Class Evaluation

1. I liked that I got the opportunity to learn a different language through HTML and I was able to apply that knowledge to the real world. This class is especially beneficial to the modern world as we advance further and further into the world of technology.
2. One thing that I didn't necessarily find was absolutely necessary for this class was the rude behavior of the class in general. The class seemed to be very disruptive at times and that bothered me because they were not choosing the right.
3. I believe one activity that could work for next year and would help the class go a lot faster and farther would be to allow half of the class to learn one thing, and the other half of the class to learn another. When both groups know the topic very well, to pair up with someone who has a different topic and for them to teach each other. This can help the students learn things much faster and work together.
4. One highlight of this class was learning to work with the scratch program. It was fun and easy to use and it helps people understand the use and importance of codes.
5. I would like to believe that I did the best I could in this class, but I do believe that I could have done better.
6. I actually DO read my Life Planning Goals Journal for at least 5 minutes a day. It motivates me to reach for my goals and never give up no matter how hard they seem. I know that I will take my Life Planning Goals Journal through my Life Journey and I will especially use in college and in my career. I will use it in my daily, public and private life and show my family so they may have one as well.
7. I am more committed to being a CTR person now more than ever because I decided last year to join the local youth group at the church and they really help me see that good, CTR people are even happier than people who choose the wrong.
8. As I've said before, I will definitely encourage my family to make their own Life Planning Goals Journal and follow their dreams. I will also really recommend that more people take a computer class to further their knowledge in this growing field.
9. I will always remember to CHOOSE THE RIGHT and never give up on my dreams...

Becoming Your Best

Becoming Your Best

The 12 Principles of Highly Successful Leaders

Steven Shallenberger

1. Be true to character

Your character says a lot about who you are. It is a means of expressing yourself, the way you act, and the way you treat others as well. To build good character you need to have good habits. When you do good things, little by little they become natural and then the become a part of your character. "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." The more you do something the most passionate you become for that thing. To have a good character, do things that prove that you are caring and devoted in the little things. This will then help you to be more trustable and more respectable in the long run.
2. Use your imagination
To become your best self, you need to use your imagination. This can help you discover a new and creative side of yourself that will help you enjoy life even more. Creativity thrives in your imagination. Creativity is also the seed of success. How can you create something with your imagination? Don't limit yourself to worldly thoughts and think outside the box. Be creative, imaginative, and a wishful thinker.Believe in yourself and your dreams will come true.
4. Apply the power of knowledge
If you want to be more powerful, educate yourself. To be better than yourself, you have to work hard to be smart. If at this moment you learn something new, then wouldn't you be better or smarter than the you before you knew this new information? To know more things is to be better, but to practice what you know is the best way to be the best. Last year, I had a guitar, but didn't know how to use it. This year, I am taking courses to learn how to play the guitar, therefore I can truly say that my self this year, is better than my self last year. In this same way, you can become a better self by learning knew things and expanding your mind. It is always best to keep yourself thinking and always trying to solve new and complex ideas to stimulate your brain. This can also help to keep your memory as you get older.
4.Never give up
In life, there are many hardships. But the key to success is to never give up, no matter how impossible or improbable it may seem. You should never give up. No matter how hard the situation is. Always believe that something beautiful is going to happen. Winners are not that who never fail, they are the ones who never give up. If you ever feel like giving up, just look back on all the things you have accomplished already.Never give up on something you really want. It is difficult to wait but it is more difficult to regret.Like Albert Einstein once said, "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
5. Find peace and balance
You cannot be better at life if you are not at peace. By peace, i mean with yourself, with your family, friends, neighbors and your enemies. Forgiving can be hard and forgetting will more than likely never happen, but balancing yourself to love and understand others is a good way to be a better person. It is said that inner peace begins when you choose not to allow another person or event control your emotions.It is wise to remember that peace comes from within. It is of no use to seek it from without.


6. Live the Golden Rule
The Golden Rule is to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This rule can be applied to all aspects of human behavior. When you treat others respectfully, they will respect you. If you treat a person as if they are below you, then you are stooping yourself tho their level. Having said this, I believe that everyone should treat each other equally because we are all nonetheless human. To quote Macklemore's "Same Love," "Whatever God you believe in, we come from the same one, strip away the fear, underneath is all the same love."
7. Build and maintain trust

To become a better version of yourself, you must build and maintain trust. Trust, as I'm sure you are aware, is the most difficult thing to obtain and the easiest to lose. It is a lot like love. When you trust someone, it is because they have proved to you that they are worthy of that trust. And everything that they do make you trust them more. As soon as they betray your trust, even if it is with something very small and unimportant, you will not trust them until they prove themselves again to you. This is just like love because in love, we must trust one another. With out trust in a relationship, the relationship is doomed to fail due to the insecurities on both ends.


