final project

For my emerging technologies class we have to do a project over our family.  Some of the tools I used to demonstrate how my family grew are piktochart, prezi, family echo, and email.



infographic:
interview 1 

interview 2

email draft

family echo

November 24, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
What are you doing for Thanksgiving? Do you have any traditions? Go in to detail about your plans for the 5 day weekend.

For thanksgiving all of my family is coming into town, and unfortunately staying at our house.  We are also celebrating a lot of birthdays too.  My aunt and my sister share a birthday on the 26th, but because it's my sisters 18th birthday we're mainly celebrating hers.  It's also my dad's birthday on the 28th so I'll probably go black Friday shopping with my sister like last year.  At the actual dinner there will be probably be fighting because that's what my family does.  Also a huge secret might come out because what's a holiday without a secret.  I can't for the turkey and the pecan pie.

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November 19, 2014

Blog Post:
Review your rubric from yesterday. Look over the comments and grade.

My stop motion video got a score of 64/65, the only point I missed was lighting and focus.  One way I could have gotten that point was having my pictures where there was better lighting. To make the lighting better I could have used a flash but that made the pictures look funky.  I should of just used and overhead lamp.  The pictures were also a little bit blurry, but that was just the quality of the camera.

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November 17, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me about your weekend.

I had a very uneventful weekend. I honestly didn't do anything. On Saturday I slept in till 9:00.  Yes, 9:00 is sleeping in for me.  Then I basically just sat around and watched cold case.  Then on Sunday I thought I should mix things up a little so I woke up at 9:00 and watch girl code and football all while doing my homework.

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November 14, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me about your experience with taking your stop-motion photos. What problems did you run in to? What did you find difficult about the process? What would you go back and change about HOW you took the photos? Explain yourself.

For my stop-motion photo project, I used skittles to tell the story.  I set up the camera on a tripod looking down at the skittles on a piece of construction paper on my dinner table.  Some problems that I encountered were that my cat jumped up on the table and screwed it up twice.  Something I would change is doing it in my basement so nothing can mess it up.

November 11, 2014

what is idea? how is it creative? how?

I will be using a number of materials for my stop motion animation.  I'm using skittles and moving them around until they form a day of the dead skull and then it will turn into peices of paper.  it'll look super intricate and cool.

November 10, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
What is stop motion animation? If you don't know, look it up! Explain.

Stop animation is an animation technique where an object is moved in small increments to make it seem like it's moving by itself. Some examples are The Nightmare Before Christmas, King Kong, and Gumby.  The  technique can be used with figurines and they can can move them move them and take photos.  Then they string all of the photos make them move to tell a story. 

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