Deleting, banning or getting rid of any information that may cause someone to be upset, sad or angry. That is the definition of censorship. Some thing are censored like XXX (don’t want to say the word), bigotry (prejudice) or sites,blogs etc., about the government that the government thinks is bad or wrong.

Some of you may think that censor just means, ex., censoring a song because it has to much swear words or people don’t want their children to hear that kind of stuff. Well that is not the half of it. Youtube doesn’t let any XXX stuff, or any of that in manner, on their site because they think it’s wrong and bad. If Youtube did see anything like that they would flag it and then ban it from their site so no one would have to see that kind of garbage.

Another example would be sites or blogs that say stuff like “I hate the government!” or “They don’t give us any freedom! I want a new president!”. In Canada and other countries, doing stuff like that is okay. We are aloud to say what we have to say. But in other places like Egypt, if someone made a blog saying stuff like that then they would be arrested by nightfall and would have their site deleted so no one would see what they had to write.

I think that if something need to be censored, then go off and censor it! You wouldn’t want your children to come across a dirty website would you? Or hear curse words in music? It’s as simple as that.

If you would like to know more about censorship then you should visit my teacher’s site. http://remoteaccess.typepad.com/.

Speaking of Mr. Fisher… We had to read his post about Censorship, Audience, and International Collaboration and we had to answer a little question he asked us. Was it right in censoring the terrorism video? Well to me I think that people would have got offended. It would have made them mad thinking that we hate America. Well personally, I don’t. Even though my friends were just making a video and putting in what they thought dose not make it bad for what they have done. Some people would have got a laugh from it. I have to say it was kinda funny but others would think not. So short form really would be yes. Yes I think it was the right thing to do and delete the picture of Mr. Bush.

Well that is all the time I have for now so good-bye my people and peace!

-Tyler

What have you learned about your topic?

I learned stuff about global warming that I never knew before like global warming might cause an ice age in Europe, the weather pattern is changing and are making animals migrate and that sea level will rise about 10-20 feet from melting glaciers.

What have you learned about collaborating locally and internationally?

I learned that working together with people in other places of the world can sometimes be fun. You can get to know one another, put your minds together and make friends. I really had fun with my project even thought I didn’t really get to talk to my partners in Malaysia and Colombia.

What would have made this project easier/better/more interesting?

I would have liked to connect with each other and talk it over about how the project should be and what might need improvements. This would have made the project more interesting and better for me and my partners.

What have you learned about telling a story combining pictures/music/video/voice/text?

It was very fun but difficult. Some pictures we needed were hard to find and we also needed the right size of pictures for the movie. A really hard one to find was a burning earth so Me and Dustin have to make one on paint… But after a while, we got the pictures we needed. Then came the video. It took us along time to find the right video. Then after a while… again, we found the perfect video for our… video. When we thought we were done, Mr. Fisher told us that we couldn’t put the hole video in so we had to cut pieces in it and, kind of, make our own video. The music for our video wasn’t hard to find but now we regret picking it… Last thing, well we did it first but I’m talking about it last and… you get my drift, were text and were really easy to do. We just choose ones that fit the scene.

Well it’s time for me to go now, see ya!

-Tyler

Hello people!

One day in science we started to learn about solutions and mixtures. Here are the four common mixtures:

Heterogeneous Mixture (Aka Mechanical Mixture): Which means you can see all the substances that are in the object.

Examples: granola bars, bird seeds and some breads

Homogeneous Mixture: Also most the same as a Heterogeneous but you can’t see the different substances in it.

Examples: Kool-aid or water

Saturated Solutions: A solution that has all its space filled up.

Example: When you make ice tea and not all the crystal particles are used up and they just lay at the bottom of the glass.

*Sorry couldn’t find a picture for this one*

Unsaturated Solutions: Which is the opposite of Saturated. Unsaturated solutions have their spaces not filled yet.

Example: Your making ice tea and see no ice tea particles on the bottom of the glass. This tells you that there is still room for more ice tea mixture.

