Google 20% Project II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReIz-z-AjFE&feature=youtu.be

Swiss School

Sustainabilty Managment School (SUMAS)

• It is in switzerland in the town of Gland
• integrate economic growth with sustainable development
• Only bussiness school in europe that offerce the degree in business administration and sustainability

sustainable production and consumption: a greener world

• the ecological footprint measure the area needed to produce the resoruces we consume in our daily life
• Today there are products that are better for the environment
• eco label system is very important

An inconvinient truth - film trailer - participant media

• if you love your planet, if you love your children, you have to see this film
• the 10 hottest years ever measured all occured in the last 14 years and the hottest one of all was the year of 2005
• it is not a political issue so much but a moral issue
• temperature increases are taking place all over the world causing disaster
• impact of 100 million refugees
• our ability to live is what is at stake

Flight Moffett to Phoenix

• they have no fuel on board so theoretically the plane can fly for ever
• powered on solar impulse
• only one person fits but there are also planes for more passengers
• when you fly a lot you get in an automatic mode of full concentration
• flight was a success 
• the first leg is done
• janice something made arizona the honoral capital of solar energy

Arizona State University: Graduation Ceremony

• started their voyage in california and are now in sky harb airport on its way to new york
• they have an other airplaine that are willing to fly in 2015
• every difficulty is a potential opportunity like for them to bring their airplane to the united states and fly it across america
• if you want toi be really successful you have to go beyond knowledge to inovation and pioneer experiment. thinking outside the box and go beyond them
• the world has a lot of challenges to solve and needs pioneers
• Applying Sustainable Consumption in Bogota

Sustainability in Bogota

Bogota is a very beautiful but messy and disorganized city, with more than 8 million people living in it. What I think needs to be changed are the public transportation buses. These buses are old and rusty and could be easily compared to a chimney. All the pollution that is caused because of these buses is unimaginable. What I would do would be change those buses and replace them for something more Eco-friendly. Another huge problem, is the consumption of energy around the city and in the city. I don't know one single industry or factory in Bogota that cares about how much they waste. Plus, lights are always on everywhere since you could Bogota is a nocturnal city too. I would find a way to make the energy we consume Eco-friendly like solar energy panels, energy wind makers, and all those things that do help a lot. There is no such thing as a recycling system here. Schools, buildings, restaurants, companies, and even the government here tries to do this and have different trash cans so that there can be a recycling system. This obviously doesn't happen, as soon as the truck who picks up trash arrives, everything goes in the same place without noticing it is going to be recycled. I would make a recycling campaign and an awareness team or something that will make citizens more cautious and we can recycle. 

Growing Up Online

Things that did not surprise me
1. Too many kids share a lot of information online and have relationships online that their parents.    don't know about and no one has control about it but them.
2. The internet is an outline for self expression and to complain about parents.
3. You need to have the internet to connect and belong thats what teenagers think.
4. Parents don't know how to work with technology.
5. Kids and teenagers consume way to much media.
6. Walking to a classroom without media is like walking into a desert.
7. Spark notes and people don't read because now a days people are so busy.
8. When people are on the internet they have in their profiles everything about them.
9. Competition between who has the most friends and more likes in pictures.
10. Teenagers now a days dont care about their privacy and are very open with their life's.
11. When teenagers are in pictures, they care to much about how they look and how they appear.
12. Girls in high school post pictures about them naked and about their butts and other female parts and nothing happens unless they catch you or something.
13. Google is a tool that kids use and manipulate to damage themselves like anorexics.
14. Teenagers rather tell the whole world in the internet than their parents.
15. Moms and parents that find out of bad things their kids do because their kids posted it online and they found it.

