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.

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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.

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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.

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