Google Day #2

3 goals

• Find an average salary for being NBA commisioner
• Find the jobs needed to be taken before reaching commissioner status
• Find the objectives needed to be excepted into Columbia University or University of Texas

What I found

• It has been found that the average salary of NBA commissioner is around $20-23 million a year
• Adam Silver (the next NBA commissioner in 2014 when David Stern retires) went through many jobs before becoming the next commissioner
• In 1992 when Adam Silver began he started as special assistant to the commissioner.
• Then, NBA chief of staff, Senior Vice President of NBA entertainment, Then President of NBA entertainment.
• Right now he is Deputy commissioner.
• Silver also produced multiple movies such as Like Mike, Year of the Yao, and Michael Jordan to the max.
• To become commissioner I must then get on the NBA board of governers.
• The board consists of 5 people that vote on if the commissioners predececer is right for the job.
• Columbia University looks at the workload of a student, interests and family, quality of noncurricular things, character, if the person is right for the area, and recommendations to consider the candidate.
• An average of above 2100 in SAT and 30 in ACT are required
• Also a 3.8 minimum GPA is needed for Columbia University

Links 

http://collegeapps.about.com/od/GPA-SAT-ACT-Graphs/ss/columbia-admission-gpa-sat-act.htm

http://www.insidehoops.com/blog/?p=8106

http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/apply/first-year/holistic

Next class

I plan on learning more about Columbia University and about starting an internship or an assistant job at the NBA headquarters in New York.

Google day 1

3 goals

• Find out what I should study to become NBA commissioner.
• Find out what colleges offer these courses.
• What exactly is the job description of NBA commissioner.

Job description

• Lawyer: must know all legal rights for things such as financial negotiations, NBA television, radio, and website rights, and head of the marketing department, like merchandise and sales promotions.
• Ambassador to the NBA: visit other countries and promote basketball around the world.
• Advisor/referee: The commissioner needs to hand down fines and solves disputes throughout the league and also defending the officiating in the NBA.
• Speaker: the commissioner also must address any problems throughout the NBA. That means talking to the media.
• Basketball fanatic: He must know what is going on whether in a game or know the history and some facts about the NBA, such as the LA lakers have the longest winning streak in NBA history at 33. Or that Wilt Chamberlain has scored the most points in a game for 1 person at 100.

Courses to study

• Business law
• Patent law
• Public interest law

My favorite 5 colleges that offer business law (in order of smart rank)

• Yale University (1)
• Harvard (2)
• Columbia University (4)
• Georgetown University (14)
• University of Texas at Austin (15)
• Ohio State University (39) (kevin asked me to add this)

Links

http://www.ehow.com/facts_5208225_nba-commissioner-job-description.html
http://law-school.findthebest.com/d/c/Business-Law

Today I learned
Today I learned what my responsibility would be if I became the NBA commissioner. Also I learned and chose a major I wish to take; Business law. Then searched some universities. My favorite is Columbia and after that UT.
Next class
I want to learn what minors I could take and what jobs could I have leading up to NBA commissioner.

Amazon Project.

Tech tool used:   bitstrips.com

COPA and FERPA

What I know.

• I know nothing.
• No, really, I have no clue what these are.

Questions?

• What does COPA and FERPA stand for?
• What does each do?
• How does COPA and FERPA have to do with the internet?

Learned stuff.

• COPA: Child Online Protection Act/COPPA: Childrens online privacy Protection Act
• Passed in 1998
• Imposing a two-year prison sentence or a fine of up to $200,000 for someone who posts something indecent about a child.
• The term "child" refers to anyone under 13.
• Gaining information of a child or posting information or photos of a child are illegal under COPA.
• FERPA: Federal Educational Records Privacy Act/Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
• Federal Educational Records Privacy Act of 1974
• FERPA refers to educational rights. Such as allowing a student to see their academic records and only the student and a guardian.
• Basically FERPA keeps student records secret like doctor patient confidentiality, but with student and educators.

Connecting.
COPA and FERPA are laws of the U.S. so technically if I live in Colombia, then they don't affect me. However, they protect the rights of children from being exploited or taken advantage of over the internet. These laws keep information withheld between a person and they keep weird online people from taking a child's information and from a person putting something indecent to a child online. I am older than 13 so another law like COPA would probably affect me. FERPA makes sure my records are kept into my family and not out everywhere for everyone to see.

Last Question?

• Are these laws kept in affect or enforced today or are they just generalizations that people know?

LINKS that i had used in the making of all these typed words and other things...

• http://www.ftc.gov/ogc/coppa1.htm
•  http://civilliberty.about.com/od/freespeech/p/copa1998.htm
•  http://epic.org/privacy/education/ferpa.htm 
•  http://www.edtechteam.com/cue2011/legal