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Reflection #5

 How can you search information more efficiently in google (or any search engine)¨?

I can use some strategy or tips for search the necessary for example: start simple, be precise about the theme, use descriptive words, a hyphen for exclude words, keywords, use a unique and specific term, quotation mark and finally capitalization, spelling and punctuation. And this way i can find the information more quickly and easy.

2) Watch two videos on YouTube about search tips or searching more efficiently and take notes. What did you learn?

For search the things that I need I have to be more specific, use the quotation mark, be clear and try of get information of different sites and complement or compare if this have relation or not. Also not search in typical website about the information like: Wikipedia, Scholarpedia and Uncyclopedia between others.  

3) How do you know if the information in a webpage is reliable or not? What can you do?

Is easy. Because in the superior part appear the option create account or the another option is log in the that mean that any person can use and change the information the time that I want.

For not fall in this common situation I can search in different websites the information, compare and/or equalise about the theme search for. And other alternative is ask to someone if know it some site can be trustworthy.

4) How is your process of finding a epal on the internet? Has it been hard or easy? 

Is complicated but not impossible. Because I created many account in different application and some of them sincerely I don’t like it, whereby search and search and found two app that work for me that are: Anygram and Hit Me Up where I create a profile and the people help me with my English and I to them with my Spanish.

It´s hard because not always the people answer and many time are a fake profile, other things is the time because in other countries are not the same and I must way one single day for that the person answer me.

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week four

made more letter cutouts in illustrator and started drafting up some posters! I’m going for post-modern/grunge style because I’m that predictable. I’m pretty happy with what I’ve got so far.

Iteration 1

Iteration 2

The second poster is a lot less developed and I think it might stay that way because I’m really liking the first poster. I feel like merging of words is a good way of playing with the legibility à la David Carson.

I like having texture on the background, but I think I can do better than the current background image I’ve used. My poster will be advertising the Public Art & Performance Festival, so I’m thinking of taking a photo of a dancer and distorting it in a way where it probably won’t be obvious to the viewer what it is, but I’ll know. I think the texture would add dimension and context while maintaining a kind of abstractness which is how I want it.

For the supporting text I want to use hand lettering, but my hand writing is pretty shabby so I’m not sure how that’ll pan out. Suppose we’ll see!

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Starting the design for Project three was difficult for me starting off. I have the words ‘business duck’, and I did not know where to start. The only thing that came to mind for a logo for business duck was Aflac, which is already a company. After finding a few different duck reference photos, I started to create rough sketches of different duck designs. The three designs I narrowed down were a block duck, one of the words ‘work’ in the shape of the ducks body, and an outline of the animal. I feel I should change the outline duck to have a  briefcase or to make it look more business. My plan is to expand on my ideas and hope to be able to combine business and duck into a cohesive design. When putting these designs into illustrator, it was different than photoshop and indesign to learn how to use. I had to watch many tutorials and work with the program to learn how to use the program properly.

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When you were watching tutorial videos, were there instructions that did not go well? How do you think you can check the legitimacy of the tutorial?

   There was once an experience that I watched a tutorial video about make up. The youtuber introduced the products that she used or how those products helped her to improve her skin because of the vitamins contained in the products. She also said the steps by steps in using the products. Because of the way she talked, I was convinced to buy some of the products. But when I tried using it, my face had break-outs. I got pimples because of the products I used. That’s why I learned a lesson, to check first the reviews of the products before using it. You have to browse the legitimacy of the tutorials on the internet so that you will not be fooled by the people that you are watching at. 

[kyangbrillo]

What projects have you done before wherein Mail Merge could have been useful or applied? In what means can mailmerge help you in these projects?

   Actually, we only had few projects wherein Mail Merge could have been useful. In my previous school, most of our projects were intended for analysis or reports. While in my Computer subject, our lessons were all about Java Script, HTML and Macromedia Flash. So, mail merge was not that involved and not really useful back then. But, we once has a project wherein we needed to collect a data from a specific country. That time, it was so hard to transfer the data from MS Excel to MS Word; it was hassle & time consuming. We needed to put the data on its specific category but determining its category was not easy. If I only knew about mail merge that time, it could help me to organize the data properly. I could have use the mail merge to determine the category of each data without putting too much effort.

