Bi Weekly Blog Post #2

The title of my article is "Organic Food Delivery Service Good Eggs Raises $8.5M Series A From Sequoia Capital." The topic of my current event is How thee service of good eggs which is a company founded  raised 8.5 million dollars from Seqouia capital.  The article is talking about how A company founded by Rob Spiro and is called Good Eggs the company is starting to spread around the world. The company allows customers to purchase locally grown meat and vegetables that are all organic meaning naturally grown and there is no pestisides that has been put on them. Good Eggs is a delivery system so all products are delivered and people say that this is going to compete with CSA and other algricultural companies. My opinion on the company is happy and sort of concerned. I am happy about the company because that is another step towards organic food being sold instead of all this proccessed stuff that is terrible for your body and is grown with chemicals that could harm you and the enviroment. I am concerned about this company because when big bussiness compete they will do anything to get more sells than the other and make more money, to do that they might buy cheaper grains and plants so they will have a greater profit and if they do that then we will not be getting genuine organic foods that are worth the prices we may have to pay. It doesnt just impact me like this it impact alot of other people because organic products are very expensive and some people can't afford it so if the food sources all become organic then some families may starve or just have to live off of canned things that are cheaper and easier to store. A positive way it can impact the world is the world would become more healthy and maybe the diabetes and obesity percents will go down.

Catherine Shu.  "Organic Food Delivery Service Good Eggs Raises $8.5M Series A From Sequoia Capital." techcrunch.  2013 AOL Inc. Web. 26Sept 2013. < http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/27/organic-food-delivery-service-good-eggs-raises-8-5m-series-a-from-sequoia-capital/ >.

MrX. "Good Egg." Medium Photograph. Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia, 23 Sept. 2004. Media. 29 Sept. 2013. < http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Good_egg.png >. 

Blog Post # 2

Blog Post # 2

1. New terms that I have learned this week:

• Privacy: Your on personal information.
• Digital Citizenship-  safe, responsible, and approach ethical to interacting online.
• connected culture- treat others in a respectful manner and be kind.
• Ethics: Set of morals about people's behavior it requires respect, honesty.

2. Web 2.0 tools i have learned:

• Prezi: a website that is smiliar to googel presentation, but instead of slides it is bubbles and you have different themes that are more interesting an flashy. 

3.Positive and negative aspects of Prezi are:

 Prezi is a fantastic website for a presentation or PowerPoint when you want an interesting and attractive piece of work. It provides you with creative commons pictures that are free to use and share, also there are various backgrounds to fit your style or topic. the only down-side to the website is it is hard to put your information in the bubbles and when you add a new blank you have to move it around and adjust it to match the size of previous information bubbles or boxes.

4. A digital Literacy component i have learned this week:

Web Evaluation: is a process of questions where  you can determine if the website is accurate or dependent. 

How do I evaluate?

1. Authority- Is the author identified?

2. Accuracy- Are the facts documented? What are the sources? Can you verify the facts from another source.

3. Bias- Is the author informing or persuading?

 This digital component will be very helpful when I am getting information for a project or research. It will help me because I will know how to evaluate the site and see if it is trustworthy and so I can get information so i can get a good grade and learn my subject better.

 

 

 

6. My past week has been very stressful because of the amount of homework and the projects, but I have gotten it done because I have worked very hard until I finished my assignments that are due. Nothing interesting has happened this week because there has not been time to play around because of the amount of work.

David. My 2012 Work Order "Done" Stack. Photograph. Flickr. HooverStreetStudios, 4 Jan. 2013. 13 Sept. 2013. <http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8378/8357856596_f933c80fb8_o.jpg>

Walking a mile in a real NASA astronaut’s underwater shoes

1. The topic of my article is about how astronaut's train in pools with full suits on the get the zero gravity feel, when a failure occurs in the suits structure 40 ft. below the surface and divers have to save the astronaut.

2."Walking a mile in a real NASA astronaut’s underwater shoes".

3. Dunn,Terry. Walking a mile in a real NASA astronaut's underwater shoes. Arstechnica. Cond'e Nast, 4 Sept. 2013. Web. 6 Sept. 2013. <http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/09/walking-a-mile-in-a-real-life-nasa-astronauts-underwater-shoes/2/>.

4. The article starts off about how sometimes you feel like another piece of space junk getting sent into outer space and how the suit as like an over starched shirt still buttoned up and hanging in the closet, and that "if you are claustrophobic then you might as well rip your application form up right then" (Dunn).  NASA was preforming an exercise course where an astronaut in full suit submerges 40 feet underwater to get the feel of the zero gravity effect, and then one of the seems break in the suit and he has a leak and scuba divers have to rush down and pull him up.

5. If i were in the astronauts position I would be very scared and uncomfortable because the suit is so heavy that you cannot swim so you have to wait till scuba silvers come and get you before you can come back above surface. I feel concerned about what happened to the astronaut suit because what if something like that happened while he was in outer space, he would  have been killed if he didn't get oxygen soon.  This event effects me because it makes me not want to become an astronaut because of the posing danger. It also concerns me by knowing that if something like that can happen in the suit, then what might happen to the rocket that takes them  to outer space?  I hope that they figure out the problem in the suit and get it fixed before someone gets hurt or even killed.

6.This event has to have an impact on the world or they wouldn't have mentioned it, my opinion is that it shows people that machines that make these suits can have glitches or mishaps. You shouldn't put all your trust in machines because they are man made and no man is perfect and they could slip up in a measurement and it could make the worlds difference. Another impact it could have on the world is the number of astronauts that want to apply for NASA because they may be afraid because of this accident. This kind of thing happens each and everyday but when you hear about it and how serious it can be then it makes you step back and think do i really want to do this?