Emerging Technology Final

Interview 1 I interviewed my great grandmother click here to see the interview.
Interview 2 I interviewed my mother click here to see the interview.
To see the persuasive letter/email to my grandfather click here.
For my prezi I put two in my grandmother because my grandfather got divorce to Janet then married Doreen so they are both my grandmother.  
I emailed the Family Echo tree to you. But if there is a problem click here to see Family Echo.


I made a stop motion video and its saved my documents and the file its in is called emerging tech title as Family Tree

December 2, Monday

Journal - Where are you right now on your "Who Do You Think You Are" project? What did you do over the break for the project? Did you interview anyone? Use the checklist below to figure out what you have finished, what you are still working on and what you still have to do.

Questions: I'm at the power point and info-graph. I just finish the interviews this weekend. I found some cool facts about my family.

Friday 15, November

The top three stop motion videos:
Ian Whelan, the topic is logos it look like fixing a plane. It looked great and it must have a lot of time it was different from the class.
Regan Hamillen, A dog fell need help. I think it she did a good job taking pictures it was different to from the class.
Dana Oudejans, She had sticky notes. It look good and it was different from the class.

November 13, Wednesday

Journal - How did you stop motion animation turn out? If you could give it a grade, what would you give it out of 60 points? What did you learn from creating this video?

Questions: I think my stop motion animation turn out great it was better than I thought it would be. I might say 55 or 58 because I have everything i need on there. That it not easy and it time to do this.

November 11, Monday

Journal - How far along are you on your stop motion animation? What did you do over the weekend to work on you stop motion animation? Do you have all your pictures today? Will you have all your pictures by the end of the hour? Give me a detailed updated.

Question: I'm done with my stop motion. Because I finish with my stop motion at school I didn't do anything at my home. And the photos are save in this computer too. 

November 8, Friday

Journal - What are you planning on doing for your stop-motion animation video? What story are you going to tell? How will your video be fun and different? Who is taking your photos? When are you taking your photos?

Question: I'm going to do my stop motion animation video is about m&m. The m&m are going to move around and make different shapes and objects. I'm going to take the video. I'm going to take the photo today if I don't finish then do it at home. 

November 6, Wednesday

Journal - What story will your storyboard tell? Explain in detail.

Question: My storyboard is about how to make a sandwich. I took picture of a plate,bread, cheese, meat, and then the whole sandwich all done.

Monday 4, 2013

Journal - What photo editing tool(s) have you used so far on your 5 photos project? Do you like the tool? Is it easy to use? Hard to use? What's good about it? Whats bad about it? Give a detailed review of the tool.

Questions: I have used http://fotoflexer.com/. I like it the most out of all the other photo editing tools.  It's easy to used if you never used photo editing tool before or used it. Its not hard at all. It gives you a lot of tools to edit your photo. There are a lot of tool however some tools might not be that helpful at all because it might be something different. My review over it is that it easy to used, it has a lot different tool to choose, and however there are some bad points too.  

November 1, Friday

Journal - What are the pros and cons to photo editing? What are some examples of when photo editing is fun and appropriate? When can photo editing be inappropriate or too much?

Question: The pros are that the picture looks better. The cons are that it might take hour to edit the photo the way you want it to be. Some examples of photo editing is fun it making picture of you and your friend crazy or weird. When you over edit it like some people edit there pictures of themselves the way they want to be not who they are like someone could have black short hair then in the photo they change it to blonde long hair. 

October 28, Monday

Journal – What is your favorite web tool that we have used in class so far this year? Why is it your favorite web tool? What do you like about it? How can you use it again in the future?

Questions: My favorite web tool was prezi and bubbles.us. They were easy to use and I caught pretty fast also it more learning it by yourself not it telling you what to do. I can use it for other projects that i have to presentation. And for bubble.us is for more put your thoughts out there. So I like that one to put subject that i want to think.

October 21, Monday

October 21, Monday

Journal: What you did this weekend?

Question: I went clothes shopping this weekend with my family. Then Sunday I did nothing just watch t.v. and some football.

October 17,

Journal - What makes a presentation memorable? What makes a presentation stand out and not boring? How are you going to make your presentation better than anyone else? How will you make it unique? Explain.

