life in a day

theres an error in my video so i cant imbed so here is the link

a life in a day process

To create my video of life in a day it took me only about one week. This is about 3 hours of work in total. This project was really fun because it made me remember the time when I took many of that old photos. I also liked to see the old pictures my friends has in their file. The music was hard to choose because I needed a happy song and a song that would fit in the transition of the photos and the videos.The most challenging part of doing the video is that the file had an error so I couldn't transform into an mp4. So what I did was erase that part of the video and changed the duration until the part were there was no error. I believe this video really made us realize how we live and how we enjoy life.

A life in a day theme

The main theme of my video is enjoying the life you have. This shows all the things that can make you enjoy it, even though they are simple. Like your friends, the fun you have with them or your family all the memories and times you have had with them. Life is short so you got to take advantage of it while you can. It also shows how everyone has a life but some of them enjoy it more than others. this is what every human has to do before is too late and you get old and tired. So laugh all you can, do crazy stuff and have fun.

important parts of video

The video about life we saw today has like one hundred different scenes that describe our life. One of the chunks I really liked is the one were a professional athlete with one leg jumps and clears the obstacle he needed to pass. I believe this was a really strong scene because it shows the strength people can have even though they are handicapped. Another strong scenes I saw were the ones were so many people had cameras which capture so many scenes that are seen all over the world by different people. this is something people do that is common and it really meaningful in the video. these are some of the scenes I really liked

one day in my lfie

Today we watched a video in computer class about life. This showed the things that happen daily in different places. I thought it was really good because it relates to most if us because some of this things happen in our daily lives. I also liked all the different scenes they added to the video. they were short and concrete. They were not boring because they took about 4 seconds maximum. another thing I liked is the places they filmed in. They were all different and interesting. This is how they should do the professional videos. I believe that the message is about the video is to realize how you are living your life and what is happening around you.

Liters and miiles

During this past week the 9th grade class has been working in figuring out measurements of when we travel to several places using google maps. During this assignment I have learned a whole lot of new things about my life and in technology. Now I know how much I travel each day and how many money do I spend each year. Today we are doing something similar to what we have been doing but know we are also measuring the time we take to get there. With this project I also realized that the car i want is really efficient in the fuel it uses. I believe that this project was interesting and very educational for our daily lives.

Car fuel

Yesterday when I was working on my car spreadsheet I realized the differences and the costs my car has different than others. First my cherokee 2010 W2 uses .4 liters a day for my drive to school. So each week (5 days) I spend about a 2 liters. In my dream car which is a jeep Patriot W2 each trip costs .26 liters. So each week I would spend 1.30 liters. So in total I spend 74 pesos a year for the cherokee. For the jeep patriot I would spend 48 pess a year.I believe that the Jeep Patriot is a more efficient car that would help me in the future.



per day per week per year

efficient mini cooper 7.8 .08 .4 75
efficient volkswagon 9 .09 .45 83.2

google earth

during this past days the 9th grade has been working in a project done with google Earth. Our job was to put in a video our vacations or our dream vacations. I did it in about 2 days, and was about the places I have been in my life. I still think it was not good enough but next time I will try to put more destinations and more movement around the places. the first video I saw was Debora's, it was long but very interesting. What I most liked was all the exotic destinations she had. The next

good reads Twilight

As scene in the news, tv shows and magazines the movie Twilight has beome a phenomenon. For this good movie there is a great story. I this case the story of these vampires comes from a ovel written by Stephanie Meyer. The whole plot evolves in a young girl named Bella. A teenage girl who moves to a town called Forks. The story has some great details and characters that are just great for a reader to enjoy. this book has not been my favorite but I do like reading it. A lot of people have different perspectives for this book like its stupid ir boring but in fact I thought it was a little exagerated. There shouldnt be so many problems between the characters they should solve their problems. Maybe the problems between the main characters and the bad guy are real but the relationship between themselves are so unecesary. well this is my opinion and Most of the people I know really liked this book.

good reads Charlie and the Chocolate factory

Most of the people I know don`t know this but I don`t really like candy, but chocolate can be one of my favorite things when I am hungry. I this case the book I read a few years ago called Charlie and the Chocolate factory amazed me and made me hungry all the time I read it. This book is really related to the dreams of a kid at the age of Charlie. Which is a boy who is not economicly good but has a great love for chocolate. He is a really mature kid that follows his dream on going to Willy wonka`s chocolate factory. This book is not as others which take too long to get to the points and exciting parts. On the other side this book never stops the fun in the kids journey. Charlie and the Chocolate factory is a book I really recommend and enjoyed reading.

