Video Editing

This video editing assignment that we will be doing in January looks somewhat interesting because Ive always wanted to learn more of video editing. I was thinking about making a video commercial of health, how to stay in shape by going to the gym. Show some exercises that you could to to stay in shape. Alex will be videotaping me while I do the exercises with weights.

Technology

Technology has reflected a lot in my education, starting from when I was in elementary school. We started out by playing some games in the computer like pinball or others, and as time went by we started experimenting more with computers. When I was in like 4th grade we learned the basics from Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; and later on we moved on to experimenting with these 3 programs on our own. Ive been in the American School for 14 years now, and since I was young technology has been present in my education.

Once I entered junior high the use of technology was even more important because essays and other assignments required the use of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. In our computer classes the use of technology increased a lot, we learned how to use Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Typing master, notepad, and Image ready. I remeber a few projects we had to do in this class, one of them was a web page on evolution, and we also had a several on photoshop that dealed with changing our looks. I remember these projects because I learned a lot from them and I had lots of fun too.

There were several times in the last years in which i think teachers could have assinged more things that dealed with technology. For example in projects of chemistry or biology we could have made web pages or animations of some topic in any of these two classes. Instead of using clay or other materials for 3-D projects of cells or any other topic, we could have used technology to make as i said before animations of web pages. I think the teachers never included that much techonology in their lessons because they dont know how to use it very well. In conclusion, technology has reflected a lot in my education, but I could have a better use and understanding of it if we would have used it more in the past years.

Rotobal post

What I liked of this assignment is how we learned to maked an animation of an actual video, all the movements and colors made it look very good. The fact that it looked very similar to the actual video was the best, because it was ourselves but in an animation full of colors. What I didnt like was the fact that it was a little complicated, but overal it was pretty fun and we learned something new. If you were going to use this same assignment I would recommend you to leave it the same because it was pretty fun and interesting, even though it was a little hard and complicated it should stay the same.

Animation post

I finished my flash animation and it came out pretty good i think. I had several frustrations like adding music, or movement to the animation. After all I got some help and could finally put it all together to make it an animation. I think it came out pretty good, not perfect because its my first time using flash but it was still a little good. If I could change something about it i would probably make it longer, and have more scenes and more characters in it. I would continue adding more stuff into the animation if the new assignment was to make it longer, and it would probably come out a lot better because now i know a little bit more of flash. I feel pretty confident about my final project because for being the first time using flash i believe it was pretty good, it had movement, music, etc. In conclusion, I feel pretty happy that i know how to use flash now and that I did my first animation, hopefully in the future i will be able to make better animations. Peace Out

Family reunion

I still remember my 8th birthday in Acapulco with all my family together. We were at my house eating lunch all together and having a very good time. After we were done eating, my cousins, my friends and I started playing together some games like hide and seek. My parents bought me a piñata and lots of other presents, which made me very happy. Lots of candy was given out to my friends and cousins, as well as cake and other delicious desserts. It was probably one of the best birthdays Ive ever had because all my family was there as well as my friends, and I received lots of presents. I will never forget this moment because it was one of the happiest ever, I will always remember my 8th birthday.

I choose a palm tree because Ive lived by the beach for all my life. There hasn't been a year in which I wasn't living in a place without a beach. I also picked it because its probably my favorite place to be in the whole world, Id rather be in the beach than in the city. The ocean is just the best thing in the world, and therefore I picked this tree.

Social Media Revolution

The Social Media Revolution video has very important facts of what is happening in the world nowadays or what will happen soon. I picked the theme that said that if facebook was a country it would be the 4th biggest in the whole world. I found out this very interesting because im involved in it as well as lots of my friends, we all have facebook accounts and we are all part of this social media.

There are lots of dangers here as well as positive facts. One of the dangers present is the fact that lots of people choose facebook as a past time instead of other activities. A coule years ago a fun past time was practicing any sport, whereas today facebook is a new past time. This involves no physical activity and its causing some people to be lazy, instead of being out exercising with your friends you now sit in your house talking to people by facebook or looking at pictures. Im not saying that having a facebook account is bad, its actually a pretty good thing because its an easy way of communicating with people from different parts in the world. The fact that its taking away physical activity from people is an issue, but it has its pros as I said before.

I have a facebook account but I am also protected because I love sports and a website isnt going to stop me from practicing them. I of course save some time for looking at pictures in facebook and talking to my friends, but most of the time Im doing any physical activity. Education should change a little in the way technology is managed, schools should recommend websites that teaches students something, so that they can focus on something else rather than being on facebook all the time. Preparing other activities that dont involve the internet would also be a little helpful, or prepare activities that involve historical websites that help students learn something new. In conclusion, I believe that facebook has its advantages and disadvantages and we are the ones in charge of changing these social media problems.