Question: How a presentation memorable by is interacting with the class.  Not boring is not reading off the presentation, they are loud, they look up to you. Something that they can explain about the project. They add a game inside the presentation. I will ask questions to you and hopeful great slide and be loud look up to people.  

October 15, Tuesday

Journal - What did you learn from the Ted Talk yesterday? Did you find it interesting or accurate? Explain

Question: That most of that stuff is true. Like the picture she showed about her daughter when my friend come over or I go over to there house sometime we end up on own phones or iPod. 

October 14, 2013

Journal - What do you love about the "digital age" that we currently live in? What do you dislike about it? What are positives ways you use technology in your life? What are some things that come along with technology that you don't like? Explain.

Question: I love that I don't have to go reading or going through hundreds of books just to find one thing. I dislike how people can hack your accounts easier and faster. Like you Email someone can go in too. Also I don't mind but my mom hates having so many passwords for different things. I can chat with friends easier and do school project easier too. How you have too give info about your self for many things. 

October 9 2013

October 8, 2013

Journal - Tell me about your Homecoming weekend (whether you went to the activities or not!). Tell me about what you did over the weekend.

Question: I went to homecoming it was fun hanging out with my friends. We all dance a bit then stopped  ended up talking to some people. After I hung out with a friend at my house. On Sunday  I just stayed home and spend time with my family. My grandparent came over too.

October 2, 2013

Journal - What do you know about infographics? What do you know about them? What are their purpose?

Question: I know that info-graphics is for giving information about any subject that you chose. 

september 27, friday

Journal - What are you weekend plans?

Question: I'm might go to the blue valley game tonight with a friend. My grandparent might come over. Then we will spend time with them and watch football. That's all I'm doing this weekend.

September 25, Wednesday

Journal - Most students view siting work as 'a pain in the butt'. How do you feel about it? Is it necessary? When is it appropriate to cite work? What's the importance of it?

Question: Siting work isn't the most fun thing in the world but it keeps you out of trouble from teachers. Also the work site show that you looked up and found what you subjects about it help for you evidence that you have to show. Why its necessary is that it show other people work that its not your work but someone else. When you use someone else work in a essay or other reasons. The importance to show its other work not yours. 

September 23, Monday

Journal - Do you enjoy writing? What kind of writing do you enjoy? Why is writing an essential skill in life? How will you use this skill in the future?

Questions: I like it but its not something I would do for my free time. My favorite writing style is free style writing when you can write anything you want. So if you need to send a email to someone that is  for asking for help or wanting to set a meeting with them. You want  to sound smart not like some who can't spell.

September 17, Tuesday

Journal - What is creating an outline for a paper important? Do you think it helps you personally? How would you prefer to outline a paper - pen and paper or an online tool? Is there a different way you know if that would prefer to organize your thoughts?

Question 1: I think a outline is a great tool to use because it is a base of what your going to type. Yes, because some people can't just think of thing out the blue and start typing about a subject . It takes time to think of what your going to type about so a outline speeds that up. It depends on the subject or the class it in. I like it sometimes pencil and pen. Then those are other time when I want a tool.      

September 16, Monday

 Tell me about your weekend. Where did you go? What did you do?

Question 1: Over the weekend my Auntie Tina and her friend came over after four year of not see her. Then my brother and I went to my papa and grandma's house to spend time with them. Also I watch football with my dad's friend's family. So that was my weekend. 

September 11, Wednesday

Journal - Who do you look up to in life? Why? What have they done to help you or guide you?

Question: I look up to my mother. She was always been there for me and went through a lot to take care of me. She always tries to show me how the real world work and guide me through life as much as she can. She doesn't ever ask for anything for return most the time. Unless it's cleaning or my dad. She worked all her life for the thing that she has. She is a great people person, and great at making people smile,laugh. She was only shown love for the family I hope can be like her one day for that. 

September 10, Tuesday

Journal - What is good email etiquette and why is it essential in the "real" world? How can having good email etiquette put you ahead?

Question 1: A good email etiquette is that its in proper grammar every thing is spell correctly and you thank the person for their time for reading the email. Its good for the real world because you can email people that can help with something if you ask. Or can talk to someone that you want to talk to you can send a email trying to make a meting.

