Media Fluency 2 Luke

Well I never went for the first time because I never was called too but I heard lots of criticism for other slides. I noticed many of my slide was too much happening and not simple. I tried to make it simple with the point. So i made the font something I felt was smooth with the white with the sky background. Then I made a quote I thought is applicable to anyone's life because anything is possible with will and determination. I noticed I completely changed the slide and everything from original slide on the Colts to a man on a mountain living his dreams. I this time decided to keep all my colors colder colors to not make to many warm and cold colors in my slide. In my quote I tried to make as clear as possible so I kept it to 5 words. I learned a lot about preciseness, alignment, color  codes in warmth and cold. The assignment will help a lot through presenting power points in classes in future. 
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Media Fluency 1 Luke

Luke 1st slide
This is my slide. I wanted to make something I cared about so I did it on the Indianapolis Colts. I wanted to make the Colts come off as an elite team so I took good layers like T.Y. Hilton, Greg Toler, Vontae Davis and more. I made them each the same size and used consistent symetry throughout entire slide. I then decided to make it more interesting by adding a quote by coach Vince Lombardi which this quote is a team's motto before each game. 

Media Fluency-new slide

     This is how my new slide looks after the changes I have made. Before, my slide did not look as good as I could have been. I did not have many problems other than a very low-resolution images and a few other things. I feel my main problem with it was not using every element of design I had at my disposal. So started with the spacing of everything to utilize the rule of thirds more. I put the quote at the top-left and the picture at the bottom-right. The reason that the quote is a bit distant from the person who said it is because I did not want it to feel very claustrophobic in that corner. The image was very low-res so replaced with this one and put it in the corner. I also did not make it as big as the other to keep it from looking that way. What I learned about this kind of design was the amount of depth that it has. There are many different elements to it. Some help some elements and others counteract them. It is a more trial and error type of process.    
Tech slide (Refined)

Media Fluency Slide

The first thing I did was look over the Presentation Zen website.  The information on there really helped me decide where I was going to place my picture and the words I used for my slide.  I learned things like how you can have your picture bleed off the page and that you have to use colors in the same family.  The picture I used had a lot of colors from the cooler color palette, like different shades of blue and grey.  That’s why I made my words a blue color.  I also made the shells on the right bleed off the page for effect.   Since the shells were on the right side of the page I decided to put the words on the left so that the right side isn't too heavy and the whole slide is balanced.  I used very few words so it’s easy and quick to read(glance media).  Above the shells I left the space empty because on presentation zen it says that when you fill all of the space it’s distracting.
technology slide
technology slide

I found that it was really helpful to get my slide critiqued by the class.  I got a lot of good comments and I feel like the changes I made really helped make my slide better.  The first comment I got was that my words should be much bigger. I increased the writing and it was easier to read than before.  Ms.Hull also showed me how to layer the writing so I decide to include that.  I made the main words a light yellow color and the shadow of the letters a dark blue that was originally the main color.  Also the image I used wasn't edited so I used PicMonkey, and editing site to make my image slightly darker and make the shadows more intense.  


technology slide (2)
technology slide (2)

Reflection on media fluency slide

As I got feedback from Ms. haul and feedback from my friends I was able to take what they said into thought and make changes to my slide. These changes made me slide more appealing to the eye and overall just look a lot better.
1.) In this project I learned so much on how to make a great advertisement that when I see advertisements know I don't look at the same way. Yet instead critique them on how it could catch my eye more ad look more appealing. This project just overall taught me so many great aspect to a slide. For example rule of the third, contrast, empty space, or even making a good color background. Presentation Zen is just a great site and this project has also then pushed me to use what I know in other projects we have in school. In all, this project has taught me so much that I can carry with me for so many other projects 
2.) During this project I got great feedback from peers and with that I took there feedback and made changes on my slide. Firstly I took out the title "All about me" out. Also as Ms. haul told me I blew up the picture to make it my background. However I had to find a different picture because when I tried to make it bigger it was way to pix elated, and as Presentation Zen says that is a no no in advertisements. Another thing that I did was to change the color and font of the quote to contrast with the photo. The final thing I did to make the advertisement better was to still have to the rule of the third with the writing. However I moved the writing to the lower right hand corner in the water so it was easier to read. In all those were all the changes that I made to my slide to improve it  
3.) In this project Ms. Haul set us up to fail because she did not give much background knowledge to the project and things to make an advertisement good. This forced us to find the information on our own and get the knowledge on our own. Also we were not given that much time to do it. So these were just some of the things that Ms. haul did to set us up to fail
4.) During our discussions in class I was able to give great advice but receive even better. During this discussion I was able to get such great feedback that allowed me to make my slide even better. This discussion was a great idea
Tech media ME MAGAZINE second draft

