Dean’s Blog

San Antonio Spurs at Houston Rockets

In the last quarter of the game, the spurs build on a lead and the annoucers assume a Spurs victory with a 10 point lead. All houston fans leave when there is 1:09 left in the game, thinking of no chance of a comeback. Tracy McGrady the ’superstar’ of the Rockets, ignites the team to score 13 points in 35 Seconds to give them the victory 82-80.

Hotspots are the places on a webpage that is the most viewed by all vistors. The top left corner and bottom right side of the webpage appear to be the hot spots that people often turn to, when they visit a site according to this source. It shows a clear way, how to organize your webpage and blog, by placing different applications on different places on a page, to catches someones attention.

Personally, I have felt, I’ve already known this, but I didn’t know their was a name for it. When I usually login to a site for example NBA.com I check the Top Left Side for Previous Game Scores, and future game schedules. On the middle the main info is being displayed and on the right side is numerous links to basketball related media.

Applying it to my blog…

I changed up my whole blog scheme, to make it more usable and visitor friendly.

the ”Youtube Girls” are girls (and boys) involved in the Online Violent Scandal. Originally the plan was for the 6 girls to Haze a classmate, that she had conflict with and post an embarrassing video of it on Youtube. They invited her over to hang out, and then they just pounded on her. I thought it was really horrible, and the 2 boys that were involved, were the look outs. They planned to ruin the girl’s social life and reputation, but all the people associated with the hazing, were given felony charges. But people look at the bigger picture, and found the bigger problem, which is Youtube.

People say Youtube is filled with violent and inappropriate content, that minors can access, but I disagree. Youtube is filled with alot of entertainment and information that people would enjoy. So they shouldn’t just put all of the blame on Youtube, its the users that choose to upload the inapproriate content that can hurt other people.

During this past week, I’ve learned two new things and applied it to my blog. A Text-Only link, that shows only text, and disables graphics and images. So people with a slow bandwidth or a internet featured cell phone can check what they need to check.

Another thing I’ve learned is how to Embed applications to my blog. Under the Widgets tab, i’ve added a Voki applications, by using codes like “<p>last.htm<p> etc.” Its really difficult to understand, but its really useful. At first I didn’t know what a Voki was, and how to spell it, but now I know. Its a cool application, that can be portrayed as your own Avatar that greets visitors to a webpage, by saying what ever you want him/her to say.

I agree with this topic because, most of the time Teens know what they are doing online, and they discuss their opinions with other people that have ideas for a certain topic.  They get help with homework, or just researching stuff they are interested in. they can ask difficult questions that is hard to ask face to face.

Working with partners (Sam and Kurt) was really fun and easy. We all contributed to the written tutorial, and Kurt did an outstanding job with the Video tutorial. We had to stay afterschool to finish our project, but it was worth it, and overall i think my group did a very good job.

Too Bad he lost in the First Round of the NCAA Tournament, highly gifted player a potential 1st RD draft pick top 5 pick.

From this past week I have learned alot about The HTML language, How the WWW works, Javascript, and other Online stuff.

During this week, I’ve been learning about Microsoft Media Encoder, and watching tutorials on it. Its Really Cool, and I think making the tutorial will be a challenge but also fun