miércoles, 15 de diciembre de 2010

Self-reflection

To create our comic, we went through many steps before having it perfectly done. First, we chose the most important dialogues and cut the most important lines or phrases. After having the dialogues done, we wrote them in comic life in separate pages, which were different scences. After having all organized in comic life, we took the pictures. The pictures were based on the most important scenes of the entire act. When we finished with the pictures, we uploaded them in the computer and started to organize them depending on what dialogues said. Then we double check every thing, did corrections, and submited. I did like the project, it was something fun to do; however we worked really hard to make it look perfect. The most difficult part was working with my teammates. We had a lot of arguing and disagreements which made the work a little bit hard. However, the comic we did was good, though I don't think it's that good to be available for sign-out. It was totaly something fun and stressful project to do, but I'm really happy with the final draft.


I do agree with the fact that comics are not a way to learn about serious literature. The reason is because comics are mostly "fun", short, and not well explained. many people make the comics as something fun or as a joke towards a novel, movie or play. This makes the literature or whichever thing less important. Also when they make them short, they take away some of the magic and submit many parts. They try to put only the most important parts, though they miss a lot information and sometimes they are not understandable as in a text book. Comics are better to have a good time not to study or learn about something big. However they can make it a little bit entertaining. Even though I'm a little bit lazy, I prefer to learn more complete and good information than incomplete and bad information. Literature can be fun but we have to understand that it's something serious in some way.

miércoles, 1 de diciembre de 2010

One Day With Friends :)

My video was about a day with friends. I tried to show people with pictures how fun a day with your bestfriends and friends is. All the things you can do and create in just a few hours. My song was One Love from Bob Marley. I chose it because friends are like family, and they are part of your heart, of your life. I thought it would be nice to put a song that represents that love between your friends, and well, as the song says, "one love, one heart, let's get together and be all right". That's what true friends do, stay together forever and ever no matter what. Honestly, I'm very happy with the work I did and I wouldn't change any thing from the video. I think that all the pictures and the song fits very well and the video can't be more perfect ;)

martes, 26 de octubre de 2010

Video Reflection

The video we saw in class was awsome! I really liked it. It talks about a day in the world. It has images from all over the world, images that are some impressing, but most of them familiar. Waht the message probably be is that many things can happen every day, 24/7. It is very impressing how in everywhere there are billions of people working, and doing the same thing daily. They go to the same places every day, they do the same thing every day, they do the same routine every day.

The images that most cause impact on me were the little boy with clutches, the thunder, the bomb exploting. They are pretty strong images that I didnt event thought of before. I never imagine seeing a little boy without a leg. That's so sad :s and really made me feel thankful of what I have, and of never complain because of innecesary and stud stuff. There are so many poeple out ther that doesn't even have a quarter of what I do and live happily without complaining.

miércoles, 6 de octubre de 2010

(My moms car)

In yesterday´s class we learned hoew to calculate how many gas our cars spends only by going to school and back, and how much money our parent's waste. My mom's car uses 329.3L of gas per year only by coming to school. If that number is multiplyed by two (which means going back from school to my house), the answer will be 658.6L of gas. This is a lot. My dad's car in comparation of my mom's, uses more gas becuase of the size and the brand of car. He uses 431.05L of gas per year, and multipyed by two is 862.1L of gas. Obviously my mom's car, which is smaller, uses less gas than my dad's. Though, unfortunately my mom uses her car everyday a lot. She has many things to do and is all around the city, and that causes the use of more gas, spend of money, and more pollution.

Mini cooper
8.1km/100mL 2.09142 386.9127
Ford Focus
9.4km/100mL 2.34962 434.6797

martes, 21 de septiembre de 2010

Tours

Feris: I really liked Feri's tour. She did really interesting things, for example she went to Boston, and then came back to Vallarta. She could had probably creat her imaginary vacations so she could have add more things.
Pao: Paola's tour was simple as mine. She didn't do anything except for being here in Vallarta and Guadalajara for a couple of days. Paola could have done it larger becasue it was pretty short.
Laura: Laura's tour was amazing! it totaly seems that she had an amazing vacations! she visited a lot of places like Leon, Guanajuato, San Miguel de Allende, and many more. I don't think there's something she could improve. I like it very much :)
Me: I didn't have many places to put. I think I could have done it better by adding more interesting places. Though, my vacations weren't that interesting. I went to the same places everyday and didn't do that much because of summer school.

domingo, 5 de septiembre de 2010

JOY!

