Using Resources Correctly

In web 2.0 lately we have been using a lot of resources to write our blogs. Resources like diigo,twitter, evernote and Google alert. These resources us help us write our blog each week they help us with find out our information and gett our information out in the world. I hope to use these tools not only now but when I need to write research papers in college.

Twitter is a very valuable website many people use this site for just messing around and talking about stuff that doesn't matter. But me and my classmates are using twitter for informational purposes only its a way to get information out around the world. This is how we get our blogs (on to the web and around the world) and so others can learn about your topic you are talking about. Take a look a my twitter account https://twitter.com/BrycsonGrover.

The other resource we are using is diigo. Diigo is a little different then twitter because in diigo is for bookmarking sites and going back and looking at the information that's on the websites. Here is my diigo account http://www.diigo.com/user/grovah check out my bookmarks! There you will see what I have been researching. Lately I have been researching becoming a Maine Game Warden and on my diigo you will see what you have to do to become a game warden and other information
that they do in there everyday job. There are so many requirements to become a Game Warden.


  Evernote, my first initial reaction to evernote was "O another account I wasn't to amused that we had to make another account to be honest but then after I started using it I was glad we made it. I have used it so much, just writing down little notes so I can remember key points in what I was reading.



Google alert, I really don't know what to think of Google alert its kinda confusing. It very useful once I got it to work. But it took a little while to get it started. As I typed in things I wanted to know about my topic(becoming a Maine Game Warden) I was writing down notes in my evernote account so I don't forget important facts. So Google alert and evernote work together. Google alert is for looking up information and evernote is for taking notes about the information we have gathered so that we can write our blogs

Game Warden Questions

 

I have some ideas on who I could do a interview with. Well my father knows some of the wardens that are in the area so I was thinking about talking with them to see if this is something I really want to get in to.

When I get ready to start pursuing my goal to become a Game Warden, I could spend a day with a Game warden and just see what they do in a normal day of work.

I would love to maybe even do that for a week so I could see If I could see myself doing that job. This is a job were you don't know what your plan is for each day it can change at anytime. That's also another reason why I like this job your doing a different thing each day.

This is a good video representing what types of things game wardens do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTlL2N5Iwh8

If I do get into becoming a Game Warden there would be a lot of cons like long hours,working on weekends, not a lot of free time to do what you love like for me not much time for hunting and fishing. I also have a feeling if I give some one a find and then they see me out in the woods somewhere alone something could happen you just never know if someone is still mad or not.
So many people would probably like to get back at that person who fined them for example shooting a deer out of season.

There is also so many pros for being a Game Warden like I would be in the outdoors for most of my jobs. I would get so much knowledge of the outdoors and how to survive and also self defense. And to be able to keep Maines wildlife in check.

There is so much talk about how there are not as many deer as there was 20 years ago and so many people think they know why they think coyotes. I can tell you right now that there part of the problem but they are not the whole problem. The big problem is the turkeys. Have you noticed that there are so many turkeys around lately? They are the big problem they are weakening the deer herd by eating all the food that is on the ground. After turkeys go through a part of the woods it looks like a bull dozer has gone through. Again they are the reason the deer population is going down, they weakening the deer herd then when the coyotes get hungry they just pick out the weakest deer and its easy picking for the coyotes. So its not all of the coyotes fault its mostly the turkeys.
Another reason I believe the deer population is going down is because of car crashes with deer. Last year my brother got 2 does that were hit by a car. There was plenty more to. Also last year a couple weeks after deer hunting season a deer was hit by a car not to far from my house and the word was it was a 11 point buck.

When Games Wardens first start out they make 35,000 dollars a year. Thats pretty good for just starting out at age 21.

Below is a web of questions that I have thought of for becoming a Maine Game Warden
http://www.diigo.com/user/Grovah

Game Warden

         All my life I have been interested in Maines wildlife, from animals to fish to the trees. In the last couple years I have found a job that does that . That job is to be a Maine Game Warden. I believe becoming a Maine Game Warden will allow me to do what I love to do and that is to be around nature. A Game Warden's job is to protect the wildlife from the people who are taking advantage of it and doing illegal stuff towards these animals. They enforce the laws of hunting, fishing and trapping.

http://www.downeast.com/georges-outdoor-news/2012/may/what-maine-game-wardens-doing

          Game Wardens play a huge role in todays world because if we did not have them there would be a much smaller population of all animals. We would have less animals because people take advantage of the animals. So if we did not have Game Wardens some of these would probably go extinct.

           To become a Maine Game Warden you have to be pretty knowlegable regarding fishing, hunting and the outdoors. Also you have to be able to work alone in remote places and be open to moving to a different part of Maine. To be a Game Warden you have to have a High School diploma and be 21 of age.

http://www.legal-criminal-justice-schools.com/Fish-and-Game/Maine-Game-Warden.html

            Becoming a Maine Game Warden would be really beneficial because it would let me gain knowledge about the wildlife that is around us. This would really help me with my long term goal because my long term goal is to make a good living provide for my family and be very knowledgeable in everything I do. So this would be a great start for the my long term goal.
            There are so many laws for hunting, fishing and trapping. There are so many people that obey them and so many that don't. Thats why we have Game Wardens so they can catch the people that are disobeying them. Like there are so many people that poach deer and part of these game wardens job is to find those people.
            History of Maine Game Wardens goes back to 1880. The reason the maine game service occurred is because two men were caught killing a doe in the wrong season. So it was early that next year people started to think of people to be like police but only for the animals. So thats how they came up with game wardens.
http://www.maine.gov/ifw/warden_service/history.html

How Could School Be Different?