Husain's me slide

Tech Class Presents 2
In technology class we were assigned an assignment using what we have learned through out tech class and we have learned from numerous things from something called Zen. So, what I have chosen was a picture of a duck, in fact the ugly duckling. I used this to signify to things one do not let the pixels from the image be clear to the eye and make the picture stand out more than the rest of the image. I did this so the eye of the viewer can focus more on the image. Another, thing that I did was I made the letters of the words green because I felt like green was the most often color seen in this picture. One, more thing I did was edit the picture so It wasn't copied right off of the internet.

Tech Me Magazine Redo

Tech Me Magazine Slide (Jake Norman) (1)
While doing this project I learned how to properly contrast colors as well as how to space things. In my new slide (see below), I had enlarged the text and moved it to a different place to make the slide look less focused to the center of the picture. Miss Hull set the class up for failure by going straight into a project that the class had not studied for or learned about, but she did also help us by giving us a link to an informative website on presentation slides.
Tech Me Magazine Slide (Jake Norman)

New Slide

New Slide
When we were making this new slide I considered the advice I was told by both the students and teachers. I learned that I should crop off anything that I am not using and make sure you use size. Don't let anything be small so more people can see it if it's big. I identified that I was not using some simple tricks and techniques. Ms. Hull set me up for failure by just saying to make a slide all about you and only showed us a little bit about what to do so we could do our own research. During the classroom discussion I learned that I should try some colors to make it pop in a good way

Media Fluency

Tech (2)

Script

Why did you make the slide look the way it does?I made the side the way it is because i wanted it to stand out so i made look like a billboard. I use colors that work great with each other or contrast with each other. Those colors are the dark blue and light blue i use for the background and the yellow for the text.What influenced your decision making?

What influenced me was seeing the ikea billboard it really caught when i put some thought on if it looks presentable. I also notice the color really stood out on the poster so i decided to incorporate those colors too.Something else that influenced me was i was just sitting in class when i took a glance at the window and look up to the sky. I thought to myself there are no limits when you can go past the clouds and sky all the way to the moon. why give up when you can try harder and become anything you want. Also do anything you want and become the person you want to be. Thats why i put the clouds in the slide because it shows the sky which is most  people limits but not mines.
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While listen to class discussion i learned a lot about making slides. For example I learned about colors contrasting , How all the text in the slide should be about the same size. I also learned the text she be the same font. Another thing I realize was that Miss hull wasn't lying about setting us for failing. I guess I learned my lesson anyways I learned about spacing which wasn't really incorporated on my first slide. The changes made to my slide where space out the text properly and make it look like its falling. Also to make the cloud be able to be seen more and take the cloud at the bottom out. These where the changes I did to my original slide to make my new slide better.

Spanish journal Q2 #4

Autodifisia en México 2013

El Pais


vocab

suceder - happen (v)

cuestión - issue

fabricacion - production

atemorizante - scary


En otra noticias sobre violencia de pistolas, la guerra con los narcos en méxico y todavía está sucediendo y está más sangriento que nunca. Algunos quizás deciria que la guerra es más violento por hay razón pero las historias sobre los narcos va a hacer que te pensar algo diferente.  Lee un artículo sobre ese cuestión (en “El País”) y lo fue más peor que yo pensaba. Solamente el Sábado pasado dos cien personas caminaban a el ciudad de Paracuaro con muchas armas y ellos confrontaron la policía. Muchos ciudades en México son centros de fabricación para los industrias de metanfetamina y marihuana.  La industria de drugos en México es muy atemorizante, y los narcos pueden ser muy violento. En el artículo leo sobre un incidente cuando un grupo de mercenarios fuimos a un bar y cayeron cinco cabezas sobre la mesa. Esto era un cosa horrible y ojala algo va a hacer a esperar estos asesinatos terribles. La industria está en el control de algunas de las grandes ciudades y cosas esta se salga de control. Algunos de los oficiales del ejército fueron incluso asesinados en los últimos meses.


"Philadelphia Phillies" by David McShane

El mural de los phillies esta localizado en el 24 de walnut.

