Khan Academy: My Favourite Educational Website

In this post I will be introducing you to Khan Academy. Khan Academy is a brilliant educational website that teaches you almost every subject for free.

If you clicked on the link on "My Favourite Websites" and figured out how to use it then good. If you didn't then this is how you do it. First you choose if you want to sign in using Facebook or Google. I don't have a Facebook account so I don't know how to sign in using Facebook but I assume that it is the same as signing in with Google. When signing in with Google you have to write your password and email address and voila! You are signed in!

Once you signed in you can watch the videos on the Khan Academy website and gain Energy Points to unlock avatars. Each video earns you 750 energy points depending on how much of the video you watched. You can also earn badges for doing certain things. For example watching 1 hour of video in a single topic gets you an Awesome Listener badge. When you earn certain badges like the Hard at Work badge you also get extra energy points. There are 6 different types of badges: the meteorite badges, the Moon badges, the Earth badges, the Sun badges, the Black Hole badges and the challenge badges. Meteorite badges are the easiest badges and the Black Hole badges are the hardest as they don't tell you what to do to earn them.

You can set yourself goals to achieve. You can see graphs that shows your activity, your focus, your skill progress and your progress over time. You can create computer programs. There is also an Exercise Dashboard where you can attain mastery. At the moment I have 129,871 Energy Points, I have watched 109 out of the 4149 videos, I have 35 out of the 414 stars and my avatar is Old Spice Man. My favourite topics are Science and Humanities.

Summary: I think Khan Academy is a fantastic, brilliant, informative and educational website. I give the website a 10/10.

My first post

Hello world! This is my first blog post so here it goes!

IL-2 Sturmonvik 1946

Picture Source: www.amazon.co.uk

This game is set in World War II and is about shooting planes and nothing else.The name of the game is IL-2 Sturmonvik, which comes from a plane called the Ilyushin IL-2.

Ilyushin IL-2 (photo source: wikimedia common)

The title ''sturmonvik'' comes from the Russian word ''shturmovik'' which means ground-attack aircraft which the Il-2 was. The plane on the cover of the game (Top photo) is an Mig-9. The Il-2 series game is developed by the 1C company which is one of the largest interdependent Russian software developers. The 1C company also made Il-2 Sturmonvik: Birds of Prey. I played the demo of Birds of Prey on my Xbox 360 and it was great! The graphics are not that good but who cares when you get to blow up Me-323s (German transport plane) with my personal favourite plane the P-80 Shooting Star (American jet fighter) over Russia in heavy rain. 

P-80 Shooting Star in a Russian Air Force livery shooting an Me-323

 The plane which has the best weapons in the game is the Ta-183 (experimental German jet fighter) which has 4 auto-cannons!

Ta-183 shooting it's MK-108 auto-cannon

This game is surprisingly cheap at just £4.67 on Amazon. Once I tried to take on 16 ace Japanese Zero fighter planes with a Supermarine Seafire. Well, what do you think happened? A Japanese plane fired at me and one of the bullets seemed to hit my engine. I wasn't able to restart my engine and I didn't have enough time to eject and parachute down so my plane crashed into the water and I died. However, I did manage to shoot one of the Zero fighter planes down and I had a lot of fun playing the game!

Summary: The up-side is that it is cheap, fun and brilliant. The down-side of this game is that you have to wait quite some time to get to the actual dog fighting and the graphics aren't that good. I give this game an 8/10.