Saturday, October 10, 2009

Today's video

Digital Animation with Tim&Moby


Digital animation is what people use to make the Brainpop movies. There are three kinds of animations: 2D and 3D. 2D and 3D each mean 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional. Brainpop uses good old 2D. They use a system called Flash. People making movies always have a window on their computer called stage. You can work on flash on a stage. To work the stage people use tweening. They make a start point and an end point and puts on still images called keyframes. Then the computer decides how the images should move. Lastly people upload the movie into the all-powerful Brainpop server. Making a movie can be complicated.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Today's Video

Cyberbullying with Tim&Moby


Bullies can attack even from the internet!! People called cyberbullies are people who send you mean messages and hurts your feeling. It was said in news that hundreds of teenagers die from killing themselves because of cyberbullying. The best way to stop cyberbullies to bother you is to stop them from sending you another message. You can do this by block their contact. If that doesn't work, you can report on users that bully you. Cyberbullies can bully you with email, blogging, leaving anonymous messages, or by sending you text messages. Do not fight back. Cyberbullies like you to fight back so they can humiliate you more. Do not become a cyberbully either. If someone bullies you, tell an adult immediately.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Today's Video

Copyright with Tim&Moby


A copyright is a protection to original works like a painting or a photo or a book or anything. The public must get the permission of the copyright owner to copy the work. The owner of the copyright also has the power to give the right to someone else. But you can only hold the copyright for a few years, and then the work become part of the public domain. A public domain is where your work can be used or copied by anyone. The internet also gives you protection. Even the U.S Congress talks about copyrights. But you can't copyright an idea. If some one copies your work without permission, he is infringement. If you are infringement, you can be sued. So if you have an creative idea, copyright it!!!

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Today's Video

Information Privacy with Tim&Moby


You should never share your private information on the internet. The internet is like a street with all these houses and carnivals and all sort of crazy stuff. If a guy from this street ask you for your name and address, you wouldn't tell him that, will you? If you go on an internet, you should read the net's privacy policy. But people can put rules at the bottom that you can't see.(Example: we will do whatever we want with your personal info as we please. we send them to spammers, ex-girlfriends, and chimerical companies. and there is nothing you can do about it sucker!!!!!(:<) Spammers are people who send stuff that you don't want. Some companies make money by gathering emails and selling them to spammers and identity thieves. They can hack your bank account. You should be always keeping your private information safe.

Monday, October 5, 2009

Today's Video

Computer viruses with Tim&Moby


A computer virus is a soft ware that wreaks your computer and reproduce it self. There are three types of viruses: regular virus, Worm, and Trojan Horse. The regular virus can be harmless or destructive. The Worm virus can go into an unprotected computer and wreak the whole network of computers. A Trojan Horse virus is a tricky one that can disguise itself as an gift and wreaks your computer inside out. Did Moby really ruin Tim's computer?

Sunday, October 4, 2009

today's photo

Jacques Cousteau and "Diving Saucer".

Mr. Jacques has created a flying saucer to look under the ocean. The saucer is much like it's ancestor, made by another professor, named Roger. However, the saucer looks more like a USO. So some submarine pilots might mistake it for a real USO!Ha ha!

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Today's photo

Boy and Turkey, Guatemala.

A little boy is playing with an old turkey in a market place. They entertained a lot of visitors by doing the traditional dance named"son".