How Could School Be Different

I know that ive only been in the high school for a couple days but the classes seem a litttle long. At the middle school (http://wms.svrsu.org/) we had shorter classes, they were around 50 minutes. That was much better. You could have more classes in the day. You might not get as much information in if you had a longer class but there would be a smaller amount of kids that are board. If you are sitting in a chair for over an hour you are going to get board, no matter what what your doing. I've heard many students complaining about the time. Maybe you could shorten the classes. That way we could be learning in a bigger range of classes. If students had shorter classes that means there is a better chance that students would pay attention because the class does not drag out. You would have to go through things such as homework or other assignments quicker so there would not be time to goof off. How would this change the school? Well this would allow students to have more classes a day and even a year. That means they would have learned a wider range of classes a day. You could also have more credits every year.
I also have another thing that we could change in our school community is take away computers. They are a huge distraction, even though they help us out a lot they are still a huge distraction. Some students use them to help them work, but then there is a huge amount of students that use these laptops in a wrong way during school and out of school. Students play games, look up stuff the you shouldn't do when your at school. Then when students have a assignment that you have to work on, on your computer there is a lot of kids that play games when you should be working on a assignment. Then when it's due they end up not having it done they end up failing that class or that assignments. I have seen it hundreds of times. So if we take computers out then there wouldn't be as big as a distraction(http://www.infostormgadget.com/2012/02/27/pros-and-cons-of-using-laptops-in-classrooms/)
Thats the reason why I dont think we need computers in school systems.

Maine Game Wardens

         All my life I have been interested in Maines wildlife, from animals to fish to the trees. In the last couple years I have found a job that does that . That job is to be a Maine Game Warden. I believe becoming a Maine Game Warden will allow me to do what I love to do and that is to be around nature. A Game Warden's job is to protect the wildlife from the people who are taking advantage of it and doing illegal stuff towards these animals. They enforce the laws of hunting, fishing and trapping.
http://www.downeast.com/georges-outdoor-news/2012/may/what-maine-game-wardens-doing
          Game Wardens play a huge role in todays world because if we did not have them there would be a much smaller population of all animals. We would have less animals because people take advantage of the animals. So if we did not have Game Wardens some of these would probably go extinct.
           To become a Maine Game Warden you have to be pretty knowlegable regarding fishing, hunting and the outdoors. Also you have to be able to work alone in remote places and be open to moving to a different part of Maine. To be a Game Warden you have to have a High School diploma and be 21 of age.
http://www.legal-criminal-justice-schools.com/Fish-and-Game/Maine-Game-Warden.html

WHS Mascot

           Last year our mascot was taken away from our Community and for a while we had no mascot.

Our old mascot was called the Redskins and most community members and students were proud to call themselves the Redskins. Certain people thought we were disrespecting the Indian culture. We were not being disrespectful at all, we were proud to be Redskins. Some of us still believe that we are Redskins and always will be. Its not just a mascot to us, its way more then that. The mascot that represents all of us in this community. I haven't heard of one good reason of how we are disrespecting the "Redskins." Are we really disrespecting the Redskins and if we are how? All I have heard is the Redskins are disrespectful but are we really?  It's not like we are dressing up as Indians and making fun of the culture.  No, we are just being represented by there name and in no way is that making fun of there culture. If I was an Indian, I would be proud that I am being represented in such a strong community.  I would be glad that I am still being remember. I think of an Indian as a fighter, a strong fighter. That's what we are.  We fight till the end in everything we do, it might be sports or school work. It could be a variety of things but we never give up on anything.

           Now our mascot is a Wolverine. Really a Wolverine? That's the best you could think of? Do Wolverines even live in Maine? The picture to the right, is the new mascot for the WHS. I know thats a terrible mascot, right? Exactly what I was thinking. What's that..... on the front of its face, its all red, is that blood? Does that mean we eat our opponents or did we just viciously kill something? To me, thats pretty disrespectful to the animal saying that a wolverine is a very vicious animal. Now if this mascot represents us its also saying that we are vicious. I think the Redskins mascot meaning is that we are fighters and never give up. Thats way better then us being Wolverines meaning we are vicious people. Don't you agree? Our own mascot doesn't even live in our state, so how can we be represented as something that lives in a different state, that doesn't make sense. Why can't we come up with a mascot that represents the town of Wiscasset like the Redskins did?

          This is our real mascot the Wiscasset Redskins, the picture to the right. This picture here is not being disrespectful in anyway. Its just a picture of an Indian. The picture above is showing its teeth and has red on its face. To me that represents blood, and it looks like its ready to attack something, thats disrespecting the animal and the students of WHS.

          I along with many community members will always remember the Wiscasset Redskins and the famous Tomahawk theme song being played at many sporting events.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnodDTSqVhU

 
REST IN PEACE WISCASSET REDSKINS