3. Leadership: Criticism + Being Successful

“Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” ~Aristotle

This week you will be presenting your websites. Many people are afraid to get up in front of others mostly in fear of being judged, the risk of failure or being hit with an onslaught of criticism.  

Let's break it all down. You took a risk taking this class. You knew it was a tech class and you heard it was much more.  Leadership.  Service. Business. Discovering new tech.  Problem solving.  Career building.  Risk.  Some kids bailed out.  You are the adventurous type.  Welcome to GenYES.  

As your teacher, I am about to evaluate, applaud and criticize your presentations this week. Let's get ready for this:

Part 1 - Read the whole article:  

How to Deal with Criticism Well: 25 Ways to Embrace it.

1.  Think about all the points in the article.  
Of the 25: choose, copy and paste one of them in your comments and then totally elaborate on the point.  How does criticism make you better, how do you let it affect you, how it may relate to you being successful overall?  

Part 2 - Read the whole article:  

17 Things Really Successful People Never Stop Doing

2.  What do you do successfully?  What things from this list do you have in common with successful people?  What do you think you might need to work on?  What does any of this have to do with a technology class?!

Two questions.  That's it.   Do a great job.  Remember 100 - 200 well written words, grammar and spelling count!  

2 Website Design

Portfolio Websites!

Your website is your digital resume.  This week we will be designing websites.  Your website should reflect a digital representation of you.  Your personality.  Your interests.  Your projects.

This is an expanded blog project today since I am not in class. Please follow directions carefully.

This assignment is worth 100 points (50 Homework and 50 Assignment DUE TODAY).


BAD SITES: Open the link below.  Look and read about what makes a bad website:

• Terrible Websites.

GOOD SITES: Open all the links and explore each carefully.  What website styles appeal to you?  As you find sites that you like take screens shots of them.  Evaluate what sites that you personally feel are some great websites:

• Very Nice Sites

• Websites with outstanding artistic design

• Awesome websites with Geometrics

Number your responses in your blog answers:

1.  In the BAD SITES link, which is the worst website in your opinion?  Why?

2.  In the GOOD SITES links provided above. Which three websites did you find that you like the best?  Look at many!  Take screen shots of your favorites.  

• Open this link: Website slide show and complete as instructed
• When you finish it place your slide show link as the answer to this question  
• We will look at your website choices tomorrow.

3.  What pointers did you read in the articles?  What makes a good website? What are the pitfalls and mistakes people make in creating websites?  


This blog is DUE by the end of class period today.

1 Welcome to GenYES

GenYES International

SMHS GenYES is a 4 year high school elective

SMHS GenYES is a CTE  (Career + Technical Education) Program

Our SMHS CTSO (Career + Technical Student Organization) is amazing!

Great option!  SMHS GenYES is available for college credit (all 4 years)

SMHS GenYES Website

1.  Check out the GenYES International Website.  Copy a few lines that you think are interesting, then comment in your own words about them.  Please read the comments before yours so there are no repeats.

2.  What do you understand about CTE and our CTSO based on what you've heard in class or from other students?

3.  Discuss the benefits of getting college credit for GenYES and how it works.  Do you think you will take GenYES for college credit?  Why / Why not?

4.  What are your first impressions of this class?  What are you hoping to accomplish?

Welcome!  I'm very excited about this new year and happy you make the choice to be part of this awesome class!  MsK :)

Summer 2015

Have nothing to do?

The CodePlayer

Learn to Code: The Basics

Coursera: Creative Programming 
for Digital Media/Mobile

Arduino: Getting Started

Arduino: Short Course

Raspberry Pi Coding Resources

Stanford Coding for iOS 

CodeAcademy

Code.org

The End is Near

Hi all...

All the blog grades are going in today.

Happy holiday...  Ms K

(S17) Mind Blowing Technology

Ok I just watched "Interstellar" last night.  Mind blowing.  Here's a mind blowing technology idea found from a fellow student: 

Large Hadron Collider

Research Links:      
Official Website         
Hadron sets sights on dark matter?

1.  The Hadron Collider has been the spot of controversy amongst scientists, techs and political leaders alike. What do you think?  Do you think that it is too risky to use? Or is risk worth result?

2. Why is this important? Where do you think this machine will take us in terms of technology and science?

If you really understood what you read, it's mind blowing. (I had to read it twice) And that is real.

3. Now consider all the mind blowing technologies that you see in some movies.  Pick one below (or another POPULAR movie with futuristic technology) and share your perspective about the details of a extraordinary technology concept introduced in the movie.  Is it SciFi forever or potentially real?  Discuss if:     It can never be real because...  or It could be real if....

(S16) School Technology: Debate

Technology at school has grown exponentially in the past five years.  

Good or bad?

Look at some perspectives:

Device Addiction

Pros / Cons Educational Tech

      Look at these too:

      Tech teaching tools 

    Technology is a distraction

1.  So what are the best features about technology in school?  

2.  What's bad about school technology?  How would you fix it?

3.  More tech or less tech?  If you were the IT director what would you do?  

(S15) Food Tech

Technology is changing the Game with Food

3D Printing Food

Eating 3D Printed Pizza at CES

What do you think?

1. Are new food technologies like 3D printing food, food sciences, processing and food biotechnologies relevant to the well being of the world?


2. What do you predict? Could 3D food printing change the way household kitchens work? The way we cook? Will fast food involve pushing buttons?  Or is this a passing fad?  Only plain fun? Serious to develop? Is it safe?

3. Find your own information about the technologies involving food, eating, restaurants. What's going on out there that's new, interesting and significant?

(S14) Future tech: Oceanic Cities

An ocean address

The earth is 71% water.  

So why isn't anyone living there?

Shimizu Corp, has announced plans for:   

• Ocean Spiral

Check out these concepts: 

• Underwater cities  
• Floating cities

1) What information did you find? Comment on Ocean Spiral or another oceanic concept city that you found interesting. Provide details, development, plans, etc.

2) Would you live in an oceanic city? What's cool / not cool about this idea?

3) What are the technological challenges?

(S13) Touch Tech

Haptics Technology

 

      Watch Haptic Technology

      Haptic Technology Site

      Haptic Technologies

      Examples

Tangible Technology

Watch Tangible Technology

Tangible Media MIT Site

Examples

1.  In your own words, explain Haptic technology. 

2.  In your own words, explain Tangible technology.

3.  Which is most interesting to you?  Or which do you think will impact future technologies the most?  Why?

4.  What are other sensory, tactile technologies are out there?