http://two10.learnerblogs.org Fri, 09 May 2008 02:07:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This weekend is going to be extremely busy because next weekend a lot of my family is coming to visit to celebrate my little sister's First Holy Communion. I basically know exactly how everything is going to turn out. Tomorrow (Friday May 9th) I'm going to go to school, then ... http://two10.learnerblogs.org/2008/05/08/weekly-post-3/ Looking through the second edition of the Space magazine, I came across a slide show of photography by a highschooler from Salt Lake City, Utah. She had some really interesting photos of everyday things, people would normally pass by. The way that in some pictures she would use wierd camera angles ... http://two10.learnerblogs.org/2008/04/25/space/ Emerald Isle       We pull up at around nine at night but I can already smell that familiar salty water from last summer. Upacking the car in darkness, I can hear the waves crashing done so clearly. I feel at peace. The house is just as good. With a sailors decor ... http://two10.learnerblogs.org/2008/04/16/1st-freewrite/ In all our efforts to raise awarness and to help stop the conflicts in Darfur, the violence has seemed to find it's way back! In Darfur, the violence has started back up and has gotten so bad that the U.N. feels that it is no longer safe for the peacekeeping troops to ... http://two10.learnerblogs.org/2008/03/12/urgent-darfur-is-in-danger-yet-again/ Over March 6th and 7th of 2008 Mr. Mayo's and Ms. Drexler's blog to raise awareness about Darfur got six hundred and seventy-seven comments! I am really glad to see such a good turnout and also am really happy that I was a part of it. I was recently looking ... http://two10.learnerblogs.org/2008/03/11/international-darfur-awarness-day-review/ I had never heard about the atrocities happening in Darfur before learning about it in class. I hadn’t known that 15,000 innocent people die a month and that 2.6 billion people in Darfur have been affected by this mayhem. If I had known any of this I would have gotten involved much ... http://two10.learnerblogs.org/2008/03/06/darfur-thesis/ While looking at some of the resources on the wiki, I came across a game called Darfur is Dying. This game is a virtual simulation in which you can play from the perspective of a displaced Darfurian. You have to survive all of the hardships that the people in Darfur ... http://two10.learnerblogs.org/2008/03/03/darfur-is-dying/ After reading the two articles I can say that China is in somewhat fear of what could happen to the Olympics and their reputation if they don't start pressuring the peacekeeping act on the sudanese government. In both articles they talk about China starting to pressure Sudan about the peacekeepers ... http://two10.learnerblogs.org/2008/02/26/chinas-scared/  1) I think my favorite post would have to be the freewrite I did about the two men in africa. Mostly because I used my imagination and wasn't worrying about if it was good enough or not. 2)I think that doing our work in a blog form is a really good idea ... http://two10.learnerblogs.org/2008/02/26/back-in-the-day/ Last night, at around 9 pm, me and some other students in our class were part of a skype conference with some teachers and students from around the country. We basically talked about the International Darfur Awareness Day blog and explained it to everyone. We explained how we think the ... http://two10.learnerblogs.org/2008/02/21/skype-conference/