Tech Article 2/27

You Can Now Build Apps For Band, Microsoft’s Fitness Wearable

Part of today’s release includes “Insights,” a tool that will allow Band users to parse their fitness and health data inside of a new web dashboard that is part of Microsoft Health, the platform that the Band is part of. Even as the Web has gone mobile, and then into apps, there is still value in large-screen experiences.

Users of this gadget can now build apps on the watch.

Microsoft greatly constrained the early shipment volume of Band, leading to shortages at the end of the year. The device is back in stock. It will be worth noticing if today’s news can lead to another sellout.

Tech Article 2/23

Uber’s Series E Round Surges To $2.8 Billion

Uber has expanded its latest round of financing by $1 billion. The company originally secured $1.2 billion and has increased that to a total capacity for the Series E round at $2.8 billion, according to the NYT.

Uber has confirmed the expansion with the following statement:

The participation we have seen in Uber’s Series E underscores the confidence investors have in Uber’s growth and the key priorities of UberPOOL and further international expansion.

With the new money, Uber will continue investing in expansion, likely in Asian regions, as well as the UberPool service. Uber has raised a total of nearly $5 billion since launching in 2009.

You can check out more information on the expansion here at VCExperts.

Web 2.0: Multimedia Blog Pre-Posting

English 

For English class, I have Ms. Hunter. She teaches most of 9th grade. You can find her on the Wood-Ridge school website here. She has many helpful resources. An example is the Worldy Wise website. When we hand in papers, we put it through turnitin. Turnitin is the leading originality checking and plagiarism prevention service used by millions of students and faculty, and thousands of institutions worldwide. Turnitin encourages best practices for using and citing other people's written material.

In English class, I expected to learn how to improve my writing skills. In the beginning of the year I was eager to read the books and stories that were chosen for the class. One of my favorite stories was Romeo and Juliet and my favorite book was Speak. 

Technology is used a lot in English class. We use the computers for STAR testing and PARCC practice. Also when we write essays, we use Google docs. One of my favorite projects that we used google docs/drive for was our PSA commercial. Here is my group's presentation. Here is our video.

Teacher Grading Policy for English I:
40% Formal Assessments
40% Performance Based Assessments
10% Homework
10% Informal Assessment

Romeo from Romeo and Juliet

Tech Article 2/12/15

Twitter Suddenly Locks Thousands Of Accounts [Update: Now Fixed]

Twitter accounts have been locked. Some users believe its because they are following back too many accounts. They do this to increase their amount of followers. Some Twitter users belive it's because they tweet too much. Twitter says they locked some accounts because they appeared to have exhibited automated behavior that violates Twitter Rules. Twitter put a lock on people's accounts to protect Twitter from unauthorized logins.

Twitter says:

"We are aware of an issue where some users are unable to Tweet and have received a notice telling them they’ve been locked out.

Our engineers are currently investigating”

Grammy's!

The 2015 Grammy Award show was held in Los Angeles, California on February 8th. Click here to visit the Grammy Award Show's website!

Sam Smith winning a grammy

Educational Technology and Copyright Law

In the article, I learned that copyright is a United States federal law thta protects orginal "works of authorship." This includes literary, written, dramatic, artistic, musical and certain types of other work. I also learned that all content is copyright immediatley; no papers need to be filled! Any person who creates a story, draws a picture or takes a picture the work is copyrighted.

Four exclusive rights:

1. Reproduce the copywrited work
2. Display the copywrited work publicly
3. Prepare derivative works based on the copywrited work
4. Distribute copies of the copywrited work to the public by sale, rental or lending, and/or to display the image

Welcome!

Hi, my name is Lauren Asedillo. I am a freshman at WRJR/SRHS. I play volleyball in the fall and I look foward to joining track in the spring. I enjoy watching shows and movies on netflix and hanging out with friends.  I spend a lot of time on social media, such as instagram and twitter.  I have three siblings in my family. Evan is ten years old and the twins, Emma and Ryan, are six. My favorite brother is Ryan, he was diagnosed with autism when he was about two to three years old.

In school, I am taking Spanish class instead of Italian. I strongly dislike that class. In the future, I plan on applying to several colleges: NYU, RISD, New Haven, Rowan, University of Miami and more. I am still unsure on what I want to major in college.

This is me! Enjoy my blog!