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Well, lately I have been having a lot of fun with my friends. Also, I might be going to Guadalajara next year to live so I have to see what school I am going to go and stuff. I am planning to still go to Guadalajara often because I really like it there. Still, I also like it here because I have been here for a long time now and I have great friends. One thing is that I am going to miss them a lot. Still, this is another step in my life and it is something we all have to deal with. Maybe moving to Guadalajara will be best for me, maybe not. My mom and I have been talking about this changes often and we are both are agreeing with many things. I also enjoy having a time with my mom.
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Something I would like to do for myself is to accept the problems I face and get over them. People will always be in front of many problems, and the sad thing is that many people don’t know how to get over them, either. There will always be one time in your life, maybe even more than once, that you will find yourself with no one around to talk with. A time when you need a hug, but the only one there with you will be your shadow. Being happy and positive will make those days look brighter. A friend once told me that the best solution for depression is laughter and happiness. To be happy you have to sacrifice. For example, I want to get good grades this year, but to be able to achieve that I have to sacrifice time and pay more attention in class and more time doing homework.
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Something that makes me special is that I am a very good friend and a good person. Whenever a friend needs help I’ll be willing to help them anytime and anywhere. That is a very good part of me because being a good friend and having one is what we all need as humans. Also, I am always smiling because I look at the positive side of everything. Looking at the positive side of things is always important to never give up. Telling yourself that you will give up will MAKE you give up, and that is why you have to say to yourself that you won’t give up and that you will make it to the end. Whenever you fall down, it is important to know that someone will be there to help you get back up. For any friend I have, I will be that person that will help them get back up.

jueves, 10 de junio de 2010

Typing Scores Graphs!




I did improve a lot! These charts show everything! Since the beginning of the year until now. I think that writing faster will help me, depending where I want to work. Though it might help me in college when writting notes and stuff like that. I don't think we need more typing master next year. The majority of the people of school spend most of their time in the computer. This is a good way of practicing(:





martes, 8 de junio de 2010

MAP (reading)


Well, I think it is a good chart to show how my scores have been changing over time. It shows how they have being increasing and decreasing. Though I think the best chart would be a line graph :)

MAP (language)

Tnis is another graph I think represents really good how my scores have change:)

MAP (math)

This type of graph I think it's the best one to show how my scores have been changing. It shows perfectly how I've been doing on the tests. It shows the times I have decrease, and the times I have increase :) and the difference between them :)

domingo, 6 de junio de 2010

Oil disaster

Well, what was going on right now is a big mass of oil spreading in the Atlantic Ocean affecting many animals and people. All of this happened because of a rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20th. Many people has tried to stop this horrible situation, but unfotunately, nothing can be done now. Its too late. Thousands of barrels of oil are being droped into the water each day. It's impressing how people do things without thinking on the consequences, including myself. Though, this is a very serious problem because this is affecting our environment and people's economy.

Many species are threatened and affected by this problem. Many fish are dying, and many birds are being stuked in the oil or are full of it. This will cause many intoxication problems and so do mutations. People will lose their jobs, and many companies will lose money. Imagine how many hotels, restaurants, and supermakrkets will be affected because of this problem. If there's no fish in a super market, there will be a lost. If a hotel was famous for having sort of a dish that includes fish, well there wont be more fame. They are so many things and problems just because of a company that didn't think about the consequences if something went wrong acording to it's plan. It's not fair for the poeple that had nothing to do with it. There's a company that's trying to build devices to try to capture the oil, but that's imposible. There's also people trying to clean the birds and trying to help to save the animals that are in extrem danger.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7696596/BP-oil-disaster-how-a-deadly-methane-bubble-triggered-explosion.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/green/