goodreads Narnia

I will be honest, I dont read much but from the few books I have read Narina has been one of the best. The first reason why I liked this book is becuase I love fiction. I mean the imagination of creating somehting that doesn`t exist makes you think a lot and visualize it in your own way. The changes of scenery from start to beggining are completely different and very creative. The plot is also great , you can see that the author C.S Lewis has put great effort in the details of the story. My favorite part like in most books is the battle. The actions the warriors make are so explained and weel though. Well, Narina was a great story full of excitement mystery and hapiness.

something special

There are several things that are really special about me but the one I like the most is that I am thoughtful. I always think about the things that I am doing and the things I am doing to others. I am very empathetic I with everyone. I always think how they are going to feel before I say something. Another special thing about me is that I am very dedicated in the things I like, mostly sports. one of them is skating. when I dont land a trick the first several times I dont give up. I keep trying until I land it but the bad thing about this is that i get really tired and grumpy. homework is something I also dedicate sometimes. Like now, its a saturday night and instead of playing videogames or something I am doig my homework. well this are some of the things that make me special so i´ll get back to my videogames.

one thing i would like to do for myself

There are many things I like to do for fun and for myself but i dont think i really need something just for me. I think my life is pretty relaxing and uncomplicated. I don´t have a lot of chores to do in my house,my family is good with me and most of my friends are fun and supporting. In my opinion my life is pretty good. I have nothing to complaint at all in fact I will like to do things for others. one example is helping more in my house so there is not much work for others or help my dad in his job. another thing I would do is something that could help a lot of people like in school. I would definetely change the school policy of the boxes for homework and definetely give less homework for students. this of course is something I would do in a regular basis but something I imagine I could do. this are some of the things i would like to make for me and others.

Something I just did

During this summer vacations I did a whole lot of things that i really enjoyed. At the beginning of the summer is spend about a week out of my house. most of my time I was outside with my friends skating or watching a movie in Galerias. the rest of my time I played Modern Warfare 2. I really though I wasted my time playing this game. Besides spending my time playing videogames and skating I went on a trip with my family. We went to the city of Chicago. This trip was something i will always remember from my summer. The trip was not the great part of this but spending all of the time with my family. since my sister was leaving for college we were more united so we did everything togerther. My sister and I did everything together. It was one of the best moments of my life. After the trip to Chicago we celabrated the birthday of my sister. she turned 19 and had a blast running in the rain with me and all of her friends. This summer is something I just did and willl never forget.

Typing Tracker

For this entire year the eight grade class typed for several minutes each day in a program called Typing Master. This really improved all of our abilities specially mine. Since I started to type in class I made about 7 words a minute. That is slow for a an eight grader. But later i kept improving each time I had a test and now I can type 26 words a minute. This improvement didn't only help me in this class but also in other assignment I do like paragraphs for English. I do think that having this for ninth grade would be a great idea but not the whole year. You see, if we have this for half of the year we will still improve but if we do it the whole year the excitement of the students will decrease and they would not put effort in them. This typing tests really improved also improved my reading and I think this will help me in the future.

Graphs

Okay so as told before the grade eights had their Map testings for Math, Languaje, and Readings. So first in Math I used a normal and straight line to show the ups and downs in a more direct and easy way. Its easier because it doesnt have difficult and unecesary designs. The second one that is of languaje is in 3D. I used this to make it a little more enjoyable. And since the line is not vertical but a little bit curved, this fits exactly for the effect of 3D. Since I improved so much in my reading tests I used a line with some sort of checkpoints which help the person who is whatching it see how I improved. I also made different graphs because it would be boring to have the same things and mr Mark assigned like that.

Oil spill

As many of you have noticed we as humans are affecting the environment around us. This can be harmful but not lethal as the topic discussed today. As many of you know a few months ago( Exactly April 20) an oil spill happened in the Gulf of Mexico near Lousiana. This occured in an oil rig called Transocean Deepwater Horizon. This caught on fire but affortunately the 116 of 127 crew members that were there escaped. The total number of gallons of oil that were released to the sea were 200,000. This spill became a huge threat to humanity. First, the water became polluted. This also affests the animals that live near or in it. Some examples that appear in the website are seaguls, fish and other birds.


