Blog Post About "One Day in The Bay"

My fellow readers, as you can see in the blog post where I have attach my video called "One Day in The Bay" is has a central theme. My theme is to show the people the things you can do on Bahia de Banderas. They're to side to the video. The first part shows and advertises Puerto Vallarta as a calm and beautiful place where people can come and spend their vacation in time to "chill" and rest. Then after showing the beautiful place that is Vallarta, the music changes completely to a different theme, and also the images doo. Suddenly, the music fires up and the video starts showing the fun part of Bahia de Banderas. This is an angle, for young people that want to practise different water sports, such as surfing, kiteboarding and wakeboarding. My objective was to show the different sides of the Bay, both for old people and young.

People want to know, how did I created this video. Basically, it was pretty easy. I first starting by making the music, a mix of "Con Te Partiro" by Andrea Bocelli and "Rock You Like a Hurricane" by The Scorpions. Then, I started using Mac software iMovie to start the video. I obtain images from my classmates and other friends, but I also used a couple of mine. To end the process, I pasted the images and created the video. During the creation process I also added video effects and transitions to make the video more "attention getting." For the last part, I just added credits naming the persons, who images appeared in the video, the music and the creador, which is me.

One Day in The Bay

Video Blog Post

Today in computers class, we saw a video which shows the major events and documents the Earth in a short period of time of 24hr; however the video is 2:30 minutes. I liked that several stuff from it. For example, it grab my attention really fast with images that have a meaning, really expressive. Another thing I liked about this video was the music they choose, it's appropriated for the theme of the video. From my dislikes, I will have to say that in some occasions, the image stays in text to long, it looses your attention a bit. Another minimum thing that I din't like, was that some images look taking professionally and other look more amateur, this is just because I am perfectionist. Anyway, the theme of this video for me is to show how our world acts, and all our major events that have occur. Like strikes, war, revolutions and other stuff; however they also show good stuff like love, friendship, relationships and more.

During the videos we can see segments that really get our attention, and transmit us a message. We can call them carried images. Some of the carried images, that really make a sense of remorse on the watcher are, unfortunately the bad ones that describe all the bad things our world has. The images/video clips that show war scenes, hunger, suferment, destruction (both caused by humans and nature), poverty, natural disasters and other things, get your attention much faster than other stuff. Even though, the images that show the goodness of our world, can be taken much better with any factor you want, the carried images will always have more impact.

Fuel Efficiency on Transportation

During the past couple of weeks, I have discover great things that happen every day in my live, with out me realizing. For example, how much gas I spend every day coming to school. Something that really shocked me was to find out that costs more for my family to drive me in the Mini Cooper, rather than in the big Hummer of my father. It was shocking to know that we where actually paying more, and we thought we where saving money. Definitely, having my dream car (Audi R8 Spider) will be very expensive, but they well say, "if you have the money to buy the car, you have the money for the gas..." By the other side, having Fuel Efficient Cars will reduce the expenses of my family every year, however they aren't just neither my families or my taste in cars. Actually doing this project is really going to help me in less than 4 months. In less than 4 months, I will turn 16 and I made a deal with my father that states, if I didn't consume any alcohol or drugs when I have reach the age of 16, he will give me a car. Know we can take an inform decision about which car will help us, by saving money in fuel.

Seeing the BP oil spill really caused a great impact at me. So many marine live was lost due to the contamination, and it will take more than 100 years to clean the Gulf of Mexico. I guess I don't think about this when I get in my car, but I think definitely I should because this is what happens due to our fuel addiction.

Fuel Efficiency

In the last 2 computer class, we have been working on taking out the amount of litters our cars use per day, week, and year. The route is simple, one that we use all week, which is our way to school (commute). I live far away from school, so I use high quantities of fuel each school year. For example, my dad uses his Hummer H3 to drive me to school most of the time. He spends 405.15 litters of gas, also he spends $3646.35 to drive me every school year, only for me to study at ASPV. My dream car is an Audi R8 Spider. If God would help me to buy this car, I would have to use 1001 litters of gas to "fire it up" to school, and I will spend around $9008.00 pesos to drive it to school all the school year. My first Fuel Efficient (FE) car is the Toyota Prius. Having this car, it will use 281.2 Litters of gas to drive me to school per year, this will cost $2530.80. For my second FE vehicle I will choose a Smart. This will use 387 Litters of gas per year, with a cost of $3484.85.

