Monday, April 22, 2013

Google Day #3

3 goals for the day:
- Decide what college to do it about.
- General info
- Applying
- Academic life
Paying for school
- More general info


Links with description of why they are useful to your goals:
California Institute of the Arts 
- General info
Applying
Academic life
Paying for school
- More general info

Evidence of what you learned or learned to do and a description of your new knowledge or skills:
While I was searching for information about California Institute of the Arts. I found a lot of interesting things. I found a page where it said statistics about the college. California Institute of the Arts, which is one of the colleges I want to go to, is a private school,in a suburban area, and it is located in California. There are approximately 917 undergraduate students, and 56.9% are accepted. The five most popular majors for 2011 graduates were Film/Cinema/Video Studies with 28%, Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft with 23%Music with 20%Fine and Studio Arts with 18%Dance with 11%Approximately 52.2% of students are girls and 47.8% are boys. Health insurance is offered and students are not required to own a computer. Tuition and fees cost $39,014 in 2012-13, and room and board cost $9,726 in 2012-13. I learned every statistic that you need to know if you want to enter  California Institute of the Arts. I realized I have to work really hard to get in.

One thing that you want to learn next Google day:
- On the next Google 20% I want to start making the project.  

Friday, April 12, 2013

Google Day #2

3 goals for the day:
- Decide what college to do it about.
- General info- Applying
- Academic life
Paying for school


Links with description of why they are useful to your goals:
- Frost Univeristy of Miami
- General info
- Applying
- Academic life
Paying for school

Evidence of what you learned or learned to do and a description of your new knowledge or skills:
While I was searching for information about Frost University of Miami, I found a lot of interesting things. I found a page where it said statistics about the college.Frost University of Miami, which is the college I want to go to, is a private school,surrounded by a large town, and it is located in Miami. There are approximately 10,368 students, and 38.33% are accepted. The student's average GPA last year was 3.48, their average of PSAT to SAT 2400 was 1635, their average of combined SAT 1600 was 1107, their average of single SAT 2400 was 1635, and their average of combined SAT 2400 was 1647. 51.7% of the classes have less than 20 students, 41.8% of classes have in between 20-49 students, and 6.5% of classes have 50 or more students.  The five most popular majors for 2011 graduates were Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services with 19%, Biological and Bio medical Sciences with 15%, Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs with 10%, social sciences with 9%, and visual and performing arts with 8%. Approximately 51.1% of students are girls and 48.9% are boys. Health insurance is offered and students are not required to own a computer. Tuition and fees cost $39,654 in 2012-13, and room and board cost $11,528 in 2012-13. I learned every statistic that you need to know if you want to enter Frost University of Miami. I realized I have to work really hard to get in.

One thing that you want to learn next Google day:
- On the next Google 20% Day I want to research the same things I searched today but for another college. I'm going to do it about La Javeriana.

Monday, April 8, 2013

Google Day #1

3 goals for the day:
- Decide what college to do it about.
- General info
- Applying
- Academic life
- Paying for school
- More general info

Links with description of why they are useful to your goals:
College
- General info
- Applying
- Academic life
- Paying for school
- More general info

Evidence of what you learned or learned to do and a description of your new knowledge or skills:
- While I was searching for information about Berklee School of Music college, I found a lot of interesting things. I found a page where it said statistics about the college. Berklee, which is the college I want to go to, is a private school, and it is surrounded by a large city. It is located in New York City.  There are 4,275 students, and 28.01% are accepted. The student's average GPA last year was 3.22, their average of PSAT to SAT 2400 was 1420, their average of combined SAT 1600 was 975, their average of single SAT 2400 was 1420, and their average of combined SAT 2400 was 1445. If you want to apply to the college, the application deadline is on January 15. 90.4% of the classes have 20 or less students, 9.1% of the classes have in between 20 and 49 students, and 0.4% of the classes have 50 or more students. The five most popular majors for 2011 graduates are Music Theory and Composition with  24%,  Music/General with 21%,  Music Performance/General with 17%, Recording Arts Technology/Technician with 17%, and  Music Management with 16%. Approximately 30.4% of students are girls and 69.6% are boys. Health insurance is offered and students are required to own a computer. Tuition and fees cost $36,490 in 2012-13, and room and board cost  $16,950 in 2012-13. I learned every statistic that you need to know if you want to enter Berklee School of Music. I realized I have to work really hard to get in.

One thing that you want to learn next Google day:
- On the next Google 20% Day I want to research the same things I searched today but for another college. I'm going to do it about La Javeriana or a college (that I still don't know it's name) in Florida.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Spyware

1. What you know about the topic before your research: 
- A kind of virus
- It can be installed by opening a link, video, or any other thing sent by an unknown user.
- They can watch EVERY move you do, as long as the camera can see you.

2. What you wonder or questions you have about the topic before researching: 
- How do people get into your webcam to spy you?
- How can people not turn on the mac green light when they're spying you by that same camera?
- How to detect spy cameras on your computer?

3. Links to where you found the most useful information:
How do people get into your webcam to spy you
- How to detect spy cameras on your computer
- How can people not turn on the mac green light when they're spying you by that same camera

4. Bullet list of things you learned about the topic:
- It is extremely easy to hack a webcam.
- A security camera man from Today News, hacked into a girl's camera in 3 minutes.
- When a person is spying on you with your computer camera, the person can disable the camera light so you don't notice.
- There is a software to prevent people from spying on you with your computer camera.
- Even if your computer is in mode "sleep" the person can still see you.
- If the person is spying on you, the only way it stops is if you close your computer.

5. A short summary of how this topic connects/relates to you or your life: 
- This topic relates to my life because I am always using my computer, and using links my friends send me, and looking at videos and pictures. This can happen to any person. The scary thing is that people don't notice they are being spied on. This scares me because I always have my computer open, and I'm always on it.

6. Questions you still have:
- Does the anti-spy software completely delete the chance of you getting hacked?