Thursday, November 27, 2008

The paper tower

Last Tuesday We did a paper tower that everyone need to so there own paper tower who ever tower can lift 50gram and the paper tower it's most tall it wins.
And we did a paper tower the group is me cherine and sandra and jazzy.
I think i am a Active Learner. Because I keep thinking how to make the paper tower taller and it can take 50 gram I keep thinking and while I am working I respect everyone in my group so we did a good job and we get No.3.
And i think i am also a Person of high character. because I was helping and I was thinking how to made the paper tower the best and how to make it good and I respect each other and finily we are done.
I love this paper tower game and I hope it will have it again.

The story about the cat and the mouse

My story is The cat and the mouse.

The kitty and the micky are cute,smart and cool.The cat has lot's of colour and also the colour not only one they have a lot and so cute and there face look like a toy and a kid so cute and they always smile to us I love cat's and the mouse is cute too.The mouse has a so special sound and there run like a cat and they always take tinny chese and run quickly to here small house. The cat always runs and catches the mouse. They go to the same school, and they are in the same class. When they have some work to do , the teacher always lets the mouse and the cat stay in the same group or stay together. The teacher hopes that one day they can be friends, because they always fight.After that there's a new student called rebeca and rebeca really like the mouse and the cat they always play together and the teacher was happy but the kitty and the micky are not friends. and rebeca was so annoying with this so rebeca think she needs to fix this problem so rebeca tell the teacher and rebeca change group to the kitty and micky's group so they there are n the same group and rebeca and the teacher ivy they think an idea is to say who ever win's have chese and milk because mouse like chse and cat love milk so they want to eat btu teacher says if you don't finish the project or don't win you can't have it so rebec say's lot's of thing to the mouse and the cat and because the cat and the mouse really want to eat so they thinj they really needs to be friends and to work together so everyone can have the foods and its also not hard to be friends so they think they need to be friend and rebeca was so happy also the teacher ivy is happy to see them be friends and Ivy thinks this is a good idea she will use that idea if they are have a prolem like this next time.The first few days, they keep fighting and not doing the work on time. They are not doing the work, helping each other or listening to the teacher. They do what they want to do and do not help each other. After a few days, they start helping each other and working together. They know how to respect each other. If you don't work with your group then you won't win. They become really good friends and learn a lot! After that, their group wins and the teacher is happy to see that.

Thai cabinet in emergency meeting

Thailand's embattled Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat has been meeting members of his cabinet to discuss the intensifying political crisis.

Mr Somchai is holding the session in the city of Chiang Mai, after he was prevented by airport protests from returning to Bangkok following a trip.

Protesters have now shut down all civilian air traffic into the capital.

Reports say Bangkok is awash with rumours of an impending military coup after months of political stand-off.

On Wednesday Mr Somchai rejected a call by army leader Gen Anupong Paochinda for new elections to end the political deadlock.

The prime minister says his government is legitimate and that he will continue to work for the country.

But the government has been reluctant to confront protesters from the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), who are demanding not only the overthrow of the current government but an overhaul of Thailand's entire political system.

Fresh blasts rock Mumbai hotels as death toll climbs

Fresh explosions have rocked Mumbai hotels as Indian police battle to release hostages the day after gunmen carried out attacks across the city, killing more than 100 people.
A standoff continued at the Oberoi Hotel, where about 100 members of a specialized unit of the Indian police undertook an operation to rescue four to five foreigners hostage on the 19th floor.

CNN producer Phil O'Sullivan reported a "very loud explosion came from right deep in the hotel."

At the nearby Taj Mahal hotel, CNN's Sara Sidner reported another blast had rocked the building. Police there said they had rescued most of the hostages and evacuated dozens of guests.
As concerned family members stood outside, medics took stretchers into the hotel and brought out bodies covered in white sheets. Police were going floor to floor to flush out gunmen. About five of them were believed to be holed up in the Taj; another three in Oberoi, Maharashtra state officials said.

The death toll from the series of coordinated attacks was at 101, including at least six foreigners, by Thursday afternoon authorities said. The Italian Foreign Ministry confirmed one of its citizens had been killed. The nationalities of the others was still being checked.

Another 314 people were wounded in the attacks, including seven British and two Australian citizens.


I am sad to here that.I hope they can be better soon.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Student Outcomes

I think im a Active learner because when i have question or somthing i don't know or i don't understand i always ask everyone or teacher

And think im a community contributor too, because I always do community service and im very happy to do that.

And im a personal high character, because I respect classmates and teacher, and also i always say hi and always being a good student.

US shares up on 'Treasury choice'

US shares have risen sharply, following a report that US President-elect Barack Obama has chosen his treasury secretary, reassuring investors.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 494 points or 6.5% to end at 8,046.66. The Standard & Poor's 500 climbed 6.3%.