My Car (Hummer H3 2006)	Dream Car (Audi R8 Spyder 2011)
Litters Per Year	Litters Per Year
405.15 Litters/5957 Kilometers Cost Per Year $3646.35 Fuel Efficient Car (Toyota Prius 2010) Litters Per Year 281.2 Litters/5957 Kilometers Cost Per Year $2530.8	1000.85 Litters/5957 Kilometers Cost Per Year $9007.65 Fuel Efficient Car 2 (Smart 2010) Litters Per Year 387.205 Litters/5957 Kilometers Cost Per Year $3484.85

Google Earth Tours

After finishing the quiz of computers, all of the class review their Google Earth Tours, saved any new changes and other stuff. After checking that everything was according to plan, each one of us had to rotated to the right to see our fellow classmates tours and later comment them by Blogger; however I am going to star my talking about mine.

My Tour:I really liked the way me tour ended up. My tour reflects a dream of my own, go kiteboarding to the best beaches on the world, such as Cozumel in Mexico, Tarifa in Spain and a lot of other places in Brazil, South Africa and Dominican Republic. I notice also that my tour, and some more not the majority had an automatic way of moving from a spot to another spot. What I mean is that everybody use the mouse and other tools to adjust the location of the tour; however I "Pin" my locations and with a click the software automatically went to the locations. It just make it look more professional. Another thing that make it look more professional was that with each "Pin" it had a mini explanation of why I choose that place or any important information. What I could have changed was the spelling and gramatical errors on my explanations of each location and maybe have put a little more detail in the "Zooms".

Pedro Pablo's Tour: The tour of Pedro Pablo was similar to mine, It was about kiteboarding. The tour of Pedro Pablo was well done, contain everything that was expected from us by the teacher and you can see a little bit of extra effort. I also liked that it was a more simple tour of places to kiteboard; where as mine was to extravagant and really expensive. Pedro Pablo could have corrected simple stuff that would have make his tour better. For example, I will recommend him to use "Pins" at a 100% what they can do. What I mean is that he indeed use them, however he didn't "click" on them, so they were just marks in a map. Also he moved by location to location with the mouse, which made it look really sloppy. For the same reason I encourage him to use the "Pins" correctly.

Debora's Tour: I was really amazed by the tour of Debora. To be honest, it was very well done. I liked that she use the "Pin" trick but what I really liked was that the images were really detail (very organized, and correct zoom so they would look nice and not all full of megapixels). The only thing I didn't like, which is really minimum was that she had the explanations of her tour on the Pins, instead of having a brief description in a "pop-up". This was the only thing, she did a great job.

Paco Carmona

JOY

J: For my first Paragraph I would write about what was my day like, because it's really recent. Everything started at 12:00 am, technically it is the start of the day. At that time I was suffering of sleep depravation. For this reason I was talking by Windows Messenger and by Facebook with a lot of people (95% girls). When the clock hit 2:00 am magically the desire to sleep was rebirth on me, so I went to bed. I had been staying at Mahonry's house for the past 2 days, so at the mooring we woke up and had a healthy breakfast. After we didn't had anything to do, so we just simply played Xbox. We played UFC, The Video Game, this is one of the best games regarding to fights. After Mahonry kicked my ass, not all the time only a 95% of the fights, we started our homework. We did the spanish work, and the the wonderful homework of computers class about Good Read that our best teacher Mr. Pickets left us during the week when we didn't have a class with him. After we call Fideitos (Pedro Pablo) and Perrilla (Eduardo D.) to play a soccer match. I can say that I play good, I would say that not good nor bad. Any way I lost 50 pesos. Time past and my parents came back from GDL and they picked me up from my "foster home". That was pretty much my day, and know i'm doing the computers homework.

O: Theirs a lot of things that I will like to do by my self. Some are in the future and some are more at this time. For example, for the future I dream with becoming a doctor and helping people. Another dream of mine for the futures is to have all what I want. This can include a big house, a boat, a lot of cool cars, a hot wife and other stuff. I will also like to travel around the world. Coming back to the present, I will like to have very good grades this years, for collage applications. The thing that I really want to learn is to kiteboard, since last year. This couldn't by accomplish because I didn't have money to buy my gear.

Y: I believe that I had a lot of stuff that make me special. One of the thinks that I like about my self is that I have a great sense of humor. This means I can make laugh anybody with stuff that are really stupid but I make it funny, thats my magic. Another thing about my sense of humor is that not only I make laugh, but I laugh my self very much of everything. Another thing that I like of my self is that I fight for whats just and right. Also I never stand down on my values, I defend them until the end, which makes me a person with a really big character. One thing that I think that rocks, is that I don't go around with rodeos. I always tell the truth and can't stand people who are fake and double cross you, or that have hypocrisy. They have told me that I have a quality that is really missing in these days, in our generation. Thy have mention that I know what I want, listed above for O, and how to get it.

