Final Project Post, May 2014

I was exploring my family history with much passion and enthusiasm when I sent out this email (backup) to my family members in order to inquire about more information that I could possibly get about my family history and background.
Next, I interviewed two of my family members to find specific information regarding their childhood and growing up: I first interviewed my mother, Leanne, and next interviewed my father, Sam.
After this, in order to get a more organized perspective of my family size, history, and growth, I made a family tree.
Now that I had my whole family organized more efficiently, I found specific information about randomly selected family members and organized it into a prezi.
Next I made a 'story-line', so to speak, of both sides of my families history and flashed forward to the union of my parents and then my siblings and I.

Finally, I made a short story of me growing throughout my years in Geneva and Kansas

May 5, 2014

The video is very true and shows an accurate depiction of today's society. In today's world, much of society has become engrossed in social media and many of the new technological advances that have emerged since our birth. While many of these advances are changing the world and are very beneficial, there is a point where one simply becomes too involved in technology and are stuck in a screen instead of the living the much more exciting real world that they can if one simply turned off their computer for the day. The result of us always needing to be with technology has weakened our social skills and our ability to make real relationships with people in the real world. The result of technology has become malignant to much of society today.

April 24, 2104

School is not all about learning information and pointless facts for four years. In fact, there is a lot of information in many classes that you will never need or aren't useful to any degree. High school is for teaching the youth to learn to cope with difficulties in life, which will occur in much greater magnitude as life goes on. Life is not easy, and high school is simply giving us a sample of that, testing us of our desire to overcome hardship, rather than raise the flag and give up, because in life one cannot simply give up.

April 21, 2014

Reflect on your stop-motion animation project. How did it go? What worked? What didn't work? If you're not finished - why? If you are finished go in to detail about the project and what you learned. Give as much detail and information as possible.
I thought that it went very smoothly and I liked it more than the other projects we have done. I felt that it was less busy work than some other projects that we have done. I wish that I would have used a tripod for my pictures because I didn't think they would come out THAT shaky, but I didn't have a tripod available to me. I have learned how to compile a ton of pictures into one short video that is entertaining but I suppose could be educational if used right. The only thing that didn't work for me was the shakiness that is in my video from lack of a tripod available to me.

Thursday, April 10

Blog Post of the Day: What is your idea for your stop-motion animation? Explain yourself. Have you started taking photos? If not, when do you plan to take your photos? What is your action plan for today? What is your plan to GET SOMETHING DONE?

I am going to do a stop-motion animation of my room 'cleaning itself'. I have finished taking photos but I have not compiled them all together yet.

Monday, April 7

What is stop motion animation? If you don't know, look it up! Explain. Stop motion is where you take an object that is at rest, take numerous pictures of it in slightly different positions each time, and then put the pictures together to give the illusion that the object is in fact moving.

STORYBOARD- Random Events of A Bros Night April 5, 2014