This page will display a Spanish project I completed last year. It will show a video that our group did as a news broadcast. The requirements were that we had to do a breaking news segment, a health segment, a weather segment, and a clothing segment. Also, in between each segment, we had two anchors who would make the transitions between segments so as to make the broadcast more smooth.
Spanish News Project 2015-2016
Computer Science Project 2016-2017
This project was essentially designed to teach students how to code, and this is what I hoped to learn through completing it. I had never learned how to code in depth, so it was definitely a cool experience for me. To complete all the lessons, I simply watched the videos that were given and broke each code down into parts if it was complicated. I had many successes, most of which were completing codes step by step. However, my failures mostly included getting stuck on codes and almost giving up. Still, I learned that my failures were simple mistakes and I kept pushing forward.
I learned a lot through this process. I learned commands, functions, control structures, commenting, and also how to break codes down. I pretty much memorized the commands in order to effectively move on with each lesson. I learned that I am actually pretty good at coding, and that I like see things through until they are completed. I really wouldn’t do this project differently if I were to do it over again because I simply had to complete lessons and show what I learned. I don’t think I would have learned anything different if I were to take the lessons again. For other students completing this project, I would make sure you listen carefully to each video and ask questions where applicable.
I really don’t know right now what I will do with these newly learned skills. However, as I grow older, I am sure I will find somewhere to put these coding skills to use. In creating my final product, the screencastify feature on my laptop helped me create a well-put together video. It allowed me to say what I was trying to do in my code and the reasons for each action. The screencastify feature allowed me to be a teacher of coding to students who didn’t know the subject well for a small period of time.
I learned a lot through this process. I learned commands, functions, control structures, commenting, and also how to break codes down. I pretty much memorized the commands in order to effectively move on with each lesson. I learned that I am actually pretty good at coding, and that I like see things through until they are completed. I really wouldn’t do this project differently if I were to do it over again because I simply had to complete lessons and show what I learned. I don’t think I would have learned anything different if I were to take the lessons again. For other students completing this project, I would make sure you listen carefully to each video and ask questions where applicable.
I really don’t know right now what I will do with these newly learned skills. However, as I grow older, I am sure I will find somewhere to put these coding skills to use. In creating my final product, the screencastify feature on my laptop helped me create a well-put together video. It allowed me to say what I was trying to do in my code and the reasons for each action. The screencastify feature allowed me to be a teacher of coding to students who didn’t know the subject well for a small period of time.
Image Editing Project 2017
My project consists of 7 photos in one, along with a couple more layers. My goal was to ultimately learn more about image editing, and I was definitely successful in doing so. Overall, I wanted the image to have the story of a person running, representing life, while the demons represent negativity or real demons, and the angels represent encouragement or real angels. The first thing I did for this project was put the photos on the background. After I did that, I moved them around so that they would seem like they are in the correct place, and where I wanted them to be. For the demons, I wanted it to look like they were behind the person running. For the angels, I wanted them to look like they were guiding the person running, so I put them in the air in front of the trees. Then, I tried to make the ground darker so that the demons would flow better, and that was a failure at first. I darkened the angels just a bit so that they would blend in better, and that gave them a sort of glow, which was cool. What was a first a failure, trying to make the demons flow, turned into a success because I turned the opacity down slightly to make them look more ghostly.
Through the completion of the project, I learned how to put images on other images, edit certain areas in the image, change the brightness and contrast as well as the color of the image, create layers, and duplicate images. What I learned about myself is that it is good to get help for something you are new at. However, at some point, I learned to figure it out myself, which benefited me in the end. The main problem I faced was the technical side of things. So, I really wouldn’t have done anything differently if I knew the same as I knew at the beginning of this project. One tip I would give others doing this project is get to know everything there is to know about your image editing program. Whether you are using Adobe, Pixlr, Polarr, or Inkscape, know as much as you can about the program, and if you don’t understand anything, ask questions. Also, never give up, because there were parts where I was frustrated, but I kept going, and eventually learned something new. This whole project inspired me to build things, whether online or not, and made more creative overall.
The links to each picture on the bottom of the page as footnotes. Adobe Photoshop helped me complete this project because it had many tools and allowed me to create what I wanted to create. It allowed me to move the images around wherever I wanted and darkened them where I saw fit. Overall, I learned a lot myself as an image editor, and I believe it was a successful completion of the project.
Through the completion of the project, I learned how to put images on other images, edit certain areas in the image, change the brightness and contrast as well as the color of the image, create layers, and duplicate images. What I learned about myself is that it is good to get help for something you are new at. However, at some point, I learned to figure it out myself, which benefited me in the end. The main problem I faced was the technical side of things. So, I really wouldn’t have done anything differently if I knew the same as I knew at the beginning of this project. One tip I would give others doing this project is get to know everything there is to know about your image editing program. Whether you are using Adobe, Pixlr, Polarr, or Inkscape, know as much as you can about the program, and if you don’t understand anything, ask questions. Also, never give up, because there were parts where I was frustrated, but I kept going, and eventually learned something new. This whole project inspired me to build things, whether online or not, and made more creative overall.
The links to each picture on the bottom of the page as footnotes. Adobe Photoshop helped me complete this project because it had many tools and allowed me to create what I wanted to create. It allowed me to move the images around wherever I wanted and darkened them where I saw fit. Overall, I learned a lot myself as an image editor, and I believe it was a successful completion of the project.