One Direction

One Direction (1D)

 

One Direction is the biggest and most famous boy band in the world. The singers in this band are from left to right Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, and last but certainly not least(my personal favorite), Harry Styles. They are all from the UK. <3

 

 

They started off as strangers in a show called "Xfactor". They didn't know a thing about each other until they were put together as a group and became One Direction. They did not win this competition but they won 3rd place. They were contracted later on and we now look at them as the best boy band in the world.

 

 

This is Louis Tomlinson <3

 

 

This next one is Liam Payne<3

 

 

This cutie is Niall Horan<3

 

 

This sexy beast is Zayn Malik<3

 

 

This last but most amazing and most talented one is Harry Styles.<3 <3 <3

 

You can visit here to read and listen to latest news from One Direction.

 

This is just a fan page that a girl has created to keep all her Directioners updated about the latest news and information. Visit here :)

 

 

 

Assignment 7

1. Go to http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/new-fantasyland/ and look around it a little bit. Now go to http://www.byteland.org/angeloflife. Now why do you think the .com website is more exciting than the .org website? 
Yes, I do believe that the .com website is more exciting than the .org website. I agree with this because all the pages that I have gone to with .com are always more interesting and a lot more fun that .org. For example, this example that you used is a great example because it also shows how much effort .com puts on their pages than on .org. 
2. Why do you think the Disney website has more hyperlinks, advertisements, and other distracting options to click on?
It has more hyperlinks, advertisements, and other distracting options to click on because .com takes you to different website or different webpages to make it more interesting and a lot more fun. It also does this to catch the people using the page attention and get more interested in it. Also, it's because Disney is used more and known world wide and not the other page.


3. If you had to construct/create your own webpage from the beginning, what would you want it to be about and why?
I would want it to be about sport blogs and sport news. I would want this because it's what I like to look at and it's what interests me. I also believe a lot of teenagers and even adults would be looking at these types of pages especially the ones that are interested in sports and stuff like that.



4. How many programmers do you think would have to work with you to make your website possible? Would it seem impossible to construct/create a webpage by yourself? Why? 
I do believe it would be nearly impossible to create a webpage by myself. First of all, I don't know much about technology and how to work a computer. I think I would need help from an expert or someone who actually knows a lot about webpages and how to create them. I wouldn't want this webpage to just be focused on me by myself, but also with the help of other people. 

5. What would you want to name your website? Type that name into the web-address bar, is it taken already?
keepmeupdated.com
No it is not taken


6. Explain why webpages with flash videos, images, and color take longer to load than pages with only text?
They take longer to load because they need to process all of the information into that webpage and it's a lot harder than text. It also depends how long your videos and how many megapixels your images have.

My Summer at Culver Academy

My Summer at Culver Academy

 

Best summer that I have had so far. I spent time with people from different places in the world.

 

 

Military camp where you did many types of activities from a variety that you could choose from for example basketball, soccer, volleyball, dance, swimming, archery, crew, and much more.

 

 

We would have retreats three times a week and parades every Friday.

 

 

 

It's a place where you make friends that you will never forget.

 

 

The basketball crew!

 

 

Deck 6- The Great Race!

 

 Go to this website to learn more about the summer camp itself. Here, I will be demonstrating a video of the experience you get to have.

Click here

This is another website where you can find more summer camps to go to.

 

Assignment 7

1. What problems does the article mention that children run into when they use search engines?
The problems that the article mentions that children run into when they use search engines are that it can be difficult for children to get to answers of their questions that they're looking for. It is also difficult for users to formulate the right keywords to call up their desired results. It also mentions how it is difficult for adults to get to their answers so it puts children in even a harder position.

2. What suggestions have been offered for how search engines can improve their product to lessen children’s problems searching?

It mentions how there is a chat system that helps get children get to answers that they are looking for. Children are getting to levels of adults that is helping them get to information ever more easier. So search engines want it to be easy for easy for children just as they want it for adults.

