How to add really cool gadgets

Hey Bloggers!
If you want to know how to add a lot of really cool gadgets and games to your blog, then read these steps.

1.) Go to Dashboard
2.) Beside New Post, there will be a button that says Layout- Click it
3.) Click where it says Add a Gadget either at the bottom or to the right side-A pop-up window should appear
4.) On the left side there will be something that says Categories- underneath it will be a lot of different categories like Fun & Games, Sports, News etc.
5.) Select which category you want, and then choose which gadget you want(there will be thousands of choices)!

Hope this helped! Comment if you have any questions!

Assignment #6- Oscar Peterson

I am responding to Assignment # 6.

For the past 65 years, Oscar Peterson has been entertaining the world with his magnificent jazz piano skills. Born in Montreal, Canada, on August 15, 1925, he has grown to be known as one of the world's best jazz pianists. Along with his four brothers and sisters, he was introduced to music at a very young age by his father, Daniel Peterson. During his high school years, Oscar was trained by an accomplished classical pianist, Hungarian-born Paul de Marky, who taught Oscar "technique and speedy fingers". He also helped Oscar come to believe that he had something special and unique to give to the music world.

Although he is noted in Canada as being a leading personage and public figure on top of being a great musician, he is also known around the world. He gained world recognition after auditioning for CBC'S(Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) national amateur contest which he went on to win. This opened the doors to several performances on a weekly broadcast show, on a Montreal radio station, and later performances on a national CBC broadcast called "The Happy Gang". Finally, after Oscar felt that his need to play the piano exceeded his need to go to school, he asked his father to drop out. But his father told him that he couldn't "let him leave high school to be a jazz piano player. You have to be the best, there is no second best." And so, with these words of wisdom, Oscar went on and followed his dream to be the world's best known jazz pianists.

***If you would like to see a video of Oscar Peterson's "Hymn to Freedom," click here ------>***

Special facts:

**The San Francisco Boys Chorus and the San Francisco Girls Chorus performed one of Oscar's most famous songs, Hymn to Freedom at Barack Obama's Inauguration**

**He released over 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, and received many other awards and honours over the course of his career**

**In 2004, the City of Toronto named the courtyard of the Toronto-Dominion Square "Oscar Peterson Square"**

Assignment #5- The Early Settlers

I'm responding to Assignment #5.

Canada. We all know it's freezing outside. But we have so many things to help us with the weather. When we're cold, we can go into a heated room, put on our warm boots, jackets, and gloves, and suddenly become warmer. But haven't you ever wondered how the early settlers survived? When it was cold, they couldn't turn on the heater, or go through the drawer to find the warmest pair of gloves. If they didn't have any of these amenities, then how did they survive?

Well, it wasn't easy. First of all, their houses were not very warm, as most were a "one-room structure made of logs, field stone, spruce poles or prairie sod". Sometimes, if settlers came in the winter, they would even have to make their house in the snow! All of the settlers had to go out, in the cold snow, and dig for a bit of wood to warm up their home. And sometimes, if it was really cold, the wood would be so frozen that it wouldn't even light. The women and girls almost always had to sew and knit clothes, hats, mittens and socks to keep warm. Another trouble that they had to live with was taking care of the animals. They would have to go outside every morning, get the chicken's eggs, and feed the animals in the freezing snow. They also had to go out and find a little food to feed their family, and there were also many illnesses in the cold Canadian winters like pneumonia ,scurvy and cholera.

But according to this website, even though life was hard in Canada, it was "better than they would expect in Europe". In Canada, people owned their own farms, had plenty of wood for heating and keeping warm, and lots of fish and wild animals for eating. They also had many social events with friends and family. So I guess that life in Canada wasn't that bad.

The reason that my parents came to Canada 21 years ago was because there was a war in the country that my parents were from. They decided to come here because there was no war in Canada, and it was a free country. They also wanted their children to have a better future in a country like Canada, and to get a good education. But even after they saw the cold Canadian winters, they loved it! There was no snow where they were from, and they loved all of the snow and decorations everywhere! It was really different from where they lived(Lebanon and Cyprus), but they didn't complain. The only part that they didn't really like was shoveling the driveway in the morning.

So overall, even though life in the cold Canadian winters has it's flaws, many people appreciate living in a free country like Canada.

Thank you for reading my entry!

Assignment #4

Hey Everybody!!

I just read a lot of really awesome blogs!! They were all great and had a lot of detail. All of them mentioned really great and imaginative ideas about what would happen in the future.

The first blog that I read was Emily's blog. It was really great and she made a lot of really cool predictions about the year 2109. I really liked when she said that "Cancer and aids will have a cure, but a new incurable disease will start." I found that really interesting.

The second blog that I read was Ryleigh's blog. It was really cool, and she had a really nice backround!! She had a lot of predictions about what the world would be like in a century. It was cool when she said "2109 will probably have a lot of new and unique technology, maybe there will be TV's that would never need to be plugged in!" I thought that that was a really different thing to say.

The last blog that I commented on was Chongo's blog. It was a really well done blog. Not only did she mention things about the future, but she also mentioned a lot of things about the past. I especially liked when she said that there might be "much more technology, to do all the work humans have been doing in this past century for us." I really liked that and I think that she did a really great job!

Assignment #3

Hi! This is my response to Assignment #3.

It seems like Canada has gone through a lot of changes in the past few centuries. I think that 1606-1709 was the best time for the First Nations people. They were in power, they built alliances, and became central in the fur trade out of both Montreal and Hudson's Bay. But over the next few centuries they started to lose power and the control of the fur trade was being given to the Europeans.

I think that 2009 has changed very drastically from the past few centuries. We have new technologies and various industries, so we don't have to rely on our selves as much (making clothes, making tools, cutting down wood etc.). We also don't have to worry about there being any wars over the ownerships of industries.

I think that 2109 will look much different than 2009. I think that there will be a lot of historical events(maybe there will be a black prime minister, or even an Aboriginal Prime Minister), and I think that the population will increase a lot. After all, going from the population of a few thousand people to 32,000,000 people is a big difference! This would also be very good for our economy because more people would need jobs.

Plus, with all of the amazing technology we have now, imagine what we can have in the future! I think that there will be some form of technology(maybe robots) that will look after humans, so humans will not have to take care of themselves. This will be very harmful to the environment, so maybe the earth will get so polluted that in 200 years from now people will live in outer space! Probably not, but with the new technology coming out every day, who knows what the world will be like in the centuries to come?

If you would like to see the website that I'm responding to, please check out Christopher Moore's blog!

Welcome to my Blog!!

Welcome to my blog!!
I'm a grade 7 student in Ottawa, Canada, and I'm going to be writing about Canadian History in this blog. This will be really fun since there will be no more text books. A few other classes are doing this with me, so you can check out their's too!

I'm new to this so this, so if I make a mistake, please tell me!
And don't be shy to leave a comment!

P.S.. you should check out my teachers blog here!