This oil spill is a big deal and it will have serious concsecuences. Experts know are trying to recolect some of this oil so it doesn´t spread to other coasts but this takes time and the spreading is fast. ( There are some pictures of the methods use in the link in the first pargraph.) I think this recolection is a good idea but its not very effective. This oil can´t be totally moved so there is nothing to do but stopping the oil extraction in oceans. We all have to think of the future of humans. There is a possibilty that future civilizations will not enjoy the ocean as we do, maybe the ocean will be so contaminated that it can´t be touched. Imagine that two-thirds of the Earth can´t be lived on. the occurence of this leak has to eancourage people to make a change.

MAP testing

This week of May we had Map tests again. These annoy me because they take so long and they don't really make much sense. First, they ask us things that have nothing to do with what we have studied or they ask us things we learned centuries ago. This time I wasn't in the mood to do this tests but I did kind of good. I got 239, 231, and 229 in math, language , and literature. I think I didn't reach my goal for the scores but i am sure that in the next test I will do better. If I could do this test I would taken my time to do it and get a better mark on it. The best thing of this tests is that there are over. The web page for map testing is NWEA an the URL for the picture is http://images.ukcs.net/14709/map_test_billboard~0.jpg.

presentations

The powerpoint presentations that I saw were from Rodrigo,Eduardo, and Jorge. They were all related and well presented. They aproximately took 4 to 5 minutes in getting done. We all talked about the same or similar topic which was air pollution. Each one had different types of information but they all related to Global warming. They all had pictures that gave resemblance to the topic. If I could change something about my presentation, that will be the information. I thought it was too boring. I would put more funny information or more resumed. In my opinion this project was interesting and easy to talk about.

powerpoint

The comedian`s video of powerpoint made me remember how some of my friends and even me use powerpoint in someway wrong. People in my class always use animations that move. Sometimes there are so annoying I don`t pay attention to the preasenter. One time one classmate gave movement to his picture for about 1 minute. Another thing most of my callsmates and I do is spelling errors. Most of the time when there is a spelling or grammatical error that we don`t correct we usually get mixed up while presenting it. Powerpoint can help you or affect you while you present something. The only things we students need to do is take our time becauuse common mistakes like this ones always happen.

things I hate

facebook

Hate

1 Farmville
2 Concert invitations in another country.
3 Akward chat ( people you don't know)
4 Friends that never use their facebook
5 Questionaries
6 being tagged in a picture you are not in
7 pictures take too long to charge
8 people change their names
9 when someone
10 I hate video game invites
11 parties to places I cant go.
12 strangers adding me
13 Strangers writing me messages.
14 people that have the poking thing.
15 when facebook asks if you know a person.
16 side bar with advertisements.
17 suggestions of people you don't know.
18 random pictures
19 quizzes
20 tagged in pictures you are no in
21 people that don't put their birthday accurate
22 chat malfunctioning
23 people can see your wall posts
24 tagged in stupid videos
25 100 notifications after a da


1 Chat with my friends
2 Looking at funny pictures
3 having many notifications
4 being ivited to many events.
5 you can go offline tihout login out
6 minijolt
7 funny ads
8 links of cool web pages
9 videos posted from youtube
10 you can delete friend
11 cellphone usage
12 being a fan of someone
13 create an event
14 create a group
15 being logged in at many computers
16 lakking a t funny videos
17 getting many friend requests
18 talk to people in other countries
19 going offline with a certain person
20 you can be logged in if you turn off your computer
21chat with many people at the smae time
22 you can comment
23 you can like
24 you can join funny groups
25 make groups

video grade

The comments I made in other student`s videos made me think of important factors that make good project. The two videos had a significant difference. One seemed good and well done but the other one had more effort put into it. I wouldn`t change anything on mine but the video that was well done was exceptional except for the lack of music. The commenting of this videos gave me lots of ideas for my next video but not for this one. The way I did my video is different from the ones my classmates did. That is what I like and makes me see that i really did a good job on it. This is what I think of the videos I graded.

What is the most serious environmental problem facing Earth today?

The most important environmental problem today is the fossil fuel burning. Every day millions of cars and other vehicles affect the environment by releasing fossil fuels to the atmosphere. This fossil fuel makes the earth Hotter and this destroys the Ozone layer. We got to make a change for the survival of the humanity. This is why I wrote this paragraph. If I could receive a large amount of money by winning a lottery ticket or a contest i would use it to find a way to use less fossil fuel in our daily activities. If a change could be made it wouldn`t be done by a single person but by the whole world. The help of everyone is essential to make a change and give the oportunity for the next generations to have a good and healthy life.

We have to teach the young to be ecologic and try to use energy in a sustainable way so they don`t run out. The biggest change that has to be made is finding new ways to use energy in different ways. To find new ways of getting it. The research is a very important factor that needs to be done. That research will change our lives and our future children`s. Fossil fuel can be replaced by other biotic or abiotic natural resources.