The NBC television network reported the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Timothy Geithner, would be nominated as treasury secretary.

Mr Obama is expected to announce his economic team on Monday.

The NBC report was welcomed by investors in what has been yet another volatile week of trading amid ongoing fears over the scale of the economic contraction.
"It is a bit of good news in that it takes the uncertainty out," said Joe Saluzzi, co-manager of trading at Themis Trading.

Mr Geithner has worked closely with outgoing Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson in addressing the credit crisis and finding ways to boost the economy.

The 47-year-old played a crucial role in talks with Lehman Brothers before the investment bank went bankrupt.

He was also instrumental in the deals involving insurer AIG and JP Morgan, another bank.

The NBC report was enough to counter concerns over the finance sector and in particular the future over banking giant Citigroup, which saw its shares plummet 20% as board members met.

Rising commodity prices helped boost mining and energy firms.

Aluminium company Alcoa added 23% while Exxon climbed 10%, after the price of oil recovered from its lowest level in more than three years.

Apec leaders make free-trade vow

Leaders from Asia-Pacific countries have pledged not to respond to the global financial crisis by raising trade barriers over the next year.

In a statement issued at an Apec summit in Peru, they said protectionism would only worsen a difficult situation.

US President George W Bush urged Apec countries, which account for half the world's economic activity, to rely on free markets to resolve the crisis.

The meeting is Mr Bush's last scheduled foreign trip as US president.

The statement was issued at the half-way point of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit.

"There is a risk that slower world economic growth could lead to calls for protectionist measures which would only exacerbate the current economic situation," the Apec leaders said in their joint statement.
It endorses the declaration made at a summit of the Group of 20 rich nations and major developing countries in Washington last weekend.

"We strongly support the Washington Declaration and will refrain within the next 12 months from raising new barriers to investment or to trade in goods and services [and from] imposing new export restrictions," the statement said.

The leaders also said they would push to reach agreement next month on an outline agreement on the stalled Doha round of global free trade talks.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Time Management Tips

There are 5 tips also help you to learn more:


1.To do more work in free time or read books.
2.To do more search in free time or search in internet dictionary or a book
3.To do more practice in the subject you don't really know.
4.To do more review or preview in the work you did.
5.Think and remember what you learn and do it again.

The website that I found the answer:
http://www.studygs.net/timman.htm

Important things to set up your Goals

I think the most important things that help us is:

1. Is to consider the importance of your goals.
2. Consider the amount of time each goal will take.
3. Consider the time you have to spend.
4. Consider the flexibility of your goals.
5. Consider the long term impact.

The website that i found the tips:
http://www.studygs.net/schedule/goals.htm
http://empowersu.com/articles/motivational/setting-priorities.html

Monday, November 10, 2008

Planing the next 5 day's

What I want to do in next 5 day's is to Do some reading and researching internet of finding things in lots of place or search in my dictionary in my free time and I also will Do some worksheet or do more practice in the subject That I don't really understand and I also will Review and Preview What I learned in my free time I will spend my free time to do more learning next 5 day's.

Green Obama Dreams: Environment Bloggers Weigh in on The Historic Day

Kenyan blogger Juliana Rotich is the editor of Green Global Voices, which monitors citizen media in the developing world, and is a regular contributor to this page. Thomson Reuters is not responsible for the content - the views are the author’s alone.

Tim Hurst of Ecopoliticology blog posts an entertaining video titled ‘5 Green Obama Dreams’. The video mentions his posts on high resolution energy resource maps and the solar powered lawnmower.

On the DotEarth blog, Andrew Revkin muses on the significance of Obama’s election, writing…

President-elect Barack Obama on Jan. 20 will become the most important leader of a species that has exploded in just six generations from a total population of 1 billion (around 1830) to a point today when teenagers alone number 1 billion, a species that is on a path toward more or less 9 billion people by mid-century. In numbers, think roughly of adding two Chinas on top of the one that exists today. Expectations that he will exert planet-scale leadership are high, as indicated in this letter from Nelson Mandela to the next president.

He is compiling a list of 10 best proposals to send to Obama’s transition team. The proposals will be ranked by readers of his blog.

On the China Dialogue blog, a reprint of President-elect Obama’s speech in 2007 is posted, reflecting on what Obama’s presidency would mean for the environment.

In a policy address delivered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in October 2007 – shortly after George W Bush hosted a Washington conference on energy security and climate change — Obama set out his plan. It included a strong focus on energy efficiency and the use of a “cap-and-trade” system. Obama also emphasised his commitment to investing in clean technology, saying that new technology from the United States can help countries like China to fight climate change.

“[W]e will share our technology and our innovations with all the nations of the world,” Obama said. “If we can build a clean coal plant in America, China should be able to as well.”

