Stop Animation

Questions-
1. For my stop animation, I chose to do bouncing balls, that started to form gravity, and then turn in to the Earth/Sun. I thought this would be a fun and creative idea, and it also wouldn't be extremely hard since I would just be drawing circles orbiting, and bouncing around.


2.I would rate my stop animation an 8, because I thought the idea was really good, and I actually worked really hard on this. I understand most people think I didn't do enough work with the images, but I wanted to keep them simple, and I'm not a professional artist. I put in a lot of effort honestly, it was just my time management that hurt me.


3.If I could do this again, I would definitely take advantage of the in class work days, because some days I didn't even work and had to make up the work later. Time management was important for this project because of the amount of work to be done, and it really would have helped if I had used it better.


4.I think that my project was unique because I took something simple (bouncing balls) and turned it into planets and asteroids. I wanted to be creative and abstract, so I tried to add elements of that as well


5.I feel like I deserve an A-, because honestly my time management was poor, but I put a lot of thought and effort into this project, and tried my hardest.

5 Frame Video

Copyright Powtoon

Unethical Pratice

1. Most people cheat academically because they waited until the last minute to do a project/paper or just are too lazy to actually do the work themselves.

2. I believe that Sandra and Muhamad who did collision should have resulted in a punishment, and not expelled because unlike the other students they had no knowledge of doing anything wrong. In their eyes, Sandra was just helping Muhammad with his paper, and they didn't even know they had done anything wrong. Muhammad also stated, that he had only needed help for parts of the paper, and therefore had only used collusion in certain parts, not even the entire paper. While this is still an offense, he should not be expelled, and really just should receive either a warning/lower punishment.

3. If you are caught plagiarizing, it will be put on your record and when colleges and jobs are deciding whether to accept you or not, they will see you have broken the law and your chances of getting in will most likely be very slim.

4. The school I plan to attend, punishes plagiarism very seriously. Most likely, you will receive a low to failing grade, and a suspension/expulsion.

Sphero sheets 1-2

Sphero sheet 1-  In the first Sphero sheet, we tested how far the Sphero could go, by adjusting the speed, and the time it ran. When we adjusted the speed, the ball went up to 117in., and by adjusting time, we got the Sphero to roll 120in.

Sphero sheet 2- In this sheet, we saw what the angles of the Sphero were, and the colors, and how to make them with the light. We also wrote what the heading angles used in the lab were- and how to make shapes with them
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PSA: The Dangers of Adware and Spyware.

WHO AM I?

My Favorite App

        Apps are usually games or helpful tools that people use for entertainment, or help. I would have to say my favorite app is probably iMovie. iMovie, is an app where- just as it sounds, you can create small movies, but if your using a tablet or computer, you can also make trailers. My favorite part about iMovie is just being able to take any picture, video, or completely random item, and then upload into a trailer. I love all the different options, and customizations available such as, adding sound effects, changing the theme, changing the music, choosing the "words" in your trailer/ movie, and being able to change the background to whatever you want. Now, with iMovie, I wish you could easily share movies within the app, but to do that you are required a youtube account. Otherwise, all the "controls" are very easy to learn, and you will be making trailers and movies in no time! To learn more about iMovie visit this site: apple.com

Ted Talks about collusion

TED

         This video showed that a number of sites are tracking you on the web without any permission. Thankfully, a site called collusion has been created to keep track of which sites are tracking you without permission. Having someone track your digital life was concerning for the speaker, because they did it without his consent, and it is concerning to him that some person is following his 9 year old daughters every move (on the internet).With the information trackers (stalkers) get from you, they can relatively do whatever they want with it. They could use the information against you, but the possibilities are endless on where all your digital information is going.I would say, the only way tracking could be used for good, is when there is a program that will track what you have done throughout the day, showing what websites you have been to and how long you have been on them. It would be a time management website, where people could see how much time they have spent on the internet, and so they can set goals, to stay on let’s say Twitter for only a half hour a day- then the program will only allow you to do it for an hour before locking you out of it for the rest of the day. You could also use it to block kids from certain sites and track where they have been throughout the day. Then there is the bad side, which is what TED talked about in the video and that’s people (without your permission) following you, and tracking your whereabouts on the internet, doing God knows what with your information.I thought there were an abnormal amount of dots appearing on the screen, especially considering that none of the sites had the speakers permission to track him. It was obviously alarming to him, as I imagine everyone who has collusion.I honestly don’t think my collusion would show really anything, because I only use the internet for academic purposes, Pandora, and rarely maybe help with something else, or a game.