   Addition to that, this was not a project but my duty as an officer. I was obliged to do the audit for our logbook in our classroom. It was a complicated job because if I made a mistake, everything would be affected. Mail merge could have been helpful that time to produce multiple documents for our logbook.

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Reflection 4: 3 Learning Objectives applied to Molly Bang Lesson

Objectives for Cat Tale

Objective 1: Technical Skill

Skill in cutting shapes combined with the focus on color and how it relates to emotion.

High: Image that has a planned structure. Shapes are cut to represent a whole. Skilled use of various materials with a focus on texture.

Medium: Demonstrates skill in cutting shapes and assembling, not much focus on various materials to convey texture.

Low: No texture, lack of various elements, and little to no skills in cutting shapes.

  Objective 2: Formal

Explain why they chose the elements to get the given message across effectively.

High: Detailed description or statement as to why the elements were chosen for the piece. Clear thought process and concise execution of explaining the piece.

Medium: Touches on why elements were chosen, but focuses more on narrative of the image.

Low: Vague description of how and why elements were chosen.

  Objective 3: Conceptual Complexity

Image tells a story by itself. The character created represents the students’ personality or own cognitive genius.

High: The image conveys a location, a narrative, and a conscious effort to how shapes, textures, and colors will generate a narrative through simple shapes.

Medium: Less emphasis on narrative and more of a focus on applying technical skills.

Low: Little to no narrative, elements were not chosen consciously and message could be absent from the image.

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Reflection 4: Type II Use of Websites, Blogging and Wikis

Internet is powerful and useful and we should use it. 

Blog are an online web sit, were someone does an online log of their thoughts, feelings, beliefs, personal or for a business. It is a place where you can update people how something is going or simply what your thoughts are.  Bogging platforms are software that the blog is created on. There are many types on the market. Just need to find the right one for you.  

Web page is a hypertext document connected to the internet by a page and a website platform is the software is to create a connection to a hypertext document  to the internet in a creative and informing way that is pleasing to the reader. 

Wiki is a database that can be collaborated by the community of uses. Wiki platforms is just the software to enable you to create this communities online. 

Using these 3 activities to help integrate students own creativity I believe is very beneficial.  I think its important to make it clear to each of them. SO students can achieve at something that is new. I think one way in making this platforms clear to the students ,is to make the teachers them selves know what they are doing, why would they use them, how can they use them, and then finally how to teach it effectively to the students. We have technology why not use what we have.

To help students use these 3 platform in the classroom. First  I would show them the different between the different between each one. When talking about Websites. Explain what information you can receive from each of the websites. You can, reference material, books & ebooks, academic journals, magazines, newspapers, statistics, internet sites and specialist information. These recourses can help give them validated information to students at the touch of a finger. For an assignment you can ask students to create a web page on an topic that you give them so that they can put their own creativity in the project, explore something different and put there own spin on it. Creating a Web page can create a great sense of achievement being able to see your work in front of you. 

I think Blogs can be really import with in the classroom. Firstly you can read up on what other people think about an topic. Show the students to think out of the box. There is more than one way to think about something. Bring blogging into an assignment; For example if you are teaching P.E they are to create a training log but they are  also  to write a daily training blog of anything that the world/ interest has encourage or inspired  them in a daily update. As a teacher you can monitor this and see how students are going by a touch of a button. Wiki platforms are great for interactions. I haven’t thought of an assignment to include wiki links but as a classroom together you can create a document and edited as a class any ideas or add ideas. I think this is great use for small group work also.  Everyone can find all different information about a topic and then they all upload it to a wiki link and all together work on the same document.

 These 3 tools are very useful with in the classroom. As teaches we need to keep up to date with the technology and use what is out there to create adventure for the heart of a student. Take them on a  journey. By Elise