3 cosas del mural que revelas sobre la comunidad:
-El mural revela que la comunidad le gustan a los phillies.
- tambien quiere decir que ellos estan enamorados de los phillies.
-ellos adoran su equipo de cuidad.

2 objetos, imagenese frases encontrado en el mural.
- solo todos los mejors jugadores estan ahi
- hay una persoan que narra el juego

1 razon
ellos aman a su equipa por todo en el mundo
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Media Fluency Hanna Dunakin

Slide #2
My slide is a little different than it was before. First I get rid of the cookie because I was told that the cookie made no sense in my slide. I learned that not every blank space in a slide has to be filled, that sometimes just one picture explains it all. To put more color in the slide, I changed the color of the quote from black to yellow, so it would match the color of the paint on the road, and it would pop out a little bit too. To make the picture more exciting I also but the quote inside the road and shaped it in the road as well making it look like paint from the road. I thank everyone who gave me suggestions for my slide and for teaching me about media fluency. I enjoyed this unit very much and I'm very proud of my final product (slide). Everyone should learn about media fluency because it helps get rid of the detail you don't need, and it teaches you that one image can say a lot. I hope to learn more in the future. Thank you!

"Philadelphia Muses", por Meg Saligman’s

3 cosas del mural:

  • Este mural es ubicado en 1235 Locust Street en Filadelfia Pennsylvania.
  • Las imágenes rerpresentan la communidad. 
  • Pintada por Meg Saligman’s.

2 frases etc.:

  • Murales son intendidos para apoderar y representar un idea. 
  • Son algo que siempre va a  contar la historia de una lugar. 

1 razon que es significativo para esta communidad:

El mural significativa para representar el communidad entre los diferentes personas. El propósito es para representar los aritstas y innovas. 

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"The Color of Your Voice" por Ernel Martinez, Keir Johnston

Este mural ubicado en 2417 Ridge Avenue y fue terminada 3 October 2012. Este mural revela unos cosas sobre la comunidad como la idea de la individualidad y cómo es importante. El mural también revela el talento artístico de la comunidad porque es un mural muy bonito. Yo creo que el mural es un símbolo del individualismo en la comunidad. Yo puedo ver muchos colores en el mural. Yo puedo ver un mundo muy diverso cuando yo pienso en el mural. Yo creo que el mural puede apoyar personas tristes que no pueden ser ellos mismos. Este mural es significativo para esta comunidad porque el mural puede apoyar todo el mundo con ellos mismos y imagenes.

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Aqui y Alla por Michelle Angela Ortiz

Este mural ubicado en 1515 South 6th Street en Filadelfia de Sur. El mural revela que la mayoría de la comunidad son Mexicanos, los niños en Mexico y los Estados Unidos tienen similitudes, y las comunidades de Mexico y Filadelfia pueden vivir en armonía. Un mujer simboliza los niños en Filadelfia y el niño simboliza los niños en Mexico. Este mural es muy significativo para este comunidad porque el mensaje es los niños en países diferentes son el mismo. 


Isabella D'Angelo Q2 Media Fluency

Inspire Through Sound
Most of the comments I got from people about my slide are about the spacing between my words. Some people said that the lines between ‘Inspire Through” and “Sound” are too far apart. Others said I should make the word “Sound” way bigger because it’s the main point of the slide. I made this slide different by making “Sound” bigger and bolder, and I put all the words closer together.  I learned how to capture someone’s attention by using three words on a slide. I also learned how to edit my pictures on my laptop (MacBook Pro). Usually I  use apps on my phone or iPad to edit pictures but I found out how to edit on my laptop by doing working on this slide.

Spanish journal Q2 #3

armas en El salvador

El Pais

vocab


Informe - reports

disgustado - upset, disgruntled

aflojar - loosen (v)

guerra - war

Envíos - shipments


recientemente estudios he mostrar que más de los pistolas en el país de El Salvador eran de los estados unidos. En los años pasados, profesionales pensaban que casi todos de los armas en ese país estaba de los estados unidos. Informes sobre crimen mostra que todos de los armas usadas en el crimen son de el U.S. No sabemos donde se hicieron pero sabemos que fueron comprar aqui en los estados unidos. Cuando lee eso yo fui un poco disgustado porque se que El Salvador es el segundo más alto en el mundo para homicidio. Cómo puede esto no abrir los ojos de las personas que quieren mantener nuestras leyes de armas actuales?  Si permitimos nuestros leyes de armas afloja, cosas malas que va pasar. En El Salvador y Honduras, 70% de los asesinatos son causados por armas. Muchas personas en los Estados encuentra formas para pedir los pistolas a países en América de sur. Despues de algunos guerras muchos armas todavia esta en los cuidados y los envíos de los Estados no esta ayudando. El gobierno de El Salvador constantemente esta tratando a destruir más de los pistolas y armas, pero nosotros en el Estados necesitamos a ayudar porque somos un parte de la problema.


