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My Prezi goes back all the way to my Great Grandparents on both sides of my family. My infographic has traits and maps of where my family came from.

4/28/15

Read THIS blog post by a teacher. I mean actually read it. Take it in. Think about it. And then, write about it. What do you think about it? What is the teacher trying to say? In your own words explain what "the main event" is.

I think that the teacher who wrote the blog post is right about kids being quitters because they don't want to do the hard work. Those kids may play sports and they could work hundreds more times than they do at school. Why? It's because they like that sport and they actually want to do it everyday to get better at their sport, but when you ask them about school, they just blow it off like its no big deal. In life and in college and when you don't have good grades you won't be able to play until you do get it up. Whats more better playing that sport with good grades or sitting on the sidelines with bad grades? The teacher is trying to say that he isn't going to let you quit, and he will never give up on you even though you may throw fits. He saying that school isn't about the grades, its more about the learning than the grades. The main event to me is not grades, but how well your learning in a certain subject. If your struggling in that subject go get help, that's what teachers are here for able school and during study halls is because they care for your learning. 

4/22/15

Explain how Stop motion is going to work.

Our stop motion is gonna contain fighting scenes we should have either two or three rounds of fighting/battles. It is me, Adam, and Ian doing this stop motion film. What is it about is that two people will fight over something. Then we plan on using the force to spice things up a little. We plan on being finished today in class, but that may be a long shot.

4/17/14

1. What was your stop motion animation about? Why did you choose your video to be about this? Was it because it was easy, because it would be fun, or it would be challenging? Explain your reasoning behind your project (and be honest).   My stop Motion was about a Star Wars fight with different characters from the series. I choose this because it would be cool seeing how it would be once it finished was a great thing to see. It was kinda challenging due to the fact that I had to take all of the photos and set everything up to make it look good. My reasoning for this film was to be different from most stop motion films that are out there did come into here in the classroom so I thought it would be different to think outside of the box. 
2. If you could rate your stop motion on a 1-10 scale. 1 being low effort and no very good and 10 being out of this world/mindblowing, how would you rate your project? Explain why. Either a 8 or a 9 because I did have some mess ups by having blurry photos or just having my arms or legs in the shot when I'm taking the pictures. But overall I do fell really good about the project overall. 
3. In hindsight, what would you do differently the second time around? Better lighting? Time management? Explain yourself. What I would have done better would be time management because of the fact that I had two baseball games that week and practice on Monday was really hard for me to get it in on Friday, If I had more time to do it, there probably wouldn't be much of an issue with the project. Also I would have picked something for easier to do because it was alot of work to do it over the weekend due to the fact that project was pretty hard in my books. 
4. Explain what makes your stop motion animation unique. How do you believe you thought "outside of the box" on this project?  What makes mine unique is that I did a Star Wars fight, and when you think of stop motion no one really thinks of Star Wars more of a fight scene with actual people not toys. I did think outside the box because when I was seeing different stop motion films most of them were about common films that other people do, but in a different style or way. Mine is really unique and I'm proud of it. 
5. What grade do you feel you deserve on this project? Explain your reasoning. I believe I deserve either a high B or a low A because of  some of my photos were either blurry or had a limb in the way of the figures. But I feel really good about what I did when I didn't make any mistakes. 

4/14/15

3 day weekend... how was it? Give me a good story or something funny that happened this weekend. Go.

My weekend was great depending on perspectives, but most of the time I was playing MLB The Show 14 because I don't have the new one yet.. On Monday I found out that my opponents for baseball during the high school season was kicked out of Legacy Park in Lee Summit for some reason. I thought that was funny because now we have to travel even farther to get where we are playing now. But overall my weekend was really good.  

4/7/15

Tell me ALL about what your idea is for your stop-motion animation. I need detail. Who is going to help you take photos? What props do you need? Where do you plan on shooting? EXPLAIN everything.

I'm gonna use a couple of people, to help me shoot photo's I have a couple of ideas that I could use to help me complete this project. 1. Draw lines that make up the words Emerging Tech. 2. Star Wars fight 3. Food Fight
Depending on what idea I use I would need Paper, and colored pencils for the first one. For the second I would need alot of Lego Star War characters just to even consider it, which I should have alot. 3. Food Fight, If I did decide to do this, I would need alot of food, which I like food anyways. I plan on shooting this at my house, but I could use some scenes here at school to have a light-saber fight or just have a different scene so people don't see that same background for three-hundred photos. If the Lego's fall through, I will try with the line game, by drawing out some lines and make out the words Emerging Tech. If option 1 was picked I would take pictures here at school. Option 3. Would be at home, but that is a last resort if both options fail.