Questions

1) You have just learned that you have the opportunity to either:

a) Apply for a full, half, or partial scholarship to the University of your choice. 

*Make sure to list the specific
The school or institution you are applying to and any specific qualifications that are required.

American University Bulgaria – Graduation Diploma

2) Why did you choose this particular institution or job? What do you know about this
institution or job? What makes you qualified to get a scholarship or the
position?

 

Reasons why I chose this institution perfect location range of courses, affordable and quality of education.

3) What programs have you been exposed to in Mr. Zane’s Technology class? (Think about all of them and your own projects from JING to Diigo to WordPress to GAPPS). List them
with a short explanation and be prepared to show them or select one of them for
your interview.

Adobe Indesign making a Brochure for my GIN class Project
Adobe Flash for helping me work on statistics, explaining a statistical concept. (Probability)

Diggo,Twitter, Google Apps for improving my researching skills.

Prezi and Glogster for improving my presentation skills.

Google docs for facilitating my daily life and work.

4) How have the use of concepts or lessons in the advanced tech course helped you both in class and outside of class as a global citizen? Do you have any evidence of this?

Yes technology has helped me present to different audiences, spreading the word and showing how I have become a global citizen.

5) How or in what way has your perspective on advanced technology changed from when you started this class and when you ended it?

It has become much easier for me to present in front of an audience using my presentation skills what I have learnt throughout the work of my peers and myself.

6) What is your definition of advanced technology?

The usage of technology in our daily lives. Using it wisely   

7) How have you used technology to both resolve conflict and collaborate with others?
I used technology to expose my skills to my audience, it has also helped my spread the word of my GIN project and to give me an action plant.

8) What are the “Four Cs of 21st Century Skills”? List them and provide evidence of how you have used each of them in your advanced technology class.

1) Creativity    2) Critical Thinking      3) Communication   4) Collaboration

9) Please post a picture of you that represents who or whom you want to become. Be prepared to discuss this.

 

10) How have you combined your Advanced Technology course with other disciplines?

YES GIN and STATISTICS

11) How have you used Advanced Technology to not only yourself but to help others? Please prepare to show evidence?
YES Presenting the work I have accomplished with the software I have learnt to use.

12) What is/are the most important Skill(s) you have learned in Advanced Technology? How can you apply these to real life? Be specific.

Research relates to life because today, we have advanced to researching on INTERNET and not as much in books anymore. Remember before all information used to be in books.

13) Why should you be awarded the position or job over your peers? How are you different? 

Involved  in technology at a very young age. Lived around the world and acquired knowledge that would help me work in any kind of contract .

14) Who are your mentors? Do leaders continuously engage with you or coach you?

My parents are my mentors, I also learn a lot from my teachers and my friends. I also look up to well know writers.  

15) What was your goal upon entering the Advanced Technology course?

Learning what I would have never known without taking this course. Using this kind of technology in a professional area later on in my studies/work.

16) Is that goal any different now?

I want to start learning and it seems I have still a lot to learn. I have to start moving on going into the professional forming of a job.

17) What is something that you learned in Advanced Technology that you will take
with you throughout your career in education?

Presentation skills which I will be using in the future. Hopefulling I will be using familiar to some facilitating my work.

18) How did you stay inspired throughout the year in Advanced Technology?

Learning through specific research and working close with professional and amateur programs people used to start work in the past.

19) If you could transport one person/place/thing from Advanced Technology to your
next destination, what would it be? A PC with everything I need in it enabling me to work with what ever I would like to in my future. This would facilitate my future making me able to advance in the fields I am interested in me.

20) Can you discuss how you researched this institution or job and describe the
specific steps?
I chose this institution based on the location, range of courses, affordability and quality of education. Assessing the current state of my technology level. Managing my skills and manageability.

21) What are you most proud of in advanced technology? Can you not only
discuss it but show the final product and the steps you did to make it?

My presentation and the final products I have achieved using my software. Yes of course final product should be ready to be handed in and shown.

