Journal Entry 5

This week in class we have been creating games using Sploder. The type of game I created was Retro Arcade. I had 2 levels. There was 4 stages in the first level and 3 in the second. The easiest aspects when creating my game would be just simply placing things where you want them to go. Some difficulties I ran into was I had a glitch in my first stage and it would not let me move on to the next stage. I ended up having to delete that stage. Some confusion I had was deleting a level or stage and deleting something you placed by a mistake. I didn't really have time to help any other students with their games mainly because I was confused about my own and needed to get it done in time. I really liked using Sploder it was pretty much my favorite thing we did so far in bbt. The part I liked the best was the different things you could use to make your game such as the mushrooms, waterfalls, waterspouts, blocks, etc. There wasn't really anything I did not like about this activity. I'm not necessarily a gamer so I would probably consider myself a casual gamer. I don't play many games but I like to play minecraft on my phone when I am bored. I mainly play games on my cellphone when I do play them. I enjoyed using Sploder and I think I did quite good on my game.

sploder game

Make a Free Flash Game

Journal Entry 4

The video on technology that I chose to use in my google slides presentation was about the new invention that comes out in 2017 the Hoverbike. I selected this video because i thought it was interesting the way it works. I always wanted to be able to fly instead of walking. With this invention you can fly. I would totally buy this invention when it came out if it wasn't so expensive. It is $85,000, that is a lot of money. I didn't mind using google slides. It is just kind of hard to get use to. I would rather use smart notebook or something but that is just because I am use to it. But i didn't have any difficulties using it.  I thought it was easy and cool to be able to share the presentation online. I liked this because it was an easier way to share your work with other people.  The template I chose was called "spotlight." I chose this because i liked the design and the way it was displayed. I liked using google slides but i probably wouldn't use it again.

Google Slides

Web 2.0

The three videos we watched were all about how the web works and cloud computing. The first video we watched explained how cloud computing and delivery businesses are quite similar. The good thing about cloud computing is that  you only pay for what you use. Everything is saved and secured at at least one other location.Cloud computing companies have pretty much unlimited storage, so luckily it doesn't limit you. The second video explained how cloud computing works. Just by uploading a picture to the internet you are cloud computing. You can the see that one picture wherever you want, at home at work anywhere. This computer lives in a giant secret warehouse full of computers. The picture could be in any warehouse at any location. The third video was called web 2.0. It explained how HTML was designed to define the structure of a web document. When we post and tag pictures we are teaching the machine. Coding is pretty much just telling the computer what to do. You don't need to know complicated code to upload content to the web. 

Journal Entry 2

This week our class got in groups of 3 or 4 and took pictures using the different camera techniques. We had watched videos giving examples and talking about the different camera techniques so we knew what we were doing. Anyways after we got all of our pictures we had to go on our own and create a video using Animoto. In this video we put all of our different pictures together and labeled them. Using Animoto was quite interesting and it was quite easy to use, I would reccomend Animoto to other people. I really liked doing this project and I would like to do another one like it.

Journal Entry 3

Our group did our photo story on a replay of when I broke my foot during my soccer game. Our main accomplishments were getting all the correct photos we needed, putting our video together without having problems. Our biggest challenges were finding a good day to go outside to take the pictures because it was raining the first day so we did't get all our pictures done because we would've got all wet. Another big challenge was finding a song to go with our video. We didn't really run into any technical problems. Breakdown of work responsibilities were, Mackenzie and I did the editing, and Morgan and Jayden took the pictures. Mackenzie and I also were characters in the video. Our group did a very successful job on our project and finished it on time. What i found interesting was being able to put the pictures together just like it was one whole video. I really liked this project and i enjoyed working with my group.