Media Fluency Slide

My slide has a picture of broken glass in the middle and then to the side it says "broken and lost". It represents the confusion and sadness humans sometimes experience when things change. The fog represents the confusion and the shattered glass represents the sadness. I chose this image because it is eye catching and represented what I was trying to communicate to others well. I put the picture in the middle because I was trying to balance the slide. I made the image bigger than the text so that the people viewing the slide would look at the image first and then at the text. I made the image of the glass dominate the slide because it is the most important part of the slide. I chose to use a black background because it contrasted with the light blue and white image. My text is light blue because it is close to the same color as the glass.

Presentation Zen influenced my decision making. All the examples they had on the website were very useful and inspiring. Signs on the streets also influenced my decision making and so did billboards on the highway. My opinion and the suggestions of other classmates also influenced my design.



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I changed my slide in a couple of ways. First I changed the font and moved the text. I chose a new font that I believe shows my point better. I also moved the text so the slide was balanced better. I enlarged the words “broken” and “lost” and made the word “and” smaller. I moved the image to the left so the slide was balanced better. I learned a lot about media fluency from class discussions. My classmates helped me learn a lot. Their critiques were very insightful and helpful. I learned more from them discussing the slides then I learned from the website.  I learned about contrast, size, and tangents. I also learned how to make a slide looked balanced. I learned that if you make something bigger than everything else people look at that first and you can use that to show them where to look on the slide without actually telling them. I really enjoyed learning about media fluency!
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Q2 Media Fluency

Q2 Media Fluency (1)
In our 9th grade tech class we were told to create one slide to represent who we are. We needed to use the resources we were given, such as Presentation Zen, to make eye catching slides that look like they could be on billboards. I mainly focused on color contrast and used a warm color, yellow, on top of a cool color, blue. To pull everything together I used black and white. I also used different fonts to keep the eye interested. Then to match the font colors yellow and white, I put a yellow sun with a white stroke in the left bottom corner under my name. This is bleeding off of the slide to make it seem bigger and more engaging. 
Q2 Media Fluency #2
After receiving various critiques from my classmates and peers; I have changed my slide for the better. Before I was left with a lot of negative space, tangents, visual confusion, and awkward placement. Now I have rearranged the placement of my name, the rest of the words, the sun, and got rid of the stroke surrounding the sun. I also changed my font, enlarged the words "Professional Bathroom Singer" and placed my name, italicized, inside of the sun. Each word's kerning is now the same because I made the font universal. I kept the sun bleeding off of my slide, the color contrast, and also the general spacing of my text. I learned so much from listening to the conversations of my classmates and my teacher. I learned about tangents, kerning, bleeding off of slides, color contrast, and overall how to put together an eye-catching slide. 

Q2 Reflection #4: “10 razones para dejar de tomar gaseosas dietéticas”

Audrey Pham

Q2

Melanie Manuel

Word Count: 204


10 razones para dejar de tomar gaseosas dietéticas”


¿Qué te gusta bebes la gaseosa? ¿Qué te gusta bebes la gaseosa todos las días? Usted debe pensas antes su próxima lata de gaseosas porque el artículo hable sobre 10 razones para dejar de tomar gaseosas dietéticas. En artículo, afirma: “Confunden a tu cuerpo, podrían llevarte a subir de peso y no a la pérdida del mismo, están asociadas con un aumento en el riesgo de padecer diabetes tipo 2, no tienen valor nutricional, su endulzante está vinculado a dolores de cabeza, con el tiempo, arruinarán tu sonrisa, hacen que beber sea más peligroso, están asociadas a la depresión, podrían ser dañinas para tus huesos, y pueden perjudicar tu corazón.” En general, Su salud es importante. Mientres eres joven, es bueno a comer sano. La obesidad y la diabetes tipo 2 es convertirse peor especialmente en Americano. Come sano ahora, cuándo usted viejo, su cuerpo va a estar bien y tus hijos no reciben tus genes. No beben gaseosas van a hacer una gran diferencia. Es bueno para beber a veces, no todos los días. Animas a tus amigas sobre este y tu familia. Enfermedades del corazón es muy mal y el máximo americanos tienes enfermedades del corazón porque consume de bebidas poco saludables.