8. Quick to listen slow to wrath
If you want to be a better person, you have to be a better listener. You also have to understand that many people aren't always going to see eye to eye with you. It helps to remember that you are unique in your views, but be open to others' points of views as well, even if we may not always agree with them. If it makes sense to them, then they, in a sense, are correct. If what you are saying make sense to you, then you are also correct. peoples' points of views are just as valid as yours. If we judge people, then who's to say they have no right to judge you? I think this is something that everyone should know and act upon.
9. Lead with vision

A vision is not just a picture of what could b; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more. If you are working on something exciting that you really care about you don't have to be pushed; the vision pulls you. To be a better person is to be a better leader. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. Make your vision so clear that your fear become irrelevant. Create a vision that will make you want to jump out of bed in the morning.
10. Manage with a plan
To be the best version of yourself, you have to know how to manage things. To be the best at managing things and others, you must first learn to manage yourself. For this step, I would advise you to invest in an agenda or a daily planner. This can help you manage your time and efforts better and on the things that matter most. The more effort you put into managing your time, the more time you will have to do other things that you may enjoy doing, once all the other things are done with. "A dream written down with a date is a goal. A goal broken down into steps is a plan. A plan backed by action makes our dreams come true." - Greg S. Reid
11. Do what matters the most

In a world of infinite things that never end, people are constantly finding things to do. Between waking up and eating breakfast to brushing your teeth to go to bed at night and everything in between, people need to learn that in order to be successful and be the best you have to do what is of utmost importance first. This means, putting everything aside until the most important job of the day is done. Now of course the most important thing varies from person to person, but it must be done nonetheless.

12. Be accountable
The last and final principle for becoming your best is to be accountable. When you take responsibility for everything you do, bad or good, then you also become more reliable and trustable.To be accountable for your actions is important to be a better you because when you act, you have to think about the future. If you know what you are doing is wrong, and you know you will be accountable for your actions, you will stop doing bad things so that you may spare yourself the trouble of having to explain why you did what you did.

The History of the Web

10 Tips fro Being More Truthful

Ten Tips for Being More Truthful

Barbara A. Lewis

Wife, mother, religious worker, national award-winning author and educator.

The Ten Tips

1. Make a commitment to tell the truth.

2. Tell someone about your commitment.

 To commit to tell the truth is harder than it sounds. telling the truth makes life easier, but it may bring pain. To tell a lie is a sin, because lies are made in spite of people to spare yourself, even though later in life, that lie will eat at you. No matter how small it is. When you commit to tell the truth, then you may cause someone pain, even yourself, but eventually, it will have hurt less than a lie, and you will not have to live with a guilty conscience.
3. Think before you give a dishonest answer, explanation, sarcasm, or reason.
No matter how hard it may seem, to tell the truth and make someone cry is better than telling them a lie and feeding them false hope. According to the dictionary, a lie is a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive, in other words, an intentional untruth. Even the dictionary knows that a lie is intentional. If anyone contradicts it, it is because they themselves have told so many lies that they have accustomed themselves to it. This means that if they tell a lie, it is very possible that they did not mean to. It was just out of their habit. As the picture states, "Tell a lie once and all your truths become questionable."
4. Be careful of when and how you use exaggeration, sarcasm, or irony.
Using exaggeration, sarcasm, and irony are all some type of lying. When we stretch the truth, it becomes a lie, not telling the whole truth is a lie of omission. Lies are everywhere, even in places we wouldn't think they would. I believe that the place with the most lies is in a church and the place with the least lies are in the prisons. 
5. Be careful not to twist the truth or leave out any part of it.
A lie is defined as an intentional untruth, and to twist or omit the truth is to tell a lie. When in our first step we committed ourselves to only tell the truth, then we committed to tell the WHOLE truth. This means that we may not twist omit or in any way change the truth. Even if it may seem like the right thing, don't lie, because lies hurt more in the long run than the truth could ever hurt.


6.Don't indulge in little white lies.

"Saying "I'm fine," when you're not,
"It's nothing," when it's everything,
"I'm done," when you know you still wanna try"
Sometimes little white lies don't hurt and don't help anyone. But most of the time, the person who gets hurt the most, is yourself. White lies may seem little at first, but as time passes, they grow and grow and grow until they get so big that you can't control it. This then leads to the truth and can hurt more people than you would have originally hurt had you told the truth to begin with. Telling white lies hurts more people in the long run but it especially hurts you the most. Therefore it is best to avoid white lies as best you can no matter how small they may seem.



