2 Single Story 2011

'Danger of a Single Story'

What does it mean to have a 'single story' about a place or community?

To have only one idea about a place or race or just like a person that looks a certain way.

Describe a single story you have heard told about your community. What is missing from that story? How could people learn more about that community?

The single story I have herd about my community is that every body on the east side is dumb.But that's not true because I go to a school full of smart people from the east side.

Describe a single story you have heard about another community. How did you learn that story? How could you find out more about that community?

Well when I was little I spent allot of time with my grandma.She had a single story about North Austin (i.e Ceder Park, Leander,e.x),that they all were white rich snobby people that looked at people from East Austin like they were dirt. Then one time me and my mom went up there to do something and they didn't act like that the people up their were brown like me it wasn't at all what my grandma told me. I had a single story about them and i wasn't true at all.

How could a game let players experience many stories about a place or community?

Maybe if we made like options for people to go to the slums or to the high class of India and show different life styles so people don't get a single story.

1 Cyberbullying 2011

This is my first blog post of the 2011-2012 school year.


*What is a cyberbully?
-Someone that picks on people via text,Internet
*What are the different types of cyberbulling?
-Gossip,threatening,harassment and outing
*What should you do if you are being cyberbulled?
-Tell an adult do not respond to them forward the email and block user/ make as spam
*What are some reasons people cyberbully others?
-Insecure, to make you feel bad,jealousy,or that they wish they were you.

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Cyberbully is about a girl named Taylor , a teenage girl who falls victim to online bullying, and the cost it takes on her as well as her friends and family. Taylor is a seventeen-year-old student dealing with her parents' recent divorce and painfully aware of her lower social status in high school. When her mom gives her a computer for her birthday, Taylor is excited by the prospect of going online to meet new friends without her mom being all up in her private life. Taylor soon signs up on a website called Clickster.However, Taylor soon finds herself the victim of betrayal and bullying while getting on clickster. Obsessed with the damaging posts, she begins to withdraw from her family and friends, including her life-long best friend, Samantha Caldone.Tormented and afraid to face her peers at school, Taylor is pushed to an extreme breaking point, almost commiting suicide. It is only after this life-changing event that Taylor learns that she is not alone – meeting other teens, including a classmate, who have had similar experiences. Taylor's mom, Kris, reels from the incident and takes on the school system and state legislation to help prevent others from going through the same harrowing ordeal as her daughter went throught. I dident have te chance to watch the rest of the film but right now its a good flim I want to see the rest.

Winding Down

What is your team name?
My Team's name is The Music Lovers.
What is the name of your game?
My game's name is The Spill
What is it about?
Well it was based on the BP oil spill and I started doing more reassure on it and found out their was more oil spill that i didn't even know about. So I thought it was important enough to do a game on it.
What scenes have you completed?
I have all of them done. Their are is an loading page,main,instructions,a "pick your weapon",fire level,scoop level, anti-bacteria level, results for all the levels, and credits.
What parts of your team page are completed?
All of it is completed.
How much more work do you need to complete?
Nothing.
What can you do from now until Friday to get everything finished and turned in?
I've got everything done.
What grade would you give yourself in Globaloria overall?
Maybe a 95 or 98 because I did so much work and I think I deserve it.
What are all of the things you have learned this year?
Well a lot more than last year of course. This year we learned how to program and we actually made a game.
What are you proud of in Globaloria?
Making the game that was the whole point of the class right?
How can you improve next year?
Maybe make my game more in depth more detailed.

Liliana C. 8 2011

Then iCivics

I think that icivics is a realy awesome web site and you can get a lot of information from it.I played cast your vote and they were asking questions that I thought were really imporant (i.e. gas, durgs, taxes, health, and education). Then you would have to pick 3 questions that you would want to have. Then you would pick the politinios that you would want as your presentent.

Liliana.C 9 2011

The tsunami in Japan

I think it stinks what happened to japan. People are sending money and food and are armed forces to help them. If I could help I would send food because what is money going to do? They don't have anything to spend it on. Food is what they need to survive. I would also send a plane to get them to california so they can go and be safe. The U.S.A already has over 308 million people what can another 127,000,000 do us we just need open jobs so that every one can work.

I got the one with the real distare at

http://www.tukier.com/ And the other ones at http://www.cocoponics.co/news/coco-peat-considered-japan-tsunami-rehabilitation/attachment/help-japan-tsunami-2011

LilianaC 8 2011

PSP Next Generation
Oh my stars they did it! The next generation is out! That's awesome! I got a PSP Go and I want this one now. Its a touch, you can manipulate it from the back, can hold music, movies. and do much more. Its like a PS2 or a PS3 that you take around any where you go. Is also cool because it has a camera on the back and the front. This thing comes in black or white. If I could give a sugessiton then I would say make more colors then the basic black or white. Wheres the purple or red? The other thing is that they should make covers for them.

Mad Hot Ball Room

How do you see these teams working toghter?
The reason why is because you have to dane toghter in a team.