Paco Carmona

Typing

This year I actually believe that Typing Master Improve my skills in the keyboard. I felt more comfortable and easy to type than last year. I believe this occur because we didn't had as much pressure as last school year to obtain good scores. At the end of the year, I really felt the need of typing faster, just because I wanted to be exempted and not do the test for the rest of the year. I do believe that my class, overall and average don't have a good typing score, so taking in this in consideration...I believe that the next year course should include some typing master, maybe not as much as we did this year, a little less. We need typing master, but not that much. Most of the people in the class have a net speed of at least 15 wpm, so that is way we should do less next year,

Map Testing Graphs (Reading)

This is the graph that I choose to express the data of my Reading Map Test. This time, the scores are express in rows. This is as accurate as columns, but just to "spice it up". Each test as it own row, longer the row is higher the score of the test was.

All the graphs had to be like this kind, each test for it self. I I had chosen a line graph, it will be very inaccurate and ugly because the 2 test we skip would had mess it up.

Map Testing Graphs (Math)

This is the graph I selected to show my math scores. As the Language graph, each of my test has their own column. Higher the column is, the score is as well. This is a better graph in my opinion, just because of the 3D effect.

Map Testing Graphs (Language)

This is the Language Graph for my results. It is a good graph to show my results over time, as every test has a different column. The hight of the column represents my score, while more higher more the score is too.

BP Oil Disaster.

Currently as I write, around 200,000-400,000 gallons of oil are being released to the Gulf of Mexico per day. Since the sank of "The Deepwater Horizon", one of the biggest oil carrying and extracting boats on the oil industry, which occur on April 22th, the expulsion of oil has left over 5 million gallons of oil in the Gulf of Mexico. The boat sank due to an explosion, which killed 11 crewmembers and left the carrying boat 5,000 feat under sea level. This ship is know by the world for drilling the deepest oil well in history in September 2009.

Since the accident and spill started, there have been a lot of speculations about what can happen and what will happen once everything is over. As a lot of people had said, including United States President Barack Obama the oil will harm marine species in the Gulf of Mexico. A lot of people has stated that the first thing is to stop all the oil from coming out of the container and preventing that goes out into the Gulf of Mexico. The company that own the ship, Transocean in cooperation with British Petroleum, which ran the operation had tried various times to stop the oil from coming out, but they have fail all the times. The companies first tried to stop the leaking by placing a lot of weight in the release point, hopping to close it by pressure. As mention before, this fail. Another method that was tried was to cut the pipe by where the oil was traveling; however once their machine was deep down in the ocean they notice that a chain was stuck, so nothing occur. All of this happens in International Waters, so the government of Mexico neither the American Government had an obligation to help. Now that the oil spill is leaving reaching New Orleans, Florida and other states with waters in the Gulf of Mexico, the US Government has started to cooperate with the companies to stop the oil spill. The US Government has started the cleaning and design of a plan to stop the spill. No official statement or bereaving have been giving only that the Government pass a 62 million dollars invoice to British Petroleum’s, which they expect the company to pay. I believe that the most important thing to do right now is to stop the leaking of the oil to the ocean. That is the number one priority, then once the oil spill stops the cleaning process should start.

Sources:

1. Nasa Satellite

2. Discovery News

3. Company Names

Map Testing

In the past week, and the first two days of this week, due to the technical difficulties of the school, we had Map Testing in our school. This test are to mesure our academical levels in three courses which are: Language, Reading and Mathematics. Also it helps our teacher by showing them how we are in our levels of education and were they need to focus to teach. Map Testing for me is a waste of time, I prefer the SATs. I just think that they are more specific and give you better results. Anyhow, Map Testing was a good think to loose class. My scores were ok, not good nor bad in the areas of Language and Reading, which all my past and present English teacher can support;however, in the Math section I rocked. I got 257! I really didn't think I reached my goals, so no Spirit Days.
Suggestion: Lets do old SATs...
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Presentations...

Today I and my classmates saw the rough drafts of the Earth Presentations. For our great numbers of alumni, we were seperated in small groups to our followers thinkers. In my group theirs 4 people including me. We all care about the animals, so we choose the Them of Animals in Endangered Species. Ximena, Fernanda C. and Priscila had great presemtations, so did I. (Not for showing off). Now that I have seen other "fellow thinkers", I would do some changes to my presentation. One of the things I would change of my presentation, is to include more general information about all animals, because I focus on a particular species, The Orangutan. I will definitely include more pictures of other animals. Something that I really need to work and fix is the effects that I put on the presentation, for some reason not all of them worked. Maybe is for the program that the computers have.