Things that surprised me
1. 90% of teenagers are online.
2. Before it belonged to adults and now it belongs to teenagers.
3. Parents have a better chance of getting attention by emailing or texting that talking.
4. High school wants them to be more into technology and not chalk but entertainers.
5. There are more students who struggle with the ability to focus than there were 30 years ago.
6. Teachers make assignments in classroom time so that students cannot use internet and are not able to cheat.
7. Cheating is something that you have to look close at to really know what it is.
8. Verbal fighting was huge and people picked up fights for no reason on myspace and everybody knew about it because it was online and it went viral.
9. There are relationships online but in school or in person they don't mention each other or talk to each other.
10. People dont feel like themselves, they feel different but somehow all of what they do makes them feel famous and they liked it.
11. Predators on the internet are more dangerous that those on playgrounds and more.
12. Parents want their kids facebook passwords and internet passwords for "percaution".
13. Kids think that when they are online they are the real person
14. Anorexics talk to each other online and want meet each other for tips and tricks.
15. Parents thought it was a mistake to put computers in their rooms.

Things that have changed about technology since 2008
1. Now myspace is not used anymore or is very lame and not needed.
2. xanga.com is not used by anybody anymore.
3. The youtube page was horrible and very few videos and stuff to do.
4. Flip phones still exited and no smart phones.
5. Video quality was not good and image appeared in like squares.
6. The song Soulja Boy was a hit and was still famous.
7. On online pages, you could put the mood that you are in.
8. Kids had t-shirts of Blink One 82.
9. AOL instant messenger is not used anymore.
10. The mouse arrow in the computers has changed.
11. Facebook groups still exist.
12. Dr.Phil is not that famous anymore.
13. Now we have our own laptop instead of a family computer.
14. We dont depend that much on the computer now because we have ipod laptops ipads and smartphones.
15. Now there are classes that teach us about how to block people and be more private on the internet.

The part of the video I most strongly identified with was with parents trying to be involved. My parents are not like that with me and they have never been like that with me but I have friends whose parents are like that. They block TV channels and block computer webpages. In school they do that to and don't let us go on certain pages. I think that parents should trust their children and teach what s right and what is wrong.

The most unlike with my experience would be kids committing suicide because of bullying. In my school this has never happened because from what I know kids don't talk to strangers. People are more bullied in the US than in Colombia. I think that because if you notices teenagers have more problems there than here. Here kids are bullied and severely too but never to the extremes of committing suicide.

The biggest benefits of being online is for homework and school and projects. Without it we could never complete what the teachers ask for us to complete. There are also a lot of technology tools that I have learned about and learned how to use which do not harm me. Facebook, Youtube, 9gag, Tumblr and all of those things are fun and entertaining to do for when you have spare time.

GAFE

Google Search

what is it?
It is a web search engine owned by Google Inc. It is the most-used search engine on the world wide web receiving several hundred million queries each day through its various services

how does it work?
Google is used for searching whatever you like or need. so you go to google.com and write on the search bar what you are looking for. you press enter or the botton google search and it will give you thousands of links that have to do with the topic that you were looking for.

how do certain websites get to be on page on or at the top of search
1. have to make sure that your website is ready and perfect.
2. optimize your web with keywords that are highly with your website content.
3. create a sitemap file for your website. to created there are free online or offline tools that can help you.
4. upload the site map file to your website root directory.
5. log in at google webmasters support, tools using your free Google account.
6. type your website url in the add site field on the top of the google site map page and click ok.
7. click the add side map link on the right of your website name.
8. choose general website map on the choose type option link
9. wait for 2 or 3 days and tada your website is on google
depending on how much it is seen and the content it has, then it will decide if its in the first page or not.

tricks
microphone: speak to the computer what you want to search and it will search it for you with out you typing it on the search bar.
I'm feeling lucky: if you click the im feeling lucky button, it will randomly choose something, and it will take you to it. for example i did it and mine said im feeling wonderful, so it took me to see pictures of the wonders of the world.
math: you can type in the search m=bar something related to math and google will do it for you without taking you to another website. for example converting 5 meters into feet, google did it for me.
about: when you search something, under the search bar it will tell you how many results there are and how long it took google to find all of those results.
Google doodles: doodles are the fun changes that are made to the google logo to celebrate many different things. google has created over a thousands doodles and with some you can interact with them. If you click them it will take you to the search of that day. for example Christmas it will take you to the birth of Jesus or something like that. There is also the google doodle store with has doodles on cards, tshirts etc, and you can buy them.