martes, 1 de junio de 2010

Map Testing

We all know that MAP testing is done twice every single year.This is just a way to see the level of knowledge we are at. We only have three tests. Language, math, and reading. At the beginning of the year, they give you a goal, so what you are trying to do is reach it. The second time you have the Map testing, they make you do another goal. Something higher than the last time. So the point again is trying to over come your goal.
This is a very stressful week for me and all the school. The computer lab is closed for a week, and most of the students can't do homework or at least finish it. Well, rather than that, it is very hard to concentrate when you are doing a test, and that you have sort of a limit of time to answer one question. I don't like them at all! This year on my goals, I think I didn't reach them, but at least over come the last ones. I feel really good with my scores though. Honestly I wasn't inspired just by having a "spirit day". I don't really care about using uniform because on Fridays we have P.E.. Probably my motivation would be having a free day of no school or homework. Maybe a ten in the lowest test in whichever class you want. Those are real motivations for everyone.

Image: http://askatechteacher.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/computer_kids.jpg

jueves, 20 de mayo de 2010

PP water pollution presentation!

I didn't have the chance to see someone's presentation today. My partner didn't have his presentation today because of technical difficulties. Well, talking about my presentation. I think I need to add more pictures. I didn't like the way my presentation was done. Unfortunately it was because PP changed and I'm not that used to use it. I would probably do it again or just add more pictures and colors. Make it fun and cool :) I didn't have the chance to see other presentations, just Sebastian's. I did really like his presentation. It was complete, it had all the info needed, pictures, the links from the pictures, and well everything they asked for.

domingo, 16 de mayo de 2010

PowerPoint!

There's a person in the class that has ALWAYS done his presentations pretty ling, and short at the same time. Since we're in 5th grade, in Miss Kim's class with the "book talks", he did presentations longer than common. The effects he putted on the pictures repeted over and over again. We used to laugh at the beginning but later on, became boring. He knows what we think about that, but he doesn't seem to care. He keeps on doing them the same way. It's really annoying and it makes you dizzy. It drives me crazy!!

viernes, 14 de mayo de 2010

50 things about Facebook :)

25 things I love!
know stuff about my old friends(:
people writing on my wall
pictures of me
pictures of my friends
see what my friends are up to
update my status
people adding me
farmville
found my old friends
funny videos of my friends
change your sentimental status whenever you want
that you can see whats happening with your friends
you can know everything from everybody
meet new people
you save time sending pictures to people, you just put them in fb and everybody can see them now
finding new people or people you haven't seen in a while
happy aquarium
Become a fan
reminder of bday's
private messages (a little bit of privacy thanks God)
private pictures
private videos

put your friends as your siblings..as many as you want :)
create fake facebook acounts :)
this is global!

25 things I hate -.-
notifications when you comment in a picture or wall post
unkown people adding you (people with no common friends)
any type of test
people putting wierd tests on my wall
roller coaster kingdom
fb chat is very slow -.-
people you don't talk to commenting wierd things on your pictures
people faking they are famous people..(robert pattinson, selena gomez)
restaurant ville?
fish ville
weird applications
that fb is ALWAYS changing -.-
people that writes this way "Oola coOmO esZThasz'?? hehe"
notifications when people sent you a gift on farmville-.-
my inbox (hotmail) is full of those things of fb -.-
people tagging me in pictures were I look horrible!
not tagging me in pics were I look good(:
the same pictures of people on fb over and over again (example, someone takes tons picture of him with the same pose, and publish all of them, even if they are all blurry...)
little kids having fb -.- (12 and under....)
parents and grandparents having fb -.-
all your family having fb AND having them as friends... (family means aunts, uncles, grandparents)
if you dont add you mom on fb, she gets mad at you -.-
some poeple not having fb -.-
is a waste of time...
it is an obstacle between you and your hw...

jueves, 22 de abril de 2010

Global Warming!

