Sunday, November 28, 2010

Christian (Albuquerque Public Schools blog)

The video is talking about students who are saying a poem that is telling people about the atmosphere in there school. In the Albuquerque School the students feel like they are in a prison when they are in that school.I said this because in the begining of the video, they are all locked together. Says that they are in a segregated school. Not everybody is treated the same. How the schools in that area aren't able to do anything. The students aren't allowed to do anything fun. They are just suppose to be quiet and do their work. How the school doesn't have any money resulting to old books. At the end of the video the students say what they can do to become successful. That's what the video is saying. The students feel like they aren't being treated right in their school. I also want to say, at the end of the video the talk about what what they have to do to be treated equal. That's how the students feel in the video.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

About me !!!!!!

First let me start off by saying hello. My name is Ashelyne and I'm 18 years old .I currently attend Overbook High school. I am a senior , class of 2011 and I'm in the scholars academy. I have all honor's classes . My GPA is a 3.00 at the moment, and by June I plan to do better to make it a 3.6 or higher.
The things I enjoy doing in my free time are; sleep, sing ,listen to music, read text and sometimes chill with my family and friends. One thing you dont know about me is that i like to sing .I get really shy to sing in front of people but i have to control my emotions because singing is my thing . My goal for right now is to finish high school and graduate. My main goal for my life is to get through college and become a nurse or a pediatrician. I don't know what college i would like to attend yet . I want to meet all my goals and become successful.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

