thinkingg?

I haven't written in a whilee. I wanted to say I have a good start on my project. I was struggling at first trying to figuring out my action plan and what I wanted to do with my project.

I was thinking about changing my project because I thought everything would be easier with my new topic but I wasn't allowed to change it.

Right now, I have an action plan thought of but I need to work on my interview and get my things together. So once I have everything in order hopefully things will start to come together for me.

Reflection Blog

Understanding the Task - Proficient

Setting Personal Goals - Proficient

Gathering Resources - Proficient

Accessing Previously Learned Information - Proficient

Managing Your Time - Proficient

Maintaining Organization - Proficient

Controlling for Quality - Proficient

did you know... ?

· Americans have a better survival rate than Europeans for common cancers.
· The first study that connected smoking and cancer was published in 1950.
· Pediatric cancers, also known as childhood cancers, are a great example of the success of clinical trial.
· Last year, cancer cost $156.7 billion in the US.
· the human body has a superb system of natural defenses against diseases and illness, including cancer and it's easy to use?
· That smoking won’t cause just lung cancer but many other cancers and illnesses?
· Breast cancer is the second most common type of cancer aside from lung cancer in both men and women.
· The cancer death rate has dropped nearly 20% in 15 years.
· Prostate cancer is the most common cancer with an estimated 186,320 cases diagnosed in 2008.
Clinical trials show what and what doesn't work in medicine and they are the best way for doctors to learn what works in treating diseases like cancer.

keywords for topic.

- cancer, support, lymphoma, skin, stem cells, blood cells, breast cancer, radiotherapy, chemo

Reflection Blog

1. I rate my productivity today a 8 because I worked well and got a lot of websites for me to get my information and got good questions.

2. Listening to music makes me more productive because if everyone listens to music then they can't get distracted easily by just talking to someone. So listening to music can help people actually focus on what they need to get done.

Haiti Questions

1. What kind of things are we doing to help them?
2. Where did people go if they didn't have any homes?
3. How many are there that died from the tragedy?
4. Is there enough food to provide for everyone?

Warm-up Blog

- This means that if you ask a question that you aren't sure of the answer, you can always learn something from it. But if you don't ask a question you won't gain anything from not knowing the answer.

Reflection Blog

1. True
2. True
3. 7
4. Cancer
5. B
6. What causes cancer and how does it spread throughout the body?

Warm-up Blog

1. An independent learner possesses as being a better person, developing skills in multiple areas, who goes to their expectations and tries to succeed, you can make your own decisions even if you have to ask for help, and someone who finds what their suppose to do and their requirements to do it.

2. Being an independent person later in life helps you grow as a person and gives you the advantage of doing your own thing because you shouldn't live up to anyone elses' expectations, you should live up to your own.

Reflection Blog

http://cancer.about.com/od/newlydiagnosed/a/whatcancer.htm

Throughout my websites, I found important information relating from how many different types of cancer there is to how does it spread throughout the body and it is important to know what kind of information can be useful to develop a topic.

Warm-up Blog

1.
- How does cancer spread throughout the body?
- What type of cancer is most common?
- How does someone know if it is active or in remission?

2.
http://www.healthcastle.com/cancer_general_mets.shtml
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/commoncancers

Warm-up Blog

1. In a website there should be many details throughout the page and it should be neat for someone to read for a website to be trustworthy. In a trustworthy person, you know you can trust them and they are there for you. When you go to a website, you can trust the information there and what you see.

2. To ensure that a website is trustworthy, you can make sure that everything on the page is correct. You can compare them to different websites to ensure that the website is trustworthy.

Important parts for a Grad Project

For a grad project, three important parts would be goal setting, an action plan, and growth. These help you focus on a topic and accomplish what you need to and growing as a person.

The hardest part would be an action plan because that is where you have to come up with something that you are interested in and make it work as a grad project. The easiest part is growth because that is something that as you work on the grad project develops by itself.

Passion for Projects

1. You should be interested in doing a graduation project because it is something that you can pick your own topic and participate in something that you can present to other people. It should be considered a "graduation project" rather than a senior project because then it's not just a project that you work on in senior year, you have to do one so you are able to graduate.

2. A graduation project aligns with:
- the mastery of reading, writing, and communication.
- knowing and applying the core concepts of math, the social, physical, and life sciences, civics, and history, geography, the arts, and health and fitness.
-thinking analytically and creatively and integrating experience and knowledge to form reasoned judgments and to solve problems.
-understanding the importance of work.

3. A natural component of a graduation project is technology. It helps students focus on a concept that they want to work with. Students should work with them everyday and it should be something that is useful to them.

4. Students can use products such as a steam engine that they made; and someone used a computer-aided design software program.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1. In my opinion, a graduation project is something that you can express yourself to other people and put it together in a presentation. It can relate to something that you have a career interest in, or can be another topic that you want to do a project on.

2. For a graduation project to be successful, you should have a strong topic that can explain important information and you should have a lot of research on that topic. You should have an action plan and something that motivates you to make it complete.

For Some, the Blogging never stops.

Do you think constant blogging indicates signs of an unhealthy obsession or a harmless, spirited pastime? Why?

- I feel that if it is an obsession, it can be unhealthy because you can lose a relationship with family and friends, and you might lose a job or something important to you. If you blog every once in a while, meanwhile still communicating with family and friends and doing everything that you normally do, it wouldn't hurt anyone so it's not the one thing that you have to do.

What makes another person's blog worth reading?

- If you start reading someone else's blog and it is interesting, then you will probably continue reading it. Reading something that is boring isn't worth your time so you shouldn't read something unless you find it interesting.

By what "rules" do you think fellow bloggers should abide, and why?

- I think that people shouldn't post a blog every hour of every day. If they have something they want to get out, it would be good to write it down. I also think that no one should post any bad comments to other people, because that wouldn't help someone if they already had a bad day or something.