Local PLN 7

Bright comet from The Denver Post

This is really cool, I’ve never seen a comet before and it would be really cool to see one, but I don’t think that it said when it would come. Why doesn’t this stuff get on the news more often? Space is so cool and instead of hearing about it all we hear is who raped someone or who died. Something is defiantly wrong with our society and we really need to fix it and fast. Not just stories about space but with other important things. Many good stories are being pushed aside to stories about celebrities or scandals. I personally don’t want anything to do with that, I want to know more about what happens with today in science or sports. So skip the sad stories and weather and make more room for stuff that doesn’t make people fell bad and instead informs them.

World PLN 6

Olympic Tickets crash from ESPN.com

Hmmm, let me think, has this happened before? Oh ya, that’s right, it only happened a week ago with World Series tickets! What is going on here? Why can’t they figure it out? I can maybe understand a first time team messing it up, but isn’t China supposed to be the most technologically advanced country with all their computers and what not? How could the most famous and popular world event ticket center crash with all the money and time being put into things? They should have backups or something along those lines. I can only imagine (and can’t wait for) the winter Olympics in Toronto in ’10, those ticket sales should just be a hoot. Hopefully we all learn from this. Maybe Toronto won’t screw the tickets up, even with the super advanced technology that Canada is known for. Just kidding, were going to learn from this and I’m pretty confident that the Olympic squad or team or whatever there called will be on to of it. By the way, this summer will be twice as good as normal because of the Olympics.

Local PLN 5

Toddler rescued from air duct from the Denver Post

HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN! A little kid falls, sorry, a baby, falls down a seven foot air duct, that’s a long way. I know it was an accident and no one was seriously hurt, but what was the mother doing at the time. I know that she told her other children to stop, and that elderly man dove down the duct to try and help. Did he think it through though? It’s a seven foot air duct and I’m pretty sure that he was not seven feet tall. What was he thinking, he really could have injured himself. Luckily, no one was hurt. Lets hope, the two elder siblings got the beat down, like seriously hard to the ground, ten spankings each and two hours in the room. Not really, but seriously they need to be punished. We can’t have these hooligans running around our streets, opening air ducks for anyone to fall into. That was a joke, I really don’t mean that, but something needs to be done. It’s not really that big of a deal, I just hope it doesn’t happen again.

Edu. PLN 5

Digital Native photo of the Day from the Fischbowl

I can even relate to this. My nine year old sister has much more available to her than I had six years ago. She has plenty of video games to play, that I very, very generously helped to contribute (about 65% is my money and another 25% is from parents and gifts). I didn’t get my first video games until I was 12, she was six. Not only that, but if I were to even try to play the games she is playing now on the computer six years ago, it might take a good ten minutes to load every thing, and the graphics would just be horrible. DVDs’ also add to the collection; remember having to “fast forward” all the commercials? Well the only time she sees previews is in movie theaters. Not only technology, but the teaching styles have changed, the environment has changed. It’s not the Back Street Boys or Britney Spears, It’s Hannah Montana and who knows what else she listens to. Even after all this change, the classics still pull through though. Riding bikes was and still is the thing to do as well as Christmas and playing video games.

Edu. PLN 4

Arapahoe celebrity from the Rocky Mountain News

This is so true. I watched it about three times before it hit me that this was the reality of it all. I couldn’t believe all the info on it as well as the publicity that Mr.Fisch got. He got national attention, even international attention for just an eight minute presentation. I’ve been going to school for about two months, that doesn’t sound like that long, but
I would think if anyone went anywhere they would relies that they were in the presence of a celebrity. I didn’t and I don’t think that half the school did. One of my only questions is where he got all of this info. I’m sure he is a respectable man, but we don’t know if the sites he used are legitimate. Did he just Google search this, or did he come across it while reading something and thought it would be cool to show a bunch of over look facts to teachers. I give the man a lot of credit, he did a great job. But sooner or later you have to wonder where he got all of his information.

Local PLN 4

"Illegal" txt messages from the Denver Post

Why do school administrators insist on doing this? They know very well that they are violating freedom of speech, but they keep on doing it. If you have a hunch on a crime, don’t start violating others rights. That’s just sinking to the “criminals” level. Here’s another good question, did this guy even have cigarettes? If he didn’t have them in his possession, how can he look through his cell phone? I might be wrong, but I thought it was only illegal to purchase tobacco, not use it. This is probably not right, but that is what I remember. Not is this only bad if he was innocent, but what if the administrators read something that the student want him to read. Like personal information and stuff like that. Cell phones are very personal to people because it has pictures and txt messages of course, but some have video and music that some don’t want viewed. I personally don’t get txt messaging, but I know people who do and I know that they say stuff that don’t want peers at school to read, and they’re not illegal mind you. This is the same as reading email or regular mail from the post office. I don't get it, why do they think that they can just do this. It just boggles my mind. I just don't understand, this just stinks.

Local PLN 3

Bias TBS announcers from The Denver Post

Why do we have two hicks announcing the NLDS and the NLCS, when half the teams are in the far west and Chicago isn’t even on the cost? But yet we have totally bias judges that “happen” to know all the Philies names, but only seem to know half of are names? Not only did they total disrespect our organization, but they were boring. They stated all the obvious statements and I think I herd one of them say that if the Rockies get a double play, it could end the inning. The funny/stupid part is there were already two outs. All they did all inning was state the obvious and not give us any stats. I love the Rockies announcers because they allow us to connect to the game and make it fun. They add historical facts and an analysis on someone if they are doing really good or really bad. All I here from these guys are the pitch count and how much the hot doges are at the stadium. They need some guys that have played the game so they can actually tell us why someone might have done something wrong. This may sound like a very stupid topic to choose for my weekly PLN, but it has to do more with the fact that just because you’re a big shot, doesn’t mean you’re the best. One guy, Don Orsillo, is a veteran RED SOX announcer. What in the name of heaven is he doing hosting a NATIONAL league series. Boston is also like 200 miles from Philadelphia, Denver is like 2,000. The other guy, Joe Simpson, has announced for 15 years for the Atlanta Braves. This is the guy that makes it so bias because the Braves are in the same division as the Philies, so already knows their names. I don’t know, we need some guys from ESPN or something like that, at least they tell us stats about the players more often than 9 innings every game.