A Must Read - Post one thing learned from your reading

Searching For Better Research Habits

September 29, 2010
NEW YORK CITY -- Should colleges teach students how to be better Googlers?
Educators who see the popular search engine as antithetical to good research might cringe at the thought of endorsing it to students. But they might not cringe nearly as hard as did attendees of the 2010 Ithaka Sustainable Scholarship Conference when Andrew Asher showed them what happens when students do not learn how to use Google properly.
“Students do not have adequate information literacy skills when they come to college, and this goes for even high-achieving students,” said Asher, the lead research anthropologist at the Enthographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries (ERIAL) Project, which recently studied the search habits of more than 600 Illinois students spanning a range of institutions and demographic groups.
“And they’re not getting adequate training as they’re going through the curriculum,” he said.
Asher moved swiftly through a few slides featuring excerpts from interviews with students, each eliciting both chuckles and gasps from the audience of librarians and technologists. “I’m just trusting Google to know what are the good resources,” responded one sophomore biology student.
“Of all the students that I interviewed, not a single one of them could give an adequate conceptual definition of how Google returns results,” said Asher. Not even those “who should know better,” like computer science students. The word “magic” came up a lot, he noted.
Asher pulled quotes from other students evidencing how the expectations and ignorances bred by habitual, unthinking use of Google had affected how students use other search engines, such as those built into the scholarly archive JSTOR. The students in the ERIAL sample seemed oblivious to the logic of search or how to generate or parse search results with much patience or intelligence. “I just throw up whatever I want into the search box and hope it comes up,” a junior nursing major told the researchers. “…It’s just like Google, so I use it like Google.”
This Google effect does not bode well for students who manage to make it as far as a scholarly database, said Asher. “Student overuse of simple search leads to problems of having too much information or not enough information … both stemming from a lack of sufficient conceptual understanding of how information is organized,” he said. Those libraries that have tried to teach good search principles have failed, he continued, because they have spent “too much time trying to teach tools and not enough time trying to teach concepts.” It would be more useful for librarians to focus training sessions on how to "critically think through how to construct a strategy for finding information about a topic that is unknown to you," Asher said in a follow-up e-mail to Inside Higher Ed.
Asher’s presentation came near the end of a long day that had kicked off with a talk by Daniel M. Russell, a senior research scientist for search quality and user happiness at Google, who also hinted at the need for better user education. Russell spent much of his time talking about all the cool scholarly things Google has available in its vast databases -- a facsimile of Stravinsky’s score from Sacre de Printemps, a 3-D model of the Notre Dame Cathedral, unemployment data for Santa Clara County over the last 20 years -- before lamenting the fact that most students would have no clue how to find them.
“One of the things we have to do is not teach the little twiddlybits about search,” said Russell. Technical knowledge of Google’s search interface -- and JSTOR’s, for that matter -- becomes obsolete, because the interfaces are constantly changing. “So I don’t want to teach them algorithms, I don’t want to teach them ranking, I don’t want to teach them what’s in the index and all that stuff,” he said. “I do want to teach them what’s possible.” In other words: If students do not know what is out there to find, they cannot search for it effectively.
That is where librarians come in, said Russell. Scholarly searching is not an intuitive skill, like foraging, he said; students cannot learn well by imitating peers. “We need to do a better job,” he said. “You’ve worked with these undergraduates. This is, in theory, the Google generation. But a lot of searchers in libraries and universities do the dumbest things you can possibly imagine. And so have you. It’s not part of the curriculum.”
But as the conference wound down and the participants reflected on the question of search education, some challenged the idea that search education was possible -- or worth the investment.
Peggy Seiden, the college librarian at Swarthmore College, recalled a comment an economics professor there had made during a recent focus group: “Our students graduate from Swarthmore, and they go on to be incredibly successful,” Seiden quoted her colleague as saying. “They may not have had very much in terms of good research instruction. They might not be the best researchers in the world. But they are successful. So the question is, what is the end we’re trying to get to?”
Lisa Rose-Wiles, a science librarian at Seton Hall University, said it is naïve to think that by teaching students how to use search more responsibly, librarians and professors can prevent students from cutting corners. Of course librarians think cobbling together a good-enough paper with the first three full-text papers that turn up in a simple search is bad, but for students — particularly those aspiring to nonacademic careers — it might make perfect sense. “There’s no real way to convince students that that behavior doesn’t pay, especially when they’re trying to juggle six courses and a job and a whole life and all the rest,” Rose-Wiles said. "So unless we can demonstrate some measurable payoff to searching, students aren’t going to do it.”
Luke Swindler, coordinator of general collections for the university library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said the notion of making “better searchers” of Google-generation students reminded him of what a German pol had once said of communism: “The problem with the theory and practice of communism,” Swindler paraphrased, “is that it just needs better citizens.”
“We’re not going to change the citizens,” he said.
If academics are going to improve student research in the age of simple search, said Casper Grathwohl, vice president at Oxford University Press, they will probably have to do so the same way Google changes the behavior of its users: by using better interfaces and more sophisticated indexing methods to nudge them, incrementally, toward competence.
As Grathwohl put it, “Making ‘good enough’ better.”
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Hi my name is Diana. I am 17 years old, my birthday is on October 14, 1992. I’m the youngest out of seven my birth place was in Atlantic City but I grew up in Southwest Philadelphia. I like to play basketball its my favorite sport, it’s the best sport ever. I really want to go to college. Also I love the shop, hang out with friends and family and having a good time. Yes I’m senior and I enjoy stepping into Overbrook everyday it’s a great school and the staff treats me with love.


I want to be very successful and I’m determine to fulfill my dream. I want to finish high school and go to college because now of days if you don’t have a education u wont be successful. Education is the key to success. However my dream is to become a professional basketball player and for me to do that I have to stay on track and be focus. If I don’t become one I’m going to take up Sport Management. I have a strong belief that I will become successful if I take that up.
my name is cornell i attend overbrook high school. i am 17 years old my birthday is march 23. i like to play sports and chill with my friends and family. i like to watch professoinal football and basketball games. i want to go to college and learn how to be bissness of building homes and desighning buildings. i want to be successful in life so i can provide for my family.
My name is andrew and i attend Overbrook high School and im in the 12 grade.I am 17 and my birthday is jan 5 ,i am a fun person and i like to play sports . After i get out high school i plan to go to williamson free scool to study mechanical trades . What i want to do in life is build houses . Also after college i want to try to start my own business . on my own time i like to play basketball or football with my friends