Project 2 – Step 4

Organize

Key words:
Global Issues Network, Environment, Planting, Earth, Spreading the word, easy access.

1)The information is explained in simple words making it easy to understand.
I will work on the main Brochure website I will be using for guidance to work because of the complexity of Adobe Indesign
I will use video tutorials as well because of the wide range of tools and options to work with.

2) Brochure I would like to re-create. Using creative ways of making them look good.

BCreate and print Brochure with Photoshop will help me with the procedures. The Printing is one of my most difficult parts.

In design templates served as a guidance. as you can see there are freebie designs.

The brochure tutorial helps me with editing in general

Starts with the basic brochure step by step work to start up the 4 to 8 page brochure.

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/designing-tutorials/create-and-print-a-brochure-with-photoshop-indesign-and-uprintingcom-part-1/
And in this link i discovered I have the complete step by step procedure for creating a brochure. I will follow these step like I did with this project.
I will be shortly working with one of the steps present in the website below: Quick Paper Mockup

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/designing-tutorials/create-and-print-a-brochure-with-photoshop-indesign-and-uprintingcom-part-1/

http://www.digitaltutors.com/11/training.php?pid=401 Helps me a lot for all my Indesign work whether it is importing, editing. It guides me with almost everything I am doing.

Works cited:

“”Create and Print a Brochure with Photoshop, Indesign and UPrinting.com – Part 1. Web. 10 May 2012. .

“Free InDesign Templates: Technology Company Brochures | Designfreebies.”Designfreebies. Web. 14 May 2012. .

“Creating a Tri-Fold Brochure in InDesign.” Digital-Tutors Training Featured Tutorials Tutorial. Web. 21 May 2012. .

MCOMJOHN. “InDesign Brochure Tutorial.” YouTube. YouTube, 15 Feb. 2010. Web. 10 May 2012. .

“Rassemblement Des Ecologistes Du Senegal Les VERTS.” Skyrock. Web. 14 May 2012. .

“Tumblr.” Tumblr. Web. 10 May 2012. .

Project 2 – Step 3

Step 3: Locate

Key words:
Global Issues Network, Environment, Planting, Earth, Spreading the word, easy access.

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d-5X4SvzLA
Starts with the basic brochure step by step work to start up the 4 to 8 page brochure.
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMoHUulfEiY
Here is the main Brochure video I will be using for guidance to work with own brochure.
3. http://www.designfreebies.org/design-templates/indesign-templates/free-indesign-templates-technology-company-brochures/
The more I go through brochures I find new, creative ways of making them look good.
4. http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/designing-tutorials/create-and-print-a-brochure-with-photoshop-indesign-and-uprintingcom-part-1/
And in this link i discovered I have the complete step by step procedure for creating a brochure. I will follow these step like I did with this project. Working with one of the steps working with Quick Paper Mockup
5. http://d2f8dzk2mhcqts.cloudfront.net/276_Brochure/paper.jpg
Working to make up something like this. Currently I’m working with my group members to work on something like this.

Project 2 – Step 2

Step 2: Select and Seek Information

The resources I will use are;
1.My specialized informatics teachers (for opinions and Ideas)Mr Kumar, Mrs Shantal, Mr Bryant
2.http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/designing-tutorials/create-and-print-a-brochure-with-photoshop-indesign-and-uprintingcom-part-1/ Tutorials for my brochure production
3.http://layersmagazine.com/book-cover-design-in-indesign-cs5.html — More on Adobe Indesign
4.http://layersmagazine.com/category/tutorials/indesign Indesign tutorials
5.http://www.digitaltutors.com/11/training.php?pid=401 Compilation of Indesign help
6.Google in general for more advice and tips asking: who uses Indesign, what are its Advantages, disadvantages.

Using Indesign for creating the brochure.

Here I will show what website I will be using. There is a step by step guide for making a brochure and printing it.

