Gas

Just for the record whenever bush took over office gas was averaging $1.5o. Now as his term is coming to an end it has doubled and doesn't look like its going down anytime soon. Obviously setting record highs all over the country. This affects my decison to go home a lot. It really isn't worth it to drive home for a weekend and spend $50 dollars in gas. Hopefully whenever the next president is elected the prices will go down.

movie maker

I have never used this program before. It was very fun making and editing the video throughout this project. It was interesting seeing myself teaching the skill and editing myself on the computer. This is going to be helpful in the future whenever I begin my teaching career. I will use this program whenever i am absent in order to keep my class on track.

Weather

The summer weather is finall here. Unfortunately the finals are right around the corner. It is hard to study when you look outside the window and see everyone having a good time enjoying the weather. This is when the good old labtop comes into play. Having the powerpoints and notes downloaded on the labtop is awesome. You can take your labtop outside to get work done and enjoy the weather a the same time.

Pens

The pens swept the senator last night with a 3-1 victory. Out of 4 games the senators only scored 5 goals total. The pens scored 16 total goals. The final stats of the series easily showed that the pens swept them as they lead every offensive category by a goof margin. Thank gof for Fox Sports Network as they are going to cover every game for penguins hockey. I'm going to be a little scary looking in the next couple weeks if they keep winning because I am growing a playoff beard. LETS GO PENS!!

Mens Nations Championship

This years mens NCAA college basketball tournament was one to remember. The whole tournament itself was exciting with a lot of close games and exciting upsets all the way to the final 4. With North Carolina picked to win it all Kansas gave them a good game to make it to the championship game. Kansas and Memphis was probably the top two athletic teams and that showed Monday night in the championship game. It went into OT which no one expected and was awesome to watch. Kansas eventually came out on top to be the champions this year.

Credit Cards

I am starting to realize that this is one of the worst thing a college student can properly own, atleast myself. I go out and buy whatever i please because all i have to do is slide the card and its paid for. Little do i know a month later i spend double of what i have. You have to be very responsible for owning a credit card because you can use it almost anywhere. After a month of me using my credit card i immediately cut it up because of the amount of money it cost me.

Pens

The pens are so close to clinching the division. They only need one more point and they clinched the eastern conference. The devastating loss in OT to the rangers last night prohibited that from happening. Hopefully we stay at the top of our game and make a run for the top place in the eastern conference. It is between the pens and montreal. Home Ice for the eastern conference playoffs would be awesome!

weather

The weather is finally starting to get nice again in the slippery rock area. The current weather reports are saying the snow in finally gone and the nice weather is coming real soon. You see a lot more people now around campus catching football, throwing baseball, etc. Because of the weather a lot of the students are being more pyhsically active outside. You will start to see less students now in the arc and more of the students outside doing their physical activity.

Pens

As the season coming to an end the pens are back and forth for the number one spot in the east cost. The pens franchise is right where it wants to be with the new stadium coming in a couple of years. These playoffs the pens are going to give a good run for lord stanley and hopefully give the city of Pittsburgh something to cheer about. With the TV stations local and nationally I will be able to watch every single game in the playoffswhich is exciting. With hockey being the most exciting sports to watch when it comes to playoffs every game counts.

Buccos

Well spring training for the buccos looks the same again. Obviously they are not doing so well like the past years. It is time they change personal in the front office for the fans. THey are one of the only baseball teams that make profit throughout the league but enough is enough. Time to put some of that money into the fans and get their support back.

Pitt Bball

The Pittsburgh mens bball team made the NCAA tournament for the 7th straight season. They won the Big East Championship as a number 7th seed. They were underdogs the whole tournament but came through to win the whole thing. It was exciting watching these 4 games throughout the 4 day span. I hope they are still hot for the NCAA tournament. Bob Knight, the all-time winning coach, has predicted them to upset a couple more teams to win the whole tournament so lets hope the basketball team can live up to standers.