Hello.

Tyler here! Welcome back to my blog! Here I am writing a post to the kids from Blogical Minds.

1.What is your favourite
or the most interesting thing you like about blogging?

My favorite thing about blogging would be that people all over the world can see how my day went or whats up with me and if someone has same likes as me, they comment me and I can get to know them better! Soooo short form would be making friends all over the world.

2. How do you feel
when you get comments?

I feel happy that people accually read my blog! It’ also good that people comment on stuff that I should fix up on my blog so I can have a better one!

3. How did you feel
when you first started blogging? Were you nervous, scared, happy? How?

I felt kinda nervous. I didn’t really know what to write about. But after a while I got some ideas and blogged, blogged, BLOGGED! You just have to wait for an idea to  come along.

 4. Is blogging a part
of your life?

Haha! No! I don’t blog as much as my classmates. My life isn’t that exciting to talk about! Haha!

There are some challenges when it comes to working internationally. Sometimes you can’t get a hold of your partner and don’t know exactly what your to do. Another can be if your partner dose not finishes the work and you get stuck doing the whole thing. Some advantages could be meeting (chatting) with others all around the globe. You can also share knowledge with people that you have in common with so you may get to know them better. In my opinion, I agree with this project that lets us have the opportunity to work together, share knowledge and make new friends with other people like us around the world. 

Well thats all the time I have for today. See ya around!

-Tyler   

Hello! My name is Tyler Byblow! I am 14 years old and now living in Snow Lake, Manitoba. I was born in the big city Winnipeg of Manitoba and moved 6 times in my life, which I hated. My new school is JHK Kerr School and my teacher is the one and only Mr. Fisher! Some of my hobbies are to draw, play games and do dumb tricks and… that’s about it. When I moved here, I was pretty bummed. I knew that the work at school would be a little challenging for me… at first. I also knew that making friends would be even harder. But after a couple of months, I made a whole bunch of friends! Now I’m here to talk to teens about “Moving”. A lot of teens, like myself, have to go through moving to different town, cities, provinces and countries. Moving, sometimes, have a big change on teen’s lives. They get scared of things like “Will I make any friends?” “How will this years go in my new school?” and last, “Will I be bullied or picked on?” When I moved town to town, I got worried about those things too even when I moved back to the town I was last at. I was afraid that no one even cared I was gone and I would have no friends. Other teens get too scared and pretend to be someone they are not just to fit in. That is how some kids get to become troublemakers and start doing stuff that is bad for them. I almost got to that stage. I don’t want to make that mistake ever again. Now talking about troublemakers brings me to the subject, “Drugs”. When people become bad, they start hanging out with the wrong crowd and start doing the wrongs things. They get tempted to do stuff like drink alcohol or smoke. But they will end up like all the rest. Lung cancer, brain damage, you name it, most likely, you got it. Alcohol is just as bad. Alcohol damages your brain and makes you do really dumb things like get a tattoo or a piercing and when you wake up in the morning you find a whole bunch of money in your closet or a big tattoo on your back that says Jim and then say “I- I did something dumb, didn’t I?” and continue the day with a hangover. Now you know.

Well (yawn), time to hit ye old dusty trail.

Goodbye and thanks for visiting my site!

-Tyler 

My 2 weeks off was great. For X-mas I got 2 games, a computer game, Chinese finger traps, 2 new bandanas and etc. What did all of you get for X-mas? I didn’t really do anything on my break except play World of Warcraft and hang out with people. But when it was time to come back to school I was very happy to be back! I missed Mr. Fisher and his lectures. That’s right, I said it! the only thing that was forgotten was homework. Well I have to go. Come by any time to see what I’m up to.

Goodbye

I fixed the comment problem… I hope. Well now go and try to leave comments at my blog to check!

Cya!

-Tyler

Sorry sorry sorry!

I accidently turned off my comment thing becuase of all the SPAM! I will fix it soon!

see ya, talk to you later!