Twitter!

Twitter is a simple online tool that allows the user to share what they are thinking about to their tweets (followers) or you can follow others to see what they have to say . Others can use twitter in a professional sense such as my ICT 12 teacher, Peter Vogel who uses twitter to share his knowledge on educational purposes to his followers.

2.0 Web Programs Tools

There are some new programs that we looked at today that involve flash. The first program we looked at was inudge.

Inudge is a site that has a unique music making tool that allows to user to create various combinations of musical notes together.

Another program that we looked at was sumo Paint 2.0 which allows the user to make pictures or to create symetrical shapes.

Top 10 Microsoft Programming languages

The top 10 programming languages by eweek are:
C++
C#
Visual Basic
IronPython
IronRuby
JavaScript
F#
PHP
"M"
Axum

You can find this website here.

Kindle e-reader arrives in Canada!

The Kindle e-reader is a new device by amazon that will allow the user to download digital books wirelessly. This product has been to 100 other countries within the last month and was delayed in Canada due to online retailers looking for the best deal/lowest price to run it using it's wireless capability. This device will allow readers to download books to Iphones, Ipods, Blackberry's, Google Androids or Palm Pres. Amazon.com will allow access to over 300,000 books. It will only be sold online for $259(U.S.) and shipping fees. The book and newspaper downloads will cost a bit extra. If you enjoy reading books or just want a cool new device you should definitely look into this! Click here to buy it now!

Class Colleagues' Blogs

My ICT class colleagues each maintain a blog. Here are the blog links:

Antonio B.
Xavier C.
Guy de L.
Peter K.
Chris L.
Christopher L.
Stephen L.
Nicholas M.
Jerome N.
Lambert N.
Tan N.
Jason P.
Michael P.
Gareth S.
Thomas T.
Chris V.

Blog Viewer Update

Today we were looking at visitors visiting our blogs, I found that the visitor with the largest screen resolution that visited my blog was a 1920 x 1200 screen.

At the moment i have 47 visitors and 34 of them are unique.

Moving on in ICT Class

After many classes of working on Turbo Pascal 7.0, we are now working on Microsoft Visual Basic. We've worked on programs such as weight calculator and number guesser in Turbo Pascal.

OLPC XO Laptop

Last year the students in this course held a fundraiser to buy two XO laptops. These laptops have been designed for use by students in third world countries. They are given to students to take home where in some cases they might be the only source of light. The class kept one laptop and the other was donated to the OLPC program.

The XO contains many innovative features such as daylight visible screens, a flash drive, Mesh networking, and a large collection of pre-installed software.

Poll Everywhere

We just visited Poll Everywhere today, http://polleverywhere.com It is a poll site that public users can vote on a topic that and it updates in real time. People can cast votes by texting using cellphones. Cellphones could be a valuable asset to the classroom. It should be used in a classroom environment.

Cellphones would be more useful if texting would be free or if everyone would have a cellphone to do so.

ICT 12

This class we visited the wolfram Alpha(http://www.wolframalpha.com/) site where detailed information about random things are given. In this site we looked up a binary code according to our seating. My binary code is 01000.

Another site that we visited was Google Analytics (www.google.com/analytics), which is a site that gives information about how much traffic there is to a particular site we sign it up to. We signed it up to our gmail account and added it to our blog. We did this by copying a code into our Google Analytics webcode.

Here are other sites

Nicholas Meiers: http://www.ict12nm.blogspot.com/
Lambert Nguyen : http://www.lamchopsict12.blogspot.com/

Class Update

This posting is being made in my ICT class. In this course, I am working with various programming languages, and presently I am exploring the legacy language Pascal. Some of the other languages I will be working with include: Python, visual basic, C++, and Java.

I have a school Googles Apps email address and a Gmail address. I need the Gmail address for some advanced Gogle Apps that aren't part of the education set.