Beatles Music Project

Our last music topic was all about The Beatles, we learnt about the history of the band and some of the songs the had written. Our final assessment was to recreate the song "Eleanor Rigby" by The Beatles and add our own twist to it. We copied the Eleanor Rigby score from a PDF file into Finale NotePad 2008 then converted it to a MIDI file and put it in garageband, we combined all of them to create the song. Our teacher then sent us the vocal notes MIDI file to put in to sound more like the original song. This is what we had to do to get a average level 4 on our project. To get higher we had to change the instruments of each track, create our own original track and add anything else that would go well with the song. I changed the instruments to trumpets, bass, acoustic guitar and orchestral strings. In addition to that i added a simple electric guitar track that i had composed my self giving a pop/hip hop twist to it. To emphasize the pop/hip hop i added beats and shakers to the background.

~ Sheryl 

The Original Eleanor Rigby

My Blog's Wordle!

This is a Wordle based on my learning blog. As you might have noticed my blog is themed - All purple! So I decided that this Wordle should be purple too!

BLOGGING GONE WRONG!!

Blogging can be a fun, exciting thing way to tell people what you're up to or express yourself but it can cost you your job, your place at school or EVERYTHING! From researching about this, I have learned what to do and what not to do. Hopfully you will too, here are some examples of blogging gone wrong!

Ellen Simonetti

Here is one example and probably one of the most famous examples of blogging gone wrong. This is Ellen Simoetti or known as in her blogs "Queen Of Sky", she posts stories about her job as a flight attendant Delta Airlines and calls it "Diary of a Flight Attendant". She revealed the airlines information and took photos of herself posing inappropriately in her airline uniform, after a while she was caught and got suspended from her job. She tried to fight back but ended up being fired!

Mark Jen
Mark Jen was an ex-worker for Google and also used to work for Microsoft. After 11 days at his new job for the most powerful search engine sites on the Internet, he was fired. On his first day of his job, he already was blogging all about it, blogging about the positives, negatives and comparing it to Microsoft. After being fired, he realised what he did wrong and apologised to Google but still didn't earn his job back.


Those are just two examples out of A LOT in the world, if you would like to read more about blogging gone wrong here are a few more examples you can read up on:
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/15329
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog 
http://www.myspace.com/queenofsky
http://99zeros.blogspot.com/2005/02/official-story-straight-from-source.html 

After reading this, you now know what could happen if you blog innapropriatly. Here are some of the things that I will try to do to keep my blog appropriate and school related:
I will not post any photos of myself or my friends.
I will not reveal any private information like my full name, my school, my adress, my age... etc.
I will not post anything not to do with school or anything a little off topic.

Hopefully you could follow these rules do making our internet a safer place and more fun and enjoying for others. 

~Sheryl