Izadi's ICT's Blog

Creating books using Calaméo

2013-06-12T10:39:00.003+02:00

Hi readers! The last three days we've done our last work of the course, a dictionary for children using Calaméo and only CC (Creative Common) images. In our case about animals. Have a look and if you like it (or not) comment bellow telling us your thougths:

Dictionary for Children-Animals-Ander, Kepa and Izadi

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Making a form using Google Drive.

2013-06-03T12:09:00.000+02:00

Hi readers!

The last 2 days we've been doing forms using Google Drive. It's very easy to do them there and and the tools are quite OK. In my case I've done it to know what people think abaut the school I'm studying the Laskorain Ikastola. Here you have it:

Technology Quiz Created Using Hot Potatoes

2013-05-22T10:27:00.001+02:00

Hi readers! The last couple of days we've been learning how to use Hot Potatoes to create quiz. In my case, I've done it about Technology. You have it bellow so that you can do it. Good luck, you will need it.

Quiz about Technology <!-- Made with executable version 6.3 Release 0 Build 4

Quiz about Technology

Answer the 20 questions related to technology before the time ends. Be careful, you will only have 4'. Do you think that you can beat me?

What does PC mean?
1. Portable Computer
2. Processing Central
3. Personal Computer
4. Perfect Computer
Which is the acronym of the Graphic Card?
1. CPU
2. GPU
3. GC
4. GCU
What is the CPU?
1. The Processor
2. The Hard Drive
3. The Operating System
4. The Central Pushing Unit
How can we call the motherboard in a colloquial way?
1. Mobo
2. Mother
3. Grandmother
4. Mobor
Look at this picture. What is it?
1. Disipator
2. Coolerer
3. Heat Sink
4. Fanner
Which of these PC case brands doesn’t exist?
1. Corsair
2. Noctua
3. Thermaltake
4. Cooler Master
Which of the following brand sold more computers in 2012?
1. Apple
2. Lenovo
3. Dell
4. HP
What does originally Mac mean?
1. Mac
2. Macintosh
3. Macious
4. Mobile Autonomous Computer
When was the first iPhone launched?
1. 2006
2. 2007
3. 2008
4. 2009
When was the first iPad launched?
1. 2008
2. 2009
3. 2010
4. 2011
When was first mass produced computer of Apple (Apple II) launched?
1. 1977
2. 1982
3. 1990
4. 1992
Who is the current CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of Apple?
1. Steve Wozniac
2. Steve Jobs
3. Tim Cook
4. John Ive
Who is the current CEO of Microsoft?
1. Steve Ballmer
2. Bill Gates
3. J. Redmond
4. Paul Allen
Who is the current CEO of Google?
1. Larry Page
2. Eric Schmidt
3. Sergey Brin
4. It Doesn’t have
How many searches are done per second using Google?
1. 10,000
2. 25,000
3. 50,000
4. 65,000
How many apps were recently downloaded from App Store?
1. 10 billion
2. 24 billion
3. 50 billion
4. 100 billion
How many apps are available in the App Store?
1. More than 500,000
2. More than 555,555
3. More than 750,000
4. More than 850,000
How many of those apps are specially designed for the iPad?
1. More than 100,000
2. More than 250,000
3. More than 350,000
4. More than 500,000
How many apps are available in the Google Play Store?
1. More than 750,000
2. More than 800,000
3. More than 850,000
4. More than 1,000,000
Which is the most used Web Browser?
1. Internet Explorer
2. Mozilla Firefox
3. Google Chrome
4. Safari

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Creating mindmaps using Mind42

2013-05-08T10:29:00.000+02:00

Hi readers!
This week we've been learning how to do mindmaps using Mind42.com. It is very easy to use and sinple. However, you can't put a node wherever you want and the web has some limitations. Here you have the result, in my case about the inside of the PCs:

Subtitling videos using DotSub.com

2013-04-30T12:51:00.002+02:00

Hi readers!

The last couple of days we've been subtitling music videos using DotSub.com. In this page, as I've just said, you can put subtitles to any videos but it's biggest advantage is that you can do it online, that's a big point in favour.

To subtitle a video, you only have to upload it, transcribe what the video is saying and then translate the lyrics to the languages you want, that's all. It's really easy to use and more inportant you can do all online, without installing any program. However, you don't have much options such as different fonts, size, position... But still I like it and I've enjoyed doing the work.

I've done two videos, why? Because I started with one but then I wanted to do another and at the end I did both. The songs are PSY's new song Gentlemen and the One Pound Fish Man's One Pound Fish cause they are very funny. Here you've the final results:

This is the PSY's new single. After the big hit Gangnam Style, the South Korean singer is back whith Gentlemen. This song is beating records with 20 milion views in the first 24 hours (the previous was Boyfriend by Justin Bieber with only 8 milion views). Park Jae-sang better known as PSY was born in 1977 in the capital of South Korea, Seul and he has become in the major representator of the K-Pop movement (Korean Pop).