Power Point

Since 4th Grade we had have to do Power Point Presentations for many classes. Since we began to use it, people had have the same problems over and over, which cause their audience to loose focus and make their presentations boring. The major problem that makes a presentation boring is the excessive writing. The exes of words in a presentation is an easy way to not memorize the presentation, in other words to be lacy. Writting all the words that you will say in your presentation, it will make it boring and you will loose the audience right away. GUARANTEED! I know this because I have been a victim of this myself. I notice that I had more attention if a didn't wrote everything.

25 Things I Love and Hate about FACEBOOK

25 Things I hate of Facebook.

1. They remove the "Become a Fan."
2. We don't have the "Dislike" option.
   
3. A lot Notifications.
4. When your friends give you a "Poke"
5. Stupid Quizzes (Are you good with girls?, What kind of girls you attract? and other)
6. The Stupid Apps
7. You comment something (or only if you press "Like") you get the notifications of everything that happens.
8. Farmville and Happy Aquarium.
9. Invitations to Stupid Groups.
10. People doing pages for their Events and inviting you over and over.
    
11. Bad Tagged Pictures.
12. Check my Answers Posts.
13. Gifts.
14. Top Friends .
    
15. Random Adds.
16. Parents Adding You to be a friend.
17. No Privacy.
18. People that you don't know adds you.
19. Page Suggestions
20. When people types like "Naco"
21. When people tagged themselves in your picture.
22. People are so sentimental when your Relationship Status changes.
23. The People abuses of "What I'm thinking"? (Use Twitter)
24. Doesn't Let me Do my Homework.
25. All the Gossip.

25 Things I love About Facebook.

1. Seeing your friends Pictures (Bikini)
   
2. Talking to your friends with "FB Chat."
3. Being able to upload your pictures.
4. Being able to upload videos.
   
5. Happy Birthday Posts
6. Cool Games (Texas Holden)
   
7. Other Cool Applications (Picnik and MiniJold Games)
8. Family Requests (FAKE Family)
9. Status Update (Moderate Way)
10. We can express ourselves
11. Tagging People in Good Pictures
12. Liking Pictures, Status...etc.
13. Posting Videos from Youtube or other pages.
14. Personal Messages to your friends.
15. Regaining contact with old or lost friends.
16. Rapid way of communication.
17. You get to know people better.
18. It's compatible with Ipod, Iphone or Blackberry.
19. You can join cool groups.
20. It is a way to loose the stress.
21. You can "Become a Fan" of things. (Well know is Like)
22. It is a free way of communication.
23. It is a fast way of communication.
24. Daily Babe Application
25. You can decide who watches your pictures and videos.

Reflexion of the Videos

After grading two projects a, one from 12th grade and the other 7th grade, strictly tight to the rubric, I learn something. The thing I learn that people just do the work, for only doing it. Both of the project I graded where good overall; however they had mistakes that could easily correct. As mention before, both project were good the end. The 7th grade project had good images;however, they warren't theirs and they didn't gave credit to the real authors. Another thing they could change was that when the credits were over, the song they choose as music keep going for 3 minutes. In the 12th grade video was better than the seventh graders, in my opinion. The only mistake that the 12th grade video had was that they choose small images, which created a black frame around the pictures. I wouldn't change anything of my video, I love it how it is.

Earth Probloms

Earth is our home. As scientist say, "The planet is one in a million, it is unlikely that another planet can support live." This is what they said long time ago. Now, they have changed their mind. Since 40 years ago (when Earth Day started) their have being telling us, "If we don't take care of the planet, very soon we would be suffering the consequences." In present time, non-profit oraganizations are working to safe the planet with the collaboration of federal governments. As I dream of mine, I wish to run an non-profited organization. I wish that my organization will be dedicated to protect a species from vanishing. The important species that I will protect is the Orangutan.

As I said before, I want to the species of the Orangutan monkey, or course to accomplish this I need to be the leader of a non-profitable organization and have the enough financial resources. Let's suppose that a millionaire for example Bill Gates decides to give 10 million dollars to Animal Protections, NPO (supposing thats my organization) and the only condition he gives is to spend it all in the protection of one species. As we know, the Orangutan is one of the most endangered species in the world, so I have chosen them. The reasons that lead us to decide to try and protect this type of monkeys are the following: They are the number one species that we have more similarities with, almost 80% of the Orangutan population has been killed, and it is expected that by 2012 Orangutans will be extinct.