google scholar
it is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and discipline. it includes most peer-reviewed online journals of europe and americas largest scholarly publishers plus scholarly books and other non-peer reviewed journals. simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
features: search all scholarly literature from one convenient place, explore related works sitations, authors, and publications, locate the complete document through your library or on the web, keep up with any recent developments in any area of research, and check who is citing your publications or create a public author profile.
how are documents ranked: google scholar aims to rank documents the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each document, where it was published, who it was written by, as well as how often and how recently it has been cited in other scholarly literature.
search tips: for finding recent papers: use the since year option or sort by date. or you can click the envelope icon to have new results periodically delivered by mail.   
you can search by author, title date, court opinions, and specific jurisdictions.
you can also paraphrase using google scholar

helpful google youtube links 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1ZwgDeX2eQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJByIPRrTfE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlhXBf4oxso

Google Day #3

Goals for the Day
1. find out about other careers related to administration
2. what is economics as a career

Links and descriptions that are useful
http://www.aeaweb.org/students/WhatIsEconomics.php
This link is very useful because it tells me what economics is and I didn't know anything about it. It is the study of how people choose to use their resources and it also gives you definitions from textbooks and history. the page is from the american economic association which i think is very trust able.

http://economics.about.com/cs/studentresources/a/why_economics.htm
this was a very useful like because the not only told me why to study economics, but they also gave me reasons why it was good and how it could be fun. it also says that there are terrific job oportunities when you are a graduate from economics. it can also be useful as a personal level, and how economics provides an understanding of how the world works.

http://mises.org/daily/987
this is a very extensive and long article, but it was helpful reading it because people dont really know what economics is and the pick it as a career because it gives you money. here they tell you that if you dont really like economics, or the branches it has, you will be miserable in the career and hate what you do. It also tells you not only the description but why should we study it and how its really important to the human society.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/jun/26/graduates-work-and-careers
i think this is the most useful link ive visited today because when you choose a career, you need to know that it was helpful and what you can do with the degree. in this website the tell you what you can do and why is it so good. it tells you what skills you have gained, and what jobs you can do and apply to. it also talks about post graduate study which is what comes after you get your economics degree.

What did i learn and what are my new skills
I learned what the career of economics is and really got in depth with it. I also learned that its something you really need to like in order to do it. There are a lot of job opportunities that will make you a lot of money if you choose to study this, and you do it well. Economics is not just a career, i learned that it affects the world in many ways and it can be useful in a personal level in many ways. Its a huge career with many branches and it needs a lot of work in it and knowledge. There are also a lot of thinks that come after you have your degree in economics. There are a lot of post graduate options like master degrees and doctor degrees. Also, almost all universities provide this career so there is a lot of possibilities that you can choose from.

Goals for next class
what master degrees are there for economics
what job options are there
which universities offer this career
are there PHD for economics

Google Day #2

Goals for the day 
1. Doctors degree for business administration
2. Colleges in the states for business administration
3. Explore different careers

Links and description that are useful 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Business_Administration
Wikipedia is not the best source of information because of what is says not always being true, but what i read was very important. It says that the PhD in business administration is more towards applied research than theoretical research. Depending on where you go and where you study, the plan and the course or program is different.

http://businessmajors.about.com/od/choosingaschool/a/PhDbusinessadmin.htm
This link was very useful. It tells me that the program takes about four to six years of work but may require less or more depending on the program. It also talks about how choosing a PhD program can be difficult and that you need to find one that fits your needs and schedule.

