gamers solve scientific problems

How did gamer's use the computer GameFoldit to solve the protein folding mystery? 
The gamer's used the computer to solve puzzles to try and help find the foldit.
Who can particpate in this problem solving and be a player in Foldit? 
Anyone and they don't have to have a background .
What can critical thinking do for science? 
If you could solve a mystery through gaming for any kind of disease or illness in the world, what would it be? 
I would make one on cancer because many people die from cancer and also because doctors try so hard to find a cure but they cant.

2 single story 2011

                                   "Danger of a single story" 
                                      Chimamanda Adichie

1. What does it mean to have a 'single story' about a place or community?                                                                                                                                                  Is when you judge a place or community when you have never seen it.
2. Describe a single story you have heard told about your community. What is missing from that story? How could people learn more about that community?                                                                                   I once thought that east Austin was a bad place, but as we started doing service learning projects i figured that it wasn't, i think people can learn more about a community if they do research or really get to know that place 

1. How could a game let players experience many stories about a place or community?                                                                   If the game has true facts about the community.

Cyberbullying

This is my first blog post of the 2011-2012 school year.

What is a cyberbully?
A bully on the Internet

what are the different types of cyberbulyling?

gossip,impersonation,exclude,and threatening

What should you do if you are being cyberbullied?

Tell an adult.

What are some reasons people cyberbully others?

Because they have no sense and are jealous.

THe lightning thief

The lightning thief movie was awesome.Itt was also wayy different from the book because in the book grover is white.i liked the movie better than the book. i liked the movie better because in the movie u watch and the book you read.

apollo 13

The movie watched was Apollo 13. Apollo 13 was about these three austronauts that went up to space to go to the moon.The astronouts never got to go the moon because the oxygen tank fell out and something blew up so they had to turn around early. They almost died.But htye didnt because they got lucky.

The lightning thief chapter 1-2

The boring book we are reading is the lightning thief by percy jackson.In the first chapter it talked about his self and how he is dyslexix.It also talks about his friend Grover and how he is really hairy. But the main idea of the first chapter was when they went on a field trip and percy killed his insane teacher with a sword.The second chapter was about these two old ladies knitting these huge pair of sox and they clip the string.

globaloria:/

My experience working by myself and in a team stunk.It stunk because i dont know anything and my game stunk and i didnt finish i wasnt even almost finished.I have no idea what I did that i was proud of, i guess theres one thing like when i made my monkey move.I learned im not good at making games and im not good at working overall.I learned about my topic that theres deforestation in brazil.I also learned in globaloria all of these different codes.All i learned in globaloria is how to draw and covert stuff into symbols and i barely know how to put stuff on the wiki.I kinda liked globaloria.The only thing i liked the modt about globaloria was being in flash.