Week 5 at Gaston Early College High School

Another week at Gaston Early College High School has passed by, leaving it's students and faculty members in awe of the challenging, yet fun, program that we call our school. Week five has definitely been challenging, with all of the tests and homework, but nonetheless, it's been great.

To start the week off with a change, we were assigned new peer editing partners. We have those partners so that they can give us positive feedback and suggestions on our Thursday current event article posts and our weekly review blog posts. We were also given a new peer editing grading rubric and new stems words.

Digital citizenship, May 25, 2012

The best day that I had this week was on Tuesday. We took a typing test, reviewed our grammar homework, and best of all, we were introduced to an online program called Digital Driver's License.

Digital Driver's License is a cool website that teaches us about Digital Citizenship, Email Etiquette, and much more valuable lessons about the online world. The lessons are actually fun, and I greatly value this flawless website. I completed the section 'Respect Yourself/ Respect Others'.

Another great tool that I was introduced to was online photo editing. I learned how to take a photo and add frames, captions, effects, and backgrounds to it. It's really fun, and I know that it will come in handy throughout my high school career when I'm doing projects online. The photo editing website that I used is called PhotoFunia. The photos below are the photos that I edited. Also, there's a brief tutorial on getting started with PhotoFunia.

Original photo for PhotoFunia editing/ woman. December 22, 2009

The original picture is represented in a negative way.

The original picture is represented in a positive way.

                   Tutorial to PhotoFunia

                        

Tracks we leave, February 17, 2010

We also received definitions to accompany our lesson unit on digital citizenship.

Reputation: a general impression held by others and the public
Persist: to continue on and endure
Context: different factors that surround information that help determine its meaning
Tag: words and terms that describe a photo or video. Also known as a 'caption'

Overall, this week has been amazing. I'm glad that I'm starting to get the hang of being in a completely new environment that we know as high school. I hope next week can be just as good as this week, and as always, happy blogging!