This is the music video of Muhammad Shahid Nazir (One Pound Fish Man)a person that with his performance in X-Factor jumped to fame. The video has become viral with milions of views. However, it hadn't reached the success of Gangnam Style.

How free the world really is?

2013-04-08T11:57:00.004+02:00

Hi readers!

The last days we've doing (Kepa, Ander and me) a poster about human rigths in our case specified in the freedom of the mankind. Here you have the result:

Izadi Photo

2013-03-05T13:01:00.000+01:00

Hi readers!
These days we've been doing our virtual business website (using google sites) and this is the cause why I hadn't posted anything. In my case, I imagined that I'am a photographer and to make me known I created the site. If you want to visit click here. And don't forget that the bussines is not real!

Summary of the 1st term in ICT's

2013-01-09T10:26:00.000+01:00

Hi readers!

Sadly, the Christmas holidays ended, I hope you enjoyed them. After having a break, I'm here again with the last work we've done. It is the summary of the 1st term made with Slideshare. The first thing we did, is to prepare the presentation in Google Docs/Drive. Then, we recorded the audio using a program called Audacity. After that, we upload the presentation and the recording to slidehare, and finally synchronise it. Here you have the resulting (final) presentation:

Izadi's summary of the 1st term in ICT's from 64izadi

Martti Ahtisaari

2012-12-04T13:00:00.003+01:00

Hi readers!

Today, I'm going to talk about the Peace Novel prize winner in 2008: Martti Ahtisaari. Last day we look for the Novel Prize winners of the last 12 years (if you want to look who are click here), and then we had to choose one of those and write an article about him.

Martti Ahtisaari was born in the 23 of June of 1937. He is a Finnish politician, the tenth President of Finland (1994–2000), Nobel Peace Prize laureate and United Nations diplomat and mediator, noted for his international peace work.

Ahtisaari was a UN Special Envoy at the Kosovo status process negotiations, aimed at resolving a long dispute in Kosovo, which declared its independence from Serbia in 2008. In October 2008, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for his efforts on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts". The Nobel statement said that Ahtisaari has played a prominent role in resolving many conflicts in Namibia; Aceh, Indonesia; Kosovo and Iraq, among other areas.

I've chosen he due to the fact I appreciate a lot him. I think he is a very good and generous man that had helped to many people. I hope he is going to continue in this way. I hope he is going to continue resolving international issues and saving the live of lots of people.

Here you have the video of Martti Ahtisaari when he received the Peace Novel Prize in 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden:

Let me know what you think leaving a comment bellow.

Collaborative stories

2012-11-13T13:41:00.000+01:00

Hi readers!

These days we have been doing collavorative stories: one person starts doing the begining of his story and selecting the genre of it. Then, the partners of the group continues the story until the end. We were 6 in the group (goup D), and here you can see the original story, with different colours to know who wrote what. Here you have my story:

What I am?

One dark and terrifying halloween night, the young Paul was walking back home in the empty streets of Atlanta, USA. He was dressed up like a skeleton. When he arrived home he fell asleep instantly as he was very tired. Suddenly, in the middle of the sleep, he waked because he felt cold. He looked at his arms, and he suprisely realized that they became into bones. Paul thought that it was just a nightmare and he fell asleep again. Next morning, he realized that it wasn’t just a nightmare, the true was that he became into a real skeleton.

At seven o’clock he woke up sweating and when he started to stand up he felt very weak. He felt so light! He went to the bathroom to clean his face and he realized that he was a real skeleton! He went to the kitchen and had breakfast but he couldn’t eat anything. All the food he ate fell to the floor. When he realized that he couldn’t do anything in his house he went to his parents house by car, in his Volkswagen Touran. He arrived to the house and knocked at the door. His mother opened the door and she said when she was opening the door before see him:

-Good morning! Can I help yo... Aaaaaah!!!-she shouted.

-Mom, it’s me! Don’t close the door! Mom!!!

-Go away, what are you?-she said before asking for help to her husband.

-I don’t know what is happening! I’m Paul, your son. Open the door, please!

But his mother didn’t open the door, and his father neither. He asked again for opening the door but, his father said that he was going to call the police, so he kept in silent and he thought “What can I do, I’m a monster, nobody want to help me!”.

But suddenly he started to feel different, he felt a strong sensation that invades his body, and he started to thought, “If I am monster, I would made terrifying things, now is my chance” he was starting to feel really an evil person, no, as an evil skeleton. He started to kill every person that in his previous life didn’t like. His boss, the mother of his wife, the person that times ago was his teacher... But then, when he killed all people he didn’t like, he started to feel bored, so he started to kill every person in earth.

He didn’t care if they were children, elder people... One of those days, while he was killing all the people, he met with a man crying. He didn’t understand why he was like that, he didn’t know what where that water drops that were falling from his eyes. “These are tears, I’m crying because you have snatched my little daughter! I’ll never see him again because a stupid monster doesn’t know what are the feelings and the loss of someone you love. I hope you’ll burn in the hell!”. Suddenly, the monster started to feel guilty of all people that were alone without families, friends...etc. And while he was submerged in his thoughts the man hit him in the head and he lost the conscious.