Some of the most known ways of getting energy in a nonharmful way is by: Windmills, solar panels, and hydroelectric plants. These ways of getting energy can help the earth and give it a little breathing. The pollution will decrease and our lives would be healthier. Fossil fuels will run out someday and will take a long time to form again so we have to work really hard to find a really good resource. Without this our lives would change and benefit and affecct us at the same time. It would help us to use less electronic devices and in some way stop being so lazy. Besides helping this would affect us by changing our life styles. everything would change and make our actions harder to do.

Fossil fuels refer to dead animals that decompose for millions of years. That is a long time so besides finding a good source of energy we need an abundant one. it needs to be reusable and not so hard to get. The best option of natural resource is water. As many people know Earth is sorrounded by water. It`s exactly composed of 70% of water and 30% of land. That is a very large resource that can be used for the next generations. There is already a way to get energy from water but is not that efficient. Scientists have to find a way to get lots of energy from this resource.

So Fossil fuel is one of the most used resources but it is really harmful for the envirnment but there is a variety of ways to control it or just no use it. This ideas may help the future use energy with the new civilizations. The use of Fossil fuel and other resources were discovered so why can`t their be more ways of using resources? There can be a change but it has to be done before is to late. We can save the Earth but we need to really take a stand and do what we propose oursleves.

earth video

During the Earth week Mahonry and I created a video celebrating our planet. It took us on day and we had more fun that we though we would have. We did all except video taping some scenes. In That scenes my sister recorded us. we had a lot of fun while doing this project. The topic was something interesing and easy to do. The music was the hardest thing we did. Mahonry had to play the guitar and I had to sing at the same time so we didin`t know if it would sound bad in the computer. besides that problem the rest was really easy. we recorded everything in one day and some videoclips were old ones that I had once recorded. The Earth day project has been one of the best projects I have made during this year.

Spring Break

My Spring break of 2010 has been one of the best ones I`ve had. It was full of many surprises that I really enjoyed. You can`t imagine all the things I did during this vacations. I did allof the things I could have done to have a great time. Almost all of the spring break I Slept until the morning and woke up late. I was relaxed as I never was before. Thiss vacations really helped me to get away of so much work that the teachers give us all week. My spring break couldn`t be better than this one.

Besides sleeping most of the morning I also went out many times. I either went to the plaza Galerias with my friends to watch a movie or go to the beach. During this break I saw two great movies called the perfect game and a crazy night. I really enjoyed watching the perfect game. It`s about a group of unresourced Mexican kids that start a baseball team with wich they get to a tournament that they win with perfection. The perfection they did on their last game has not been overcomed by another team since that time ( true story)

Another Thing I really enjoyed about my vacations was inviting my friends to my house. Most of my break I invited friends to my house to do something fun like go bowling or playing videogames. Talking about videogames I spent about 40% of my break palying them. Specially A game called Modern Warfare 2 witch is the sensation of videogames today. Most of my friends that came to my house had a really good time because we always find something fun to do were I live.

The last exciting things I did during spring break was playing gotcha and skating. THeir were great. At the middle of the break a group of friends and I joined together to play paintball. This was one of my favorite things to do. I played really good that day and eliminated 5 of my friends in 3 rounds. Skating was one of the main things I enjoyed during this vacations. I really improved my heelflip and my jumping of stairs. This were most of my favorite things I did during spring break vacations.

number 7 things to do without light

There would be a number of things I don't usually do daily. The first do I would do is light all the candles if it's night time. If it's not night time I will just go outside to do something productive. The next thing thing I would call a friend that lives nearby like Karin. When we meet at some place we would go to skate and or make new tricks like we always do when there is nothing to do or when there's no light. The best place in which we always skate is Fluvial or the Marina.

Another thing I would do is go to Gotcha with my friends. Like we do in some weekend. There we make teams in which we make several rounds to see who wins. A thing we sometimes do in the weekends is meet to play soccer. The teams are always the same we never change them. They are fair because we all are at the same rate of ability. Most of the time my team wins by one goal. I don't really like soccer as much as skating but is one of the only things I can do in my day with many friends.