Earth is facing many environmental issues right now. Water pollution, air pollution, rainforest destruction, and many others. We, as humans, are the ones who are causing all this damage on Earth. If we continue throuwing garbage in the rivers, and using a lot of cars, our world will look like a garbage deposit. It will be al gray and horrible. Though, one of the most imoprtant thing we have to worry about is the water. Water is getting contaminated in many ways.

Water pollution is one of the biggest problems right now. Water is our number one natural resource we need in order to survive. All humans, animals, and plants need it. Humans use it in many ways. Wash vegetables to eat, taking baths, washing our cars, drink, prepare food, and many others, while the plants need them in order to grow, and reproduce. From plants we get glucose, and oxygen. Also we feed from plants, and animals too. Animals need the plants healthy so they can eat them and us, humans, feed from theml. The water for them is also important. In hot days, they drink some water to stay hidratated. It's all a big chain. Water gets polluted when throwing bottles into the ocean. Not only bottles but all our waists, including poop and pee. Fish eats all of this, and almost all the population on Earth eats fish. Imagine how many contaminants and waist we are introducing in our body.

We know the water cycle. It rains, all the water from the rain flows down a river into the ocean, and then, it evaporates again into the sky and rains again. Well, this cycle sometimes includes pollution. All the chemicals that are in the ocean, like wastes from factories or hotels, evaporates too into the sky. Now, what happens next is that that water becomes acid rain. This acid rain will affect humans, and animals. Unfortunately, land animals drink that water, and fish and all the
underwater animals live on that polluted water. They all drink that and affects them by giving them diseases, and sometimes, even though they don't die, fishers still fishing them, and we (people) eat them...Thanks to that we get sick too. This is the polluted water cycle.

We humans are the ones who causes all the damage on Earth. Without the water we can't live. We need it in order to survive! Even animals because we feed from them! What we can do is use less water. When wasing our cars, use a bucket instead of a hose. We can also use a bucket when having a shower while the water is heating up, and that water use it to water the plants. Something we can do to not contaminate the water is put all the garbage in the right spot, and when going to the beach, instead of trowing it into the ocean, through it in a garbage can, and if there is no garbage can, hold it until you find one. Also, instead of trowing the kitchen oil in the sink, put it in a plastic bag and through it in the gabage can. Other thing is that the factories should consider throwhing all their chemical waste to other place instead of the ocean. This are some ways to help the water, our environment, our world.
All of the last might sound impossible, but if we all try, by one bye, we can make the difference. Our world is suffering many changes because of all the harm we do to it. Nature is just responding to our agressions, and uncaring behavior. We HAVE to start caring about our world. WE need the water in order to survive. We are ending up with it, and in a future we wont have any left. All of it will be contaminated and dirty. Start changing your life and save the world! Don't contaminate the water anymore!!

Links!



http://www.paranormalknowledge.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/waterpollution.jpg

miércoles, 21 de abril de 2010

The Earth

Last week, Adri and I work together doing this Earth video. We chose together the song, the pictures, and we sang together the song. He had a hard time singing it because we wanted to sound perfect, and sometimes we did mistakes and started all over again. The song we chose was "World Hold On" from Bob Sincalir. The pictures were the most easy thing. Adri took video, while I took pictures from the same thing. We did posters, we used only two pictures from the internet, because we couldn't take pictures of the universe, nig bang, and Earth. I really enjoy doing it with Adri. We divided the job in equal parts, and I think that at the end, everything was perfect. Just how we want it to be.

miércoles, 14 de abril de 2010

Spring Break(:

My spring break vacations started at and ended up at Guadalajara... I spend my two weeks of vacations there taking care of my mom, and some other days hanging out with my friends. The last thing I did was going to Manzanillo, but stayed there just a night because I needed to get back to Gdl as soon as posible...