Thursday, September 30, 2010

My name is Roderick Clay JR and i attend Overbrook High School and im in the 12 grade.I am 16 and my birthday is december 17, and i am fro West Pilly. After i get out high school I plan to go to Rugter College and study computer engineering. What i want to do in life is fix computer and make program for them. Also after college I want to open up my own bussiness .One thing people dont know abut me is ,I am a fun person and i like to travel .

Sunday, September 26, 2010

all about Mercedez

Hey my name is Mercedez i ma 17 years old my birthday is december 18. i attend overbrook high school and i am in the tweleth grade. Right now i am at a point in my life i dont really know what i want one day im very happy then the next im upset. on my spare time i like hanging out with my friends shopping and having fun. i cant live with out my iphone its my life. i plan to go to college when i graduate high school then oneday go to hair school where i will oneday b a hair stylist and have shops of my own. this is Me..

Saturday, September 25, 2010

All About me

Let me first start off by saying hello. My full name is Shanae Ashley and i was born on March 23,1993. I am 17 years old and I currently go to overbook high school. I am in the 12Th grade and is in the scholars academy. I have three brothers and one sister.I love to go out with my friend and family. I don't really like to shop because i like to keep money, At overbook I play volleyball because that is my favorite sport to play. I go to Holy Cross Baptist Church. I don't drive yet but i am getting there. I would like to have a child and only one.
I live in west Philly right now, but i grew up in South west Philly. I wish we had never moved but my mom said it was best if we did. I south west i went to Catherin elementary school from perk all the way up until the fourth grade. We moved to west Philly where I went to Gompers, Beeber , and now Overbook. West Philly is not what it use to be but it is somewhere to live for right now.
My goals for now are to past all my classes with a good grade, try and make it out of Overbook this year, move on and go to a good college, and get a degree. i want to be a underwater tech so my goal is to make it there. another goal i have is to get out of my moms house n live on my own. I cant wait to that day come. I pray to God that i will meet all of these goals and be very successful.

Friday, September 24, 2010

Hey, my name is Janell. I was born and raised in West Philadelphia.I currently attend Overbrook high school. I am a 2011 Senior and im in the Scholars academy. My GPA is a 3.5. I try to get to school on time everyday. I am a very blessed human being. I have two sisters : Jasmine and Dinnelle. For school activities i am a majorette and the football team manager. I am the youngest child but the only one that lives wit my mom and dad. I have a car and drive almost everywhere i need to go.
When i have freetime, i like to sing, dance, play basketball and chill with my friends and family. Most of my time that i do have i spend it at work. I work at McDonalds in Ardmore,Pa. I work the front counters in the store. I work hard at my job everytime im there and should get all the money i deserve.
My main goal for my life is to get through college and get my Cosmetology license. The college i want to attend is West Chester University. My major will be Business Management. The hair school i want to attend is Empire Beauty School. My next main goal is to own 5 different Hair Salons around the World. Also, to make sure everyone has a place to get beautified. My last goal is to be successful. I want to make my business big so i can help and support my family now and my future family of my own. I hope to meet all of my goals and get my life right .

It's All About Me !

