Students Joined World Food Conference

Monday, my second and third period students joined an international web video conference to discuss food. Schools joining the conference were in Iowa, Nebraska, Taiwan and Del-Valle, Texas. Students discussed food likes and dislikes and exchanged recipes.

Polling - How to Take Polls to Gather Peoples Opinions

We read chapter 2 on "Sociologists Doing Research" Questions to turn in are: p.44 1-10 P.47 #1&2 Pp. 48-49 #1-8

Why does my "new post" or "edit post" page forever loading? As a result I can not post anything new in my blog! - ANSWER

Click Dashboard> Settings> at the very bottom of the settings, bullet "Old editor"

Instinct vs Culture

Are humans more ruled by culture or instinct? See the answer in the comments link.

Manifest Funstion vs Latent Function

If a government cuts social services to reduce the size and debt of the Federal Government, the bringing down of debt is the manifest function, because the cuts produce the inteded effect. Citizens dying because they lost health benefits (such as medicare) is the latent function, because it was not an intended effect of the budget cuts.

Devonda Hawthorne, is a shark living under the ocean and does not know about the Internet's affect change in Northern Africa and the Middle East

6th Period Discusses the Internet's affect of change in the US and the worl.

Part 1

My taunting of a student who is distracting the class - Fun with the Logitec C910 Webcam special effects

No, these are not my real hands.

In class technology experiment to show how Fox Cable News Distorts the news

Last week in its coverage a Wisconsin state employees picketing the Republican headed Wiconsin State Building, the news agency used the tactic that we reenact below, to make a calm setting seem chaotic and apocolyptic. On a technical note, I am using the $79 Logitec C910 webcam with its tracer effect.

Bell Ringer March 3rd - The Sociologist's Perspective

Which of these scenarios would a sociologist want to study:

1. Young in a country join gangs because their society teaches them to be masculine.
2. 5 high school students read a post on a website about making bombs. After reading this, they buy the things to make the bomb; they make the bomb then explode it in a field.

Leave your answer in a "comment" on this post.