educational website critique

The website psdtuts.com is a very useful site especially to those who already have some knowledge about Photoshop. But this site may also be used for beginners, those who are just starting how to use Photoshop and want to enhance their knowledge about it. The site provides plenty of different kinds of tutorials. It can guide you through each and every step that you have to make in Photoshop to be able to create that image. And the best part of it is, the site actually provides pictures and videos for each and every step which makes it easier for you to understand and follow the procedure that is being taught.

As you enter the website, viewers may think at first that the page is cluttered. There are a lot of images that will be seen. But it is not cluttered in a way that the page is not divided into certain categories. There are a lot of pictures that can be found at this site but you will see that it is arranged quite well. The website is actually very easy to browse through. The links that can be found there are easy to understand and are very useful. This website if very detailed and can hardly find anything wrong with it. It also provides other communities and forums where people can discuss about Photoshop. What’s interesting about this site is that it also has its own Wikipedia except it is a Wikipedia for everything about Photoshop.

PSDTUTS can bring out good effects with to a lot of people. Children may be able to use this website although Photoshop isn’t really known for very young kids. Kids use the computer to play games and find things that interest them, and with this site they would need a certain amount of knowledge or vocabulary to even understand the steps they need to take. Teenagers and older are the ones who are most likely to be intrigued with this website for by this time they would be exploring the different kinds of things that they can learn by themselves.

As for me I find this website very useful since I am starting to learn more about how to edit photos or create my own kind of animation with the use of Photoshop. There may be other great Photoshop tutorial websites but compared to a lot of Photoshop tutorial websites that I have visited I never found site that carried complete information and easy accessibility like PSDTUTS. I can find everything that I need or would want to learn with this website.

kids + technology = ?

technology sure has come a long way. especially with kids in this generation. during our time us kids would normally just be playing in the streets with our neighbors or going to the park. we enjoy spending our time outside our houses during the afternoons. we could play basketball, patintero, hopscotch, piko, jump rope, roller blades and plenty more. we get a normal exercise and it would be a lot of fun. it takes our parents time to make us come into our houses.

but these days, so many kids have computer games, play stations,. psp's and cellphones. these days when kids get home from school they'd go straight to their computers and you won't be able to drag them away. even at school, during their breaktime you would see kids playin with their psp's or gameboys. the most interesting part is that children at this age already have their own cellphones. when i was a child i never had one and i didn't care if i had one. practically all the people i need to contact to come outside to play would be on the same street as i am.
even teenagers these days use their allowances that is supposed to be used for buying their food or in case of emergencies to pay the computer shop where they could play computer games. a lot of parents would be wondering why these kids are taking so long to get home from school and it's because they're playing DOTA.

most kids don't get the exercise that we used to get before because for them it is a lot more fun to stay home and play with their computers instead of go out and converse with their friends. kids can find them selves lonely at school when all they do is go home straight and play on the computer instead of play with their schoolmates.

even though these things are happening, we cannot blame technology for technology has done a great deal for everybody. it is very useful and helpful. i think that it is up to the parents and how they want their child to grow up. if they think that their child is spending too much time infront of the computer then they should be able to make them stop and do something else.

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PGMA (gitna) todo bigay sa kanyang talumpati, habang si De Venecia (taas kaliwa) at si VIllar (taas kanan) ay pinagbubulungan siya

Ginanap noong ika-28 ng July 2008 ang State of the Nation Address o SONA ni Pangulong Gloria Macpagal Arroyo na ginanap sa Batasang Pambansa. Ito ang ikalawa sa huli niyang SONA. Katulad ng mga nakaraang SONA, sinsabi niya ang mga magaganda at pangit na kalagayan ng bansa, ang kanyang mga magaandang nagawa, at pasasalamat sa mga tumulong.

Sa totoo lang, di ko alam kung maniniwala ako sa mga sinasabi niya. Maganda pakinggan, katulad ng mga lumalakas ang piso, nasusulusyunan natin ang mga problema ng bayan katulad ng bigas, petrolyo at pagkain, marami daw siyang natulungan at siyempre, ang mga nagastos para sa mga proyekto, pero ramdam kaya ng mga kababayan natin? Kung tatanungin niya ako kung ano gusto kong marinig, gusto ko malaman ang kinikita niyang pera pati ang mga nabibili niyang gamit. Sana sa susunod na SONA niya, bago matapos ang kanyang paninilbihan bilang presidente, magkaroon naman ng report tungkol sa suweldo niya at kinita niya.

