A song in images

Guess the song!
Eye
sea


fields of green

red roses
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The not so glass slipper

On Friday we all to wear our own clothes and funky shoes to help spread mental health awareness and to donate money collected from each student from wearing in their own clothes and shoes to the Walk In My Shoes Foundation. The Walk In My Shoes Foundation is here to help young adults who experience mental difficulty.

Statistics say that:

• 1 in 4 young people in Ireland will experience a mental health difficulty.
• Suicide is the leading cause of death among 18-25 year old men in Ireland and the second most common cause of death generally in this age group.
• Ireland has one of the highest suicide rates in the 14-24 age group in the EU.
• 1 in 6 employees in Ireland will experience a mental health difficulty.

Walk In My Shoes

Fun Walk!

  

Class Aurora for the past week or so have been putting together a dance routine for the Fun Walk. The Fun Walk is a tradition in our school to promote Anti-Bullying Week and Friendship Week. Its a great day for the students and for the teachers who also compete in the dance contest. Our colour this year was Yellow :).
And I can gladly tell you that class Aurora's hard work paid off! As we won! YAY!
We went with the theme of Sleeping Beauty, as that is our class name. We split the class into two, one half being the bad fairies and the other the good fairies. The good fairies then turned the bad fairies good and we then danced to 'Wake Me Up Before Go Go' by Wham. I held up a sign that read "You Can't Spell Beauty Without TY". We had our tutor dressed as Maleficent. It was great to watch all the other classes do their dances. Its great to see the entire school get involved and support each and every class making a complete fool of themselves for the sake of everyone's entertainment.

Your Digital Fairytale

I recently watched a YouTube clip on Digital Dossier. A dossier is a collection of documents about a particular person, event or subject.Your digital dossier is the accumulation of all the digital tracks you leave behind. This accumulation started before you were even born when your mother had a sonogram. This image of you in the womb was not only framed by your parents but shared to all relatives and is the first entry into your hospital file.
When you're born your parents would then send a text to all family members, this text contains your gender, weight, health and the time of birth. Photos will be taken on electrical devices and uploaded to social media websites. As a new baby grows so does their digital dossier. Photos will be captured all throughout life.
Soon you can then independently share information about yourself when you register on the likes of Club Penguin then during adolescence you can sign up for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Everything a person Google's is saves from the persons IP Address. When you go to buy something online that website then knows your credit card details. Your credit card details contain the records of everything you've ever bought and the price of it.
Your digital dossier is inevitable, unless you are part of some tribe that lives on island away from the world of technology. But if that were true, the possibility of you being capable of reading this post is incredibly slim. Even after just simply viewing my blog, your computer has saved that to history.
I try to look at this in a positive way although the thought of it quite frankly frightens jeebes out of me. Historians in the future won't have a hard time in understanding how this generation lived. They'll be able to access a persons entire life story from when they were five months in the womb until the day they die. We all want to leave a mark on this world, and maybe want to share our story with the world. I realise now that its impossible not to leave a mark, and our story, is our digital dossier.