 http://mba.nmmu.ac.za/programmes-and-learning/graduate-programmes/doctorate-business-administration-dba
this link was really helpful because it has other links that described the doctorate of business administration (DBA), the entrance requirements, how long it lasts, criteria for awarding the degree, admission procedures, and other important matters that you need to know.

http://graduate-school.phds.org/find/programs/business-administration
this is a great website because it has links to all of the schools that offer something to do with business administration and management including PhD degrees. you can pick a degree, a category and a subject and the website will match you up with universities. it also has the featured universities.

http://www.allbusinessschools.com/business-careers/article/dba-vs-phd-in-business-administration
this website compares de DBA and PhD and talks about the differences there are in between those two which arent many because they are very similar. They are both academically equivalent and have a lot of things in common.

http://www.myplan.com/majors/colleges-that-offer-this-degree.php?cb_set=1&cip=52.0201&sort=&sort_order=&first_letter=&doct=1&Submit=Go%21
this website also have a list of many universities which offer something that has to do with business administration. The good thing about this link is that it also takes you to the university page, but it takes you directly to the part were business administration say everything about it.

http://www.myplan.com/majors/colleges-that-offer-this-degree.php?cb_set=1&cip=52.0201&sort=&sort_order=&first_letter=&doct=1&Submit=Go%21
In this link wikipedia is telling me about all the universities that have business administration, but here it divides by states in the US. I think this is very important because when I go to college, I also want to know what place I'm going to and if how it is. Location is very important when it comes to picking universities according to this website, to other peoples experience, and to myself.

http://www.matchcollege.com/schools-degree/52.0201/Business-Administration
This is a very good website because there are a lot of things that you need to have in order to apply to business school and everything else and here they tell you everything. They tell you what business administration is and all of the educational requirements that it needs. The employment opportunities that it can give you and jobs and salaries.

 http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-business-administration.htm
This website tells you absolutely everything you need to know about business administration. It is the entire packet you can discover everything about the career and what it is like. the main areas, roles, work environment, education and other choices.

what did I learn and what are my new skills 
What I learned today is about all of the colleges and universities available and what they offer and where they are located which they are all very important for when you think where to apply to college. i also learned more about the career of business administration and management. It is a huge career that has a lot of stuff into it that you need to know. I know have a lot of useful links that i can use now or that can help me a lot in the future when I'm choosing a career and a college.

Goals for next class 
i want to know about other careers and not only about business administration
find out about business administration here in colombia

Google Day #1

Goals for the day
1. What job can you get when you study business administration
2. What comes after you get your business degree in college
3. What is business administration really

Links and description that are useful
http://onlinedegrees.marylhurst.edu/what-kind-of-job-can-i-get-with-a-degree-in-business-administration/
this is a great link, because it tells me all the jobs that i can do if i study this career. this website belongs to Marylhust University, and has a very complete description of everything. It even tells me the average salary each job gets, which can vary depending on your career.

http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/businessstudies.htm
this is also a great link because it not only tells you what jobs you can have, but it gives a huge description about each job. it gives you reasons and data so that you know that this is really what you want to do. it also tells you the best places or good places were you can work in.

http://www.princetonreview.com/Majors.aspx?cip=520101&page=1
this is a princeton review in majors in business administration and management. first, the person who did this review made it very interesting and easy to read. it explains you things like what is management and how you can be either successful or not. it also tells us the related majors there are that go together with the business administration degree. there is a list of a few.

http://www.studentsreview.com/docs/major_bus.shtml
this is a review made by a student, about what business administration really is. people generalize it a lot and think of it as something different that what it really is. that's why so mane people study this career, but end up failing or not being really successful as they thought they would be.

what did i learn and what are my new skills
i learned many things researching about this topic. i learned all the majors that there were in business administration and management which are many majors. its has many different concentrations depending on what you do. some of them are accounting, actuarial science, agricultural economics, business communications, entrepreneurship  finance, and many more. i didnt know what any of those were until i looked them up in the webpages that i went to, and those webpages told me everything about them. i also learned about the career and how everyone is applying but not really knowing what it is and not knowing what the are really getting into when they study that. there are many man different jobs that i didn't even know existed!

one thing that i want to learn next Google day
what doctors degree are there if there are any for business administration.
not only research about business administration but i want to look at other careers too. 

