Blog assessment chapter 6

1. I typed in Pittsburgh and one of the things it told me to do was under what hotel to go to and it says to go to the spring hill suites. Also, under things to do it says go to the Silver eye center for photography. The recommended restaurant is Shootz Cafe.

2. Twitter is a social network and also acts as a blog. I do not use twitter.

3. It says major credit reporting agencies have to give you a free credit report every 12 months. You should check it to see if anyone has opened you credit account using your name and your social security number. Your FICO score is what lenders look at to see if they should give you a loan or not.

4. Microfinancing is lending money to individuals in countries that are poor. The author recommends you use kiva.org. Kiva combines microfinancing with the internet so people can send money to other people in poor countries. Kiva was built on beliefs such as, people are generous and will help others, The poor can be highly motivated if you help them out, and giving them money can help people come together and have a global community. They promote dignity, accountability and transparency. Two groups giving money are Kiva Christians and Team Europe.

5. It will take 18 months to pay of the debt if it is done correctly. You will pay $381 in interest. It goes up a little and then goes back down.

6. It tells you ways to get rich quick by investing in the market. This is interesting because getting rich would be kick ass.

Chapter 5 Assessment

1. Get the real story on questionable stories. Snopes.com is the clearing house for urban legends and other things like that. Two people look at hundreds of emails a day to look for viruses and other bad things that can be in an email. Cell phone numbers will be given to telemarketers. This was proved false. A plea to help find missing girl Ashley Flores. This was also proved false.
2. Go to changedetection.com and type in the address of the site you want to know about and your email. This site will check the site everyday and let you know if there were any changes done.
3. It can help you organize a block parties with your neighbors who are a part of the same political party as you and you can raise money for your party. Jerry Springer donated $4,600 to Hilary Clinton and $2,000 to Dennis Kucinich.
4. It will help you find music you like based on the music it knows you like. It tried to find other artists that are like the one I searched. It put the name of the bands in circles and linked them together and puts the bands or artists that are closest to the one you searched in the circles in the middle.
5. It’s a web site where you can get different media over the internet. If you have an account only you can use it. Don’t break any of the copyright laws.

My PowerPoint Ideas

My first ideas is I can teach the class how to light paint. Light painting is freezing light and drawing with it in a photo. I could go through all the steps that you need to take to make a light painting photo graph.

My other idea is teaching beginner guitar. I could teach the class different chords, how to pick the strings, where to put your fingers on the fret board etc.