A day on the bay

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In computer class, we made some videos about what we might do if we only live a day in a bay, in PV. My video consist on many photos and short clips that only lasted not more than 10 seconds. I really love this project because I got a lot of fun by making the video and by taking the photos and the short clips. It also helped me to developed my creativity. The theme of my video is FAMILY. I choose that theme because I think that if we only have one day to live I would be spending my time with my family that is the most important thing for me that I love. In the beginning, I thought of many other themes like friends, nature and sports but something happened that let me to only one option FAMILY. I left the homework of taking photos and short clips to the end so because of that, in the last day of the long weekend went with my family to La Estancia to eat all together. I took advantage of that moment to do it.

The process of making my video was very long and a liitle difficult but fun. I first, I took the photos from my iphone and the short clips from my sister iphone. Than I download it to my computer (mac) by using iphoto. I made the video by using imovie. Mr. Picketts wanted us to have in our video 5 photos at least from others so by doing that, I used Raul's USB to translate the 4 photos from the classroom computer to my mac. I got a lot of fun by making my video.

One Day on Earth part two

Today in computer class, we saw two films about one day on earth. This film has many powerful images like the one with the guy jumping with only one leg in the Olympics for handicapped people. This image was very powerful that touched my heart very quickly. When I saw that, I started thinking that if he could do that< i can do it and other many things. That anything is impossible. Another image that was very powerful was the two army guys entering a house. I like that image a lot because it remind me in the video game Call of Duty. This film make me reflect in many things about my actitude with others and how I need to appreciate what I have.

One Day on Earth

The video that we saw in today's computer class was a video made of many little videos of maximum 10 sec each, or clips. I really like it because it showed many cool photos and clips about people laughing, suffering in war, praying, running and other many things. The message in this film is to show us that we aren't the only one in this world with problems, to show us that there are many other cultures, that everything happens to everybody and not only to us. This film make me think in many things relating to my problems that I have in school, with my friends and with my family and that it doesn't relates with the problems that the world has.

Liters and miles

During this past days we made a project using excel and we measure the distance and time we made from our house to school and how much money we spend per year. I had discovered many things about what I spend by going 5 times a week to school and other things. For example, I spend a lot of gasoline and I realize that it contaminates a lot of the environment. Imagine how much waste of gasoline us used everyday in the entire world. This contaminates a lot. I also realized that my parents worked a lot only to buy gasoline to do our daily activities. I really like doing this project because it helped me to think much about what i am doing everyday by using a lot of gasoline.

efficient cars

Mercury Marine Hybrid Per year:318.9
Toyota Camry Hybrid per year: 1.41

Measurement chart

We worked on measuring how much gas our car spends each year by going from our house to school and back. The gas that my Escalade 2009 spends each year is 962 liters. This is incredible of how much gasoline we as humans used in a year. Now I am considering how much contamination we put to our environment and that we are wasting a lot of oil, nonrenewable resource. My dream car spend less gas than my Escalade because is smaller. My dream car is a jeep wrangler 2011 and is spends 640.1 liters of gasoline per year. Compare with my Escalade 2009, my car spends 321.9 less per year.

Google Earth Tour

Today on computer class, we saw the videos of our class mates. I saw Raul, Debora, and Paco Google earth tour video.
Raul: His video was very cool and I understand it all. It was very organized in the way he wanted his trip to look. His tour was real because he really went to that specific places on vacations. He went to Miami. Then he went to Disney Land and in the end, he went to New york. The thing I didn't like was that it was very short and it would be better if he would invent more places to go.
Debora: Her video was very organized. I also like it. The thing I didn't like about Debora's video was that her video was a little long. Also because in some places of her trip, it didn't saw the whole city, it was sometimes very pixelated.

Paco: I also like his video. It was very professional and different from others. His video was different in a good way. Each place he had on his video, he wrote a little note explaining what things doeas he wants to do there etc. The thing I didn't agree or dislike was that it was very short.  I like it a lot.

My video wasen't the better one but I like it and I enjoyed making it. The thing I would change if I had the opportunity is to make it longer. Also to have the places that I have less pixelide. The last thing is to put some comments of what things I would like to do on the especific places on my video trip.