September 6, Friday

Journal - If there was one big global issue in the world that you could fix, what would it be? A cure for cancer? Save the rain forest? Stop pollution? Think about it and then write about it. Why would you choose that specific issue?

Question 1: The global issue that I could fix would be a cure is ehlers downlow syndrome  because it's a disease that can make your joints extremely loose  or worse it can kill you. You can live with it but it will cause you pain everyday. There is five stages for it I don't know which is the worse or best. The best one is that you can with it until you die and the worse is that you will die in a few years or less.  That is what I would cure if I could.  

texting and driving

September 3, Tuesday

Journal - On Friday we discussed Public Service Announcements. In your own words tell me what they are and what their purpose is. If you could create a PSA what would your topic be? Why?

Question 1: Public Service Announcements is something that tells you about a subject that are important.

Question 2: My PSA would be about  texting and driving because it dangerous. I have family members that drive and I don't want to find out that they were killed or injured badly because someone was texting. 

August 30, Friday

Journal - What are your hobbies and extra curricular activities? Where do you spend your free time? Tell me three of your favorite things (movies, TV show, magazine, sport, color, etc.)

Question 1: I love playing catch with my little brother and dad. Extra curricular activities playing track and clubs here.

Question 2: I spend my free time with my family or by myself  reading or watching TV. Also my grandparents house they are fun and loving we see movie sometime.

Question 3: My favorite sport right now is track. Watching is football or baseball. My favorite colors are purple and black. My favorite dessert cookies. 

who am i? presentation

August 28, Wednesday

Journal - What are some qualities of a good presentation? How can you make a boring presentation interesting? Explain.

Question 1: The speaker is loud so you can hear them. You can see some pictures in the presentation. Their voice sounds excited and not boring and sound like you could fall a sleep.

Question 2: You can have pictures in it. The way you say it could change from sounding boring and want to go to sleep. they have to be reading off the slide but listening to you. 

August 26, Monday

Journal - Tell me if you agree with this statement and then explain why or why not. "Images on the internet are 'free game' - if someone posted I should be able to use it."

Question: I don't agree because they might just want to show cool picture of something. That doesn't mean you take it. It's like stealing someones work in a book and giving it to ELA teacher and then saying it's your when it's not. It's the same thing.    

August 23, Friday

 What is the importance of online safety and protecting your information? What do you do to protect yourself online? Share an experience you or someone you know has had with online safety.

Question 1: If you don't protect your information then someone can steal your information and make it theirs too. They can steal debt card and spend all the money you have in it. 

Question 2: We have to put up a security on the computer. Block other user if you can on websites that you don't know.

Question 3: I don't know anyone with security problems or any problem we safely. 

August 21, Wednesday

Journal - Tell me what you know about Web 2.0. List example Web 2.0 sites. Are you on any sites that let you “post” information? What are those sites? How often do you use them? What do you post on them?

Question 1: Web 2.0. is social media website that people use to post what they are doing or talking to a friends. Example of Web 2.0. is Facebook, twitter, tumblr, and etc...  

Question 2: I'm on Facebook, instagram, and YouTube they are the website that let me "post" on it. 

Question 3: They are interesting website that let me talk to friends. Let me watch funny clips or picture that they send to me. They are also place were I can say what I'm doing or take picture of thing then share with all my friends when they look at it.

Question 4: I don't use them a lot. I check Facebook every other month. So I'm not that big with it.

August 21, Wednesday

Journal - After watching the short clip of Ashton Kutcher's acceptance speech what did you take away from his advice? What does this quote mean to you -"Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you, and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use."

Question 1: After watching the short clip of Ashton Kutcher’s acceptance speech I think he was saying that you have to make life yours. If you want to make life great for yourself you have to try and work hard. Don’t let anyone put you down from what you want in life. He does want to copy other people life be yourself. That’s what I took in from his speech.

Question 2: You can make your life more exciting if you want to. You can find the right job for yourself if you look for it. If you want something you have to work for and try don’t be lazy go out and go for it.  Life can be yours and on the way through life you can change someone’s life with yours too.