Internet Safety

Internet safety is an interesting thing...when I've asked people what they know about internet safety, most of them are actually confused by my question: antivirus safety? surfing the web safely? what kind of internet safety are we talking about here???
When I learn more I will let you know...I'm in the process of learning about this right now :)

Copyright Assignment

So I'm still working to understand the copyright laws...and I was looking for some videos that do and don't follow the copyright laws, and I found this really funny one taking the Taylor Swift song, "You Belong With Me", but changing the lyrics so that Jacob (the werewolf) is singing them to Bella about how she belongs with him, and not Edward. As I'm watching this video, well, first, it's hilarious; second, I think this person did a good job with the 30-sec rule - only showing clips for 30 secs at a time from different sources...but I'm not sure if a)they are allowed to change the lyrics, and keep the music, and b) if this was made for the appropriate purposes of teaching, scholarships, and research. The good news is that I did find this video under the Advanced Search section "free to use, share, or modify, even commericially" section...there's still a lot that I need to learn!!!

Screenshot

So after a long last search for items to subscribe to, and the difficult task (alright...I'm exaggerating a little bit...)of getting this screen shot onto my blog. And here it is!!

On my reader, I subscribed to a few different things - mostly recipe blogs, and a few to some Spanish teaching/teacher blogs. These types of blogs are both types that will help keep my informed in my fields of study. One of my favorite recipes that I've found so far is one that is similar to one that my mom used to make when I was growing up: it's a simple recipe for Macaroni and Cheese
It's a really simple and organic recipe that kids love!!

Why is it so late?!

So, of course, it's about mid-night...I was supposed to go to bed more than an hour ago! But then I remembered that today is Monday - aka - MISSIONARY LETTER DAY!!!!! so i went to one of my elders blogs (the only one that I knew about until about 60 minutes ago...), and read his letter home for the week (bless his mom for posting them!!); then I noticed that his companion from the MTC has a blog too! So of course I had to go and read it and become a follower of both of their blogs...still not really sure what that means, but oh well...and then, I started thinking about my missionaries, and how much I miss them, and how it's been almost 4 weeks, and I haven't heard from any of my Veracruz missionaries even though they promised they would write!! I know, I know - they are busy, I understand - I was there! But still...
Anyways, it's a good thing that I work at the MTC and am around missionaries all the time! It helps some when my missionaries out in the field don't write to have other missionaries around.
So then, after I thought about the missionaries, I thought about my 3 awesome friends, and how I told them I would create a blog just for us so we can all keep in touch as we all grow up and move on with our lives in different parts of the country. I'm so glad that the 4 of us are friends - even though we haven't all been together for like 3 years, we know that we can always count on each other no matter what - and, in the words of Sherkan (the tiger), "that's what friends are for" :)