Final Project Schedule

Final project: (5min PowerPoint)
New York, New York Shooting:
Include everything we learned in class.
Word, include our own input
Excel, different casino crime, city wise. (Shooting, robbery,
PowerPoint, include pictures, song (frank sinatra New York new York.)
Publisher, include the “newsletter” theme…
Access: more data entry…
Add different quotes from witnesses. Get feedback from articles.
• What elevator he came out of
• Find out how he was stopped
• If anyone got injured/killed
• How long it took for the police to show
• Maybe what caused him to do it?
Video: Saturday @ Noon 12p (13th)
Ryan: 10 pictures and copyright by thrusday
Alex: Excel data, word, and publisher, by Sunday the latest. Friday the earliest.
Carlos: PowerPoint posts it in Google for our use. Posted on g mail tonight with first few slides and sound in it

Video For Class

This video may not look like much to the untrained eye, buuuut.... it is an artisic stroke of genius. I got the idea as i was walking and looking down trying to think of something to do. I noticed that the variation between the sidewalk and street translated very well onto my cell phone screen, i then began to capture the most captivating 15 seconds thus far seen on earth.

Viruses

Aggghh Viruses, the Personal Computers ultimate fault and foe. Who creates these viruses? Hackers? The Government? who knows, i dont, but i do care. I've used PC's for some time now and ive had a major virus on each one. Each time ive had to reformat the whole computer, im neurotic so when i get a virus even when its cleaned i still feel like my computer is running slow. Anyway virus are good for cleaning up a messy over used and over stored pc. Viruses thou have always amused me becuase i like to think about the genius behind the script. I think to myself you have to be soo smart to write a virus that it makes me feel inferior, but then i think to myself they have proabably dedicated tons of there time to there virus and if i did the same id make a better one.

Picasa

Picasa was super fun and easy to use. It reminded me a lot of photobucket, which im accustomed to using on a monthly basis. I used pictures from my cellphone that I uploaded on to the computer im sitting at right nows hard drive. i love that it incorporates so well into my blog, so i can display my pictures in a cool slow moving slideshow. this program is really awesome for use with blogger, its absolutly great. I cant wait until my new computer comes so i can work with this program at home.

Twitter

Twitter, the new mass texting sensation. I've fallen victim to the twitter hype but like most others did not stay on the bandwagon. To me twitter seemed to be too laborious, having to sign on and update your status, and look thru 100's of other people posts is too much. The only positive for me is that you can watch celebrities tweet if you’re a follower, but as fun as that sounds it’s not enough to keep me involved. Celebrity twits were the way I found out about twitter. A shoe forum on the web I frequent released the twitter name of the likes of kanye west, pharrel, and jay z, when I checked out what it was all about I happened upon twitter. If I was more important I might tweet more but, right now just the lonely couple friends having self of mine I can keep everyone updated by using my MySpace or facebook. Twitter thou does interest me in the fact that it is a new direction in communicating, and I can’t wait to see what in store next.

What to learn in the Windows Lab!

What would I like to learn in the windows lab? First off I'm excited to use windows in class, Macintosh just feels too cumbersome for me, and I absolutely hate the mouse. Until I buy one for the home and use it everyday I like sticking to windows machines. I wish we had transitioned into the Windows lab this week so I might have been a little more motivated about the mid-term. This class was going so well for me until today, I was absolutely unprepared to write 700 words on a subject as interesting to me as a long drawn out opera in a redneck town. Anyway, the rest of this class should be easy for me, I missed a class, which set me back, but hopefully I can catch up to that 75% total I can earn by the end of the quarter.
What else would I like to cover in class? I cant really think of subjects that the book wouldn’t cover that we could go into more detail about in class but I would like to learn about web page design. I missed the garage band assignment and that sounded fun maybe some more musical themed class assignments would get me riled up. I just hate free writing to strict guidelines that are not of my choosing. If the assignment was write about whatever you want as long as you have tables and graphs I would be ecstatic.

Challenges

The most challenging part of the course so far has got to be the Mid-Term. One look at that incomprehensible set of instructions and i was absolutely overwhelmed. 700 words on "What is the Octet" I cant even write a 300 word bio on myself. It is now 2 hours into class and i only have a word art heading on the page and that only 10% of the assignment. But I've decided to not complete the assignment to spec. i have chosen this path because i have no prior knowledge of the subject and my web research is getting me know where near a 700 word account of the subject. this stunt as it may be called will be costly but i am aware of the repercussions and fine with a C or D, i just want to pass.