7. Watch out for silent lies.
Silent lies, I think are the worst kind of lies. When I was in middle school, I was bullied and because most people didn't say anything, it hurt me more than the bullying itself. Silent lies are when you omit something or if you are asked something and you just stay quiet. Sometimes these lies can help you though, such as in a criminal defense court, these lies are basically known as the fifth amendment.They are even included in the Miranda Rights. But to keep a silent lie to yourself to not get in trouble with the wrong people, then you are subliminally and unintentionally supporting the oppressor.
8. When you catch yourself lying, throw your mouth into reverse.
When you ever feel like lying, look into the future and see how much potential harm it could do. You may hurt yourself even worse than if you had told the truth, but you will also hurt the people around you. When you lie to a person, especially if they already know the truth, they might not end up having the same level of respect towards you anymore. This could potentially hurt you in the future because people might then not believe anything you say. Trust takes years to obtain and seconds to lose.
9. Talk to yourself.









10. Treat yourself when you tell the truth.

"How The Internet Works" Khan Academy

After watching "How the Internet Works" on Khan Academy, I have learned so many things. The first video explain the basics of the internet, or more precisely, the hardware, such as wires, cables, and WiFi. In the first video, Tess, an engineer from google explains that the Internet is a tangible physical system made to move information. She also explains that 8 bits make 1 byte, 1000 bytes make 1 kilobyte, and 1000 kilobytes make 1 megabyte. Bits are considered the atoms of information. In the second video, Paola, a Microsoft engineer, talks about how several devices can "talk" to each other. Internet protocols have allowed the internet to adapt and absorb new communication technologies such as new phones or new computers. This video also explains how all the devices on the internet have different addresses, like people and homes do. In the third video, Lynn, a spotify engineer explains the reliability of the internet and that data travels on the internet in a much less direct fashion as we may have thought. Lynn introduces us to TCP (Transmission Control Protocol). TCP manages the sending and receiving of all the data as packets, kind of like UPS or FedEx.The fourth video goes into depth about IP addresses as mentioned in the second video. Throughout the fifth video, Mia, a student a US Berkeley and a member of the Department of Defense, explains the significance of privacy on the internet. Because the internet is an open and public system, in order to help protect people's privacy, Mia explains how the internet uses several different "Keys" and codes to cover the information. The last video, explained by Jenny, who directs cyberspace investigations, tells the viewer about how hackers can hack into systems and how we can prevent that from happening. She also explains how viruses can infect and affect a persons computer. I learned a lot in these five videos. These videos have helped me be more aware as to what's really going on inside my computer.

10 Keys to Personal Power

10 Keys to Personal Power

Brian Tracy

briantracy.com

Key 1: Clarity

 "Have vision. Determine what you want to be, do, or have in life. Have a sense of direction and know where you are going. If you do not have clear specific goals in life, you are doomed forever to work for others who do."

Key 2: Competence

"If you commit to excellence, opportunities will always come your way. The harder you work, the better you get."

 Key 3: Concentration

"Make the best use of your time. Ask yourself  "is this the best use of my time?" before you start anything."

Key 4: Common Sense

•  Train your mind
•  Think things through
•  Listen to your intuition
•  Learn from setbacks

Key 5: Creativity

"Except the fact that every human is a genius. The hallmark of creativity is asking questions. The people who are most creative ask the most questions."

Key 6: Consideration

"The quality of your relationships with other people will determine you success in life."
"Develop the people skills you need to become a better communicator. Take courses in listening, speaking, etc."
"If you were to learn one new word a day, within 5 years, you'll be the most educated person in history."

Key 7: Consistency

"Dependable, steady predictable work is always superior to fast spurts of work." Be consistent in your relationships, your family, friends, your boss, your work. Be the person that people can depend upon. Then if you you'll do something you do it."

                                 Key 8:Commitment

"No success is possible without commitment. The ability to commit to yourself whole heartily is the basis of achieving success."
"Become totally absorbed in your wok. Be totally committed."

Key 9: Courage

"The fear of failure is the single greatest reason for failure in life"

Key 10: Confidence

"You only get confidence by doing things over and over again."

Reflection

Write a final all-encompassing reflection about the 10 Keys to Personal Power. How can they benefit you? Which key are you applying now, and what difference is it making in your life? How will you incorporate the other keys into your Life Planning plans?