To start using the 10 million dollars, I would start by opening protection centers for Orangutans, where they could live with all the cares they need, reproduce in a natural and with help of specialized doctors, medical assistance 24/7 for the animals and lot more wonderful stuff. This Specialized Growth Centers for Orangutans would be located in the world's regions with endangered orangutans, and highest populations of monkeys too. Once this centers are built and ready to function the world pupulation of Orangutans would be place in the center. The plan is to give the Orangutans a good treat for their first five years of live. For this five years they would receive medical care, healthy food, and the ability of reproduction to continuo the species. Once that they reach the age of five years old, and they have already reproduce they would be set to free into the wild so they can live as they are ment to. The place they will be set free to it will have constant surveillance to assure their well.

After the species is in a level of population were is no longer in danger of extinction, it is planed that The Specialized Growth Center of Orangutans are to be closed. With the remaining money, and the sells of the installations of the centers it is planed to buy as much land as possible. The objective of buying land is to make a natural habitat for only Orangutans. Inside they will have everything they need to survive, and reproduce. Of course because of humans, the land would be fence and have surveillance for 24/7. On site their will be veterinarians for the animals. It will a natural man-maid sustainable environment.

This is the plan I have to safe the Orangutans, if I am ever in charge of a non-profitable organization and a receive a donation of millions of dollars with the condition of investing them in the protection of a single species, this is what I will do. No doubt it will totally work.

Earth Day Project

This time, the assignment was to create a video that show the wonders of the Earth, with a song or poem, which had to talk about Earth too. Even though, I had some complications on the way, it is one of my most prestigious pieces of work of this class. My main problem was to find a partner. At first my partner was Pedro Pablo; however, we had some disagreement and we decided that it was the best for both of us to separated the team. After trying to do by our selfs, we realized that we needed to be together for this project. Another major problem that we had was the recording, as nobody in the class was quite and recording was almost impossible. We had to go outside to record our poems. That was my problems. If I could have done something different it would be putting some images that had been taking by Pedro or me.

Spring Break

After waiting months for Spring Break, it was finally here. The most wild time of Puerto Vallarta of all the year, and in my opinion the best time of my year. The week before of Spring Break we had the Third Quater Exams during all the

week. After an exastuaing week, the vacation where here. It was a relieved. The first day I went with my family to Chacala, this happen because

we were invited by my moms boss, who was hired to do a Market Analysis and had recieve a residence for three days in Marina Chacala. Even though the trip was with business purposes; however, it was a beach day for me. We drove to Chacala, which is one and a half hours of Puerto Vallarta. We arrived in Chacala around 9 am (Nayarit Time). first as expected we had breakfest, some Chilaquiles with egg. After having a delicious breakfast, we needed to start to work. The job was to obser

ve and come with a marketing estradagy for this new home that are about to be build on the beach. We took a look of the construction and other stuff and we came up with a marketing estradagy. After, the bos

s (Rocio) wanted us to go and see the property from the ocean. We aborded a Malibu Boat and went and saw the property from the ocean. After this, the job was done and it was time to star having fun. One of the things I wanted to do was too try Wakeboarding. The house where Rocio was staying had everything you need, the Board, The Rope, The Boat, and The Safety Suit. My wish came true, and I had the opportunity of wakeboarding. After that, the Staff made delicious sea food for us, we ate like kings. For the end of the day, we chill out and played some card games.

The next weekend pass very easy, I went to a couple of parties and had a g

reat time. I also played some bloody video games with friend by

X-Box Live. At Monday I took a plane to go to Las Vegas...HAHA Joking xD. I did took a plane, but it wasn't to Vegas, I went to Guadalajara to see my family and stay with my cousin. We had fun, again went to a couple of parties with my cousin's friends, I meet a lot of people, some cut girls and I had a great time. I stayed in GDL for the entire week, on Saturday in the morning I was back to Puerto Vallarta. Again that weekend I took it easy, I really needed to rest from Guadalajara. I mostly played video games, again with friends.

In the last week, I took it easy. After the parties, traveling and other stuff it was time to rest. I slept early and wake up very late.

I got all the rest I needed for a year. In that week, I didn't only rest, I also went to the beach

and other stuff. I did the last trip with my family during Spring Break , to Careyes. A beautiful place indeed, the beach is amazing. I had a great time, the Hotel where we stayed was also amazing.

