My Final Animation Project

This video created by April Duncan and Myself, simply to spread awareness about teen pregnancy that we both have witnessed in and outside of school. I learned that there is a lot of work that goes into creating typography's. One challenge that we came across was piecing both of our work together and having it flow properly. I usually work with April so during our days on this project our team work was great. I feel that our animation was nice and simple, here take a look below:

Stick Figure on moving background

In this assignment we were told to create a stick figure on a mountain like background, it also was supposed to move the same way that our pivot animations did. This project was easy but sometimes frustrating because you have to nail the details and make everything flow. Overall, it was not so bad and my animation came out good.

My "Windows Movie Maker" movie

Learning Reflection 3/17
During this project I have learned a lot of different techniques that help to create pivot movies. I enjoyed the Windows Movie Maker activity because it was fast and interesting. One big thing that I have learned throughout this entire project is that, putting together a pivot is not as difficult as it make look, but you must have patience in order to receive the best results.

WMM 3/13

In this marking period we used WMM and it was cool, because you got a chance to create your own type of movie as if it were real. This project did not take long because we used Pivot prior to creating the movie so all that we had to do was basically put the pieces together. I also got a chance to review my classmates movies and they were interesting and entertaining.

1st Pivot Animation

This has been my first Pivot Animation that I've worked on. I actually enjoyed it, the timing of the project was good also, because it did not take too long to complete and it was exciting.

Hour of Code-12/13

This week we learned how to code a web site during the "Hour of Code" week. I found this lesson to be interesting because of one example, which was basically set up as a game, where you have to tell the machine what to do. This makes me wonder what is behind some websites and animated sites.

Reflections-Nov 18th

Last week in web design we learned how to photo shop a picture and ways of posting them on our wikispaces. We also learned how to fix up pictures, such as fading them sizing them and cropping them before editing the appearance. This is a very good skill to have for those interested in becoming web designers in the near future and those interested in starting their own website(s).

Learning Reflection Nov.8th

In the last week I have been using Code Academy, which emphasizes the importance html has on the internet and web design. I have learned ways of posting pictures on a website, ways of creating my own website, fixing a website, fixing fonts, and also fixing pictures. This is a helpful resource because we are given tools that no other students in Curtis are able to acquire. I am actually beginning to enjoy the Code Academy website and training.  

Web Design-b5 9/18

Web Design is production and maintenance of websites. This includes the customization and display of the sites page. Web design can be used for many things, such as businesses, entertainment or academic reason, it is connecting the two different worlds to social media.

Industry Podcasts and Professional Communities

The first podcast that I listened to was on Typeradio.org, which was an interview on Laura Meseguer on her views about Religion, working space and her relationship with her relatives. The second podcast that i listened to was found on http://www.rookiedesigner.com/2013/05/rookie-designer-140-networking-on-and-offline/ ; this was about networking on and offline. The difference between the two podcast is that the first one was an interview that was more on the personal side and the second spoke about the importance of networking for work.

Learning Reflection pt 1

During this past week I have learned many different things that can be carried over to different things; Such as learning what Netiquette is and the effect that it has on our society. I also learned ways of conducting a proper podcast and using it as a welcome message for a website. Digital footprints was my favorite because it taught me to become more cautious of other people on social media and be aware of the fact that people are aware of the things that you publicly write. In the beginning of writing these blogs, I was not interested at all, but as time went on and we became more interactive with them it began to grow on me. The blogs that we have created in class are now fun because we have a chance of connecting our academic lives to the things that we enjoy, such as in the internet.

Welcome Message 9/25

Netiquette-b4 9/17

Netiquette is a social interaction that is conducted over many different networks, ranging from the internet and mailing lists to blogs and forums. Good netiquette is important because it speaks alot about your character and the level of self-control that you have. Netiquette is primarily through websites like Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, etc.

What is a Blog?-b1

A blog is discussion held by a group of people that comment on a variety of topics that are posted onto the World Wide Web. Blogs are usually written by one or proposed by a group of people. I follow Oprah Winfrey's twitter and other inspirational people. Blogging can be used in many ways such as voicing opinions or getting feedback from the students in this class.

Importance of Digital Footprints-b3

Digital Footprint is what the internet knows about you through your interaction on the Web.It is important to have a positive foot print because any job is able to see how you handle yourself with others on the internet. At the moment my foot print isn't very revealing, that is one thing that I can work, making myself more positively known to others. It matters who you are associated with because that says a lot about who you hang out with and the type of person that you are.

Academic Integrity-b2 9/16

Academic Integrity is when a person does a paper or report correctly, meaning, they have cited the person(s) that they have used throughout their report without copying their work. By taking someones work and stating that it is your own, is considered Plagiarism, also known as "Stealing".  It is important because it can happen to both you and I, which can mean that our academic profiles can be put in jeopardy. If you Plagiarize someones work you can be penalized by a dean of the school or worse, expelled.

I have found some interesting blogging websites for fashion and blogs about lessons that were learned by others:
1. http://www.elle.com/news/
2. http://www.oprah.com/blogs/index.html
3. runway.blogs.nytimes.com/‎
4. girlmeetslife.com/