My name is Mieisha. I am currently attending Overbrook high school. I am a senior, in the scholars academy. I have 5 honor's classes and one AP class. My GPA is a 3.1 at the moment, and by June 2011 I plan to make it a 3.5. I get to school on time even though I'm coming from North Philly. I live with my sister and my nephew, and some times my mother comes to visit.
The things I enjoy doing in my free time are; playing, eating,
and sleeping. I work all the time so I barely have free time. I work
at McDonalds full time. I'm always getting write up's, so I'm looking
for a new job. I feel as though McDonalds is under paying me and does
not appreciate the hard work that I am doing. McDonalds is not
listening to child labor laws because a minor should not be working 8
hours after a full school day.
The main goal i have, is to be successful in life. The
meaning for successful to me is: having a nice paying job to support me
and my family. I would not have to struggle by living from pay check
to pay check, I am not worried about where my next meal is coming
from, or who is going to put clothes on my chilren's back. In order for
me to get where i need to go, I must have plans, steps, and goals.
My name is William. I am a guy who loves to have fun at all times. If something is boring to me then I always try to make the best of it and make jokes about it. In my spare time outside of school I go out with friends and we go pretty much anywhere we want to go. I am also very active so I can get used to running and exercising so i can do it easily when I get older. I want to make sure that I am fit and in shape when I am in my 30's and 40's. I plan on going to college and becoming a business man and hopefully one day owning my own business. I want to be able to retire at 50 and be set for the rest of my life.

Things About Me

Hi, my name is Jessica. I am seventeen years old and I am in the 12th grade. This is my first year attending Overbrook High School but I hope to make it a good one. I feels weird now because I really don’t know that many people but I hope towards the end things will get better. When I graduate I plan on going to school in Philadelphia or around the area so that I am not that far from family and friends. I plan on leaving school with a degree in Social Working and Fashion. I know that they are two different routes but I always wanted to work in both of these fields. My favorite things to do is write and to SHOP!!! I love clothes you can never have enough. A funny thing that you don’t know about me yet is that I played the cello and I was in an orchestra. When I played my music it made me feel like I was showing people that no matter who you are or what you are you can do any thing once you put your mind to it.

Janique B. ♥

Hey, My name is Janique. I am seventeen years old and I am in the twelfth grade. I attend Overbrook High school. I'm happy to finally be a senior. I was always around people who were older than me and they would always talk about how they're seniors and now I can do the same. After I graduate I plan to go to college in Los Angeles. Going to LA has always been a dream so what better way to get there than to go to college there! When I grow up I want to be a Forensic Scientist. In college I'll major in Science and East Asian Studies and I'll minor in Performing Arts. Something not a lot of people know about me is that I am super good at singing and dancing. When I sing or dance its sort of the way I like relieve myself of anger or sadness. Also another thing a lot of people don't know about me is that I am afraid of clowns.

CHRISTINE.S

My name is Christine I'm 18 year's old this is my last year Overbook high school so yes that does make me a senior 2011.I would define my self as being a strong ambitious, smart , kind and independent young lady.I,am a black young young lady that grew up in west Philly area.
my goal's and plan is to finish with school ,to get ready for bigger , better thing such as, finishing my senior project, also all my class work, projects, getting a b or higher in ALL m classes. i plan on graduating from high school, and further my education in becoming a Nurse or a Doctor.It's been my passion since i could remember.
My favorite thing to do is sing i enjoy singing because it's very calming to me. Music i really ca relate to it a lot of things through music it touches me deep in my soul. it just something i would be able to live with out. i would just go crazy with out my music.
what people don't know about me is that i was adopted when i was 2 months old. the catch is that i was adopted in to my rel family by my cousin Renee,who has been my mother since day one, but i was to blinded , and one sided to see that she was protecting me from a lot of pain, i was hard headed and found out the hard way.i had a reality check that opened my eye's completely. That made me realize the truth ,and that the grass is greener on the other side.
My name is Amira. I will be 18 years old next Saturday. I live in West Philadelphila. Sometime its hard for me to bond with other, but I am working at it. I am senior at Overbrook High School. This years will be incredible! Full of ideas and creativity about what will occur and my future plans. My goals are to attend college for nursing. My secondary choice is Crime Scene Investigator (CSI). The most favorable thing I like to do is to listen to music. It puts me in a zone, meaning it calms me down and helps me think better. Many people do not know I like to cook. It is great to practice cooking, because practice makes perfect.
Eating it is better when it taste good.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Meeting Kyree!!!

