Google 20% project

The materials that I plan on needing are my skateboard, video camera and the Internet. I plan on using my skateboard and the video to make a skate video . I plan on using the Internet for research. A couple of obstacles I plan in facing is making the skate video . This takes a long time and it is very hard to get good video clips. A couple of people that I would like to interview are maybe some pro or ameture skateboarder. Maybe tom asta or Chris cole from reign skate shop. What I would like to learn from this is the physics . How much force is put into the pop of an Ollie, or the rotation of the kick flip. I would also like to learn about the physics of surfing, for example why does the fin keep the surfboard from falling over. Also I would like to learn the origanum from both of these things. I believe that they're somewhat intertwined. http://animoto.com/play/XDLfKNbsmF10SDTSQ9cEJw

Chris Langen

I believe that Chris Langan is very successful. I believe this for many reasons. First of all my definition if success is to be happy with yourself, and to me Chris Langan seems to be very happy with his life. In the show Chris Langan has a wife and he is winning lots of money. That to me would be very successful , and to top it all of he is the smartest man in the world. Also in the book it tells you how he just couldn't get through college. He was kicked out of multiple colleges and he didn't give up until he SUCCEEDED to me Chis Langan is a very successful man.

First post ( kinda )

My Name is Michael Cottrell and i am in 9th grade. I like to do many things including : going to the beach , skateboarding, playing baseball, playing basketball, surfing, hanging out with my friends, going to the movies, going to the mall, playing video games, and watching football. A couple of things that i don't like to do are : run, go on airplanes, waking up, going to school, having bad grades, getting in trouble, doing homework, roller coasters, getting sick , and getting hurt. The highlight of my summer was going to the beach and learning how to surf. The unit that i am looking forward to the mos is the 20% project.

Myths and truths

There are many myths and truths about being gifted. One myth is that gifted children don't need help they will do fine on there own. I believe that this is one of the biggest myths of all. The truth is that Sometimes gifted children are so far ahead that they are bored with there work and will simply not want to do it because it seems pointless to them. This is where the teachers are needed to come in and help. The teachers need to challenge them and help them become even smarter rather than keeping them at the same level of knowledge that they came in to the year knowing. Another myth is that all children are gifted. This is a myth beCause although all children are good at something gifted children excel in multiple areas. The truth is that giftedchildren are experts in certain subjects compared to there fellow classmates. Often the gifted children come into the school year knowing part of the curriculum. For example this year in the geometry program here at my school I came into this year thinking I would be challenged but after the first two quizzes I realized that I a,ready knew much of the stuff we are working on. But in being gifted there are some downs. First of all one down part about being gifted Is that people expect so much out of you. For example my parents keep pushing me and pushing to do better and sometimes I feel like I am doing the best that I can. Also another down part is that just because your gifted some of the Students and even the teachers see you different and sometimes you just we to be like everyone else. Sorry I forgot to post it.

Accumulative advantage

I am on Wangs side. I am on his side because I believe that you should put your kids into kindergarten when they are supposed to. I,like Wang believe that the accumulative advantage isn't that great. It most likely would wear off before you go into first grade. Also if you hold a kindergarten kid back an extra year he will already know most of the material and he/she will become uninterested and not want to participate in class.He/sheWill be at the same place as the rest of his/her peers at the end of the year. because the teachers will teach the same curriculum to the whole class regardless of where the child is.

Last blog of the school year

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My favorite part of ROGATE class was the 20% project. I liked this the best becuase we got to chose whatever we wanted to learn about and learn a whole lot about it. It gives us lots of freedom and independence. My favorite project was again the 20% project because it gave us idependence and freedom. Blogs can be more effective because you can comment on blogpost and give people more ideas on the subject they wrote about. Yes i am taking this class next year. what i will miss most about middle school is my friends that are going to different schools. I dont have many questions about the highschool at all. My plans for the summer are togo to the beach and hang out with my friends.

kickstarter

The items that I would back on kickstarter would be remee. This cost $80 and is very cool because it lets you control your dreams.Another thing that I would pledge for is $250 towards a human powered helecopter i would pledge for this because it is a very advanced item meaning that it may advance the science that we know. Finally I would pledge the rest of my money towards Meet Roy this is a full scale robot

Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is when bueinsess let people submit ideas or facts to their buisness and use their ideas for the buisness 's own good. An examples of crowsorcing are anwsers.com For anwser.com they let the people anwser frequently asked questions to their websites. Anwsers.com is a free service and is widley know throughout the untited states. Many people just ask random questions and have people answer them. http://answers.yahoo.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answers.com

20% tile

I think that using your time to learn about something you like for just 20 % of time is an excellent idea because many great ideas come from people who arent exactly looking for something specific and they find great things. For example during this time when they were working on this project A group of researchers from google won the noble peace prize beause they found the thinnest strongest metal in the world.

waste land....

The overall react to the film was that it was a very interesting film.I think that it really shows you how good that I have it and that whenever i want something because i want something, I can just think that what do people in Third world countries have. My opinion changed through the movie because at first i thought they were all dirty people and that they were all bad people. But i learned that they are good people but they are just unlucky. Vik Munez helped the people in many ways. He tought them that they can acheive anything if they just try. They can get out of the garbage dumps and have a better life.Yes,I believe that it is better to have an honest dob instead of a dihonest post because an honest job at least you can go to bed everynght knowing that you are trying and working honest work. Yes, the video did make me think how much garbage I make . I dont think about how much i make in a day but more like a year. I think that i might make close to 1,000 pounds of garbage. I dont think the video will make me change the way a that I dispose of garbeage because i am to lazy to actually do something different . That would require more work. I think that another area that could be touched with Vik Munez is some place out in africa where they have even less than the people in brazil.

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http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/01/dakar_rally_2012.html

These photos are very interesting.They seem to show the timeline of day during sandbiking. I like these pictures because they show something that most people dont do. My favorite photo in this photo essay is,where there are mountains in the background and the ground is covered by snow, and there is only one car driving across the unbroken plate of snow.

Life in a day July 4th 2010

The film was made in one day by people who sent in clips of part of their life and the creators edited all the clips together to make one day from all over the world. The most memorable scene was by far when I saw the bicker. He seemed like a super interesting person. I would love to ride a bike through nearly every single country. A couple of positive scenes from the movie were, when when i saw the man with lamborgini.A negative scene that i saw was when the little boy had a too shine shoes, it made me realize that not everybody has it as good as i do.The patterns of humility that i saw was that all the 3rd world countries were really poor and they all struglled for food. A couple juxaposition things were when they put some guy backing out of his drivway in a really nice car , and the next clip was an African family sitting underneath a homemade house in the forest. The film made me realize how good my life is compared to the 3rd world countries. I get to choose what i want to eat and while im doing that people in aftica are picking berries off of trees and eating walnuts off the ground. I would not reccomend this to a friend because it is a very upsetting video and it just makes you feel bad because of all the things that you have compared to what some other not as lucky people have.

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Major General Margaret Woodward
she is a commander in the air force . She has beenin the air force for over 20 years and she never likes to take credit and always gives it to her people that che commands. She is now 51 years old, and has almost 4000 hours of flight. She is impotant to me because she proved that you can do anything if you put your mind to it.

Mark Zuckerberg
He is the creator of facebook and is 26 years old. He is importyant to me because he proved that you can do anything like create a hit website .

Justin Beiber
He is a hit hip hop singer . He is important to me because he wanted to be someone and he kept trying and triying and never gave up and in the end everything worked out for him.