I felt I have improved as a blogger in many different ways over the past few years considering the fact that I had no knowledge of blogs before we started it as a Science project. I learned how to add pictures and videos, change fonts and the colors of fonts, furthermore I learned how to add links and organize my post in a manner that is not only easy to read but also appealing to the eye and last but not least I improved the quality of my writing. I think blogs are really helpful in classrooms because sick students can check up on it and catch up with what they missed in class that day or that week. It is also helpful because this way students can review what they have done in class simply by checking the blog. A blog can also be used for studying for upcoming tests by seeing a summarized version of what the students learned in class. Blogging has helped my overall writing in a way that is hard to describe. Apart from the obvious grammar/spelling improvement it has taught me to get straight to the point rather than just add words to make it sound good. It has also taught me that when I am writing for science the writing isn't supposed to focus on being as flowery as possible it is supposed to talk about the science. Blogging helped me when commenting to other people's writing because the countless comments I wrote taught me that I shouldn't point out only the negative things about their writing but I should also talk about what they did very well. The most important thing I learned from blogging is that a picture is worth a thousand words. Meaning that visual effects not only greatly help me getting my point trough but also support what I am saying.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Neptune
Hello everyone, the topic I chose to present on was the planet Neptune.
Basic Information
->Eight and farthe
st planet from the Sun
l->4,504,000,000 km away from the Sun
l->Fourth largest planet in diameter (49,532 km equatorial)
l ->Third largest planet by mass (1.024726 kg)
l->Revolution: 165 Earth years (a year)
l->Rotation: 16.1 Earth hours (a
day)
l->Surface temperature: -214 degrees Celsius
l->Density: 1.638 g/cm3
Its name comes from the Roman god of the sea, Neptune. Its symbol is Neptune's trident as you can see below.
Discovery and Observations
l->Discovered by Johann Gottfried and Louis d’Arrest on the 23rd of September 1846
l->Earlier predictions were made by John Couch and Le Verrier because Neptune’s gravitational field disturbed Uranus’s orbit
l->Voyager 2 on the 25th of August 1989
l->Ground based observations
l->Hubble Space Telescope observations
Ingredients
Moons and Rings
l4 rings
l
Adams, Le Verrier, Galle, Lassel
l
Unknown composure
Neptune has 13 known moons; 7 small named ones, Triton, and 5 other ones.
TRITON
l->Named after the god of the sea in Greek mythology, it is the son of Poseidon (Son of Neptune in roman mythology)
l->354,760km away from Neptune
l->2700 km in diameter
l->2.1422 kg
l->Orbits backwards or clockwise in comparison to the other moons(retrogade)
l->Surface temp. -235 degrees Celsius
l->Discovered in 1846
NEREID
l->5,513,400 km away from Neptune
l->340km in diameter
l->Unknown mass
l->Named after the sea nymphs
l->Discovered in 1949
PROTEUS
l->116,600 km away from Neptune
l->418km in diameter
l->Unknown mass
l->Named after a sea god that could change his shape at will
l->Non-spherical shaped
l->Discovered in 1989
Interesting Facts
Triton is the coldest known planetary system in our Solar System and has nitrogen ice volcanoes that shoot out ice plumes 20 miles high.
Neptune has the fastest winds in the Solar System (2000 km/hr), it also has the closest gravitational pull in comparison to our Earth (1.17G) and Pluto may have been a moon of Neptune's that escaped its gravitational pull.
The Great Dark Spot and Scooter
l->The Great Dark Spot is a hole in the methane cloud deck of Neptune (changes size and shape) , a storm
l->It can fit one earth inside of it
l->Moves 300 meters/second
l->Winds around it are the fastest in the solar system (2000 km/hr)
l->Discovered by Voyager 2
l->Scooter is an irregular shaped cloud
l->Probably a plume rising in lower atmosphere
l->Flies eastward around the circumference of the planet every 16 hours
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Ciprian's Reflection Post
I feel I improved as a scriber this quarter by adding more links and using the blogger interface better. Next quarter I believe it is necessary to work on my spelling, and add a lot more science into my writing. I also need to do my post on time. The benefits of using a class blog is that students that were sick can catch up on the work they missed in class and students can also check their homework. It is bad to have a class blog for four quarters in a row because by the time we get to the last quarter most people lose their enthusiasm about doing the best posts and comments they can the quality of the blog drops significantly.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Genetics on Tuesday February 1st 2011
Hello Everyone!
Ms. D chose us to write down the exercises we did. Next, we continued on the Bikini Bottoms Genetics and we finished the rest of the problems in class. We received another piece of which can be found right here. The first six problems were a piece of cake but the following four were rather challenging.
1.
In chimpanzees, straight fingers are dominant to bent fingers. Complete a Punnett square to show the genotypes and phenotypes expected for the following cross: heterozygous straight x homozygous bent (F – dominant; f - recessive)F f
F FF Ff
f Ff ff
Genotypes: FF, Ff, ff Phenotypes: Straight Fingers, Straight Fingers, Bent Fingers
Percentages: Straight Fingers(75 %), Bent Fingers (25%). Ratio: 3:1
For homework we received another set of problems which cannot be found on moodle. A very helpful video can be found right here! In order to grade me you can look at the grading rubric right here. If you want to look at previous things we did, it is all on MOODLE.
The next scribe isssssss................ REZA!
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Ciprian's Reflection Post
Reflecting back to this quarter's post I realize I have done more bad things than good, which I find rather disappointing and I hope to improve next quarter. The bad things I have done include: having no captions for my pictures, having no font variation, not saying who the next scribe is, not mentioning eukaryotic and prokaryotik cells, not including th kingdoms, the pictures were too small, and I talked too little about the flower baby project. I have also done some good things such as having good links, good pictures, helpful links and a video.
The way I will improve my next quarter's blog post is by including all the things i did not do the first quarter. I will also send a rough copy to a friend before I post it and ask for his opinion.
The benefits I see in blogging apart from developing good writing skills is that we can get other's people opinions about our work. I enjoyed writing this reflection post because it gives me a chance to understand and see what I did good and bad. I did not enjoy writing all the comments because I do not think my comment helped the people too much.
Monday, December 13, 2010
The class of December the 10th
Hello Everyone,
Today we weighed our flour babies, a project we are working on in our wellness class. This has been the third time we weighed our flour babies and it is the second last time we will ever do it. After that we went over our cell cycle and mitosis packet. Which you can find here: http://zagreb.ceesa.net/course/view.php?id=189.
Basic Definition:
The cell cycle, or cell-division cycle, is the series of events that take place in a eukaryotic cell between its formation and the moment it replicates itself. These events can be divided in two main parts: interphase (in between divisions phase grouping G1 phase, S phase, G2 phase), during which the cell is forming and carries on with its normal metabolic functions; the mitotic phase (M mitosis), during which the cell is replicating itself. Thus, cell-division cycle is an essential process by which a single-cell fertilized egg develops into a mature organism and the process by which hair, skin, blood cells, and some internal organs are formed.
For more detailed information you can either visit the link I posted earlier or you can watch this informational video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf9rcqifx34
Thank you for your attention
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