Linux

what i know about the topic
i don't know a thing about this topic and what the word linux means

questions about the topic
1. what does linux mean
2. what does it have to do with technology
3. for who is it efficient
4. why is it important

links about useful information
http://www.linux.org/
http://www.redhat.com/products/enterprise-linux/
http://www.linux.com/
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question246.htm

what i learned about the topic

•  it is a computer operating system for free and open source software
• it has been ported to more computer hardware platforms than any other operating system
• leading operating system on mainframe computers and supercomputers
• linux also works on mobile phones, tablets, network routers, televisions, and video game consoles
• tux is the penguin mascot of linux
• a linux based system is a modular unix like operating system
• it is harder to manage than other operating sistems like Windows or Mac OS
• linux kernel was created by Linus Torvalds
• it runs on PC platforms
• it has a very big audience among computer geniuses and hard core developers
• it is a phenomenon and very popular
• it is kind of an adapted clone of a UNIX operating system
• current linux is very different from last years linux software
• when you are new it is better to sign up for a linux discussion board
• it provides data base and trading services for companies like Amazon US post office, and the German army, and many others
• it is the only operating system in the world covering such a wide range of hardware

how does the topic relate to my life 

this could apply to my life because it is an operating system like windows or mac os but, this one was made free for the entire world to use. it is harder to manage than windows or the other ones, but it is more flexible and has more configuration options than the other ones. if i ever want to experiment with operating system principles i can use it or if i want to have a great deal of control over my computer system i can install it and use it. 

questions i still have

is linux bigger than mac os?

is it good for teenagers or kids to use or is it to hard?

what to businesses use it for?

Design Project Day 5

1. biggest problem we encountered:
the biggest problem was finding riddles and dares that were easy and fun for small children and that they were able to solve.

2. the biggest idea:
the biggest idea was was to add a prize that wasn't really a prize. it was just a paper that said prize. because it had a prize it made the children want to play more.

3. who resisted most ideas:
carolina was the one that resisted the most because she didn't como some classes and didn't know what mariana and i already knew. when we said knew things she said no and didn't understand it.

4. doubts about the project:
my doubts where that kids wouldn't want to play it because the looks of the game were not attractive and it looked boring but it wasn't. so we made it prettier with colors and adding shapes and stuff

5. person who questioned everything:
i think we all played that role since every little thing we did, we all questioned it and discussed about it all the time. 

Amazon product link

http://prezi.com/k8aot-cf7uyn/natives-in-the-amazon/

Design Project Day 3

descriptions match game?
i think the game does not match because we put middle school students but we think elementary students would be better because the game is better for smaller children than bigger.

powerful ideas that we want to keep?
that is has colors
a prize
many balls with dares and riddles
the holes in the box are shapes

leave of to simplify the game
make the holes for you to put your hand in bigger

what needs to be done
1. cut the cardboard to make a perfect box.
2. paint the outside of the box different colors
3. in the top part of the box make different shaped holes so that you can stick your hand in
4. put the different color balls in
5. put the prize in the golden ball
6. write the instructions

supplies:
1. colorful balls (cristina)
2. paint (carito)
3. icopor (torillo) 

Design Project Day 2

1. Model with the most strengths:
*Cristina's model

2. Details to take away or include:
*packing material
*different shapes of holes
*not that many balls
*cooler dares

3. mini model:

Input:
*put a ball with a prize so that people want to grab the ball and play the gane
*make riddles and challenges hard and challenging

