PSA? or PDA? BOTH!

I am partners with Doug Pinkal and we have two ideas for our videos. The first video, the theme is "Dont be a couch potato." There will be a large potato on a couch, and the tv will be on in the background. I will walk in after a while and say "come on timmy, lets go play catch!" and then pause for a second and say "Timmy?" Then the screen will go to text and say "Dont be a couch potato. Go out and play" Maybe the potato will turn into a kid between frames and he will jump off the couch or something. Not entirely sure yet.

The second video idea is similar to a commercial that I saw which is found here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwOi4D9lPig. Watch it because it is pretty dang funny! My idea is to show something like this except it be maybe an elevator out of order so then people dont go to work? Or maybe just a commercial showing someone who spends all day on the computer tv and phone, goes to bed, then wakes up and goes straight to doing those same things. I am not entirely positive yet. Also, if I do the outside an elevator scene I might use the music found here..

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/19019

The internet is SCARY

I think internet safety is very important for everyone in our society today. However, I think that it is even more important for teenagers and children. I have a very strong opinion on kids using the internet because my nieces and nephews, ranging in ages from 4-8, all use the internet on their own! This is so dangerous to me and I hate seeing that. I wish that the internet did not have anything inappropriate on it. But that is pretty impossible. So, looking all over the internet for information on internet safety got me thinking about how great these softwares and these options that people have to block inappropriate material. Each intervention to prevent corruption is very important to our lives today. However, I thought some more and realized that inappropriate material is going to come through regardless of the blocks set up. It makes me sad that we spend so much time on the internet these days. So, in applying this to students I will teach, I would not have them get on the internet at all if I could avoid it. It is a physical education class and I feel as though kids spend enough time on the internet as it is. My goal will be to make them get up and away from the computer and GO EXPERIENCE LIFE! There are so many great things that the internet does for us, I know. BUT I still feel as though every single good thing from the internet put together will still never make up for the time lost at the computer. I taught my friend/roommate about internet safety. Bottom line, she said that there is nothing you can really do about internet safety. It comes down to parents educating their kids. I whole-heartedly agree! It is up to parents to limit time spent on the computer and to watch what the kids do. I am done because I feel like I am arguing with no one!!!! ;)

Website Website Website.. Done Done Done

This project was beneficial to me because I feel like I am efficient now in creating websites (for the most part). I would like to use a website like this in my class because technology is taking over everything these days, why not use it with students? I could definitely create another website if I was asked to do so. I would be even faster and more efficient with the next one. It was pretty much exactly what I thought it would be in terms of difficulty. It was not that hard, but there were things that were a little more difficult to understand. Overall, I thought it was a pretty good project. I did overload myself at the end with everything that I had to do with it, but that seems to be unavoidable with me. It was weird to make random things up and to actually have them accessible on the internet, but I guess it was for learning purposes so it is okay. :) Here is the link to my website --> Hayley McKown's Website

I am Golden

So this week while working on my website I did not really run into any problems. Everything that has to be done is very possible and can be figured out. I am not quite as far as I could be and I am sure it will take some time to get everything that is required up on the site. It is pretty fun to me to make this website though, because it is like how when we were kids we would always pretend we were business owners or employees or whatever and we would pretend that we were in charge of everything. Well, with this website we are reliving our childhood dreams haha. We get to pretend that we are done with school and working wherever we want to. The way we run our classroom is completely up to us. This is great to me because I want it to be that way once I get out and start working for real, but I know that it will not exactly be the case. Anyways, no problems with the website really. I might run into some later, but as for right now I am GOLDEN! :)