Roller Coaster

Today instead of normal class we had the opportunity to visit the Roller Coasters created by the 12th Graders in the class of Miss Hecky. All were great but there was one that left everybody stonish. In total they were six groups, a Roller Coaster per group. In total they were six groups, their for six roller coasters. However we only saw five working, the other project was unavaliable for personals reasons of the team. The best project was the one of the new girls, which I can't remember their names. xD It had an amazing engeniring, great theme, and a great effort that was visable for miles. For a plus the marvel didn't went flying, it had good rides every time. In my opinion, regarding the grading rubric it deserves a 60/60. They were other good projects, like the Candy Roller Coaster that was created by Marifer, Erica, Heather, and Lea. Their roller coaster was well plan, and had a lot of spins. It miss a couple of riders, but in the end it work perfectly. According the rubric they would have recieved a 59/60. Maybe I will give them the 60/60 but they didn't gave me a cotton candy. Rafa Aguirre, Paulina, and Salma were another team. Their them was soccer, Mexico in the World Cup. They had a lot of accidents, so it was not well planed/organized;however in the end it work. they will recieve from me a 50/60 for all the problems that it had and it didn't get the attention of many people. Eric's group had a pretty interesting roller coaster;however they couldn't make it work. There for they will get a zero with me.

In conclusion the roller coasters were good in general;however only the Champions (New Girls) could built roller coaster with out putting people in danger.

Analisis About Robotic Guy (Abraham)

Today, instead our regular computers class, which is boring (HAHAHA JUST KIDDING) we had a robotic conference, from Abraham, an ingenire from Tecnologico de Monterrey, which was very interesting, in my opinion. I had to admit that at the beginning I thought that the competition would be of assassin robots with chain saws and flame thorougher like you see in television. Still it was very interesting and I was surprised of what they could do. I was surprised by the light sensor, it was amazing that by the reflection of the light it can know what to do. It let me astonished. I only have a suggestion, that they should do one for junior high students.

My Self

Hi! My name is Francisco , but you can call me Paco as all my friends do. I am 14 years old, about to turn 15. Currently I study in the American School of Puerto Vallarta (ASPV). I have been in this school since I arravied to Puerto Vallarta, curerntly I am studying the eight grade. I live in Puerto Vallarta which is in the coast of the state of Jalisco. I have been living here since I was six years old. My birth town is Guadalajara, the seconds biggest city of Mexico.

I like to do many things during the day. For example I like to go to the gym and practice sports, like Soccer, Basketball, and Volleyball. Another hobbies of mine is to practice guitar (play songs, do songs, and improvise) and listen to music. I like all music, but specially clasic rock. My favorite band is the Scorpions, classic rock group. As any other kid, I like videogames specially violent ones xD. I am a fan of the Call of Duty Series (Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare is my favorite game.) Another thing I enjoy is to go the beach and chill out. Also go in the water and take a swim.

Know I am going to talk about my family. Where to start, I am the only child in my family. So eventually mi family is very small, only my parents and I, and of course my pets. One dog named Lou, a very fat beagle, and a cat, which I adopted from the street.

So this is me (:

Lisiting :D

My first paragraph will be about the effects in our music. My work in general is very good, basing in my criatiry and my class mates. In my song, I didn´t use a lot of effects. I use some, for example copying sounds and using them again further in the song. Another effect I used, was to change the speed of reproduction in some sounds. My final use of effects whas to make the sounds fade in/fade out in various time at the song. From the other song I herd, it was very notacible that, my classmates mostly used the copying effect. Their sound repeated them selfs to much, that in sometime it maded boring. The only thing I could have done was to use more effects. What I am meaning was to expiriment with the effects, have fun. Not only use the three ones I used, and this goes to the other DJ xD.

My class, in my opinion did a mediacore work. Not to good or to bad. I really liked some peoples song, but in general they waren´t to good. Some even were pathetic. What I mean with patetic, is that some people didn´t put a lot of effort to the project and it was lame. I will like to comment, that the people that didn´t do the assigment correctly or lame, shouldn´t get the same grade from the people that did it correctly and put effort to it. Another comment is that next year the expectansis and rubric should be harder so the song will be accaptable.