The last thing we always do is go to school ( too bad it doesn't require energy). This activy is the one I hate most but I have to do. Although sometimes I'm glad I can see my friends I still don't like the work. I ask why Homework? If they ruin or morning by working for about 8 hours why give us more work for home. This ruins the rest of our day and our sleep time. enough of that, this are the things I do when there is no light

difficulties

The flash video of the rotoball was an easy but also difficult assignment. The difficulties I had in this project was the timing. This work had to take hours of patience and hard work. Every little detail had to be worked carefully. Although we had lots of classes I had to stay at lunch to finish it. Another difficulty I had was the stage. Accidentally I made my picture larger than my stage. for some reason I couldn't make the image smaller without distorting it. I took me one day to figure out how to fix it. I had to select the background and the front image to make it smaller. Even do I had this problems the rest of the project was a piece of cake.

8th Grade RotoBall from mistermark on Vimeo.

roto changes

today we saw the video of the roroball of our class. it was funny and well done at the same time. You could tell that that the students had put a lot of effort in it. even do they were great we all had to do some improvements. I am not goning to lie. I only made one change in my whole video. that change was making the video smaller so it could fit in the stage. You could see the whole animation but it looked a little streched. This was the only change I made in my flash aninmation. This was good for me because I didin`t have to work as much as I could`ve.

flash idea

I got a great idea for the rotoball animation we have to do in computer class. my idea is about a man that grabs the ball that comes from the right, streches it and the ball becomes a skateboard. The man grabs the skateboard and preforms a trick called heelfilp. After this he grabs the skateboard transforms it into a ball and trows it to the left. i thought the animation was going to be really complicated but when Mr Picketts told us to bring a camera i realized that it was not impossible. This is the idea I have for the rotoball animation. I am sure that it will be a great flash animation.

paragraph 3 - at the end he says that it is quite cheap to make and that he will be sharing his software - Open Source. In your own words what does open source mean? What have you used that is "Open Source", what do you think are the pros and cons of sharing software in this way.

I think that by open source he reffers to distribute his network freely. He does this so everyone can know how this works and don`t be privated from it. I have used open source many times in the internet. Almost everyone that has used the computer has bee in an open Source. This Open source is a good idea because it will help people catch up on the technology of today and the future. Besides great ideas there are some cons about this software. This open source will be so big that it will overload with information and the company will have to improve each time. This source can be helpful and a probem but is still a good idea.

paragraph 2 - what you feel are the greatest things about the technology (and what are its greatest limitations)

The technology showed i the video is amazing and has great qualities. One of the things I liked is that it can be used almost everywhere. You can project the image on a flat surface and use it as it was a computer. Another characteristic i liked is the one that tells you about the thing you project on. One example is whe you project the light on the airplane boarding pass and it tell you if it`s delayed or on time. The last thing I thought was unbelieveble was the picture device. I can`t believe that with a gesture of the hand you can take a picture. This device astonished me with it`s incredible characteristics.

paragraph 1 - your reaction to this new emerging technology, what were you thinking wow watching the video. would you want one of these? why or why not?

When I saw this video I couldn`t believe that it was real. the technology the man was presenting was very advanced and superoir to most things in the world. Now I know that things I thought were imposble can happen. With the item that was presented you can do almost everything with just movement of your hands. If I could have one of these free I would accept it but if I had to buy it I wouldn`t waste my money on that. it is true that you can carry it everywhere but if you go out is because you want to do something productive like exersisng or hanging out eith friends, not using an electronic device. This video really suprised me with all these new things.

PART 3: Social Networking -- Keeping in Touch
As shown in the program, social networking sites can be used as a way to "talk junk,"
insult others or hash out conflicts. Is fighting online a relatively safe way to express
negative emotions in responding to others (without having to deal with them face to
face)? Or does online fighting do more harm than good?

Trash talking happens in every socialization web pages. When people talk online and not face to face they feel more secure. They know that if they talk junk to the person he or she can`t do anything to them because they are in diferent places. Even do they are not in the same place, the other person can get angry and send junk messages or take revenge if they know them very well. Sometimes I trsch ralk when they insult me in youtube because i don`t really know them. I don`t do this in Facebook because the friends I add are really my friends so I wouldn`t insult them. Face to face and online fighting are not a good thing to do because it will only bring problems.

PART 4: Identity Play

When you think of stuff to post on your profile, who is the main audience you’re

communicating to? Who are other potential audiences that might be viewing, but that you might not think of when you post things?

When I post things in my facebook profile I always think that my friends and family will see it. I know that other people will not . When I post pictures there is always a choice to leave other people see it or just you friends. All the pictures I put in to my profile are private( only for my friends.) Even do I can make my pictures private some people can see them when their friend is tagged. I think this is an error that Facebook made about privacy. Many people that are not your friends can see this pictures. Some examples are friends of your friends, or other people that just like to see pictures of other profiles. Some of this people are sometimes obssesed with the person. the profile is something personal so I have to be carefull in what people can see it.

