Googles Virtual Reality Tech Article September 29,2015

-Google announced its virtual reality (VR) Expeditions initiative for schools earlier this year, but now the company is making a big push to take it to classrooms around the world following a successful pilot program

-In case you didn’t catch it first time around, the Expeditions Pioneer Program is the next best thing to a real-life field trip, offering students a chance to visit faraway locations – think Great Wall of China/Great Barrier Reef, as well as places a little too far for a school bus to reach, like Mars) – using VR gear.

-A classroom kit comprises ASUS smartphones, Google Cardboard viewers or Mattel View-Masters to transform the phones into VR headsets, a tablet enabling the teacher to direct VR tours, and a router that allows Expeditions to run without an Internet connection.

-Teachers can already choose from more than 100 tours with content provided by the likes of educational publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Lexus Hover Board Tech Article September 22, 2015

-The new Lexus Hover Board is like a skateboard that floats a couple of inches above the ground

-To ride this the "Slide" contains series of magnets and superconductors cooled by liquid nitrogen

- The levitation effect of super cooled superconductors has been known for ages now, but deploying it on such a scale requires some serious effort

- The company has built a custom skate park in Barcelona, Spain, upon which its prototype hover board can be used

- In fact, this board works only at that custom-crafted park built at an undisclosed but surely huge expense.

- Still, it seems to have some limitations, with pro skateboarder Ross McGouran struggling to keep the thing from dragging on the ground at times. 

- That's despite liquid nitrogen refills every 10 minutes or so

- This Hover Board is still not for sale yet

Web 2.0 Multimedia Blog Pre-Posting

     This year I have some pretty cool classes like Web 2.0 for example. Web gives me a chance to show what I know about modern technology, but for now I will be talking about one of my content area classes that is going to be very important this year and in life itself. The class I'm talking about is English. This year my English teachers name is Mrs. Hunter, shes really cool if you aren't loud and disruptive.As long as we respect her she respect us and that's the way it should be. Mrs. Hunter is really nice and she cares about her students even if they are being disruptive.
     What I expected to learn when I first started English with Mrs.Hunter was the usual, which is basically teaching you how to read and write properly, but turns out it was so much more than that when I first walked in I was ready to leave already but when she first introduced herself and told us what we were going to learn this year I knew I was in for a trip. She told us we'll be learning about poetry, plays, she also said we'll be learning some stuff about William Shakespeare, etc.
     In English so far we have learned is our literary terms, we haven't really done anything else yet but for our future lesson plans I am very excited to learn about them especially poetry and William Shakespeare. Sadly we haven't used technology yet in her class but hopefully in the future we will be able to access technology in our English class. Mrs. Hunters grading policy is forty percent for anything grand. For example grand things would be like a quiz, tests, projects, and anything else that is important for class.

IO Hawk Tech Article September 18, 2015

-The IO Hawk is a recent, and already a very popular transporting device.

-If you haven't already noticed, public transportation is undergoing a transformation. That transformation comes in the form of electric bicycles, skateboards, scooters, but for right now I'd like to talk about the unconventional IO Hawk. 

-The IO Hawk is a designed device to effortlessly glide like basically a Segway but with a more modern structure. 

-This device is a self balancing board. 

-It measures 24.65 inches  

-Weighs about 22 pounds. 

-It goes as fast as 6 mph

-It does not have handle bars or any sort of steering contraption. 

-It's moves based on subtle pressure from your feet and body.