Rising to the top

For Jim Calhoun this 2011 basketball was just going to be a learning season after being on a decline, last season not even making an appearance at the March Madness Tournament. This year Uconn having acquired five new freshmen, not including walk-ons, they thought they would have another season doing mediocre. Uconn led by the great Kemba Walker is now ranked number nine in the country. They have received two freshmen players from Germany one who did outstanding against Kentucky in the Maui Tournament, Niels Giffey who went 5-of-6 shooting that game scoring fourteen points. A seven foot- one inch center is expected to arrive at Uconn, and ready to play in mid December. He will be a great asset to the team says Calhoun. Now with Uconn ranked on the AP poll number nine a lot is expected out of team, and Calhoun knows that they can do it knocking off the number two team in the country Michigan State.

Uconn wins Maui Tournament

Wednesday night was a big night for the University of Connecticut men’s basketball team. They were victorious in Maui. The unranked Huskies lead by junior, and arguably the best player in college basketball right now, the huskies defeated number two Michigan State in the semi finals to play number eight Kentucky. Kemba Walker the most valuable player of the tournament had an outstanding game against the Spartans. Starting the second half with only one point he ended the game with thirty The only Uconn player to score three consecutive thirty point games. He hit a key jumper with under a minute left, to secure the win for the huskies. It was scary when, 54 percent free throw shooter Alex Oriahki went to the line to keep the huskies’ lead. Wednesday night was the big night unranked Uconn, whose team had only two returning seniors, against the number eight Kentucky Wildcats. Kemba walker lit up the game scoring twenty nine points, at the end of the first half Uconn led by twenty. After the game Kemba said, “We wanted to show the world that we’re still Uconn”

Education Reform

Today has been proclaimed as a day on blogging about Education Reform. This is not my usuasl topic, but I will try my best. My school Burlington High is planning on going one to one next year. Which means each student will be given a laptop or iPad  to help us learn. I wonder if the reform will change the physical structure of the classroom becuase in school classrooms desks have been in rows since the beginning of learning, that needs to change.

Warriors Undefeated at home

The Uprising team, the Golden State Warriors remains undefeated at home 5-0. Last night they beat the Detroit pistons 101-97 holding on to their 7-4 record. Monta Ellis showed up the Pistons in the first half scoring twenty four of his twenty seven in the first 24 minutes of the game. Stephen Curry a sophomore in the NBA, from Davidson College, had twenty-one points. It has been the first time in Warriors history since the 199-1991 season that they have started off 5-0 at home, an outstanding performance by Uconn alumni Charlie Villanueva off the bench for the Pistons scoring 18 points and eight rebounds. It was almost turning into a horror show with the last 9 seconds Ben Gordon of the Pistons was about to shoot up a three to send the game into over time then he lost the ball.

Phoenix Suns distribute Lakers second straight loss

          

Last night the Lakers suffered from their second straight loss of the season. The suns edged over the well played Lakers 121-116. The Suns had an unbelievable night knocking down twenty- two, three point shoots from down town, the second most in NBA history.  Player Jason Richardson of the Suns said, "You just feel like the basket is huge and that every shot you throw up is going to go in," he said. "[Coach] Alvin [Gentry] was calling plays for me and my teammates were finding me. It was just fun to have a night like that." He ended up lasts night with thirty-four points. Steve Nash had an amazing game lasts night with a double-double racking up twenty-one points, and thirteen assists.

                                   

What??

 My web 2.0 teacher had us search our selves on the internet search engine google. I typed in my name Matt Ackerman, and what showed up were a bunch of news paper articles regaurding a state track meet I had one in early Summer. I was shocked that you could just google my name, and something would show up related to you. I don't think people should have the right to anable acess such as phone numbers, and addresses over the internet, if you just google the person's name.

Reforming Public Education

 To day we watched a video created by Sir Ken Robinson about reforming public education. I thought that the video was very intesting. He talked about how we have been using the same educating system since the enlightment. The enlightement happened before the American Revolution that was over two hundred years ago. He said students should bring their own laptops to school, i agree.

Prezi

            Prezi is an online powerpoint website that is very different of what you would expect. It lets you create your own power point pinpoint stuff, notes and draw on the powerpoint. They are not  called slides, it gives you a huge blank piece of paper, and you draw arrows to where you go.

My new Voki

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Facebook Photos your delete doesn't mean "delete"

               Mr. Larkin had us check out a link that had to do with facebook pictures being "deleted". The blog post was quite interesting, it was about how facebook has been storing "deleted" photos for over two years. I think it is a good idea for facebook to keep the "deleted" photos saved because those people knew those pictures should not have been on there facebook page, and they put them on anyways, so people have the right to veiw them, and critcize them for it.

Our Web 2.0 class

    My web 2.0 class in Burlington Massachusetts was mentioned in an Edutopia blog post. I am very happy that people are starting to recongize us on the internet, because we have been working hard blogging, and trying to get our name out to people all over the world. Edutopia is a website sponsered by the George Lucas Education Foundation. That is a big deal for a small web 2.0 class in Burlington, Massachusetts.

Good Ways to promote blogs

     Since the start of my web 2.0 class Mr. Larkin has wanted us to promote our blogs out to the world, and make a name for ourselves. a great way is to leave comments on other peoples blogs, and at the end of your comment leave your URL to your blog. You could use a website created by Yahoo that is called MyBlogLog. It lets people serch topics they like then blogs will appear, and you can add your blog to a specific topic. A good way to get the readers you have keep comming is keep producing new blog posts about two or three specific topics that they are intrested in, and also keep commenting on their blogs, or the comments they leave. Another good way is to use a website called Delicious. Delicious is a social bookmarking website that lets you put your website/blog on the web page, and if people like it they can bookmark it.

Web 2.0 class - online presence so far

In my web 2.0 class we have been establishing our own PLNs. I would like to base mine on sports, because that is what i am most interested in. We have been connecting with people from Van Meter, Iowa. We skyped with a teacher there also.

What a high school algerbra teacher can teach us about innovations

High school teacher karl ficsch, teaches at Araphoe High School, located very close to denver. He teaches algerbra to 9th and 10th grade students. He records lectures and videos on youtube and has his class veiw them for homework. This is a good way to have your students understand what they are learning about. Instead of the students going home and forgetting how to do the math problems he created the videos. the videos on youtube are a great idea.

Web 2.0 class- Starting a PLN

 Mr. Larkin wants us to start our own Personal Learning nnetwork (PLN). We have already started a PLN by starting to blog. We also created twitter acounts.

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Banning Facebook from students.

I believe that banning facebook from students is a very bad idea. The principal of the school sent an email to all the parents telling them that social networking sites are bad. He was wrong, probably many students would agree. Social networking sites help you connect with your peers and any one else in the world. Social networking cites also help you  stay organized and keep everything neat. I believe that the principal was wrong he should have let the students be, and if any problems did occur he could then deal with them. He went to far.

Emerging Internet technologies for education

This website Emerging Ed Tech talks about how social networking sites can provide an excellent platform for students to begin establishing a professional presences.  check this website for more details http://www.emergingedtech.com/

Web 3.0

Web 3.0 is a revolutionary concept applying to the web check this link out                                                         http://oreilly.com/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html         

what is web 2.0

Web 2.0 marks the turning point of the web the concept was created in the fall of 2001check this link to find out more   http://oreilly.com/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html