PART 2: Digital Media in Schools

More teachers are using tools to try to detect cheating or deter students’ inclination tocheat. In the program, we see the use of plagiarism-detection tools like Turnitin.com andwriting assignments completed during class time to make sure students do their own work and generate their own ideas. In terms of student writing, what are some different types of "cheating"? What are the elements you would include in your definition of

"cheating"?

Cheating is a way to get a good grade in an assignment without effort. There are many ways to cheat in an exam or make a homework assignment. you can browse in the Internet for web pages that can tell you summaries of books etc. An example of a web page is Sparknotes.com but schools are now using turnitin.com. This checks if the assignment was copied from a web source. In the exams people cheat in many ways. Most teachers tell us that students record their voice saying the answers and put it in their Ipod. when its time for the exam they hear the playlist to respond the questions. Another way to cheat in the exams is by using small notes with really small letters. Cheating shouldn't be done but teachers should also leave less work for the students.

Cheating

The teenager says that that he never reads books and that he only got notes from the we. He also mentions that he feels guilty so Mr mark assigned us to give our opinion of this kid. In my opinion he should feel guilty but I also agree that sometimes students don't have enough time to finish all the assignments given by teachers. I agree more on the guilty feeling because it's unfair. The other students did the work and wasted most of their day. Besides the student that cheats will not learn quite well and in their future they will suffer when they go to college. I don't use this spark notes for my homework but the ones that do always will have the bad feeling of what they did. When they get rewarded with a diploma or a gift from their parents for their grades they will feel that they don't deserve it. What these kids do is totally wrong because giving the homework is for them to research and learn about the topic not just copying from a web page. These people should feel guilty because their parents pay for their education but they waste it by cheating.

In the opening of the program, we see boys gathering to collaboratively play a military style video game. What characteristics of a computer make it different from other media in the home, such as television, videogames, stereo/radio, magazines and books? How do these characteristics influence:

• How the computer is used in the home?
• Who uses the computer?
• Where the computer is placed?
• How much the computer is used
• How much the computer is used?

The computer is more useful but more difficult than other objects in my home. We use television to watch shows, the radio for information and the magazines to see whats new . What people don`t quite realize is that you can do this in your computer. you can see your tv shows at youtube or Hulu andyou cna see many things that are happening lately in the world just by browsing in Google. the computer cna be used by everyone you just have to be careful on what pages you enter. If a minor uses the computer I think that their parents should be superising. The computers are mainly used for entretainment such as youtube or videogames and for homework. most computers are located in a place that is common. one example is the living room so everyone can go there without asking permission to enter. The average time a person uses the computer is one hour. although there are people that can stay most of the day using it because it becomes an adicction. The computer is mare useful but it can become a problem.

old stuff....

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Rollercoaster

A few days agoMr Picketts took the class downstairs to watch rollercoasters of the 12 graders ( I wasn`t there) I didin`t see the projects but my friends told me about them. From what they told me I thought they were really elaborated. The themes they told me they were about are: Candy, a city, and christmas. I don´t know who won but I bet that the highest one did. the people are always amazed with the biggest rollercoaster. I would like to do that when I am in twelve grade. I wish I saw the rollercoasters from what I heard.

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Christmas

This Christmas I did many fun and amazing things. The first week I invited friends to my house. We played Xbox, ate, and then skated. One day I went to skate with two friends and I learned how to jump four stairs. i hurt myself when I fell but it was worth it. that same week, some friends came from Macalen to visit us. They always rent an apartment near ours so I can visit often. We made plans and went to placeds they didin't know. One of the place we went was Splash. This is a water park where we rode all the water slides. The rest pof the week we just played videogames and watch tv.

http://www.streakybay.sa.gov.au/webdata/resources/images/Leroy_Johnson_skating.jpg
In the Second week my family and I were getting ready for Christmas eve. We decorated the entire house. We created a little village with houses and people. It took as many time and effort to cover the whole house. After this I went to the movie theatre with my Friend Ernie to wach the movies Avatar. I thought it was one of the best movies of the year. Christmas came and as all the previous years we went to my mom's friend's house . many friends where in her house and we talked for hours and later on we ate. the food was amazing when I was finished I was about to explode. At 12:00 the gifts were given. I got two videogames, a shirt and a skateboard.

