Journal 6 Tuesday, Apr 29 2008 

science joeking2 9:50 am

Today we did our combustion practical and it has been the best so far. When we burned the piece of magnesium, it went really bright and we were only allowed to look at it from the corner of our eyes. Ours also went green as well as a bright yellow/white. The Magnesium then burnt up.

A safety issue would be that if you looked at it directly when burning, you could damage your eyesight. The Bunsen burner could also burn students as well as set alight other objects in the room.

If we keep doing experiments like this, science will be something to look forward to. I find the journaling a pain because it takes up a lot of time.

 

Journal 5 Tuesday, Apr 29 2008 

science joeking2 9:37 am

Today we did the decomposition practical. It was good because it actually worked and the gas carbon dioxide was produced. The solution started to bubble and turned cloudy for other people when the copper carbonate was added.

There were not many safety issues except for maybe if you drank the lime water, you would get very sick, or if you spilt it all over someone else.

I think that the project so far is better than the last one because I am actually learning something this project and will have some notes to read over.

 

Journal 9 Sunday, Apr 27 2008 

cst/ist 2 joeking2 7:25 am

  1. The term digital media refers to electronic media, for example things like podcasts and myspace. This is used opposed to the analog media like newspapers and radio.
  2. Digital media has evolved over the last 5-10 years by computers becoming much faster and being able to store more, the internet has also become much faster with more and more sites being added (most of which are junk) and being able to upload videos onto the net so easily.
  3. Digital newspapers would be very popular because people can access it whenever they want and don’t have to pay for it.

 

Individual Task 3 Wednesday, Apr 9 2008 

cst/ist 2 joeking2 10:19 am

  1. Moral integrity is being morally complete because another word for integrity is “wholeness.” It is being honest and moral in all area’s of your life, (moral is knowing the difference between right and wrong and acting upon it).
  2. Maximillian Kolbe is regarded as a Christian exemplary of moral integrity because Jesus says that the highest virtue is love. The highest expression of love is to lay down one’s life for a friend, which is exactly what Kolbe did.
  3. The ethical actions/principles that Kolbe demonstrated are:
  • continually comforting and reassuring his fellow prisoner’s saying that there is still hope and all bad things come to an end.
  • taking confessions from his fellow prisoner’s and smuggling in bread and wine for secret masses
  • he undertook the task of moving the bodies of the tortured and dead
  • he showed compassion for those less fortunate than himself
  • he comforted the other nine men as they were about to die

4. If I was to ask myself, what would Jesus do? I know that the answer would be what Maximillian did, lay down his life for someone else. So, I think that he did the right thing.

John 15:13 – Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends

 

Journal 7 Monday, Apr 7 2008 

science joeking2 10:32 am

The prac that we completed today was called the pop test. It involved pouring some acids like sulfuric, nitric and acetic into some test tubes. We then placed little pieces of metal like zinc, magnesium and aluminium. After that we had to let them sit with a stopper in the top for about a minute. When this had happened, we had to light a match and hold it over the top of the test tube. We then had to listen closely toe hear any pops which meant that hydrogen was being produced.

Some safety issues may have been with the sulfuric acid, it could burn you to the bone if concentrate. The nitric acid is very corrosive and toxic, don’t spill and especially don’t drink. The acetic acid is a weaker acid and cannot do much harm but still be careful.

I think that this practical was good because it was different and involved matches, i like matches! Hopefully we can do more practicals like this.

 

Journal 1 Thursday, Apr 3 2008 

cst/ist 2 joeking2 10:20 pm

  1.  The wired generation is a group of kids that use electronic devices daily such as computers-internet etc.

2.
www.bebo.com

www.myspace.com

www.facebook.com

www.friendster.com

www.msn.com

3.) Myspace

Myspace is used to meet friends, to contact other people and to show pictures and some information about yourself.

Myspace can be misused because you can take other peoples identities, you can be stalked through the pictures you post on your Myspace, and people can experience cyber bullying through this too.

 

Journal 8 Wednesday, Apr 2 2008 

cst/ist 2 joeking2 11:56 pm

Scenario 1  – If I was with a big group as well I would try and calm the youths down and stop them. But if i was by myself, there wouldn’t be much I could do to stop it so I would call the cops and report the incident.

Scenario 2- I would reply that if she liked me more for that, she would be liking me for the wrong reasons. I would outline the risks of getting caught and what a stupid ideas it was.  Then I would just walk home and forget about it. If she didn’t speak to me again, that would be her problem.

 

Journal 4 Wednesday, Apr 2 2008 

science joeking2 9:20 am

The corrosion practical was a bit more interesting than the precipitation prac because there was more involved and we didn’t actually know what was going to happen. I reckon that the nail with nothing else might extremely slowly start to rust but probably not because it is not exposed to enough oxygen.

The nail in the water will definitely rust because water always rusts iron. I think that it will probably rust the most out of all the nails.

The nail in the oil will probably rust a little bit but not as much as the one in the water.

The nail in the silica gel will most probably be the same because the silica gel is not really a gel but more a hard substance. If the silica was in gel form then something might happen.

 

Journal 3 Wednesday, Apr 2 2008 

science joeking2 9:05 am

The precipitation practical that we did was simple but it still showed how when two clear substances were mixed, a precipitate formed. I sort of expected t see what happened but I still wasn’t sure.

I was glad that this project was a hands on project rather than a group research-based project. I think that our group is a good group and we can get a lot of solid work done.

 

Journal 7 Wednesday, Apr 2 2008 

cst/ist 2 joeking2 12:58 am

  1. A persons conscience is something inside a person that is like a little voice saying should they really be doing this? It can make you uncomfortable at times because you know you shouldn’t be doing something but are still doing it.
  2. Someone’s conscience helps in making moral decisions by making them actually think carefully about what they are doing.