Final Audacity Post

This assigment has been one of the funest we have ever done in our class. In general it was fun, but I had some troubles thatr cause me to frustated and wanted to distroy my computer. The fustrating moments came when the Audacity, that i have in my computer coulnd´t open music files that warren´t MP3. This made me very mad. i think that the ColegioAmericanoIdol will be Mahonry, hi created an astanding mash-up. For me he will be the winer, but I also think that I have great chances of being the new ColegioAmericanoIdol. I did a great job.

This is ColegioAmericanoIdol!!!!!

I totally think that you should do it next year, I am 100% sure that the next 8th Graders will love to make their own remix.

Mash Up

My Group Members are:
1) Raul
2) Arianne
4) Sofia
5) Feris

My team definitely did fantastic job in their mash ups. In Raul's remix, it is notice right away that he put a lot of effort to it, he did a great job. For Arianne, I didn't get to hear her remix beacuse she didn't do it D: Sofia did a fantastic job. She use famous songs , which make it better, plus she put a lot of effort to it. I think she was the best of our group. Feris, also did a fantastic job. She also use current music, which make it better like Sofia. Even though it was noticeable that she didn't put a lot of effort.

Regarding to me, my Mash up SUCKED. I admit that I could have done a better job than which I did. I feel that I didn´t use proper music to creat a good remix. Also my songs didn´t match. What I mean, is that one was rock (Beat It) and chill music (Viollent Hiil). If we do another project with Audacity, I will totally put a lot more effort.

Future Artefact

Creating my project was challenging in some minor parts; however in general was very easy. One of the minor issues I had was finding weapons, so I could combine them. At the end the base was weapons from the video game name, Gears of War. What caused me a lot of work and a lot of time was to make the arm support and the scope look identical to the original weapon.

Tutorial 2

For my second tutorial I learn how to create a Lightsaber or a laser bullet. Since I was little I wanted to know how it was done, and I finally learn how to do it. I always thought that was very hard and only professionals could do it. I was amazed when I realized that is not very hard and is "super easy". This will help a lot for my project, as i wish to create a weapon from the future, it will look lame if it shoot regular bullets. Instead it is going to fire laser ammo.

This Tutorial is available by clicking HERE

Tutorial 1

This amazing tutorial teaches you how to make a regular object, in this case a leopard, appear a robot. At first you may think that is hard and long, but is not. Actually is really ease but it takes time and dedication to accomplish a perfect result. Which is shown on the right. I believe that this tutorial will help me to give my artifact a much more futuristic look. For example if i decided to do a gun from the future i will like it have looks more appropriate for the era.

If you wish to do this Tutorial
Please click HERE

Social Media (Opinion from the class)

After reading all the posts of my classmates regarding Social Media I could conclude that we all think the same way. We have the same points of view, of course this was expected. We all agree that Facebook and other social networks helps us with our educational and personal life. Also we agree that social media is taking over our life. This is big as the Industrial Revolution, every day more than thousands of people join social networks. It has been proven, that if Facebook was a country with its population (members) it will be one of the most polluted countries in the world. This is reality, even if you don´t want to accept it, very soon all teenagers and adults will use social networks in their life's.

Artifacts From the Futer

This image was my favorite of all. I liked that it represents justice and law enforcement in the futer. Also I thought that the if a police officer had this kind of equipment would pretty a some and harder for criminals to escaped from the law enforcement, and maybe some day they would have it. Also this kind of equipment, with other would help to safe the lives of our police officers. My idea is to create some artifacts that the Police or/and Military can use to protect us. Probobly some advances fire arms, faster vehicles, or other stuff. Even a intergalatic space shuttle to defend the planet. :D

Paco (:

Social Media
By: Francisco Carmona



Social media via internet has been criticized by governments of all the countries, and educational institutes, and most of all social media is specially criticized by people that had never tried it before in their lives. Ignorant is a perfect word to describe these people. Today even though people have problems to admitted, everything is done in the internet for many reasons. It is cheaper, some times even free, it’s much easier, and connects the world in a matter of seconds. Social Networks, such as Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter (the three biggest networks used) are an important part of mostly everything. Companies, important people, even schools or any other business are advertized in social networks for a minor price or sometimes even free. In some companies when you’re applying for a job they ask you if you know how to manage social networks .The truth is that social networks are a part of a lot of people´s lives.