During the last three days of spring break was the best of all. During this week, I

accomplished my dream. I started to learn to Kiteboard. This happened because Pedro Pablo h

ad a B3 Slingshot Light Traction, so he led me used it. He thought me the basics of it and how to handle it. Since the last Saturday of va

cation, I had been going to train; however, yesterday the lines of the kite broke. So by the moment I am Kite-less. Well this was my Spring Break, I really enjoy it and I was sad that it was over.

Paco

Typing Tracker

25/03/2010	Mesopotamia	19	89%	16
12/04/2010	Father Jerome Lobo	19	83%	16

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All around the United States they're parents looking for their children. This can happen for various reasons. One can be that the kid escaped from their home, another could be that he was kidnapped by a kidnapper or even his parents. They are infinite number of reason. This is a story about a parent that had dedicated the past 5 years to the search of his kid.

5 Years Ago...

Once upon a time, their was a simple family that was made up of the father and his daughter. Tomas was the father and Isabelle the daughter. The mother had died while giving birth to the beautiful baby daughter. It was Christmas vacation and the family decided to visit the Grandparents of Isabelle. They were at the airport, for the time of the year it was very busy. Tomas had specifically told Isabelle to not let go of him, so she wouldn't get lost. Of course, like all children she didn't obey. Then everything started. Isabelle was amazed by an attraction for tourist, she had never seen nothing like that before. She felt curious and more curious and she went to check it out, mean while Tomas was busy talking to a Security Guard. Like a minute pass, Isabelle was gone. Tomas was becoming hysterically, his daughter was missing. Immediately the Security Guard grab his radio and start communicating to HQ the missing girl. All security was mobilized, even the FAA and FBI. In that time, kidnapping band, called Mala Noche had been operating in New York. It was told that Mala Noche was an International Organized Crime Organization that sell drugs, arms and kidnapping. It was a rumor that ugly girls that they kidnapped were cut and their organs were sell;where as the beautiful girls were prostituted to make extra money.

Time passed, as the investigation of the FBI collaborating with Interpol. Nothing happen, no news, no accomplishments, nothing. Tomas was anxious as any parent would be. Moths past, with nothing new. He decided that it was time for him to start a new investigation, he would have to take justice to his own hand. He joined the United States Army, so he could get some training and survival instincts. Before graduating, he quitted the army, but now he was ready. He looked all over the world for his daughter. He traveled to Europe and South America, where most operations of Mala Noche occurred. He founded out that his daughter wasn't prostituted nor killed. Instead for being a Virgin, she was sold to the heights bitter. This information was acquired by torturing a member of Noche, he also got the contact info of the buyer of Isabelle. It was a famous Russian Business men. Tomas tried to located him, but it was impossible. Disappointed he went back to New York, but he hadn't quite he only needed to re-plan his strategy. Before he gotten in the plane, he received a call from the FBI, telling him that his daughter had escaped and had contacted the FBI Office in Bulgaria. She would be putten in the earliest Aircraft, so she could come back home. Now more than ever, Tomas was happy to come home. He got a day earlier to New York before his daughter arrived. He decided to decorate the house to her welcome. He couldn't sleep because of the exsitement, at the morning he turned out the News. The plane were had daughter came had been victim of terrorist. It was said that the bomb exploded before time, which cause the airplane to become ashes and land on the Black Forest, located at Germany. Tomas was once more devastated, this time instead of being brave and move on he committed something crazy. Tomas hang it self...

8th Grade Rotoball Projecrts

8th Grade RotoBall from mistermark on Vimeo.

My Project: During the process of creation of my animation of Rotoball I had some difficulties; however I overlap them. My biggest problem was my original video, it was not what I needed, so I had to make another one that would work. Another dificulty I had in the way was to trace my guitar; I wanted something perfect not sloppy so it took some time. My final issue was exporting it, at first I exported wrong. Then the weekend passed and I got sicked and missed school for Monday and Tuesday. For this reason my animation wasn't added to the class video. To solve it I had to re-exported and talk to the editor, Rodrigo so he could add my video. At last, mi video was added to the class video.

Flash Animations

Comment on Video:
The class video with all our rotoball porject is really amazing. Rodrigo has done a great job adding music and other stuff he was assing to do. The only critic is that some people really need to fix their videos. What I mean is in the end, when the ball is gone their video should end instead of them staying there.

My Work:
My work only needed some adjustments. The stage and roto were perfect, even the ball. The only problem that it had was that it stayed less than a second still playing and the roto was already gone. So I only fixed that. Whith that fixed, my animation is perfect.

