My Life Project

My Life Project involved finding pictures, videos, and pieces of  information about the history of our lives. What I first did was find facts from the internet about who the president was, the average prices of things, who won Academy Awards, what movies won Academy Awards, and what a video game in 1995 was. I also found fashion trends and top songs at the time. I then went through old pictures of me and put them together as family, first Communion, first Snowman, and first visit with Santa. It was interesting to look back at how I looked then and what changes I have gone through. I was pleased with my final iMovie and song.

Music Genome Blog

For this assignment, we were instructed to choose a music genre from either a list or find our own. To have our own, we needed to have it approved for appropriateness and information available. I chose the genre heavy metal, or metal, for my project to work on. I was actually very interested that metal originated in blues rock and psychedelic rock. I then proceeded to make the music progressively heavier as time in the project went on. I ended with moshpits and two clips of a Wall of Death. i used powerpoint and iMovie to make this. It was fun.

Storyboard # 2

As we progressed in the storyboard project, things finally fell into place. We finished the interviews that I made with Mrs. McKimpson and put them into the slideshow. Ryan Carballido put them in while Tom Hassiepen and I made the MLA citation page. Dan Antrim added music and helped find more pictures. I feel at first our group was slightly inefficient, but as time went on we began to work smoothly. Our group synergy as a whole improved greatly, and we became a well-oiled machine. Our final project is concise, well-timed, and informative. Our group is very versatile, and I would like to work with them in the future.

Extra Credit Song Project

For this project we had the option to or to not not do it. If we were finished with our storyboard one, we could do this for extra points. I chose to do the song Float on by the Indie band Modest Mouse. First, I found pictures of the song's lyrics to follow the words. Then, I put them in a slideshow through Microsoft Powerpoint. I then dragged this into iMovie. Then I threaded the song into the slide show. The most difficult part of this job was the timing. The program would try and compensate time taken or added into a different part of the presentation, effectively throwing off the timing. However, I finally got it and am very pleased with the result.

Podcast

This project involved us making a podcast. We first picked a movie. I picked the film Zombieland. Other movies were Finding Nemo, The Shawshank Redemption, The Hangover, The Notebook, The Lord of The Rings, Mulan, and many others. Then we found pictures about the movie or from it and put it in a folder using iPhoto. The we dragged that into Garageband. In Garageband, we recorded ourselves narrating an overview of the plot with naming all the major parts. Then we added that and the pictures together. We also put a song playing throughout the podcast and added different sound effects and jingles.

Storyboard

The project we are working on now is creating a storyboard. We made a slideshow with the slides entailing details about a class. The class we chose to do our project on is physical science. We need to show what the class is about, what we learn in it, and the requirements for time and credits. We are also supposed to add quotes and pictures about physical science. My group members are Tom Hassiepen, Ryan Carballido, and Dan Antrim. We will be interviewing Mrs. Rhonda McKimpson. She teaches physical science as a class, so I am hoping that she will give us thorough and complete answers to our queries.

iPhoto Name Project

This project involved spelling our names. We would use many different pictures from the internet or ones we ourselves took pictures of. It was a great chance to use the tool iPhoto and iChat. We learned how to import our pictures into iPhoto. Then we organized them and made a slideshow. Certain music of our free choice that was appropriate was also included. Along with letters, we were to find other photos of things we liked or liked doing. It gives each of us the chance to express ourselves and show what we are interested in. I very much enjoyed this project.

Mail Merge

I found the mail merge application on the excel program to be very helpful. That has the capacity to save so much time it's rather incredible. I used this helpful tool to send letters to ten clients asking for donations to an event I made up for the American Red Cross. It was a race with festivities, music, and food as well. The people could either participate in the race, spend money on food, get tickets for the music, or participate in all sorts of booth games for people of all ages. Mail merger in Microsoft Excel is a useful tool.

M&M Review

This was a very good project. M&M charts are useful for seeing the averages of them. I also had a perfect chance to use Excel and its special Autosum feature. It is a very useful tool to use for any formula in math, which can save me precious time for project. Also, the M&Ms are really good, so that's a plus. I will definitely use Excel more in the future for my math classes.It is a strong tool for neatly and effectively presenting data, and I can now do formulas that would normally take large amount of time and effort.

M&M Charts

Color	Bag 1	Bag 2	Bag 3	Bag 4	Bag 5	Total	Average
Yellow	6	7	4	5	5	27	5.4
Green	13	11	15	12	10	61	12.2
Orange	10	14	14	14	15	67	13.4
Brown	6	9	5	6	7	33	13.4
Blue	14	7	13	14	16	64	6.6
Red	8	8	5	4	4	29	5.8
Total	57	56	56	55	57	281	56.8

What I hope to learn

Hi, my name is Carlos Cruz. I am not very familiar with computers simply because I like the outdoors a lot.   I realize that computers are very important in today's modern age, so I want to become more knowledgeable all-around. I particularly want to know more about and be able to use iMovie. It seems like a very good program for projects and I think I could create much more smooth and well-designed presentations with it. I think this class could help me prepare for the modern technological world. I also hope to learn more about website creation and photoshop.