May tatlo siyang naisip na solusyon para sa pagiging mahirap ng bayan.

• "Mabawasan ang ating mga utang and shore up our fiscal independence." Wow taglish! Kung ako si PGMA, tatargetin ko na lang na MAWALA ang utang kahit mabawasan. Sa totoo lang, hindi ko alam kung nangungurakot itong mga politiko (pero sabi sabi oo, ayoko lang manghusga) pero kung pagsama-samahin natin lahat ng nakuha nilang pera, sa tingin ko malaking parte ng utang ang mababawas. Sa pagkakaalam ko, interes lang ang nababayaran natin, hindi ang utang mismo. "Shore up our fiscal independence", ano yun? di ko gets!
• "Higit na pamumuhunan para mamamayan at imprastraktura" Anong imprastraktura? Elevated U-Turn? Ito ang pinakabagong "imprastraktura" ng Pangulo na matatagpuan sa C-5. Mukhang malaking badyet ang naipundar dito. Hindi pa subok ito, makakatulong kaya ito? Isa ito sa mga bagong ideya ng administrasyon at pinagmamalaki niya na tayo ang unang una na gumawa nun sa buong mundo. Puhunan sa mamayanan, mamamayang Pilipino din naman ako e, bakit wala akong nararamdaman pag-angat ng bayan? Nagmamahal na langis, bigas at pagkain. Ganun ba ang nabibigyang puhunan?
• "Sapat na pondo para sa mga programang pangmasa"

Noong Hunyo, nagpalabas tayo ng apat na bilyong piso mula sa VAT sa
langis—dalawang bilyong pambayad ng koryente ng apat na milyong mahihirap, isang bilyon para college scholarship o pautang sa 70,000 na estudyanteng
maralita; kalahating bilyong pautang upang palitan ng mas matipid na LPG, CNG o biofuel ang motor ng libu-libong jeepney; at kalahating bilyong pampalit sa
fluorescent sa mga pampublikong lugar."

Kung sapat ang mga ito, bakit marami pa ring naghihirap?

Kailangan daw ng VAT dahil ito ang tumutulong sa bansa natin. Pero saan napupunta ang binabayad nating mga buwis? Ayokong manghusga ng tao, pero sana naman napupunta sa tamang kalalagyan ang buwis natin. Gumawa ng anti-graft ek, ek, ang Presidente, pero ang Presidente mismo ay nagkakaroon ng kaso ng graft and corruption. Naniniwala ako na maganda magagawa ng VAT kung napupunta ito sa tama.

Sa totoo lang, maganda ang ibang ginagawa ng administrasyon na mga proyekto, pero kung magbibigay pa sila ng masa higit na aksyon, makikita ng mamamayang Pilipino na kung saan napupunta ang buwis ang giginhawa ang buhay ng lahat.

Isa ko pang gusto pansinin sa talumpati niya ay ang wikang ginagamit niya. Pilipino ang kausap niya, Pilipino din siya, nasa Pilipinas tayo, bakit may pa-english english pa siya. Paano na yung mga hindi nakapagaral? Mas magiging mabisa siguro ang talumpati niya kung sa wikang Filipino niya bibigkasin. Magkaroon na lang ng translator kung gusto niya. Ganon din ang ibang politiko. Sa Konggreso, english din ang usapan. Bakit nga ba?

Hindi ko masasagot ang mga tanong ko. Wala naman akong gaanong alam sa politika pero naniniwala ako na magkaroon tayo ng magaling at tapat na mga lider at nagkakaisang Pilipinas, TIYAK ISANG DAANG PORSIYENTO, AANGAT ANG BANSANG PILIPINAS.

Oral Tradition versus Written Tradition

During the past, laws and conduct were only spread through word of mouth. This is called oral tradition. History, law, and literature are orally passed down to generations. Although it was only through word of mouth, this laws were respected and being followed. Many contradicted this law because it has no evidence, thus, may be a hoax.
In contrary with the oral tradition, the written tradition is passed down to generations with a concrete evidence. Today, our constitution are examples of written tradition. Lawmakers revise the law to make it suitable for the citizen of a certain country.

The Holy Bible is a form of written tradition