Hello, my name is Kyree and I am a senior at Overbrook High school in Philadelphia.I am 17 years old and I love to have fun . I have huge dreams, and I know working hard is the key to sucess. I am very excited to be a senior and moving on to a higher level of education. As,I most time say "Get your 3D glasses out becauze in coming right at you!"

As stated above I love to have fun. I am very fun to be around and I can make almost anyone laugh. I love hanging out with my friends and really doing the whole high school senior thing. I also love playing the drums.I play for my school's choir and for some local gospel groups. I plan on going as far as possible playing the drums, but that is not my future goal.

After high school I plan on attending a four year college.I want to major in Sports Management, I wanna be the real life version of Jerry Miguire. I think that my passion for sports really influenced my decision to go into this major. I feel that I am smart enough to complete my future but it takes more than academic knowledge to be sucessfull. The key to sucess is hard work and that is what I plan to do . That is all for me now I gotta go to bed Ms. Breese. See you tomorrow!!!
My name is Chelsea.I attend Overbrook High School.I am in the 12th grade.I am 17 years old.My favorite class is art but I dont have that class.I love being with my friends and family.I dont think I couldnt live without my ace bon coon.School so far for me has been soo much fun.After I go to collage I plan on starting my own business.This year is going to be the best year of high school.I really dont want to leave overbrook.The one thing that people dont know about me is that im an artist. I go to Moore collage of art. I have been going for about 2 and a half years now.
This is Christian. This is my last year in highschool. My goals in highschool are to graduate and get to the next level which is college. I can complete my goal by going to all of my classes and passing them. I also need to complete my senior project which is a big part of me graduating this year. When I graduate, I plan to major in civil engineering. I plan to do this because I like to build things. Those are my goals in and out of highschool

About me!

My name is Bianca. I am seventeen years old and I attend over brook high school. I am now in my senior year and is looking forward to graduating. I enjoy coming to school everyday and learning something new. I am looking forward to going to college when i graduate out of high school. I am not sure at the moment what college i want to go to but, I do know what i want to major in. When i get to college i want to major in fashion design and stylist. After i do that i want to go to hair school. My goals are to graduate out of high school and become a stylist. Somethings I enjoy doing is going shopping and going out with my friends. i really want to be focus on school this year.

Who am I?

Hello my name is Tiera, I attend Overbrook High School. Im in my senior year at Overbrook, and i plan on making it one of my best years in high school. I enjoy coming to school everyday to get an education, but also see my friends who i love the most, and they know who they are. I don't plan on fooling around this year in school, at all. This is just the start to my new life as an young adult. I also plan on graduating, then onto college, but for now i still kind of want to have a little fun. It's so much thats going on this year, and im very excited. I have prom, graduation,etc. That right there is enough for me, and i can't wait. To me i feel as though im finally getting up there. It seems as though i've been in school forever. I want to attend Penn State, the main campus to study to become an Ultrasound Tech. One thing that people don't know about me is that at times i can be scared of the dark!!!!!! =)
My name is Phillip. I am 17 years old, I am a senior at Overbrook High School. The main thing I am looking forward to is graduating high school and moving on to college. I am not sure what college I want to go to yet, however I know I will make a good choice picking one. Many of the thing I enjoy doing include hanging out with my friends. I like to spend time with my little cousins, also other people in my family. One of the thing I love to do is draw. As a career I would want to make cartoons for the nickelodeon company. I have many goals to accomplish. There are long terms goals and short ones. one of my goals is to get at least a B- in all my classes. For example one of my long term goals is to have a career as a person who makes cartoons for nickelodeon. These goals are important to me because it would make me strive to be successful in life. I believe to be successful in anything your doing you have to set goals, even if they're not long term ones. One thing people might not know about me is that I am really a fun and chilled person even though it might not seem like it.