5/22/2020 0 Comments May 22, 2020 Final Blog PostI just wanted to say that I am very thankful, and lucky to have been surrounded with amazing teachers and a great community at BHS. I am starting to realize this, and appreciate it more and more as my senior year is coming to an end. I have learned so many interesting concepts and have had many ideas stem off of what I was being taught in my Help Desk Class.
This week I continued with the HTML concept. I was getting more in depth with this language. I was reseaching random websites code. I first started by identifying the URL. Then I viewed the page source, from there many pages of code for this particular website showed up. I proceeded to pick a random line of code and Research the command before the code. I learned many HTML specific vocabulary words. https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ With all of that said I want to thank Mr. Leroy Wong, my technology teacher for all that he has taught us. He always keeps us in mind. No matter the time or day he always finds the time to reach out to us with helpful information, fun ideas, programs we can join. He uses his own resources to make sure we have all the supplies and equipment we need in class. The class has countless computers and gadgets. He loves his job and is very passionate and we all recognize that! Thank you and good luck with next years students!
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5/8/2020 0 Comments May 8th Code.orgCODE.ORG This week I have been working on code.org for my Technology Business class. Code.org is a non-profit organization and eponymous website led by Hadi and Ali Partovi that aims to encourage people, particularly school students in the United States, to learn computer science. I have been working on coding basics such as making titles, headers, adding images, paragraphs, and other basic commands. Computer programming is defined as a process of developing and implementing various set of instructions given to the computer to perform a certain predefined task. Computer Programming is easy if it is appropriately managed. There are many computer programming languages available so finalizing the right language is not an easy task. Most important basic elements for programming languages are, Data Types, Variables, Keywords, Logical and Arithmetical Operators, If else conditions , Loops, Characters and Arrays, Functions, and Input and Output Operations. For my assignment I created my own website about myself, wrote a few paragraphs and added some headings and also added some pictures. I coded all of those aspects into my project. 5/1/2020 0 Comments May 01st, 2020Profit Loss Projections:
This week I am continuing my work on the business creation spreadsheet. In particular The Profit Loss projection. A profit and loss, or P&L, forecast is a projection of how much money you will bring in by selling products or services and how much profit you will make from these sales. You can also create your own forecast, using a basic spreadsheet. Google Applied Digital Skills gave me a short video to watch on how to properly set up the spreadsheet. I had to download a serrate spreadsheet from last week. I added my income streams and how much revenue I will make per month. Along with that, I did my gross profit. The main point for this spreadsheet was to make sure that you make more money than you spend. For example, on employees salary and expenses. Some issues I had this week were trying to figure out the format of the spreadsheet. I have not used many spreadsheets. As time goes on, one of my goals was to master the spreadsheet. Google Applied Digital Skills: Hello students and staff, this week I continued working on my spreadsheet for my investing business idea. I finished up the expenses, and general costs of starting my investment company. Then, google prompted me to learn how to the SUM function in the spreadsheet. This allowed me to add up all of my startup costs calculating them all at once. This is much simpler than doing all of the math manually. I also used the FREQUENCY function. This calculates the frequency distribution of a one-column array into specified classes. And lastly the TRANSPOSE function. Which transposes the rows and columns of an array or range of cells. Next google prompted me to find out my safety net, or reserve of cash just incase I overspend in my startup idea. I did so by taking 10% of my total startup cost. I also had to account for inventory, which my business has none. My business is strictly investments. I have no need for extra space like a warehouse. I am also working on a business plan and description. This will include my goals, target market, product and service details, and about me page. I am also looking into some potential competitors. Coding: I have also been working on Code.org with Mrs. Andersons class. I have learned a lot about formatting paragraphs, and titles in code. Overview: This weeks activity was extremely enjoyable. Who knows maybe one day this very rough idea of a business can become a reality. Google Applied Digital Skills: This week I have been working on Googles, Applied Digital Skills. Google Applied Digital Skills is a free online curriculum that can be accessed by individual learners or used in a classroom setting. Project-based units help students practice basic skills using Google's G Suite for Education applications (Gmail, Docs, Sheets, etc.). We get to choose our own topics of interest, that makes this assignment more in tune with us personally. My Experiences With Google's G Suite: I have chosen to use Finance, and business creation as my subject for the next few weeks. The portal is connected with Google Sheets, and does a fantastic job integrating all of these applications together in a easy format. After you have chosen a topic of interest, you can now begin. Google prompts you with videos, lots of helpful information, along with interactive instructions, and links. Google Sheets: Google Sheets is a spreadsheet program included as part of a free, web-based software office suite offered by Google within its Google Drive service. It is a modern version of Excel. Google Sheets is a spreadsheet creator in which you can manage your finances, start a budget, or calculate expenses for your business, etc. Personally I am starting to calculate expenses for a business idea. My Business Idea: My business idea is an investment company. This company primarily invests into commercial Real Estate, and Leverage funds in the stock market. This week I worked on finding partners to help me start, calculting what percentage everyone owns, salaries, expenses, loans, an office space, and private investors. 4/3/2020 0 Comments Coronavirus Blog 4/03/2020I want to start off saying that the past 3 weeks have been extremely difficult and unpredictable for everyone. It is important to use a day-to-day basis. A Pandemic has not happened in anyones lifetime. Nobody likes the idea of having too stay isolated inside their homes, and keeping physical, face-to-face social life to a minimum. But this is now a reality. School has been canceled since the the 13th of March 2020. Everyone had bad luck on that Friday the 13th. Then April first came about, but this is not an April fools joke! Now that I have covered the basic situation that has engulfed the world, I will continue to talk about adapting, and some short term solutions for this issue. First off for myself and my family, we are very close and have many family gatherings. This has affected my family quite a bit. I have lots of elderly family members that are at high risk. I have family in Italy. Some of my family in Italy is over 100 years old. So you can imagine how we feel right now. Another example are my Grandparents. They are 91 years old and alive alone in Arlington MA. I would regularly go visit them multiple times a week and help them out, and keep them company and make them laugh. But Coronavirus took my family away from me. As you may suspect my elderly grandparents do not have any technology in their house except a landline phone. So thankfully for phones I get to call them everyday. I also use an old school tactic to safely in interact with them, I talk to them through the window outside their house. Thankfully, the school has responded to this Pandemic in a very timely and efficient way. They did the best they could for how fast this virus spread, and the limited time and supplies they had. The school also created an online schooling program. I am thankful that myself and the other students can now continue, and finish top their high school career. There are also lots of grey areas, and lots of questions that many students have. But as of right now, the answers are non existent. I am not blaming the school by any means, I give them a lot of credit. Google Hangouts: We have been using Google Hangouts, this product works well and it is efficient. It is a way to connect students and teachers. So far we have only used Google products. Such as Classroom, Slides, Sites, Hangouts, Docs, And Drive. We have been following a Remote Learning Schedule and it works well. But it did get boring, not interacting with students and teachers in person. I like the idea of getting participation grades instead of traditional letter grades. Hopefully this remains the reality for the following weeks. I Hope You And Your Family's Stay Safe! 2/27/2020 0 Comments Semester 2 Help DeskCoSpaces:
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