Bi-Weekly Current Event #3

It Is A Heads Up Display That Let You See Through The Truck In Front Of You

Leszewski, Andrew. “This Heads Up Display Lets You See Through the Truck in Front of You.” gizmodo. 18 October 2013. 25 October 2013. Web. <http://gizmodo.com/this-heads-up-display-lets-you-see-through-the-truck-in-1447719167>

With this new system you are able to see through the trucks or buses in front of you. It can help improve driving safety by allowing us to know if its safe to pass. “The biggest issue is the 200-millisecond delay in the live feed, which doesn't seem like much, but it can make oncoming traffic appear farther away than it really is(Leszewski, Andrew).”

I think this is a great idea. My mom is always having trouble to know when to pass on the road. With this device it would be safer for people to pass people on the road and to know they are safe. It does not really affect me right now just because I'm not legal to drive yet. I think the only bad thing that could happen is if it stopped working and you thought it would be okay to pass but instead there is a car comes and crashes into you.

This could change the way people drive every day and to know when its okay to pass on the road. There can be less deaths from having this. You won’t have to worry about you getting hurt or crashing your car. This could help save thousands of dollars worth of damage to you or your vehicle. Hopefully they will be able to fix the problem with it to make it even safer.

 

 

Bi-Weekly Blog Post #3

My week so far has sucked. I'm confused in almost all my classes. I have a big project for my college class and a big test coming soon. I don’t understand my math and I haven’t had homework in History so I'm freaking out because we normally have something. On Wednesday my head and stomach have been killing me and it still is. So this week has sucked a lot.

This week we learned about online relationships and interaction with people. Some of the terms we learned were online predator, risky, manipulate, and stereotype. Online predator is a commonly used term for someone who uses the Internet to develop inappropriate relationship with kids or teen. Risky means potentially harmful to one’s emotional or physical well-being. Manipulating is when you try to influence someone to do something they might not otherwise do, for one’s own benefit. Stereotype is a popular belief about a group of people, based on assumptions that are often false.

Also this week we learned so new  2.0 tools. Chogger, Animoto, and makebeliefscomix. Chogger is a website where you can make you own comic strip, You can draw out your own designs or even add your own pictures. Makebeliefscomix is another website where you make your own comic strips. On this one you can add pictures and little items to make it more real. You have a limit on three slides though. On Animoto you can make a 30 second clip about what ever. You can add backgrounds, music, pictures, and text. You can upgrade it to get a better experiance. 

I really like Chogger the best. On Chogger you have more choices on slides and different styles. You can draw or even take your own pictures and add it. You can even get photos off Google and use them. The only bad part is you can’t save it, so you have to finish it all at once.

This week our digital literacy was risky relationships. Risky relationships are online relationships with people. You don’t know if you can trust that person 110%. This digital literacy can affect me a lot. From now on I will watch what I do and post online because anyone can see it or forward it to other people.

“Couple 01.” Medium. Wikipedia. May 3, 2008. Media. October 3, 2013. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Couple_01.JPG>

Make your own slide show at Animoto.