Big Ben

Big Ben just signed the biggest contract in Pittsburgh Steelers history and is now one of the top 5 paid athletes in the National Football League. This is the first step to keeping Ben in Pittsburgh for his whole career. From his stats last year and his new contract he would of made around $31,000 per pass attempt. For a touchdown pass he would of made $400,000. He has a lot to live up to this big contract. I'm going to look forward to watching Big Ben play with all this pressure to see how he reacts.

Camcorder

A digital camcorder is a great tool for a teacher. Even though he or she is planning ono missing class one day they can still have the class stay on schedule and do the lesson that was orginally planned. The teachers now do not have to worry about the substitutes messing up their lesson or not following it at all. They will be more comfertable calling off and confident that the class will do what is asked of them. Now the teacher can concentrate on their personal business instead of worrying about their class.

weather

The technology for weather is very useful. All of know where it seemed like around two inches showed up at the lovely SRU campus. Most people know it was coming though because of the weather reports that are the internet or television. Believe it or not these warning might actually save lives that you don't even know about. Can stop somoene from driving these bad roads up here in the winter that can easily get in accident. Instead they stay home because they know the weather is bad.

SRU

I like the technology that slippery rock uses to get the message across to students about classes getting canceled for example. You can sign up on an certain program on the slippery rock website. Whenever the weather is bad they can send out a personal message to you telling you that classes are cancled. this makes it very easy because if the student is not near a computer they would not be able to know and go out in the bad weather. You can also send them to stay in your dorms if there is an emergency on campus like VT of the latest northern illinios. This is a very nice program to have at a University and very easy to use.

health center

The health center here on campus is basically a waste of time. I waited there for an hour and all the nurse did as give me the same medicine I could of got at the local Giant Eagle. It is not worth it to go there if I'm going to get that kind of service. I also got mad whenever people that arrived after me got called into the office before I did. My final time at the health center was an hour and a half and all i got was cough syrup and a couple cough drops.

Publisher

This past assignment was the first time I heard of and used Publisher on Microsoft Office. I did not realize that you can do so many things from this program. I wish I knew about it earlier because a lot of past projects would of been a lot easier. I am glad that I know about it know because it will be a good tool to use in the future as a teacher. It will make my work look more professional than if I just made up the charts/certificates myself.

Computer

Earlier this week I saw one of the new computers that fit in an envelope. It was amazing how small it was and also how fast it was. Technology is crazy when the size of ogjects get smaller but there memory is getting bigger some how. That computer is easily 5 times quicker than my computer that I own. I wish I had the money to buy one of those because I would easily purshase the computer. The size of it will make it very easy to take from one place to another to do work.

Pro Bowl

The Pro Bowl is not going to be normal this year. Usually it is the best position players of that year. This year there are numerous amount of injuries that are causeing all the top players to not participate. Every time I am watching sportscenter I notice that a new starter is out and antother replacement is taking place. It is still going to be a fun event to watch. All the players are still going to enjoy theirselves but there is a chance the scoring might not be as high as normal.

CUTV

My friend Paul Denillo attends California University of Pennsylvania. He is on the Broadcast Crew and follows the basketball teams for Cal U. I think it is cool that he uses the tecnology to broadcast the game to the Cal U campus on a certain channel. They do everything that a station like FSN does. They have replays, they do graphics, they have interviews with players, etc. They just are not as professional as they real stations yet. It is funny listening to him on the TV or Radio because he has gone a long way from highschool.

Instant Replay

Instant replay is one of the biggest parts of the sports world today. It has changed so many games already and it has only been around for a couple of years. In basketball on last second shots they can break down the game film to tenths of seconds to see whether or not they player got the shot off in time. For the up coming superbowl they use HD instant replay so they can get the call correct everytime. There are several angles too so the refree can use multiple views to get the call correct.

Introduction

My name is Jim Sikora. I am a Pyhsical Education major at Slippery Rock University. I turn 21 February 27th so I can not wait to get that over with. My hometown is a small town called Brentwood. It is ten mintues away from the city of Pittsburgh which is very nice. I have one younger brother who is a freshman at University of Pittsburgh Johnstown. An interesting fact about me is that I enjoy long walks on the beach.