When he had recovered from the consciousness, he had a big headache. He realized that he was surrounded by some angry citizens.

-You have killed all my family, now I going to kill you!- said his neighbour-.

-You’re going to pay all the bad things that you have done, monster!- said the butcher of the town-.

In that moment, he realized that he was in the roof of the Bank of America building, the highest point of Atlanta. He tried to escape but immediately the citizens through him from the roof. The roof was 312 meters high, it was impossible to survive. While he was falling down, he felt sorry of all the murders that he had done but when he crashed with the floor, he died.

If you want to read my partners stories and see what I have written:

Kepa Imaz's story
Ander Belza's story
Idoia Ecezai's story
Sara Birawis's story
Usoa Aldazabal's story

My trip to England

2012-10-14T12:55:00.002+02:00

Hi readers!

In my second post I want to write about my trip to England this summer. Last year I won a grant of The Basque Government to go to England, to learn more English. I'm sure that everybody knows where is England but if somebody doesn't know that England is part of The United Kingdom (UK) in Great Britain.

I went to a small town (for them, because it has 40.000 inhabitants and my town has less than the half 18.000) called Exmouth. It is a port town and seaside resort in East Devon, sited on the east bank of the mouth of the River Exe. It is a pretty town with very nice people and enough shops. And more important, it is very near of Exeter, a city that is great for spending time: it has a bowling alley, historical monuments like a big cathedral... and also is great for shopping.

We went a basque group formed by 30 people, we all went with the scholarship. We were led by two leaders: one was from Anoeta and the other form Gasteiz.

Sea walk

In Exmouth we stayed in a host family, but I changed family three times. I stayed in the first house two weeks. The house was far away from the centre of the town but they provided me with a bus pass. The family was very funny and friendly. The bad point was that while I was there, they had to go on holidays, so, they changed me into another family. The second family, if you can name it like this, was formed by a fat old woman. The house was the dirtiest house I have ever been in! It was insufferable! All the house was covered by spiderwebs and the floor by her dog’s hair. There was food discarded in the kitchen and her cut nails were in the living room. She had all the house covered by dust, including two vacuums that she had! It was like staying in a haunted house! Fortunately, they changed me from family after staying 5 days in hell. The third and last family was simply fantastic.

In the morning I woke up by 7:30 (AM, XD), I had a shower, and I went to have breakfast. Then, I returned to my room and I played with my iPad. After, I went to the Mountlands language school by 9 AM. We stayed there for three hours and then, by 12 AM, we went to the main square, Strand. There we had the smallest lunch ever, the packed lunch. It was composed by a mini sandwich, a juice, and by a very hard apple. You can't think how hard it was. In the afternoon we did different activities, such as going to the pool, playing golf, playing different games, going bowling... And on Saturday we had a whole day activity.

I did a lot of new friends with whom I still keep in touch. This summer was a gorgeous summer!

You can comment below telling me your experience of this summer!

Starting with Social Networks

2012-10-01T12:02:00.002+02:00

Hi readers!

Are you thinking of opening an account in a Social Network? Well, if the answer is yes, I hope that this post help you.

To start with this post I'm going to explain the advantages and disadvantages that a Social Network has:

Advantages:

You can be connected 24 hours with your friends.
You can share photos, and see others photos too.
You can speak with people that live or are far away.
You can play games with your friends.
You can comment on others photos and check it that you like it.

Disadvantages:

Somebody can damage your image, giving false information, sharing photos that you don’t want to be on the web...
There is very little privacy, your friends can see all you have done.
More people than you think can see your information: including photos, comments...
People can download your personal photos (they can do a screenshot when you don't allow to download it) and see all the information you give about your live.
You can addict to it.

After reading these points if you have decided to enter in this world, the first thing that you have to do is select in what site do you want to open the account. If you live in Spain or in The Basque Country I think that the best page for you is Tuenti: is the most extended and used Network and it has nearly all options of more popular (out of Spain) ones like Facebook . But if you live outside I recommend Facebook if you want to speak with your friends share your photos... And twitter if you want to tell to all the world what are you doing.

When you open the account, you have to have some things in your mind. One is that you have to restrict your account, because in default all people can see your profile and photos. The second thing is that you never, but never, you have to publish personal information like your telephone or address. And last, but not less, is to not stay all day in this networks, because to use it are OK and sometimes helpful, but if you are all day in, you are losing contact with your real friends, those that you meet in street and you speak physically.
Don't forget this last think, because see how can you finish. And remember leave your comment bellow telling want you think about all this.

Welcome to my blog

2012-09-12T10:36:00.002+02:00

Welcome to my own blog! I'm Izadi Egizabal and I create this blog because I am studying ICT's in Laskorain ikastola (Basque country) in DBH4 (Secondary). I am going to publish here all my ICT's works for all you. Follow me in this experience, this will be gorgeous!