My Rotoball Idea

In the moment I saw the Rotoball video clips I had some ideas. It remembered me of the iPod publicity of Apple INC. I mean the colorfull pictures of persons with their iPod. I imagine that my project will be a little related to it; however not to close to the same topic because I wanted to be original. I have narrow my ideas to two main. I can do somebody dancing and changing color; and suddenly the ball comes and becomes an instrument of electronic music. My second idea is to creat a sad children and then the ball comes and transforms to something that he will like, at the end when the child goes to bed the ball will leave because the dog started to play with it.

Paco

Pranav Mistry

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?

I believed that this new technology is pretty amazing. It is almost like we have the machine inside of us. When I was watching the video, I was stunted and couldn't believe that this kind of technology was already invented. What really blew me off, was that your phone was in the palm of your hans and you can dial the digits in your hand. Another thing that really impressed me was that the computer automatically recognizes what is in your hands, like the book and instientaly downloaded the ratings of it. But absolutely the thing that surprised me most of all was the copying of a text in a book transmitted to the piece of paper, which from their you can transmit it to your computer. Of course I will like to have one of this incredible machines; however I will wait until the developer improves his design and makes it more practical. Another factor that will affect the purchase of this technology will be the price, at first I expected to be expensive.

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

As mention before, this technology has some great things that makes it unique. Number one, it is a personal computer, which allows it to be taken anywhere in the world. Another thing that makes it unique, is that it can be project anywhere, in the wall, in a desk or as simple as a piece of paper. I also like about this device that the computer is smarter than others, what I mean is that it makes more stuff than regular computers. An example of this is the classification of the book automatically, a normal device will need commands to do it. What really makes it unique is that take text and images from other objects and safe them in its hard drive, which later can be transmitted cable-free to your PC/Mac. The best quality this has is that even though is a computer, it is also a phone. The only bad things is that is unpracticable, to big and takes a lot of space in your personal area. Another bad thing is that it may looks very heavy.

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 believe that Open source means that is available to every body that wants it, which can be downloaded. A very famous open source that a very great quantities of people use, including my self, is social networks. Facebook, myspace, Hi-5 and other are open source pages. I think that is a very good thing that they decided to make this project an open source so the people can have it, specially people with low finiancial resources. I don't really see any cons of making it open source.

Paco Carmona

Social Networking-Kepping

Social Media can be very helpfull, for example by letting you comunicated with your friends, plan parties and more fun stuff; however it can also be very damiging. This is determine by how the people put a use to it. Social Media is often use to express the fellings of the poeple, good and bad. As your not with the person your arguin with, you obtain more liberty to express how you feel, as for the moment you don't have to see their reaction or their expresions. This is way people preffer to fight by computer than face to face, of course in my opinion this is a cowered way to solve things. Any kind of fighting is bad and almost always it lets a lot of resentment in the back. Online fighting cause more harm than good, its yust an easier way to release your probloms. In conclusion, people express more open their feallings by computer than in person because they aren't in front of a person that will react, in a good or bad way.

Digital Media in School

Cheating has always been a great issue in the educational system through the world;however with the Internet has become more easy than always. Cheating is when you use somebody's work and put you name on it (as it was yours), they can be with a little bit or the whole paper. Know a days students have a very easy way of copying, they can yust turn on their computer and type what ever they need in Google and millions of results will come up, they have it all free. Educational Institutions have been fighting since education started to stop copying, but theur battle yust multiply by 100 (at least). They are many types of cheating, like using other peoples work, using Cliffnotes, getting the answers (orally) from another person etc. The parameters of cheating must be decided by the Istitution. In conclusion, cheating is bad and you should do it.

Internet at Home

Since the Internet has existed parents had have problems with their children about what they do in the web. Everybody knows that the web can be dangerous, they are sex predators and other people that wish to make harm to other. For this an more reasons, the PBS produce a video clip in their show Frontline to inform everybody about what happens in the web. The video was made to inform the parents of what their children are doing in the web. They use a very vulgar technique to attract the attention of the parents, if you ask me. They use heavy words to get their attention, for example they use sexual predators, raping and assaults. This of course scares our parents and makes them worried more for us. Another technique they use was to obtain declares of people that are against the web or really exaggerate about what could happen. This is old people who didn't grew up with the Internet. Interestedly they forgot to ask the opinion of the people that use more the Internet, us. The producers left unasked questions, they didn't ask them for many reasons. Like if they ask young people how the internet really is, the parents will figure out the truth. This is not good for the producers, because their ratings will drop. In conclusion, the PBS produce a film that was partially full of information.

