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Technology Article: Chrome Pixel Touchscreen Laptop

The new Chromebook laptop is the first to have touchscreen capability on a computer. It has about 4.3 million pixels, which equates to about 239 pixels per inch. Most laptops and computers only have about half that amount. This laptop was an attempt to get rid of all hardware, so there is also a built in laser microphone under the keyboard, along with the two other microphones next to the camera. The computer gets its internet through Wi-fi, and the battery life of the Chromebook lasts about five hours. Now, this may seem very glamorous, until you hear the price. One of these laptops cost between $1,299 and $1,449 depending on the version you get. Google predicts that in the future all laptops will have touchscreen!

Voki vs. Blabberize

I personally liked making the Voki avatar better, I thought it was much easier to use and it was easier to find something to say since you are talking about yourself. However, if I were to use on of these sites again it would probably be Blabberize because I found it a little bit more interesting than the Voki. You could use Blabberize in other classes for a project maybe, like in history class. This way instead of writing a paper on them, they would have a voice and you could listen to it that way. I think people might want to pay more attention to it. It did take me awhile to make my Blabberize work, I thought it was hard to get the mouth to move right. It also took me awhile to make my Voki, I wanted to get it to look as much like me as possible. However, I dont think it looks like me at all. I thought both of these sites were fun, and it was the first time I've ever used a microphone online, so I learned something!

Frida Kahlo Blabberize

Online Safety/ Identity Theft Cartoons

By KaityG567 | View this Toon at ToonDoo | Create your own Toon

By KaityG567 | View this Toon at ToonDoo | Create your own Toon

Julie's Journey & Tracking Teresa

     In this short video clip, a 13 year old girl named Julie started talking to this guy,named Tom. She thought he was a teenagers also. However, he wasnt. He was a 56 year old man. Julie started talking to him between 3 and 6 hours a day, and when she couldn't talk to him she got really upset. She knew that she wasn't supposed to be talking to him, but she did it without her parents knowing. As they talked more and more everyday, they went from friends, to best friends, to a sort of relationship. Shortly after that, she ran away to go see him for 3 weeks. She didn't know what was going to happen to her. She knew Tom could have done anything he wanted. However, someone saw their truck and reported it. Now, he is in jail for 25 years. After he went to jail, he sent Julie a letter stating that if he ever got out of jail he was going to kill her. Julie said that she would, "never do it again."
      In the short clip, "Tracking Teresa", A girl with the user name of Teresa01 in a chat room online, didn't put any of her personal information like her age, gender, or real name. However, she did put her little brothers name and her hobbies, and just by that, someone can find out a lot about you using directories and search engines. Within 20 minutes, Someone can know where you live, your phone number, your full name, your family members names, what school you go to, your hobbies, and much more.  I have put my personal information out online before, but after watching this I will make sure to be extremely careful about what I put online and never do it again. I think the most important thing to remember when your online is to be smart!

Cyberbully Movie

     I thought that this movie was very realistic. So many people today don't think too much when they are online, and give out their information as well as adding people they don't know. However, as the girl in the movie found out, this can be very dangerous. Even though this movie was very exaggerated, this could happen in real life. When kids are being cyber bullied, they feel that they are alone and can't get away from it since it follows them home. Some feel that suicide is the only option, as did the girl in this movie. I feel that parents should keep a close eye on what their kids are doing online, for this reason. If more parents paid attention to what their kids were doing online, I think that many lives could be saved.

Status Cloud

I was surprised to see that there are a lot of people with the same name as me. One lady, a 26 year old, Has the exact same first, middle, and last name! There was nothing I was embarrassed about, I'm pretty proud to see that I don't have anything embarrassing or inappropriate on my Facebook page. In the future, I will make sure that I continue to keep my posts clean!