The next day I arrived to Gdl., I went to my cousin's soccer game. I had fun, but also got stressed because my cousin's team was losing, and the coach did nothing to IMPEDIRLO. He was just sitting there watching instead of telling the guys what to do or where to move, and stuff like that. On saturday I went to an american football game, and had SO MUCH FUN with my firends. I cheered a lot to my other friends that were playing, and also painted their numbers in my face :D The bad thing about that game was that my friends' team also lose, and one of my closest friend got injured, and he couldn't finish the game. Someone hit his head, and he faint and lost a little bit of memory. He didn't remember what he did early that day, and the last night. Fortunately he is alright right now. On the next day I went to another friends' game. This time was a tocho game. This sport is similar to the american football, but the difference is that this sport is for girls, and you have to take away the flag from the girl who has the ball in hands. I cheered alot to my girl friends too, and took a lot of pictures :) I think that was the best weekend of all my vacations :)



That next week I went to a ranch with my cousins and their aunts. We had so much fun feeding the horse and the donkey. We also cut down a tree, took the 4 dogs out for a walk, and ate chiken we baught before getting there. That wednesday we went to the bolws. Us, the four girls, played bowls, while the three boys played pool. After we finish, we waited like for an hour to pick us up, but we ended up getting back on bus because the boys abandoned us. When we were at the bus, we saw the boys walking looking for us, so we called them and tell them that they were a pair of losers. When we arrived to my friend's house, the boys were already there, and they laugh about us, but we didn't care cause we didn't walk to get there, and they did...Unfortunately that was the last time I saw them...The next day, my friends went to Tapalpa and returned back on Monday. Those days I did nothing but being with my mom and dad. On Friday I went to Manzanillo with my dad, and got back to GDL on Saturday cause I needed to get back as soon as possible. I needed to be at the airport at 9:30 am on Sunday. I had fun with my granparents, and little sibilings :)


I wish I could have done more stuff in my vacations than being in Guadalajara. I wanted SO bad to be here in Vallarta... I missed so much stuff this spring break, but there's nothing I could have done...my mom wanted me to be there with her...This were my vacations :)


jueves, 18 de marzo de 2010

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Dear Mr. Shakanaka, I hope you are doing bad. I'm sending you this because I hate you! Thanks to you I didn't got accepted in college... Just because of you and your "minus 2= detention". You suck! I don't understan why you you had that rule? We didn't do anything in your calss! It was just a waste of time, siriously... Instead of having some other fun clas,, we had yours! It was siriously BORING! Also, reading that book was akward! Well, I cant say anuthing cause I never read it :) The chapters were TOO long, and boring for me.. I like something more interesting than that class...

Other teacher is Morales. You never graded the assignments on time...You always waited until the end of the quarter to do it so we wont have time to improve our grades. Why the hell you assign us a lot of homework to all the grades and classes you have, if you dont have time to grade them? You have to take your time and do it all slowly...

I want to know, why do they leave us homework when they have so much things to do? I really don't understand...It's just a waste of paper, trees, and time for the teachers and students.

lunes, 1 de marzo de 2010

Sixth sense video

I saw this video and stayed in shock because of all this new technology...I can't imgaine how this guy did everything without any help....He is So inteligent, and I liked the idea that he just thought about it and did it without doubts...I wish this two things come to commerce so we can buy them and have brand new technology to use.

I wonder how the world would be it all this kind of bright people start doing everything they always dreamt about or just thought about. This people desrve great things, and respect from others cause in one way or another all the things they invent are going to help us in a near future ;)

martes, 16 de febrero de 2010

Rotoball ideaa!!!(:

Well the idea I just had about my rotoball thing is ball all over the screen and this special one comes to me and converts into a heart, star, and an ipod. Then I'll start playing with the ipod until I throw it into the air and it converts into a ball again(:

jueves, 21 de enero de 2010

Growing up online ;)



