Typing Reflections

Typing - It's the new writing. Now, us kids in school don't only have to write adequately, but now we have to TYPE in a matter of timing. That is why we do the program calles "Typing Master", which is very old. We always do the same typing tests. We get bored. Despite it all, we do it, we want the grade. And guess what? We have actually improoved. The very first test that I took in the year was the same as the one I took today. Back then my score was 11 Words Per Minute. Today's? 19! That prooves that, boring as this is, it works. I have improoved quite a lot in basically two months. I totally recommend Typing Master

The Best Artifact in 8th Grade

The best artifact in 8th grade is Laura's: http://strawberriezz-laura.blogspot.com/2009/10/future-artifact.html

She has an incredible idea - a car that travels in light years!!!

That would be incredible to have. I like how she brought it all together, I mean her final project is AMAZING. I would definitely like to have the same impressive Photoshop skills as she does, because everything looks very realistic. I totally could picture myself in the location she made.

I would personally love EVERYTHING about this car!!! It would make INCREDIBLE scientific progress... we could probably find extra terrestrials in a matter of years. I am not so sure, tough, if it could exist in my lifetime (I'm 14) because it would have a very advanced technology, although I may be wrong. You never know what scientists have up their sleeves.

My Future Gadget

My future gadget is a very cool new version on the iPhone that turns your iPhone into anything that is basic for life and has a function like your car keys, plane tickets, credit cards, student ID, Movie tickets, scanner, Computer mouse, and Many other things.
Doing this project was actually very easy for me. I Had to pick out an image of the iPhone, which was the one I used for everything. I had to pick out the backgrounds and I had to pick out the screen shots for the iPhone. Then, all I basically had to do was some merging, erasing, typing and revising the imperfect spots. It was a good experience for me and I actually had a good time doing it.

Text Explosion for Photoshop

This tutorial http://fx.worth1000.com/tutorials/161065/text-explosion
gave me the ideas to change some text fonts in my future gadget to make it look more realistic, but I sadly couldn't do the ACTUAL explosion. Still, this tutorial is very nice especially if you want to make a flyer, banner or any sort of thing that has a main word in it because the result is really cool. I recommend anyone who likes photoshop and is still learning how to use it to take a look at this and all the other tutorials on the webpage because they are great.

MERGING

I have just seen some of the tutorials on the website www.worth1000.com and I choose this one: http://fx.worth1000.com/tutorials/160978/merging-drew-and-bouguereau
for my project because I am going to need to know how to merge two pictures (and more)when doing my future gadget in photoshop. In this I learned how to have two pictures put together s and look like one in a very realistic way. This was very interesting.

FAMILY TREE <3

This is my finished family tree.

8th Graders' Social Network Thoughts

After some research, I have figured out that eight graders approve of social networking. But what does that mean? Off course, it means that they use it, but it also means that they consider it a way of communication. Now days it is easier to find a friend in facebook than by any other way of communication. There is no such thing as 'i couldn't pick up' or 'i had no reception'. We all believe that facebook is a great way to share experiences by photos, play competitive games, and have fulfilling conversations. In conclusion, we all know this is not a FAD. We love facebook!

FUTURE GADGET

This artifact is great. It can not only be applied to parking tickets, but to lots of other things too. Like for example, teachers can use it for class attendance. I think that anything that has a touch screen and substitutes paper is great, because aside from saving paper you do not have to carry a whole notebook. Loose strands of paper are harder to keep track of. I already know what i am going to do though, I want to make a small device that has EVERYTHING in it. It can be used as a credit card, an mp3 a phone, a recorder, a computer, a plane ticket. ANYTHING! It is going to be great!