"Curiosity Rover Discovers Mars Dirt Is 2% Water"

"Curiosity Rover Discovers Mars Dirt Is 2% Water"

Mike Wall. Curiosity Rover Discovers Mars Dirt Is 2% Water. Space. 26 Sept. 2013. Web. 27 Sept. 2013. http://mashable.com/2013/09/26/mars-water-curiosity-rover/

        "Future Mars explorers may be able to get all the water they need out of the red dirt beneath their boots" writes Mike Wall, senior writer for Space.com. Mars rover Curiosity has found that the planets soil contains 2% water. Future astronauts could get about 2 pints of water for every cubic foot. Curiosity's next great discovery might be at Mount Sharp, his next mission.
        This effects us more than you might think, if we ever get the chance to send man to Mars the they could do more extensive research there and learn more about the planet. Maybe one day the Earth is getting very populate and we need to grow our crops there or even send colonies there to plant grass and trees to make the atmosphere able to support life. Maybe we could even go there like a vacation spot when the red planet can support life.
        In a sense, We could create a habitable planet now that we know that the is water on on Mars. We could send plants to Mars and create an habitable atmosphere. This process could take so many years that everyone on this world could die and it would be their great grandchildren to see this world. It is amazing that this world could have more life on it, if it doesn't already.

Mike Wall. Curiosity Rover Discovers Mars Dirt Is 2% Water. Space. 26 Sept. 2013. Web. 27 Sept. 2013. http://mashable.com/2013/09/26/mars-water-curiosity-rover/

Bi-Weekly Blog 2

My weeks been awesome! I've made a few more friends. Theres nothing bad that happened this week. My mom and her boyfriend just head off to Hawaii today, hope they have fun! I just wish they would've went in the summer and taken me with them but they can have their time. I got used to the school already, it's a really great school. Today we have a guest speaker and we don't have our clubs but that's OK I just wonder what he's going to be talking about. I have no idea who this guy is he's in the NBA but I don't watch much sports. Overall, this week was the best in a while.

elrentaplats. Honu - Hawaiian green sea turtle. Flickrcc. 23 Aug. 2007. Media. 13 Sept. 2013. <http://www.flickr.com/photos/elrentaplats/1507718559/>

Above me is the digital citizenship Prezi. It will tell you all you need to know about how to be safe online and what are good ethics to use online.
Prezi is another web 2.0 I learned to use over the last two weeks. It's way better than just a regular power point, it moves and you can do all kinds of different things. Prezi has lots of cool animations you can use and you can add pictures. It's a lot neater than power point and you can also make your "slide" however big you want! There is some bad things about it like the fact that sometimes it can get a little confusing, when you move something you move everything inside of it and you have to zoom out a bit to change anything around or inside of it.

Here are some other digital literacy words I learned:

Publish: to present a finished piece to a public audience. You have to publish any kind of post to present it to the public world.

Trustworthy: accurate and dependable. Before you use any website, you must make sure it's trustworthy or else you may get the wrong information.

Evaluate: to carefully examine something to determine its value. You must evaluate something to see if its trustworthy.

Criteria: standards on which you base your judgement. The criteria are what you will be evaluating.

This information is going to make me think before I use any website I'm not to sure about. You can't always trust everything on the Internet. Even though some things may seem like an OK place to get information I have to think, anybody can put anything on the Internet, even if they know nothing about that subject. Next time I use a website for a project I'm going to make sure that its dependable.

The Creative Senz3D

The Senz3D is a gesture camera meant for your PC that can sensor your hads and your gestures.

"Hands-on with the Creative Senz3D"

Adam Williams. "Hands-on with the Creative Senz3D." Gizmag, 6 Sept. 2013. Web. 6 Sept. 2013. <http://www.gizmag.com/hands-on-with-the-creative-senz3d/28975/>.

Adam Williams wirtes about a new product that is "the future of PC interation". The Senz3D is able to keep track of various hand gestures and even play your online PC games. This device can pick up your movements only six inches to three feet but "performs very well" according to Gigmag. On September 25th Senz3D will be being sold in the US for $199. 

I honesty think people are getting lazier and lazier but atleast with this product you can actually do more than more your fingers around a keyboard and mouse. I feel that this product is going to to be really cool and a really nice system for PC gamers. Even if your not much of a gamer I think the Creative Senz3D would be really nice to use. I do like PC gaming and I really love my computer so this would be something I would buy, if it wasnt so much money.

Williams, Adam. "Creative Senz3D." Medium. Gizmag. 6 Sept. 2013. Media. 6 Sept. 2013. 

<http://www.gizmag.com/hands-on-with-the-creative-senz3d/28975/>

So far this system hasnt had much of a impact but when the system comes out it will be on huge demand by gamers everywhere.