  • Social Sciences–25%
  • Engineering–21%
  • Biology–9%
• Admissions Requirements:
  SAT or ACT, SAT Subject Tests, essay

Cornell University:

• Acceptance Rate: 18%
• Enrollment: 13,900 undergraduates
• Most Popular Majors:
  • Engineering–18%
  • Business/Marketing–13%
  • Agriculture–12%
• Admissions Requirements:
  SAT or ACT, essay

Princeton University

• Acceptance Rate: 9%
• Enrollment: 5,150 undergraduates
• Most Popular Majors:
  • Social Sciences–24%
  • Engineering–19%
  • Biology–8%
• Admissions Requirements:
  SAT or ACT, SAT Subject Tests, essay

Yale University

• Acceptance Rate: 8%
• Enrollment: 5,300 undergraduates
• Most Popular Majors:
  • Social Sciences–27%
  • History–11%
  • Interdisciplinary Studies–9%
• Admissions Requirements:
  SAT and SAT Subject Tests or ACT, essay

Harvard University

• Acceptance Rate: 7%
• Enrollment: 6,650 undergraduates
• Most Popular Majors:
  • Social Sciences–37%
  • Biology–12%
  • History–11%
• Admissions Requirements:
  SAT or ACT, SAT Subject Tests, essay, interview

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/harvard-university-2155

Harvard is one of the most selective colleges in the world with only 6.3% acceptance rate.The most popular majors at Harvard include: Economics, General; Political Science and Government, General; Phsychology, General; English Language and Literature/Letters, Other; and Social Sciences, General. 49.9% of the people in campus are women and 50.1% male in 2011.

 http://www.businessinsider.com/secrets-of-dartmouth-admissions-office-2012-10
Essays are a big part of being accepted into a college. Students are advised to take risks on the essays to make them more memorable and therefore cause a good impression on the admissions officer. They receive thousands of standard essays about topics that they have already heard before. However you should also be careful to not highlight a negative personality trait, for example someone who is a complete narcissist and expresses its point of view will not be considered of good taste and will be discarded.

I learned that getting into the Ivy League colleges is very difficult and only very few people are able to get into them. Freshman year is a great year to start thinking about the classes you must take, the grades you must have and start studying for SAT in order to be admitted to the college of your choosing.

Questions:

1.) What is the History of this Ivy Leagues? How did they become so important? What have they done to be so prestigious?

White Hat Hackers

White hat hacking

1.) I don't know a what white hacking is specifically, but I do know that it is some sort of hacking where the user breaches into someone's personal information

2.) What is White hat hacking? How dangerous is white hat hacking? What is the purpose of white hat hacking (personal info, load viruses, kidnapping)

3.)http://www.techopedia.com/definition/10349/white-hat-hacker

• White hat hacking is done by computer experts and specialists who break into personal information of a company or person to detect vulnerabilities in the software and therefore protect it from dangerous hackers
• White hat hacking is not illegal, they are usually employed by companies or organizations that pay them to find anything that can help a black hat hacker breach into their systems
• The name comes from old Western movie where the "good guy" is distinguished by having a white hat while the "bad guy" on the contrary wore a black one.

http://www.secpoint.com/What-is-a-White-Hat.html

• The National Security Agency (NSA) give certifications and recognition to white hat hackers with CNS 4011. This offers the the possibility to cover professional and principled hacking techniques and team management.
• Hackers acting as aggressors or invaders, searching information for viruses and others, are known as red teams or tiger teams. White hat hackers are known as blue teams

http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/56321/blue-hat-hacker

• Other than the white and black hat hackers there also exists another type known as blue hat hackers. These people are computer experts invited by Microsoft to find "holes" in Windows and preventing black hat hacker damage

http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/hacker

• There are controversies on how the term hacker is  used.  Hacking is often referred as someone who enjoys technology and is a skilled programmer however nowadays hackers are known as people who obtain personal information from others with bad intentions.

        Having white and black hackers in the world affects every person who uses any technological device. White hackers are overall good people who are hired by companies or organizations to detect "holes" in the system and be able to block or fix them in order to prevent the "bad hackers" black hat hackers from taking and leaking information. Black hat hackers can log in bank accounts, take your personal information from social networks like facebook and twitter. You can be a victim of them stealing from you online and can put you at risk from kidnapping or getting you info on the web. That is why white hackers are helpful to society and to every person who uses technology for their daily life.

1.) How do companies know which hacker to trust into their system? How do they evaluate and pick them?