December

In December, a fun project we did was Glogster. Basically Glogster is like a big picture that you can add images to, decorate them , add different backgrounds, type things, etc.. It's pretty creative considering the things you can do to the pictures and the shapes you can add to it. It's like a magazine cover. I learned how to make a statement with using different pictures combined, and certain symbols and shapes. I'm most proud of the way it looks. It's not too crowded and it's fun. :)
I guess I could say I'm proud of my work, but I know I could do better. My Glog.

October

My absolute favorite unit we did in October was with Animoto. Animoto is where you can make your own commercial. You upload your own photos and either choose from their music library or choose your own and upload it. After you choose everything it makes into like a slide show type thing and it goes together with the music. It's an easy creative thing to do with your time, because you can choose anything you want and it'll still look professional and good. It has a little something to do with communication because you can tell someone you miss them, or convince somebody that something you did was fun by explaining it with pictures. I learned that you can make a professional looking commercial or slide show, and do it fast. This was my all time favorite thing we've done in this class and I even use it outside of school, so I am very happy with my work. Here's one of the videos I have done.

August and September

My favorite unit in august was when we had to make Parthenon with Google Sketchup. Sketchup is a program that allows you to make 3D buildings, and make them as accurate as possible, like a blueprint (kind of). It has to do with creativity because it involves thinking about the real Parthenon, and trying to make it look realistic. I learned how to measure things and use certain tools to make the object look right. I'm most proud of the way it looks, and how accurate the measurements were. I'm very happy with my work.

ELs

Creativity- Methods of things you like to do. A way to express something you like.




Collaboration- Working together with someone on a project, or something needed to be done.

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Research Fluency- Being able to look up something you need more information on.
I did a database on wrestlers and their stats.




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Critical Thinking- Actively and evaluating information to come to a conclusion.
This project I'm doing now involves critical thinking.


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Decision Making- Making choices in a certain situation. Basically a yes or no situation.


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Digital Citizenship- Not doing illegal things, like copyright, plagiarism etc. Respecting other people's things on the internet. Also being safe.


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Technology Operations and Concepts- Understanding the skills of technology.


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Facebook Article

I think it's a good thing that they can't check their employee's facebook pages because if something was on there about the past and they didn't like it, then they could not hire them. Because many employers are searching for applicants, they might find that someone is bad-mouthing the company or finding out something bad about the company from someone's facebook.

Texting While Driving

In my opinion, this law sucks. It just became a law four days ago and cellphones have been around for how long? It's a habit for most people to call or text people while driving. And if police can't even tell the difference between calling, texting, on the internet, going through contacts, or looking through music, then what's the point in enforcing the law? People are either going to get away with it with no problem or get pulled over for doing an innocent act. There shouldn't be a law for this.