Game Picture

Design Project Day 1

Partners
Carolina Baena
Mariana Toro

Define Phase
1. Middle school both
2. Difficulty level: medium
3. What makes it fun: Colorful
                                 innovative
                                 not that easy
                                 complex
                                 images
                                 well made (doesn't fall apart)
                                 tricky

Research Phase
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhkR-vHXO28

this game was fun because it had music and a lot of colors. it had different levels and different games. what the could include in the video is showing how people interact and are able to play and use the game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd7x-F5irBY

this game is really fun and really well made because you have to catch the tickets in the air and theres limited time for this. something that could be improved is the way tickets go into the air because some of them stay in the floor and people grab them (cheating).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cEWELoxEsY

it is super awesome because it is hard and very very entertaining  what could be changed is a little bit more color and more things or created stuff that makes it more fun. 

Ideation Phase 
1. Brainstorm:
- throw a ball through a ramp that elevates the ball and then goes into a hole were there are different types of points. \
- a box with holes and a throw a ball and each hole is different points.
- a maze with a marble and maybe different levels
- Go fishing for something(balls) each ball means a different things

2. fun idea: idea #4
- different colors
- different balls
-different textures
- colorful box
- can be played with many
- it has dares

3. things that can go wrong
-kids steal the balls
-destroy the balls
- the balls loose their colors
- box gets destroyed
- people dont do the dares

how to avoid it: create balls with special colors and textures so they dont get damaged and the box as well.
                                 

Tour Colombia

Zona Cafetera

Link

The picture above is el parque del cafe. Its Colombias national coffee park and museum. it has a cablecar which lets you see the entire park and all the coffee plantations. when you get to the bottom, there are a lot of attractions and rides that you can visit. there are also traditional shows and dances that you can go watch with your family and friends.

in this picture, you can see two beautiful girls on a chiva. a chiva is a traditional colombian bus, used for tours, partying, and transportation. if you go on a chiva, they will show you all of the city and the little streets and houses there are. you will also have a lot of fun, since the driver will put music on and you can dance and laugh with your friends.

Salento street is one of the most popular places to go. every tourist that visists el eje cafetero goes there. in salento, theres also el valle del cocora, which you can find la palma de cera, that is Colombias national tree and is only found in this region. in salento, you can go shopping for traditional things, and buy suveniers sold by the colombian people. almost all of it is handmade.

this picture was taken in Panaca. Panaca is basically an animal farm, and people go there to watch the farm animals and interact with them. you can buy food, and give it to the animals there, just like in the picture. there are also a lot of shows about different animals that you can go to. there are pigs, dogs, horses, goats, donkeys, cows, bunnies, guini pigs, and many more animals.

The Cameron Hotel is great Hotel where you can spend you vacations. It has great rooms and great food. You have buffet as breakfast and as dinner. Also this Hotel offers you the attraction off Panaca, and a huge pool.

this is a plantation of la palma de cera. la palma de cera is a tree that is very hard to find, and each day there are less and less trees. you can go see the trees and plant them, just like we did in an activity we did with school and planted some trees. the trees is Colombias national tree.

you can also go visit coffee plantations, and the workers of the farm will show you around the farm and how everything works there. this farms are usually very big farms that can either be walked, or you can look at them in a jeep. 

in this picture, you can see how in a school trip we went to a coffee farm, and one of the activities was to dress up as the people who work there and take a look at how they live. they also made us dance to tipical music and it was a really cool experience. 

this picture is in the street of el Santuario. the balconies are very pretty and thats why people go visit there, there are also many shops which you can go to and buy tipical colombian stuff. this is one of the prettiest towns of the region because of its architecture.

the picture above is el jardin botanico el mariposario. there are many different butterfly species there that you can go at. and there are many tourguides that will show you around the jungle and tell you about the botanic there. it is a great thing to do and experience.

Final Presentation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XzvoF4WhkE