3. Do you search using keywords or questions? How does the article characterize these two types of searching?

I search using the questions. The articles that pop out sometimes have nothing to do with what I was looking for. If I put the question in a shorter way, it helps sometimes by using keywords. Most of the time, I do find the answers to questions that I'm looking for. I believe it's a lot easier to put in the question to the search engine because I get less sources and it easier to find my answer to my question.

4. Have you tried using images or videos to search? How does the article characterize this type of searching?

No, I don't do that because I don't want to. It is very difficult and confusing to use it.

5. What advice would you give to Internet search engine developers (like Google or Bing) for how they should improve their product? Do you think any of the improvements mentioned in the article are particularly promising? Why?

I think the improvements mentioned in the article are particularly promising. They do need to make these search engines easy for adults as well as they should for children. I think Google and Bing should improve on getting the answers to long questions that we have so it can be a lot easier for us in our daily lives especially for school. Google and Bing are doing really good right now but technology is advancing more and more each day so they should too.

Assignment 6

1. Do you think the results are 100% accurate? Why or why not?

         I do not think the results are 100% accurate because not all of the students answered the questions that I had posted. I got some answers to some of my questions but not all of my questions were answered.

 

     2.How much of an impact do you think the wording of the questions has on the answers you received?

        

        I think that if I had very advanced wording in my questions, the students wouldn't even read the answers or the questions that I had uploaded and start filling out random answers. Also, if I repeated the same questions over and over again, I believe that the students would start filling out answers without them even caring.

1. Did you get the results you expected from your online polls? Why?

          I did get the answers that I expected to some of my questions from my online polls. I would guess that some students would put some of the answers that I expected because I can say that I know some of the students fairly well for them to answer what I expected them to answer. On the other hand, I didn't expect some of the students to answer what I thought they would answer or what I thought they would answer because I don't know ALL of the students in class but I do know some.;

1. If you wanted to do an online poll with the students of Technologico de Montorrey asking them how much time and effort they spent doing homework this year, what are the steps you would take to complete that online poll?

          The steps that I would take to do the online poll would be putting different types of questions to the poll. I would have multiple choice questions, fill in the box, and other forms of questions as well. I wouldn't just make one question for all of the forms of questions but have different types of questions typed out.

         

1. Do you think online polling could help the administration of Tec de Montorrey find out more about their students? Or do you think that the results would not be accurate? Why or why not?

          I believe that the online polling could help Tec de Monterrey find out more about there students. I think this because the school could put many sorts of questions that our students could be interested about, but at the same time, they wouldn't always pay attention to them because they just want to get the questions over with because sometimes they can be tiring to answer.

         

1. How do you think the results of your polls would be different if you asked your classmates the questions in person?

          I think they would be different but also the same because I don't think the students answered the questions with honesty. The students could've probably been lazy to answer them so they just put whatever thing they wanted. In person, on the other hand, I think they would actually pay attention to me and answer the questions with honesty.

1. In what ways do you think online polling using Google Spreadsheets can be improved? Or was it easier to create an online poll than you originally thought? Explain.

          I cant really answer these questions because I have never been in the part of Google or online polls. I wouldn't be able to answer the question only if I actually experimented it. However, I don't think it could have been to create the polls.

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Assignment 5

1. In your own words describe how the workplace culture at Google encourages innovation and unique creations for the company? How does working at Google and the environment there affect its workers?
The workplace culture at Google encourages innovation and unique creations for the company because the people that work there can get many of their ideas out and think about many fun and interesting things. You can't get many great ideas out if you aren't somewhere where you don't enjoy. To get your brain working and moving, you need a place where you can be entertained and be able to think about big and great things for Google. Google has a very unique environment and the people that work there I bet enjoy their job there because Google offers the people so much.


