Powerful Hercules

Posted on March 17, 2013 by David

By David Brooks

The story of the incredible Hercules. Hercules was the Roman name for the Greek hero. Hercules was one of the greatest, most legendary heroes of ancient Greek times! All the gods knew that Hercules was half man and half God.

Hercules mother was a mortal, and his father Zeus was the king of all gods. Hercules grew up loved and noble. Hercules was sent to live with a mortal family on earth because Juno Jupiter’s wife was very jealous of him she tried many ways to kill him. June sent large snakes into his crib, but Hercules’ incredible strength allowed him to crash them.

Spectacular Yosemite.

Posted on March 11, 2013 by David

BY David.

Yosemite is by far the most beautiful place I have ever seen. Yosemite has the most amazing waterfalls and the clearest water. It looked like glass. The air was crisp at the camp ground. The pine trees were beautiful. The gray mountains reminded me of winter on the top. I hiked one of the tallest mountains and on the tallest mountain the scenery was breathtaking. Yosemite is very beautiful. I would love to go again.

CAMPING IN YOSEMITE

Posted on March 11, 2013 by David

BY DAVID BROOKS

A very special time in my life was when I was 7 years old. I went to Yosemite with my family. We arrived at a condo. Then we went on a hike. I saw mountain lion and I flipped out. I also saw a fox. We camped out that night. At the end of our hike we hiked to the water fall, I swam in it the water was cold. We roasted marshmallows. After 4 days, we said good bye and caravaned home.

The Power of Water

Posted on February 27, 2013 by David

By David Brooks

Once there was a boy who loved water very much. He was a good boy, but did not always listen to the advice of his parents. One day he decided to make a boat, so he could explore the ocean. Once he finished the boat he took off. He was very excited to set out. He told his parents he would be gone for the whole day. His parents told him to pack some warm clothes and food. But right before he was going to walk out the door, his father warned him about going out to sea alone.

Once he got out to sea, he saw many fascinating creatures that he had never seen before. He saw sharks, he saw turtles and he saw many different types of fish. After a long time, he decided to head home. But then a very powerful wave came and the wind picked up. And then soon he was in the middle of a storm.

His Father told the only way to get out of the storm was to go to the eye of the storm. When he found it, he was out of the storm but not for very long. Soon the waves pushed him back into the open sea. The waves were huge and he tried his best to keep the boat steady. Then the waves were so large, they knocked the boat over, and he was knocked out from the boat capsizing and hitting his head.

He woke in his house, all dry and clean. And he realized that it was all a dream. What he learned was to listen to his dad. The end.

Intro and Guidelines for Student Web Logs (Blogs)

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Old Town Academy

Dear OTA Student:
Your personal Learning Journal is designed to help you create a record of your quality work (and your growth over a year) in the 8 OTA Core Learning Strands— Music, Science, Math, Seminar, English, Art, History, & Outdoor Ed.

The Categories available in the sidebar are set to match those 8 Strands and you should mark every post with one or more of those categories.

Why Create An Online Learning Journal?

Blogs are very powerful content-management systems: which means they allow you to create a beautiful, multimedia record of a year’s worth of work and retrieve it instantly when you need it (by just clicking on the category of posts you want to see or by using the SEARCH Box to find all posts with the word “music” or “football” etc.)— but only if you use the Categories!
Publishing your work on your Web Log ( = “Blog“) will often be the last step in earning a Passing Grade on a Project, or extra credit.
When you are ready to apply to high school (choice programs like IB or an art magnet, or a private school) your Blog will be a Portfolio of all your best work that might just help you get in.
You work hard to earn a passing grade on your OTA Projects, why throw them away? Now you can keep them, share them, go back and improve them as you learn more. If the work’s worth doing it’s worth keeping.

To Create Your Learning Journal You Will Have to Learn to:

Scan, convert, and upload Text and Images (working with .doc, .pages, .pdf, .txt, .jpb, .png, inspiration, etc. files). Note: before you can upload word or pages documents you must convert them to pdfs or images.
Create Slideshows and manage image databases.
Edit and convert movies and music or sound files (working with .mov, .wmv, .qt, .mp3 etc. files), and
Use the WordPress dashboard (content management system) to create, edit, categorize, and publish posts)

Things You Can Change On Your OTA Blog:

The Header–from pre-selected photos or you can customize it with your own photography or artwork.
The Picture of the Week–you add a new picture every week… from your own or classmate or teacher’s photos or scans or artwork.
The Background image–from preselected photos or your own photography or artwork, or a 200 x 1000 pixel collage of other artwork (See “fair use” below)

Things You Can’t Do:

Upload copyrighted images from the web (use your own photographs or artwork–or find public domain images)
Upload violent or obscene photos, images, or text.
Change the Theme Options. Why not? “~~Dark~~” makes your blog illegible; ~~Content right~~ ruins the left border of text, making it jagged and difficult to read; “~~No Sidebar~~” removes Categories and makes it impossible to find your content!