Dreamweaver Project

I'm almost, almost, almost done with my Dreamweaver Project! So happy. The year's almost over. I'm already having nostalgia about the first semester of this year, which was the better of the two. 
In Dreamweaver, I put all the links to my work on the site and I had to add a row about the row with all my links to explain my work. My website's nothing complicated. It's actually more simple than was expected, but with only two days left to work on this, there's not much I can do. Then we'll move on to the final exam or project, which will be to make a poster talking about the future IB Middle Years Program at my school. I don't know which I'll choose to do. I might do the poster, but I have so many projects to do I don't know if I want to add on an extra. I have so many projects that I forgot to do the homework. That's how many projects I have. The things I do for school...sigh. 


I was also wondering if there's any sort of extra credit assignment I could do. I have a high B in this class, and I'd really like to raise that to an A so my grade for the semester can be an A. GPA reasons. I'm aiming for all A's this semester.

Dreamweaver

Our final project is to create a website showcasing all of our work done in this class this year. This just might kill my grade this semester. I don't want to make the website overly complicated, and I don't want to stick to too easy, either. But sometimes, it's the best I can do. I discovered this year that I'm really really bad with most programs that fall under the name Adobe. These programs are overly complex. The program we're using is Adobe Dreamweaver. I'm so grateful that the person who sits next to me in my class understands what to do, because I am clueless with this program. 
This is the only class that I fear of doing not so well on. If I could exempt any final, it would have been this one. I don't know how simple "simple" can be, but I hope it can be pretty simple, out of time issues, just as long as everything that we're supposed to showcase is there. 


It's not so long until summer is upon us. I'm personally excited. No more school.. even though ninth grade was piece of cake for the most part. I know next year won't be the same. I sure enjoyed being able to relax this year, even this is the heaviest year for me regarding finals. I don't know whether it's out of laziness or what it is, but teachers don't feel like making tests so they just give us time-consuming projects. I actually like tests, because I can get them done in one day and I'm also good at remembering school material. I have, what, like 4 or 5 final projects? There's no time for me to slack off or procrastinate, that's for sure.


Well, I have to go work on the Dreamweaver Project. Wish me luck! :) 

Done with Flash :)

I am done with Flash! It wasn't TOO hard once I got the hang of it, but it's still not my favorite program in the world. I learned how to tween, and I created this dumb-looking snowman that just moves. There's no real point to the snowman's movements, but it's an animation, and that's all that matters. I also animated a star and a heart that I drew in Flash. I'm so proud of myself. 
These days, I seem to be on a book-frenzy, reading books like crazy. I mean, it's strange because there are phases - they can last weeks or months - in which I don't care to read, and then other times when all I want to do is read as many books as I can. This is one of those "read tons of books" phase. I have a list of books I want to read. A lot of them aren't out in stores yet, but it's weird, cause there's always one book per month that I'm dying to read comes out. One comes out in June, another in July, another in August, another in October and the other in November. It's crazy. 

Questions for Final Exam

My Multimedia teacher told us to come up with 5 questions that may or may not end up on our final exam. 


1. What is an input device?
2. Which of the following is an example of an input device?
3. What is an output device?
4. Which of the following is an output device? 
5. What is the difference between a vector and a pixel? 


I also checked Family Access and I saw my grade for the PSA project and I was wondering why exactly did I get the grade I got. I was also wondering what kind of animation are we supposed to be doing on Flash or can we do whatever we want?


Tweening so far is fairly simple on Flash, but I can't get into anything too advanced or complicated or I'll get seriously confused.

Sick of iMovie

I know that technically, this is Sunday evening and I'm not at school, but I need to get some technology frustrations out on here. I have this biology project where we have to create a digital story on a virus (mine is Yellow fever) and I decided to do mine on iMovie. Yes, I procrastinated a little, but because I assumed that I would be able to do this project on iMovie easily, as I've never really had any problems with iMovie before. Let me just say this: I hate iMovie. So. Much. 
First, for some reason it gets really slow when you work on it a lot. It's never done that to me before. Second, I can't seem to get the words on my slides long enough without having the actual image be several seconds longer than the words. I got so frustrated with this program that after two hours working on it I decided that I didn't care if I got points taken off of anything, I was done with iMovie, and so I finished all the basics without going into too deep details and I quickly exported it into a Quicktime movie. And it is taking forever. 11 minutes. And the video is only a minute 20 seconds. It's a lot less than my bio teacher expected, but I seriously am sick of this program. 

Assignment

I watched two more videos of the Flash tutorial videos. It's such a relief to find out how to move objects in Flash without leaving a blank space where the object used to have been. 
I am so so happy that it is Friday! And it was Prince William's wedding to Kate Middleton today - of course, I didn't wake up at 5 AM to watch the ceremony, but it's still an exciting occasion nonetheless :) 

Flash...Again

I watched two more Flash tutorial videos...and I made a robot. Yay for me. It's a really ugly robot, but whatever.
I took somewhat of a break day after I created my robot. My book came out yesterday, and I really loved it. I read it in one day. On the bad side, I broke my brother's earphones. Or, rather, they broke on their own. I found the exact same pair of earphones on skullcandy.com but they're, like, $30. My brother would get so angry at me if he found out I broke them...he doesn't really use them anyway, but still. He'd get mad. I plan to buy him a pair and myself another. I can't live without my headphones.


Also, another thing A LOT of teachers don't get is that students actually don't like to help other students. Well yes, some do. But the majority...no. That's because they find it annoying when people ask for help. The patient people don't mind. However, I don't think there are a whole lot of patient people in this world. A lot of students actually refuse to help others because it takes up their time or they'll just ignore you...or they'll say they don't know how to do what you're asking them for help on, when that's a lie. They know perfectly well how to do it, but they don't want to have to explain it...unless they're being paid, of course. I don't know why I'm saying this, but I feel like I need to say it, to get it out of my system. To put it out there. Because it's all true. 


26 days till summer! :)