Digital Media in School

How Teachers should act with their students?How they should treat them? This are questions ask very often this days. Some people think that teachers should be strict with their alumni, but others think that they should be more fun than strict. My favorite entertainment teacher is Mr. Whitten. His lessons are very fun, but educative also. He is different from an entertainer because he actually teaches with a sence of fun. This is the model of the perfect teacher, teach with fun but also have a sence of control. What I mean is to joke a little doing the lesson to make it more entertain but is an student starts to be disrespectul or other things like that, the teacher must act like a teacher. If the teacher is only a performer, the whole system will crash. You wont have enough knowledgement for the future, the good thing is that you will havew an amazing time, but is not worth it.
I think that the student should feel guilty in a part and in another not. Its guilty because he doesn't fallow the assignment totally, he goes somewhere else and find a summery of the book. In the other side, is not cheating because he didn't copy, so he shouldn't feel guilty. Its more of a personal decision.

Paco

Internat at Home

A computer has tones of characteristics that difference it from television, video games, stereo/radio, magazines and books. Other things you can find in your house for entertainment. When you are using the computer, you have the ability of interacting with who ever has another computer, even if there in the other side of the world, which is incredible ans cool: where as when you use the other ways of amusement, it can only be for your self. You can't interact with no body else. It's for your personal amusement, this can't get boring in curtain time.

• How the computer is used in the home?
In my house, everybody has its personal laptop. So I use my personal computer for a lot of stuff. I use my laptop for my entertainment in social networks, but I also used it to do my homework, which makes it easier and gives me better grades.
• Who uses the computer?
I used my computer (personal laptop), only me.
• Where the computer is placed?
The computer is placed where I wanted to be placed. Its a laptop (:
• How much the computer is used?
I used the computer a lot. Not as much as I just to do. Before I used it from 3:00 pm all the way until 10:00 pm. But know a days I used it lot less.

My Christmas Vacation

This has been the best winter break I had ever had. I had a great times during the vacations.

My vacations started in Guadalajara, with the annual and traditional Christmas Posada of my family. As I have mention before, every year I, my family does a posada in Guadalajara. This time was in the 21st of December. I had so much fun with my family. We did the traditional games we always do, for example the game of exchanging the good and bad gifts. The next day it was time to come to Puerto Vallarta again: however only parents. I stayed an extra day with my cousins Anahi, Brenda and Danni and their mom because next day I had to get in an airplane to go to Hermosillo, Sonora with my Dad and Sister.
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I arrived at Sonora at 10:45 am. In the airport was my Father and Sister waiting for me. Later we went to have breakfast to the best Taco Fish in town, actually their the best I have ever tasted. Sadly, later we had to drop my sister with her mother, so my dad and I could take off to Flagstaff, Arizona towards our adventure of Ski. We decided to drive, because Flagstaff doesn't have a big Airport and there's no way of transportation from Phoenix to Flagstaff. Only by taking a Cab, but it will be very expensive. The drive was good, until we arrived in Nogales, we had to wait two and a half hours to cross into the Unites States. After that issue, everything good back to normal until we started going up in the mountain towards our destiny. Suddenly it we hit a spot where it was snowing really hard, and for precuation we had to go slow. The little piece we were missing to arrive was aproximatley half and hour going in speed limit, we did it in 2 hours. We arrieved to our Hotel and we went direct to bed so we could rest and be prepare for the skining. The next day, the first thing we did was had breakfest really fast and then go to the mountain. After we got some equipment we went up. Unfortunatlly we made a huge mistake, we took the lift that led to the Professianal Site, where actually professional skiers practise. Of course I fall down several times, but my father didn't have a problom. After we ask for some infomation , we went to the hard tracks. It was a bite challenging and fun at the same time. An interesting thing that happen to me was that the Flagstaff Ski team was traying in the same track and the coach saw me skining and asked me if I was interested in joining the team. We stayed their for 4 days. I spend Christmas over there, I had my first White Christmas. When the trip was over, we headed back to Hermosillo, a good and fast drive. Their I stayed for 3 more days and then I cam back to Guadalajara. That same day of my arrival to GDL, my uncle, his girlfriend and I came to Puerto Vallarta. I was in a hurry to arrived because Santa came to Vallarta too.

The next Day, I flew to Mazatlan, Sinaloa. This was a courtesy from the new company my Dad is going to work for. Eventhough it was a buissness trip for my parents, I had a lot of fun. We stayed in the Boutique Hotel of the companie where the rooms are amazing. We were treated like Gods. As it was my first time in Mazatlan, I wanted to do everything that was traditional. Like getting on a Pulmonia, a costume made Taxi of Mazatlan. I stayed there for a week, full of luxeries and acomedations. When I came back to my house, my vacations end. I had to do all the homework that was assinged for the breack.

PaCo xD