Journal.



March 17, 2011.

I am unsure where I should place my goal for this semester, thus I will place it here in the time being. I have always been interested in any technology that revolved around making a movie. However, the ones we have listed for our brainstorm are iMovie. I don't have an Apple. Thus, my first personal goal is to find other similar programs - ones to which I can use on my PC. I know nothing about Prezi, but I would be interested to learn about it more and finally, I absolutely love photo edit programs, LOVE them. My goal then for this class is to find other movie-making programs for a PC and learn the ins and outs of it, check out and learn more about prezi and explore more photo-editing programs to decipher which one is the best/most useful!

April 5, 2011

Today I completed the SketchUp assignments (a.k.a. "My House" and the JukeBox). I absolutely loved doing the house assingment because it made me think of Sims and how I used to enjoy remodeling the houses on there instead of actually "playing" the game. This is when I decided to make my actual house for a portion of the final project. The JukeBox was a tad more complicated for me, but I think I figured it out :)

April 7, 2011

MY GOALS.

Project: Logo - Create a wildlife scene using penatminos (60 pts). Project: SketchUp - Create a design of my house (70 pts). Project: Use wiki to showcase my personal learning (70 pts). Project: Search out resources that will be helpful in the teaching of mathematics. Add a list of the best ones to my wikispace and personal favorites to the class wiki page (40 pts).

April 10, 2011 Today I worked on the Excel assignments. They definitely brought back old memories of high school and such. I couldn't remember a lot of it, but doing these activities most surely helped me remember. I had a slight confusion on how to do teh Car Loan assignment, but thanks to MDY I was able to figure it all out!

April 12, 2011

Today I had to put all my Set times together. They averaged about 265 seconds. Looking over the data I soon realized I did a terrible job at "getting better" at solving the Set problems. I blame my lack of intensity and drive to actually do better (it's not really my thing in all honesty), but it was fun! I will definitely go back, especially bring my friends there and compete with them haha. Hopefully though, it'll be a sure win for me!

May 1, 2011

Early this morning I managed to finish my SketchUp project, however, my overall file is "too large" to upload. So it is proving difficult. I will figure out this problem tomorrow in class hopefully. I did do a few details inside the house, but no walls, no designation of rooms either. However, I think the overall image of my house turned out fairly well 0 given my resources. I did use two components from Google SketchUp (the car and the tree). They definitely contributed to the overall image.

May 3, 2011

Provided below is my Word document comprising of my final, overall, refections of this class :D