Distracting Driving

Google Docs

Google Docs

This week we worked on Google docs. The things I liked about using Google docs was that my work would save automatically and I didn’t have to worry about saving it. I also liked that my partner and I could work on our project at the same time. What I didn’t like about Google docs is that when working with my partner it took a while to communicate with each other through the chat. It would have been a little easier if we could have communicated with each other by sitting next to, or close to our partner.  Yes I did like being able to work on the same document with my partner. I think Google docs could improve by putting a Bluetooth in so if you have a partner you can communicate verbally than by typing because typing takes a lot of time and can be hard to explain the things you need to.  But, overall I think my project turned out very well and I was pretty happy with the way it turned out.

 

Article Review

The ocean's are so huge. They make the worlds oxygen. Many scientist have tried and discovered what the bottom of the ocean is like, but it will only take technology to do this job. Scientist need to mobilize a new generation of self powed robots that can explore the oceans from top to bottom but the most important thing is that it still needs to communicate with the scientists. A new species is discovered in the ocean once every two weeks. It would be pretty cool to see what lies at the bottom of the ocean.

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James Naismith Script

James Naismith

            James Naismith was born November 6 1861 in Ramsay Township, near Almonte, Ontario.  In 1871 James and his three brothers were orphaned by his maternal grandmother when both of his parents died of typhoid fever. Even though he went through a lot with his mother, father, and grandmother dying, he liked to play and concentrate on sports. James was an outstanding athlete. He played intensely in all sports but he had self-control. He went to McGill University in Montreal. There, he pursued athletics including rugby and gymnastics, winning the Silver and Gold Wickstead Medals for "Best All-Around Athlete" in 1885 and 1887. In 1890 he got his Master of Divinity degree. He continued his education, studying theology at Presbyterian College. He took a job at McGill as Physical Education director in order to finance his schooling. James married Maude E. Sherman and had five children with her. They were married for forty-three years. After she died, within 6 months, James married Florence Kinkaid.       

The Young Men’s Christian Association, also known as the Y.M.C.A had been established in 1851. James had visited the Y.M.C.A often and thought he could help young people through athletics with the help of the organization.  He learned of the Y.M.C.A International Training School and that summer he enrolled there, where he took and taught classes, and participated in sports. He was later asked to become the Athletic Director of the Y.M.C.A in Springfield, MA. With this new job, he had to come up with new games that could help bring recreational sports into the gym. He needed to come up with a game that could be played indoors during the winter months between the football and baseball seasons that would keep athletes in top shape over this period.

            James had to do a lot of thinking. He started to think of a childhood game he used to play when he was young, which was known as “Duck-on-a-rock”. The games involved two peach baskets and a soccer ball. With 18 students in his class, he divided them into two teams of nine, each with a goal keeper, two guards, three centers, two wings, and a home-man. Each team would try to toss a soccer ball into the peach baskets. Eventually they decided to cut the bottoms out of the baskets so they didn’t have to climb up and grab the ball out of it each time someone scored. In 1893 the metal rim was invented, and in 1895, the backboard appeared. The first official basketball was invented in 1909. After changing the peach baskets for open hoop nets, James Naismith soon wrote thirteen official rules for the game.

            In 1897, seven years after, the first intercollegiate game was played, and in 1898, the first Collegiate Association was formed.  The National Basketball League (NBL) was formed in 1937 but later in 1949, the Basketball Association of America (BAA), joined the NBL to form the National Basketball Association (NBA).  Today basketball is less brutal than it was before, and is now played by five players from each team on the court at a time—two forwards, two guards and a center. In 1936, basketball became an Olympic sport then, in 1976, women's basketball was added to the Olympics. And finally, The Women's Professional Basketball League was established in 1978.

            James put a lot of thought into inventing basketball. He changed a lot of things to make the sport even better and he tried to make basketball a game of skill and non-physical so the church would like it. James never pursued self-recognition, honors, or riches for his invention. He died November 28, 1939 and he was buried there alongside his first wife. Today, the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts is dedicated to Naismith, as well as to basketball's greatest players, coaches and teams.

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