2. How does employee freedom, like the 20% of free time Google encourages its employees to spend on any project they want, deliver better business?
The employee freedom encourages its employees to spend on any project they want because on that 20% of free time that they have, they can rest, think about new ideas while having fun. They have so many things to do there that they want to work everyday. While they work the 80% of time, the 20% of time is maybe the time that they get there best ideas out by relaxing, sleeping, or having some quality time with their friends.


3. What are the requirements to work for Google? And what is different about the way they hire employees at Google?
The requirements to work for Google is that the person has to be able to do a lot of things. This person has to be able to get things done, and this person doesn't necessarily have to be smart, but has to have a good way of thinking and has a lot of strengths. This person has to be willing to work and come up with good and creative ideas for the company.


4. How many search queries does Google handle a day?
Google can handle about 5.2 billion search queries each day.


5. In your own words discuss how Google's constantly refined search algorithm changed the way we all access and even think about information.
It changed the way we access to the internet because it is a lot faster. When we look something up, we get so many sites that help us get the proper information that we need. We get a lot of more information than what we need. More is always better. When we think about looking up something, we always want to put as much information as possible so we can get to our answers faster.


6. Take a look at the following story about Google's top secret data center. Now why would Google want to keep its server room as a secret?
They would want to keep this server room a secret because that's the place where the data travels. If it becomes a place where people can just go in and walk around, something could go wrong. One of the people who can walk in there can touch something and the data that travels there could go wrong. What goes around in there is that the tubes and hubs that are in there is what contains the internet action going on via Google and it is very important to keep that safe.

7. What are the benefits of working as a Google employee?
There are many benefits for working as a Google employee. Google provides you with so many things including free food, gas for your car, a laundry where you can wash your clothes and so much more. That place is literally like a home for the employees. Not only do they enjoy that, but they also enjoy the time while they are working. They have fun working in different rooms of the building and that's what makes them want to get up every morning and get to work so they can spend a fun time there.

 8. Name at least 5 different positions at Google (ex: software engineer, Google tester, interaction designer) and describe what they do?
One of the jobs there would be account manager and that's a person who handles sales and marketing relationships with specific, bigger customers. Google has a business analyst which is the job where people make sure its financial operations are running smoothly. There are the network engineers whom are the people that make sure everything is running smoothly but with these people, check into code bases and communicate across the company effectively. The site reliable engineer is the person that makes sure that the site does not shut down for even a second because in that way, Google can loose a lot of money. The last but not least position at Google would be the sales engineers help Google's customers solve key technical issues with whatever product they're deploying.

9. Talk about at least 3 projects that Google is currently working on. What do they want to accomplish? How long will they take to complete?
A new project that Google is currently working on would be the Google Glass. This product allows us to look at information like if we were wearing it like glasses. We don't need to pull out our smartphones because the Google Glass will help us out with that. Google is also working on the Adroid@Home. This product helps us to connect your entire house to the internet like something out of a sci-fi movie. Google's smartphone company, Motorola is nearing a release for its first smartphone. The Moto X smartphone will be packed with the latest features and specs. It'll also run Google's mobile operating system Android.

10. Look at the following story about why recent college graduates should not work for Google. Why does the writer argue recent graduates should not work at Google?
Recent college graduates shouldn't work for Google because what they studied in college took a lot of hard work and anticipation. To be in college, you have to be a hard working person with good grades. Google doesn't look for smart people. Google looks for people who can think outside of the box and have big ideas. When you graduate from college, you should be able to work at better places other than Google. Somewhere where you wont spoil you and you will actually take what you learned in college and use it for a career in your future life.


11. How is Google the same or different than other search engines, like Yahoo or Bing?
Google is different from Yahoo and Bing in the aspects that it not only shows you more websites, but also offers you trustable websites. In Google, you can find your answers quicker. Google also offers you images, maps, Youtube, news, G-mail, Google drive, and so much more. Yahoo, on the other hand, isn't always a reliable source because people who might be students or uneducated people can put information in which isn't 100% true. They are the same in some ways because they give you lots of information but some of the sites might not always be reliable.