La Marguerite suggests channelling the magic of community organizing seen in the Obama campaign, into tackling climate change.

Sarah Palin should not have mocked Barack Obama for being a community organizer. If anything, tonight’s results proved her wrong. Our new President has given new meaning, and strength to the concept of community organizing. And he has shown us what citizens can do, when given the means to organize towards a cause, that’s greater than themselves.

Tonight I am thinking of the thousands of Obama offices, volunteer networks, and fundraising organizations, along with the sophisticated Internet machine, and the organizing methodology, that went into getting Barack Obama elected. As the signs are coming down, the thank you emails go out, and the temporary offices go back to their original owners, I wonder, is that it? Will we go back to business as usual, each in our homes, going about our private lives?

Or will we use the skills learned during the Obama campaign to mount a national community effort, this time to address the threat of climate change? The last time I checked, we had less than ten years to get our act together. Citizens have a crucial role to play on the conservation end. As someone who has tried for the last year and a half, to curtail my consumerist and energy appetites, I can testify on the difficulty of accomplishing such changes at the individual level. Instead, we need to summon the power of community to help each other.

Omar Basawad of the Safari Notes blog says ‘Congratulations America!’

“If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.” So, said the next President of the US.

I, we, have no doubt any more about that. And I do, for the first time truly envy Americans for how you can rise and at what you can do. And how lucky and blessed you are, to have such a democratic system and such ideals! Truly, you are a great people. And that is the reason you will continue leading the World militarily, economically and technologically; and you have just proven too, that you are above the rest of the World, morally. And now you have sent such a great statement across the globe, which will cause ripples and shock waves for a long time to come.

Very hopefully, the ripples and shock waves - will be so powerful so as to bring too, the same kind of change that will, one day, allow our children too - to have such a kind of democracy working in our parts of the World; a democracy that is truly: true, enlightened and ideal.

Tracy Stokes in South Africa had tears of joy on hearing the news that Barack Obama is the next president of USA. She wrote…

I sprang out of bed this morning (very out of character for me) and rushed to the living room, grabbed the remote and had that TV on before you could say “election results”. Obama is the new president of the United States, Bush is on the way out. So here I am, miles and miles away from where it’s all happening, at the southern tip of Africa, a South African of European descent, and it moved me to tears. Why? Because from next January, the most powerful man in the world will no longer be a warmonger, bigot, and dare I say it, village idiot, but an intelligent, compassionate man who has brought to Americans the opportunity to join the rest of the world in working towards peace, upholding of human rights, and fighting climate change. So congratulations to the American people in choosing the right man for the job.

On the 350.org blog, Phil considers the signifance of Obama’s win particularly regarding climate change.

It’s up to us to make sure Senator Obama follows through with the vision of a world we desperately want that is now a little bit more within reach. Sending him to Poland is a needed first step towards rebuilding the world economy and solving climate change, tasks which will no doubt take years, if not decades, to accomplish.
At this historic turning point, it’s up to us to shed the yoke of history and move forward by joining with our new leaders and pushing for a bold new solution to these dual crises. The world is counting on us.

On the GreenPeace Making Waves blog, amid thanks, a reminder of the promises Barack Obama made regarding the environment is stated.

Thank you, Barack Obama, for giving all of us new hope for a changed America.
We’re non-partisan here at Greenpeace. We don’t have any permanent allies or enemies. We support policies, not politicians. We endorse deeds, not words. So even while a lot of us (in our personal capacity as human beings and not Greenpeace employees) are jumping up and down this morning with glee, we want to take a moment to remind you of the promises you made in your election campaign.

It’s delivering on these promises, or bettering them, that will be the true mark of your leadership. …

On ‘Its Getting Hot in Here’ blog, Teryn Norris writes of reinventing America.

Few moments in history feel this monumental. It’s the feeling of renewed hope and immense possibility.
Barack Obama has once again tapped America’s power of invention. It’s the same power that led us to invent the first modern democracy. To invent the systems and technologies that continue to drive human progress. To constantly reinvent ourselves in the face of insurmountable hardship and division.
Invention is our greatest power — the very heart of the American spirit. It’s what can renew our promise once again and make this century the next American century.

Teryn concludes the post with

Obama has rekindled the American spirit. Now he must lead this nation to fully reinvent itself and the world — to lead us in what will be the greatest American project.

Let’s get started.

From South Africa, The Urban sprout blog offers kudos to the the American public for electing Barack Obama.

…how often do we ask ourselves what difference the leaders of New Zealand, Denmark, Germany or Iceland, for instance, will make to us all? But you have to give credit where credit is due and kudos to the American public for electing Barack Obama!

