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Assignment 8c: Infographic and data assignment

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  • What is the overall topic and the goal of your project?

The overall topic for my project is the most endangered species of rhinos. The goal of this project is to bring awareness to what’s going on around the world. The goal is to also ensure that people take the time and effort to care for not only the endangered species, but also the environment to ensure a nice and healthy life for both humans and animals.

  • What sites did you use to collect your data and create the infographic and what did you learn about it?

The sites I used were from ‘Our World In Data’, https://ourworldindata.org/rhino-populations , and the title of the data collection area is called The state of the world’s rhino populations. I learnt about all of the different species of rhinos and mainly the statistics to demonstrate their endangerment. I also learnt that it doesn’t matter what species they are, if they are endangered, we must always take caution and awareness to the situations theses poor animals are in.

  • How has the process of utilizing these sites impacted your understanding of how technology can change (or help) the world?

These statistics can help the world because if a rich or person in power came across these helpful sites, they can have awareness in the certain situations. This can lead to them using their power and money for the good. For example if there was an article talking about homeless dogs in a certain part of the world, the person who came across the article can help with adopting or taking care of the dogs. Technology is also very good for making people better versions of themselves. They could come across an article talking about a person being bullied or getting picked on and the person reading the article would potentially feel sorrow for the person getting bullied. The article could change their mindsets and attitudes for the better. Another example is with my chosen article. If a hunter or somewhat were to view the article, they could stop hunting those animals because they are now aware of the situations the rhinos are in.

Information Fluency

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Information Fluency

Adriana Dominelli

 

In this blog, I will be summarizing an article about one of my main passions, soccer, but for a more specific description of what I will be summarizing is that Alex Morgan, one of the best female soccer players in the world, is showing people that the way to success is not what people would mainly think. One example inside of the article is that you should always have confidence in your abilities. if you do not have this mindset, you could not reach your full potential in soccer. this article also mentions about how you should never overwork yourself because of you don’t overwork yourself, you will become better than if you were to overwork yourself. Overworking is bad for your gameplay because you can either become really sore the next day, or you could hurt yourself and not even play at all.
But its not just overworking physically, if you overthink about soccer, then it could also affect your gameplay. Overthinking isn’t that good before your important game or event, if you do so, you will become super stressed about what you will do wrong and underestimate your abilities. Before a game day, players should always have a mental health day to do whatever makes them feel calm. For example, getting coffee, hanging out with your parents etc.. I know that over thinking isn’t a good thing in personnel experiences as well. for the school team, I kept on thinking I wouldn’t do good, so I kept on stressing over and over again until the day came and as I stepped on the field, I knew I wouldn’t be on my full capacity.
Another thing that this article has mentioned is that you should try to ignore what others think negatively about you. this point is pretty obvious to many, but a lot of people still forget about this really important aspect to become a better player.

That’s the end of my blog, thanks for reading!

Break the fake

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On CBCnews, I found a website about 14 beams of light that shined above Montreal in honor pf victims of Polytechnique massacre.

  1. I checked Snopes and the information was not found, there were only things talking about flashlights.
  2. after that, I checked Wikipedia. There was no information talking about beams in Montreal whatsoever.
  3. I then went to google if i could find other articles about this topic. After researching, there were no links towards the topic.
  4. After my research, i came to the conclusion that this article is false.