"10 Razones Para Dejar De Tomar Gaseosas Dietéticas." CNN En Espaol Ultimas Noticias De Estados Unidos Latinoamrica Y El Mundo Opinin Y Videos RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Jan. 2014.

Q2 Reflection #3: Los mayores más pobres son los que más están ayudando a sus familias

PHA Ayudará a Familias a Encontrar Empleo

Michelle Friedman

Señorita Manuel

Quarter 2

Reflection 4

PHA Ayudará a Familias a Encontrar Empleo


En Ingles, el “PHA” esta el “Philadelphia Housing Authority”. El PHA es el organization que trabaja para encontrar casas por personas y también, ellos trabajan a encontrar dinero para el organizacion. Recientemente, el “Philadelphia Housing Authority” recibirá mucho dinero. El congresista de Pensilvania, Chaka Fattah, anunció el noticia buena al tercero del Enero.

El “Philadelphia Housing Authority” recibirá $339.195 por parte del Departamento de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. El “Philadelphia Housing Authority” recibirá el dinero mediante el programa, “Housing Choice Voucher”.

Este programa trabaja a ayudar familias que estan elegibles obtener casas y eventualmente, trabajo. El programa tiene meta a hacer un comunidad con personas que pueden vivir y trabajar sin la ayuda del gobierno y de sus amigos. Hoy, ellos pueden ir a servicios y programas diferentes por personas sin trabajo. Esta noticia es muy importante por Filadelfia porque nosotros tenemos una problema grande con desempleo.

Yo entiendo que este noticia es muy importante porque mi abuelo y abuela vivían en apartamentos del gobierno antes de ellos se mueren. Los apartamentos fueron pagados por el gobierno. Sin la ayuda del gobierno, ellos no fueron tener una casa.

Antes de yo leí este articulo interesante, yo aprendí una palabra nuevas. El palabra “subsidio” traduce a “grant” en Inglés.


http://www.pontealdia.com/philadelphia/pha-ayudara-familias-a-encontrar-empleo.html


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Korah Lovelace Qrt.2 Art Blog!

Pablo Picasso Research: 

Picasso lived between the years 1881 and 1973. During these years the spanish artist created tons of pieces, making him one of the most legendary artist, sculptors, painters and printmakers of all time. Despite all the popular images commonly displayed and mentioned in media, Picasso is also responsible for Co- Founding the Cubist Movement, he invented “Constructed Culture,” and also the co-invention of the “Collage.” Picasso was born into an art fluent family, his father was a painter. Some of his art may have been influenced by incidents present in his life. For instance, his sister Conchita died at age seven of diphtheria. Picasso was lucky enough to be sent to a very prestigious art school called “Madrid’s Royal Academy of San Fernando.” Despite Picasso’s schooling, his raw talent and groundbreaking creativity made him one of the most innovative artists of all time.  

I copied his drawling of a simple bird.
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The Abundant City por Eurhi Jones

Este mural, ubicado en 2632 Master Street en Filadelfia significa muchas cosas para las personas que viven cerca. Este mural revela que el jardín debajo da vegetales a muchas restaurantes. Es importante porque representa que el jardín es un lugar donde los residentes pueden aprender sobre la nutrición y cocinando. La mural es importante porque representa que muchas personas aprendan cosas con la ayuda del jardín, y la mural añade a la belleza. En la mural, hay un grupo de remolachas pintado en un color borgoña. A la izquierda hay zanahorias y un río, y también hay algunos flores, como las girasoles. Este mural es significativo para la comunidad, porque está pintado en un lugar que muchas personas van a aprender muchas cosas, y envés de apartamentos y un hotel, hay un hermoso jardín que la gente puede disfrutar.


"It Was All a Dream" Por Unknown

3 cosas del mural: 
En este mural es una cita del Biggie Smalls. Lee fue todo un sueño. Es una cita de su canción "Juicy" o "Jugoso" y el álbum "El Notorio B.I.G". Salió en 1994. Se encuentra en 11th y Spring Garden o Jardín de Primavera. 
2 frases etc.:
Biggie Smalls ha inspirador a muchas personas. Biggie no nació en las riquezas. Donde se encuentra el mural muestra eso. 
1 razon que es significativo para esta communidad:
Biggie era una foz para los barrios más pobres.