But what can we expect from Obama’s environmental direction, and can he be held accountable to his campaign promises?

We end this post with a quote from the Urban sprout blog.

Obama’s administration has 4 years to turn these visionary promises into something tangible, and that’s the real challenge - but right now, there’s plenty to be optimistic about.

Life

1.What matters most to you? What is most important? What are your values?

My most important thing is my family and my friend because they make me happy and I like to stay with them. My values is I think Respect is very important because when you want to make friend to other’s you need to know respect other’s is a very important thing.

2.What kind of person you want to be?

I want to be a kind and a nice person and I want to always help everyone and being a high Character and being a good person.

3.What contributions do you want to make in life?

I want to be a really helpful person and give love give a real love to everyone I want to make everyone know’s they all have a big good family and that family is all of us. If everyone have love and the world will become a big family.

What roles do you have?


A Student. A Daughter A grand daughter.A sister A friend.

5.What do your values look like in your life in your different roles?


Student &Respect: is need to do on respect to teacher and your learning and your homework.I will do my homework on time.
Daughter&Respect: is need to being a good daughter and need to help mother and your father and perents.I will take care of my self and I won’t let my mother and my father to tke care me.
Grand daughter&Respect: is also need to being a good grand daughter need to take care your grand mother and your grand father.I will make my grand father and mother happy and I won’t let them be sad.
Sister&Takecare-Kind is to take care your small sister and if your the small sister you need to be respectful to your big sister. I will take care sister and being a good high Character.
Friend&Trust: is to respect each other and to help each other and to help your friend when they need to need help and when they are feeling sad the first person in her(he) beside is you a d friend is also need to trust each other.A friend is a really friend.I will let my friend know that I can let them trust and I will be a good friend.

6.At my all life I want to all focus on respect because I want to respect to everyone and to being a high Character and to being a respectful people.



7. If I need to do my goal I need to remember what I say and I need to do my best to finish and also to do the goal.

This is all what I want to do in my life just to be a kind person and to be a helpful person.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Organization

You are to write a three part blog post by interviewing at least 2 students and 2 adults to:

1.

1)Ask them to explain the benefits of being more organized.
2.

2)Ask them to explain what prevents people from being organized.
3.

3)Create your own “top 5 list” of how to be more organized. In other words, what actions do people need to take to be more organized.


1(Serena):I think that the benefits are that we can hand in work on time, workfaster, and efficiently..

2(serena).Some prevents include: The things you wonder about in minds, your problems, worries, TV shows that you would like to see after homework, and the games you loved to play.

1(Lian)think that organizing makes everything easy to access and make everything a whole lot easier. It allows people to find things easier and to save time for more important things!

2(Lian)Some prevents include: The things you wonder about in minds, your problems, worries, TV shows that you would like to see after homework, and the games you loved to play.
1(Mom dad)Do things more faster and do it clearer.
2(Mom dad)When something make you don't do homework or don't let you do work like TV or something you do in break time.

5 tips:
1.Set a table for what time you do your homework and what time you do in break time.
2.Do your homework on time and when you finish your homework then do other thing els
3.make sure you finish what you should need to do then do something els.
4.Use notes to take note then you will remember what you will need to do.
5.Don't think anything els when your doing you should do the things.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

How to cite my sources?

When I find a thing or a word I always go to the website to the searching page to search the words or I will go to the dictionary and find the thing or a word and also I can find the answer in the book and I will take note some importent notes and I will remember it and write down about it.
These is some website when i don't know something an i search:
www.igoogle.com
http://www.wikipedia.org/
I always find things in these website

What note taking technique skills will help me?

Well I think plagiarize means That thing explanation is not in your own words you did copy and paste and you still someothers words to use and not in your own words.
And I think my technique is to search the website and to search the words and I always read 2 times and I just think it by myself or I find it in the book or a dictionary but not copy and paste.And I will also take the importent notes from it.And this is my idea.

Sunday, November 2, 2008

What did I learn from other's?

When I have a look of the others blog and when I give comments.....
I learn about that there's many ways of learning.I learned that there's many level of thinking. Remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating.
I learned many kind of study skills.
And I also learned that learning involves lots of thinking. Learning can be a skill, knowledge, or idea. Definitions of those words can be learning from different people.Learning can be how you know something new, and you have to understand it. You have to be able to explain it to others.
A blog is very similar to an online journal. The journal-like pages on a blog can consists of pictures and photos. When another user goes to that blog the user can leave a comment about that blog post. When blogging you can reflect on your own experience as well as others. Teachers can communicate with students using blogging and parents can see and learn about what their child is learning. When students blog they can reflect on others blogs and allows teachers to correct their mistakes and learn from them. Blogging is also very fun for students and allows the student to be more engaged.
This is what I learn the most in the other's post.