Swiss school

Notes:

SUMAS

- SUMAS is located in Switzerland and students like it because they have a lot of festivals and parties. It is also a very safe place to live in. 

- SUMAS is located in the green IUCN Building in Gland

- It offers an MBA in Sustainability Management and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Sustainability Management.

- Students leave that school with a deep knowledge of sustainability and how to bring it to life.

Case Study

- Buildings, cars, foods, waste, co2 emissions make 80% of the environmental impact.

- Measured with ecological footprint.

- By 2050, if we don't make changes to our ways of producing and consuming, we will need twice the earth's surface to absorb waste and the co2 that we produce. 

- starting to make ecological products.

An inconvenient truth

- hottest year was 2005

- humans are causing global warming

- it increases every year

- temperature increasing causes strong storms

- if the Antarctic melts, many places will drown.

Flight Moffett to Phoenix 

- they can use things like refrigerators to reduce the energy they use by half. 

- they could fly a plane with solar energy.

Arizona State University

- it was a challenge

- many things went wrong but they saw every problem as a challenge to make it better. 

- they think that you have to start thinking about creating a new future and that now is the perfect time to start. 

Sustainable consumption in Bogota:

- School should use solar energy for all of their technology part. 

- Avoid printing many copies of paper (use more technology)

- Solar energy for transportation.

- Make more bike routes and walking paths so people walk more and ride bicycle more instead of always using cars.

- Educate the teenagers and kids so they understand sustainability and apply it in their own lives.

- start recycling more

- Sell ecological products. 

Growing Up Online

NOT surprise me:
- People use technology while hanging out with friends.
- People use technology to meet other people.
- Adults don't have control on the way teenagers use the internet.
- Teenagers know more about technology than parents
- Parents can use parental control.
- Students don't read because they read summaries online.
- Turn it in is a webpage that looks for plagiarism in papers.
- Every kind of person has a Myspace or Facebook.
- Everyone has access to the internet.
-.Everyone can find out what you post or do.
- Predators on the internet.
- Parents try to be aware of what you are doing online.
- You can find help online.
- People do things online that they would never do in person.
- Cyber bullying

DID surprise me:
- Teenagers use it to express themselves.
- Teenagers use it to make more friends.
- Students know more about technology than teachers.
- Students had to do their papers in class so they don't get extra information from the internet.
- Relationships online but not in person.
- People confront each other through internet and not in the face.
- Internet allows them to express their identity.
- Stalkers are people who get obsessed
- Teenagers made a competition of who had more friends.
- Parents ask their children to give them their passwords.
- 1/7 kids were sexual solicited online.
- Parties used to be with computers (watching videos, playing games, etc.)
- Start thinking about the kids less as victims and more as participants.
- When people are online, they are the real them but in person they are not.
- the internet has created the greatest generation gap.

CHANGED about technology:
- iPod are more advanced now and they are touch.
- Cellphones have changed too. They are more advanced and the are called "smart phones"
- Facebook users has increased.
- Myspace is not popular anymore.
- Social media links increased.
- There are a lot of webpages that can help you with everything.
- First the entertainment was the computer but now you can have it in your phone too.
- People are more aware now of the consequences.
- People are more in danger now than before.
- Schools are adapting more technology now.
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Questions:
1. What topic in the video did you most strongly identify with and why?
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2. What topic in the video was the most UNLIKE your own experiences online and why?
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3. What advice to you have to parents about kids and being online (should they have your password, be your friend on Facebook, monitor your texts... what should and shouldn't they do? why?)

GAFE

Youtube:

1. What is this?
Youtube is a webpage where you can watch videos. If you don't have an account, you can watch videos but you can't upload, like, share, etc. You have to create an account so you can have more access to all the things Youtube offers. 
- Account: The first step is to create an account. You will need a username and fill in some information about you.
- Search for Videos: The second step is to search videos. You enter key words, the username, or the of the video in the search tab. Also, you can choose any category you wants and choose a video.

- Playlists: When you find a video that you like you can like it, add it to favorites, or add it to a playlist you created and it will be easier to find. You can create a as many playlists as you like and the good thing is that you can choose the privacy setting (public or private). Another great thing that Youtube has is the "Watch Later" playlist in which you can add videos that you didn't have time to watch. "History" playlist works too if you want to go back to video you already watched. 

- Share/Subscribe: If you like the video, you can also share it to Twitter, Facebook, and other social medias. You can also subscribe to the user that uploaded it and receive notifications of every new upload from this user.  

- Comment/Like and Dislike: You can also comment on the video and like it or dislike it.

- Upload Videos: You can upload your own videos or even record them directly from your phone or computer. In the privacy settings you can determine whether you want your video to be public or private. You can also put a title, a description, and tags to let people know what your video is about. 

- #Views/#Likes: You can see how many people viewed you video because underneath the video it says "# views". You can also see how many people like it and disliked it.

- Rent Movies: There is an option to rent movies. You have to purchase it and then you can watch it in your computer while you are connected to the internet.

- YouTube Mobile: There is an app that you can get for your smart phone and watch videos there. 

- Captions/Subtitles: You can select a setting in which you can watch the videos with subtitle of any language. 

- 3D: You can watch videos in 3D if you own a pair of 3D glasses.

- Recommended for you: Youtube recommends videos and channels to you depending on what you watch and to who you are subscribe to.  

2. What else can Google do for users?

Youtube can improve the time it takes for a video to charge. Also it can change the setting in which you cannot watch some videos if you are in a certain country. That bothers me a lot.  

3. How could this tools be useful to teachers and students?

This tool is useful for teacher because they can find videos as an example of what they are teaching so their students can understand the topic better. Students can use them for projects, and also to understand what the teachers taught them better if they didn't understand in the class.  

4. How does it relate to CNG?

Youtube works for CNG because it can help teachers explain their lessons in interesting videos. Also, it allows students to have a bigger source of information were they can find videos about the topics they learn in their classes and it can help them with their homework instead of having the only option of communicating with the teacher via email. 

Youtube edu:
1. What is this?

It gives access to a educational videos to schools and universities. 

2. What else can Google do for users?

3. How could this tools be useful to teachers and students?

Moderator:
1. What is this?

2. What else can Google do for users?

3. How could this tools be useful to teachers and students?

Picasa:
1. What is this?

2. What else can Google do for users?

3. How could this tools be useful to teachers and students?