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The next day the daughter of my mom's friend came with all her friends from London. we went to the beach with them and played volleyball. New Year's party was coming and we had to know where we were going to celebrate it. We found out that our friends were going to Velas(hotel) so we decided to go there. The party was awsome, there was good music and food. Everything was going right Until a firework exploded and struck a man and his daughter. They were both translated to the hospital even do the injuries were not severe. When the New Year started I was really preocupated because I needed to finish my homework. I made my science project but I was to lazy to make the english one. time passed it was Monday, I had one day. So I grabbed my computer and finished it In 1 hour.this was all the things I did in my Christmas vacations.http://thestartingfive.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/new-year-fireworks-hk.jpg

Friday, December 4, 2009

reflection of Fransisco

Today at miss Fenton's class a man called Fransisco came to talk to us about his experience as an American soldier in Iraq. He started to talk about how he entered to the Citadel ( University) and about himself for the situations he would experience.

Monday, November 30, 2009

Me

Hi I am Raul and I live in Puerto Vallarta. You are wondering "What place is that?" Puerto Vallarta is in Mexico and its near the Pacific Ocean. I like the beach and I practice Wakeboarding. This is a sport known in many countries and its similar to snowboard but it is done on the sea. My favorite sport is soccer. I've played it all my life. Every recess, the boys gather to play a soccer game. A few minutes ago we were playing. Another thing I do most of the weekends is go to the movies. I always call some friends and go to the movie theater to see the new releases.

I also love to play videogames. I could spend all my day playing Halo 3 ( Wich I don't) I play for one hour or two maximum. I really enjoy music of any kind ( Except Heavy Metal) I spend one fourth of my day listening to my Ipod. I don't know how to play an instrument but next week I am going to take classes of guitar. I want to know how to play it so I can participate in the Talent Show next year.

I measure 5,5 and have black hair. One of my favorite tv shows is Two and a Half men. I think that they are great actors and actresses. A hobbie I have is looking at videos with my friends. Youtube is the best web page there is. I even made an account to have my own videos. I don't use the computer much except for facebook and youtube. This are the things I like and do so I hope you enjoyed it and learned more about me.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

listening

All the project I heard today were well done. They all had the time necessary that was 90 seconds. What I liked about the projects is that they had a variety of sounds. Some of them were from the Internet and others from sounds they made. what I didn't like is that some of them were really repetitive. I also didn't like that the sounds they did were too close to the microphone and they sounded bad

effects

In my project I used several types of sound effects. One of them is changing the speed. I used this effect to make a fast sound match a slow one. I also used the repeating effect many times. About 50 percent of my project had the repeating effect. The last a effect I used was fade out. I used it at the beginning of the song when the next sound was approaching. This where the only sound effects I used in my audacity project. This has been the best music assignment I have done in this class

Sunday, November 22, 2009

audacity reflection

I really liked this project we did about sounds made by ourselves. It took me many classes to find a good beat that matched with the others but at last the song was a success. This project was a challenge for me because most of the sounds I needed had to be done by me. I think that it was a good idea to do our own sounds so we don`t have to depend so much on the technology. Most of my sounds were made by my mouth and only a few were from the internet and by making noise with things. The time Mr Mark gave us was enough to finish the song and the video. The only thing I do not100% is that it has to have a duration of 90 seconds. This was my reflection of this great project about audacity.

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Monday, November 9, 2009

My Mash up

This Mash up project has been the best thing we have done in the entire year. I really got excited to do this. When I started to use this program I was lost. I didint know how to use it until I started to ask my classmates how to do certain things. For my Mash up I used three different songs. They are: Celebration from Maddonna, fight for you from Morgan Page, and shooting Star from Kevin Rudolf. My mash up is two and a half minutes long. It took me two classes to finish it. In the middle of my Mash up I mixed different parts of the same song to get a different sound and in my opinion this two noices matched with each other.. I think that this project was in the middle when talking about difficulty. In one day I learned how to use the preogram properly. I think that this project was fun and educative.

group Mash ups

I think that the Mash ups of my teammates were great. They were short but with good quality. I can tell that they used the time that was given in class. Many of them used really good music that matched with each other. They used many effects like the fade out and fade in.Most of my team used from two to five songs in their Mash up. Some people didn't do it so I cant talk about them. In my opinion the Mash ups were interesting and exciting.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

My 1st animation

Overall the creation of my first animation was frustrating... all of it! It wasn't easy at all. Being able to put music was hard. But I was able to overcome my problem by asking some of my friends who were already able to do it. Although it was a lot of work, I liked the result of my video. Its simple but funny. I wouldn't change a thing of it. If I had to make the video longer, I would make my little man do some more exercises. Such as: push ups, jumping jacks, and if possible maybe integrate a machine and make him use it.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Typing Master Scores