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/designing-tutorials/create-and-print-a-brochure-with-photoshop-indesign-and-uprintingcom-part-1/

This source is the best possible sources I could possibly use for this assignment. In design is the tool of choice for my graphic creation.

In the link below there are helping tips for designing books with their layouts. This shows how I can include a few pages using only one Indesign Document.

Book Cover Design in InDesign CS5

Project 2 – Step 1

Description:
I will Use adobe Indesign to make little booklets on the different procedures of planting seeds and starting a sustainable garden. To help our sister school acknowledge the benefits of this idea.
There will be step by step planting procedures drawn and written.

I will use this program for my GIN course helping the school staff planting and work with our sister school to help keep a good planting habits.

It is a program that allows you to create compositions of images it is also used for editing and has similar characteristics with Photoshop.

Additional Info:

Journalists use Indesign for the layouts of their work whether book
covers, newspapers even articles.
Indesign helps create better designs and typography so you can create elegant and engaging pages. Indesign is known to be an easy method of working it has a wide range of tools and accessories to work with.
Accessible and customizable tool bars makes things easier.
It stores a wide range of information and a lot is new so much familiarization with this program is needed.

Sub Questions:

Who uses Indesign?
What can Indesign do more than Photoshop?
How can you use Indesign with on of my classes?
What are advantages of Indesign over other editing programs?
How does Indesign help you accomplish your project related to your class

Project 1 (Step 6)

Step 6: Evaluate

1)For example: A question that I have is: Why should I use Flash?

I will introduce flash to the class and guide the audience through my accomplishments with Adobe Flash.
Making them learn what I am interested in doing involved sharing Ideas and knowledge about a specific program.
I am looking forward myself in learning new techniques with Flash because of the enormous amount of options available on this program.

I will look up tutorial on google and Youtube for more information.
Research will helping use Flash in the future exposing my self learning therefore teaching my peers what I have learned.

I will share my knowledge to my peers and my teachers in the future classes giving opportunities to everyone one who wants to learn more about it.

Flash will hopefully help me work with 3D animations.

Flash will make me work with my Statistic class where I am working on probability. In probability I am working on scatter plots, Flash will help me animate a scatter plot effectively making in interactive and captivating to an audience and my peers.

2) Twitter
A very useful program that enables me to microblog and get quick answers from my research.

My statistics Books
Includes graphs for explaining probability graphs.

Expert people includes web site visits:
Mr Bryant Stat, Math teacher.
Khan academy which is an online course which includes video recordings and sound recordings it is also categorized as a website.
Khan academy is a deeper way of understanding math it is a guided teaching. It gives the opportunity to practice what I am going to teach about probability.

Facebook of course will help me communicate my information.

I talked to my Math teacher and he will be communicating more sources on flash.

Atomic learning also helps me with my flash project because it provide basic learning and advises about the program. The assisting the instructor gives is very useful.

Links:
http://www.atomiclearning.com/k12/search
http://www.khanacademy.org/

3)Using Google I have started looking over a few sites:
http://www.khanacademy.org/search?page_search_query=probability
Immediately after I typed in probability in the search box it came up with 34 related videos.
Khan Academy is a useful website where the information is very accessible. Making it easy for the millions of students and teachers who use it.
Khan give me what I will choose to expose to the audience knowing there will be knowledge to acquire from this presentation.
Twitter and Facebook will also help me gather my info knowing I will stay updated with all the new information.
http://www.facebook.com/
http://twitter.com/

Going into probability I will be using graphs as the following:
Scatter plots and box plots
These are the two graphs
Boxplot:

Dotplot:
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcThvVtDEUlK6Rxtw3c9YtavJuIUBbJxKPCQNimRMkhNAH04CmWCy-vhnaSdgw

In the process I will work on animating the graphs these graphs will give me the opportunity to have something to present on assisting my presentation. These graphs are examples or what I will be covering actually using flash.
Youtube will greatly help me with my presentation as it gives out information for both my statistics information and helping me work with Adobe Flash as well.