Regarding educational purposes social media is involved. Directive Boards of some schools don´t think that social networks aren´t needed for good education. I strongly disagree. In my life I had use Facebook as an aid to complete my studies and homeworks during my journey in junior high. In my computer class, I have use social networks, such as Facebook and MySpace to completed assignments which dictated that specific instructions of communication through internet. It was one of the most fun and satisfactory assignment that I have ever done thanks to Facebook and MySpace, and I learned to communicated with several people, in a few seconds. Another way Facebook helps my studies is with my art teacher Miss Amanda. Miss Amanda has an art profile in Facebook which informs us about assignments, homework, and helps us with our work. It had really helped me during this year and I appreciated Miss Amanda for taking the time to sing in Facebook and helping us, via a social network. In my opinion, social networks help education to be successful and make it much easier and a lot funnier.

I strongly believe that blocking social networks from a school system is not right. I will refer to the particular case of our school, the American School of Puerto Vallarta (ASPV). To our Dear Administration Board, blocking social networks, such as Facebook that everybody in school, including teachers use during school hours, it’s an irrational measure. Students and even some teacher will use proxies to enter these sites, and probably the school will block them, but students and teachers will find new proxies and use them. It will be like a never ending cycle. In my opinion blocking is bad for many reasons. The first and most important is that the school by blocking social sites are censured the communication of all the school alumni. This action is against our right of expressing ourselves, and according to Article 1 of the Constitution of Mexico every citizen has the RIGHT to express their opinions in a pacific way. This is one of “Las Garantias Individuales” of our country. By blocking social networks, the school is blocking our right to express. It is true that there are many ways to communicated to others our opinions, and believes, but this is our choice.

It is true that some parents have no idea of how the world is changing around them, they live with what they learned in their school years, and they had never take the time to updated and learn more. Many parents sadly had never read a book again since their college, many others are so afraid to change, that they just decided to block whatever they don´t understand. Of course these parents want the best for us, that´s why they are willing to pay a substantial tuition for our education, but really what makes them expertise in media communication. We had seen cases of many demands from the parents, after all, they are the ones who pay, but they are paying our school to educate us and provide us with tools for our lives, not to decide what´s educational or not. That´s the job of our teachers. The school shouldn´t accept the demands of the parents, just to keep them happy, the school should educate their children, so they can educate their parents in the new stuff. The ASPV had preached the teaching of values. Two of these values are responsibility and fitting for what is correct. Why the school instead of trusting their alumni to make a well judgement, a mature decision to know when to use Facebook and when to not, is just putting on a side, one of the most important tools of communication of the world. There are students in my class that have grades of 2 or even 1 in computers class, these students are 14 and 15 years old, they know well the consequences of their lack of responsibility, they just don´t care. Their concern parents can fix the world for them, but that´s not going to teach them right. The parents should be having a conversation with their children at home and not complained with the school.

My Family Tree Blured

My Family Reunion

In my whole life, I just had have a family reunion. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was with my family, the part of my mother. It was in Guadalajara, past December 23. It was our family posada. We had a traditional Christmas diner, of course in a Mexican way. We ate Posole, Tacos, Tamales, Enchiladas. Every member brought something. My family and I brought the wine for adults, and sodas for little kids. We also exchange presents in a game where if you roll a even number you can take a present. you do this until all the gifts are over. Once their over you must know roll a odd number to take presents aways from other players. The funny part is that every individual family takes a good gift and a bad gift. We also played recreative games. It was very fun. I can't wait to have it this year.

Paco (:

Family Tree

I found the Family tree assignment very fun, but also challenging to do. I had fun doing the tree for many reasons. For example: I enjoy working with Photoshop is an amazing program that allows you to edit your photos and fix them in any way that another program can´t. My most dificult challenge was not the program, it was getting the pictures of my grandparents. Primely my grandmother from my dad´s side how past away during giving birth to my father.

Paco (:

My Name Tag

Bloging World

This is my fourth time writing and entry for my blog. This blog I created it when i was in 7th grade to help a little bit my classmates. Every day I went in, after i did an entry with the homework for the day, so it will be easier for everybody. After two entries i saw that it was too much work xD So i stop do in it. Know that we have computers 4 times a week, I use my old blog, instead of using a new one. I think I have some experience in the blog world. I surely hope that it will help me in the future. I solve my problom of the list very easy, I yust ask them their URL, and the ones i couldn't ask, i went in the blogs of my classmates, how had their lists where completed.

Homework for Friday.

Have FUN IN THE WEEKEND xD