When I first started to type in this class I was the slowest in the class. Know everything has changed. Now I am faster than many people. from 14 WPM ( Words Per Minute)I advanced to 17 WPM. I think this can help me in the future. If I work in an office I am going to need to know how to type fast so I can have my work done. The only thing that hasn't improve is my accuracy. I am starting to have many mistakes in my paragraph typing. My goal this year is to score 20 WPM and have 95% in my accuracy. I am sure that I can reach it if I really put time on it. I have to practice more in my house and class to reach this score. my guess of what am I going to score next week is 15 WPM and 85% in accuracy. I really think I'm going to have a good grade in this class because of Typing Master.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Live underwater

I think my project is interesting and it could work for the humanity in the future. In the future, when the ice melts the people in Earth would need a place to live so I think they could use this. the process of this picture's making is not as hard as it looks. for the buildings I just erased parts of it and cut some tubes and place them in the back layer. If I could change something I would put more things on it. it took me about half an hour to finish the whole thing. I think this artifacts are going to be used for the human's survival.


I think that Laura`s artifact was well done. it looks like she spent time working on it.
i liked that she attached the machine into a rollercoaster. Another good idea that i saw
is that she used the planat Earth for backround.the artifact being in space makes it look
more futuristic because the expeditions to space are not common. the last thing I like is the color of the backround. it has something that caches your attention. In my opinion this project
was a good effort from Laura.

Laura`s project is a great job and I think it would work in the future. the people of the
world could see one of the most fascinating things people have discovered. the scientists
can also be helped with this machine. They can come and go to the different places
in the universe without using spaceships. The machine can get back to Earth if someone
needs to get back . I think that is an interresting fact because in the spaceships of today the people have to stay as long as they are told to. I also thought that the floating sign is also a
good idea. In my opinion, this artifact could work in the future.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

tutorial 2

In this tutorial called "Lighning a gaint elephant" I got many ideas for my artifact. One of them is use different layers with different contrast and brightness. Then i learn to convine them to form a different color. this idea is going to be effective for my work. I am going to use this on my project by using the light in the picture to make a reflection in the dome.

tutorial 1

In this tutorial called how "I created a raspberry frog" I learned ha few things i didn't know before. One of them is how to change the opacity to see the image underneath it and make a form of it. I also learned that by using Liquify you can change it into another form. I am going to definitely use this techniques for my artifact of the future. I am going to use this technique to make an robot out of a material that is not common in technology.

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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Social Media comments
I agree with most of the pararaphs I read during this day.
some have very good examples and some seem to be done
in a few minutes. Most of them acctually wrote things they
depend on the social media. I think most of them where done
with a good effort and with a good perspective of the topic.
The paragraphs had similar things that I had so that
made them easy to understand. the paragraphs I read
where a interesting thing to do in my afternoon.

Monday, October 5, 2009

I chose this image because I think this would help the humans to explore places. this device makes people discover places and things they didn't imagine to see in their whole live. with this they can make more

Saturday, September 26, 2009

The social media is involved in the human`s live in many different ways. Almost everyone in this world uses Facebook, My Space, and YouTube. These are types of social media that are used in the everyday basis. They are mostly used for communication. The Social Media has many good things but it’s also dangerous. Some people use Social Media for bad things like hacking accounts, to put viruses on other people`s computers and also to rob their money online.

There are many ways to protect you from these dangers. One way is to install an antivirus program to detect the dangerous things for your computer. Another way is to be careful on what websites you enter. You also have to be extremely careful in Facebook, my Space and other websites. You have to be sure you know the people you add to your friend list. The person can have a photo of a little girl and be an old man that wants to know about your personal information.

The students of this century have to be taught on how to use the modern technology for social media. Each year the scientists create or discover different things that can be used for the jobs of the future. From time to time the teachers need to give the students information to prepare them for the new kinds of work. If the students are not prepared for the future they will have a complicated life when they grow up. The world is advancing every day so the students need to be updated. The social media involves the people in the entire world.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

blogging

Iknow a few things about blogging like putting pictures and videos about your favorite things. i also know that you can put posts like this one I am writting and putting your blog list of your friends.

I mostly use this blog for school, to get a good grade. but maybe I am going to put some homemade movies I make with my friends.


The blog I created is about my favorite groups and their songs. most of them are videos of their songs and the pictures of the albums.

First I called a few friends with the telephone. later one of my friends suggested that I should go to her blog and get all the other blogs from there.

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