Part 1 Internet at home
Having internet a home is a HUGE privilage, but I think the reason they did this movie is for the parents to sometimes check what their kids are doing. I don't mean they have to be the entire time right behind them while they are in the computer. The producers may be parents that experience all those kind of situations with their childs. The main audience I think is the parents and then all the teens. We all have to be concern of what we are doing in the internet or online. Also we need internet in one way or other. We use it too for doing researching for school or for a page a teacher told us to look and then tell them what was about or something like that. Obviously after doing the research and your homework, you may use the computer however you want.
Part 3 Social Networking -- Keeping in Touch
Fighting or saying junk to other people in the internet is a way of demonstrating that you are weak and can't afford your problems like a mature person. If you have something to say about a person, go straight to him or her and tell them what you think or feel. Don't be mean. Say it with respect and don't make them feel bad. Also a bad thing about fighting online is that you don't really know if the person you are talking to is really him or her. You don't know if someone else got into their email and started to write all that crap and everything. Maybe at the next day you'll see him or her and you'll be mad at him becasue or nothing or maybe that's what your friend thinks because he doesn't really know what's giong on or what you are talking about. It's really stresfull and stupid.
Part 5 Parenting, Privacy and Control
It's okay for the parents to check sometimes what we are doing but not always. We need privacy too. We don't have to tell everything we do to our parents. We have secrets as they do too, and its not like if they are going to tell us all the things they do or did before. There's sertain stuff we would tell our parents, stuff we think is appropiated for them. They have to conform with that because I preffer to hear something rather than nothing. The parents need to understand that we are not giving them our passwords cause maybe it's not just stuff about us but also about our friends that no one else needs or can see. They have to unesrtand we have really private things, and that we don't want to tell them cause they are our secrets and we wont' share them with anybody.

jueves, 7 de enero de 2010

Growing up online

Mr. whiten is the teacher that entertain us the most. He is really funny and always with a smile on his face. He’s a great teacher but I think there’s something he could change. The idea of reading the chapters from the book really makes me sick. I think we should get all of our stuff from internet... also by the way he is teaching us, I think that we learn some things but not all the stuff we should really learn…
The computer at home is used in many ways. We use it to do homework, research info about someone important or famous, download music and chat with our friends. I think that the perfect age for a kid to start using the internet and all those public pages is after the 13 years old. I know I started using the computer since I was 11 years bur though some times I used it and sometimes not. I use it more often right now than before. I have much more stuff to do right now…

martes, 5 de enero de 2010

Winter break(:

Before christmas
I stayed here in P.V. for a week. All the time I had, I spend it with my mom, and some with my friends. I helped her with the stuff she needed to do, and with my little brothers. We also had visitors. My aunt and uncle came to Vallarta for 5 days. They stayed at a hotel, but though they were almost all day at my house with my parents. What I also did was being on Facebook all free time I had. My mom and I spend our free time on Facebook sending presents and stuff like that. It was funny :)

Christmas!
I arrived to Guadalajara 1 day before christmas. We have a house there so we didn't have spend money in hotels or stayed at my grandparents's house. When we arrived, I called some friends I have there, but just one pick up the phone. We ate at my grandparents's house and stayed a while talking and stuff like that. My uncle from Cancun was also there. He arrived in the night and he stayed at my granpas's. On the next day, a very good friend of mine, went to my grandpas's house to see me(: He stayed for almost 3 hours there. We talked, we were at the computer playing, and we had so much fun(: He is really nice with me :) I love him♥ I called him son because of a very large and strange story ;) My parents and granparents already knew him. My mom because he was at my exboyfriend's party and I present him to my mom, and my granpas because once before we went to visit my there. He lives in a condo right infront of my grandparents's condo. In dinner time, we ate turkey and so much delicious stuff. Then another uncle arrived to the house and we talked for a while. My sibilings were playing with my cousins and they had so much fun. After that, we ate dessert and then my uncled and aunt left. We didn't open the presents because my big brother wasn't there. He was asleep... He was a baby but I still love him♥ We open the presents at the next day and shalala shalala....We were all happy :)

New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG! I think new year was the best thing ever! My brother organized a party with a friend at a place called Paramount which is in Conchas Chinas. Ingrid, Natalia and her cousin went to the party. Their parents were with my parents in our department. Paramount are condos and it's my dad construction so we have use one empty appartment :) The party was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The best party ever :) So much people was there. I knew just some of it. I knew my brother's friends and the guys from school that were there. The party was over at 5:30 am. I slept at 8:30 inn the morning helping my brother, his friends, and my mom cleaning up the mess that the drunk people and all the people left. After that party, anything interesting happened. That's my winter break :)