Pictures:

4)
1. Is the information in-depth enough for me? Or is it too superficial (simple)?
Does the information give you answers to your questions?
Does the information give you new ideas, or lead you to other sources?

Is the information given in the types of formats you need (maps, dates, graphics, etc.)?

1. The information is explained in simple words making it easy to understand.
Atomic learning gives a lot of different tutorials which should be watched progressively. The tutorials cover the beginning of flash which is mostly for beginners. As the tutorials go on you discover more and you get more familiar with the program.

Yes the flash tutorials broadens my knowledge.
Not Done

Connexions – Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities. Web. 30 Jan. 2012. .

“How to Create and Animate a Character in Flash – YouTube.” YouTube – Broadcast Yourself. Web. 30 Jan. 2012. .

Khan Academy. Web. 30 Jan. 2012. .

“Probability Theory.” Math Goodies. Web. 04 Feb. 2012. .

“Statistics 21 – Lecture 1 – YouTube.” YouTube – Broadcast Yourself. Web. 30 Jan. 2012. .

Twitter. Web. 30 Jan. 2012. .

Up, Clicking Sign. Welcome to Facebook – Web. 30 Jan. 2012. .
Website

I get all the answers I am looking for so these website give the correct information which isn’t really easy to locate but it helps and I keep learning new things when I surf through these sites.
And of course I have learned from these sources.

5)
Step 5: Synthesize

Presentation Outline/Script:

Relate it to Statistics

Show the equation/definition for Probability:

Probability theory is introduced in this unit. Experiments, outcomes, sample spaces, events, and conditional probability theory are covered. Probability Theory

My story:

How I started off with flash and How I really discovered it. We were in Statistics and we were supposed to animate these picture for project based pictures which contained statistical data. We were a few so we all imagined something like a helicopter flying by or godzilla coming out of the water in the bay infront of Dakar.

Discuss the uses of Adobe Flash:

The uses of Flash can vary. A lot can be done with it. Flash is known to be used in the visualization of the special effect but mostly animation. What is tough is focusing on learning skills. Many hours are needed to fully understand the basic option for animation. Even more are needed for the rest of effect and image editing.

Discuss how it helped me visualize the problem:

It helped me in a way that it made learning about statistics intertaining and fun to learn for the audience, my peers and myself.

Discuss the 7 effects I use d and learned about:

– Animating tween motions.
– Import to Stage,work with the layers.

– Key frames per second and orders.

– Actions on the frame.

– Tipe laps, motion/classic tweens.

– Importing scenes, adding sound video.

– Rendering Action Scripts.

Prezi:
http://prezi.com/-a_bvj9wghhl/adobe-flash/

One day on Earth

Filter Bubble

Click Here for the link to the TED Talk by Eli Praiser

Eli Praiser is talking about how companies such as Google and Facebook filter the information we are being exposed to. Today “Filter bubble”, is what most of us are exposed to for example, Google and Facebook these constant changing online data base are majorly exposing us on a daily basis. These search engines and social networks are somehow manipulating people through networks. We do not pay attention to safety some privacy exist but not all information is filtered. Basically you see just what they want you to see. This is what Eli calls invisible algorithmic editing of the web.

Cyber bullying Article

I, personally am totally aware of risks online social networks bring. My worry about this delicate situation is that only adolescent are affected. By using these kinds of social networks makes adolescent extremely vulnerable to personal information. But exposing cyber bullying on MTV is a great way of exposing these kinds of people to what can actually happen when you post all kind of private information. I know as a fact that any text that you type online can be seen by anyone who wants to actually know something about you. For example if a company director wants to know more about one of his employee he just needs to look up his name on different online networks and discover a whole lot of information even pictures.

Google Docs Article reflection.

In my opinion multi-user collaboration is great, Internet options is all we need in a online, evolving world like ours. With all the google apps I use I haven’t have major problems and I still use them today. I always use Google for researching pictures, news updates and other things I need to know, like tips, famous names and other things. Google is really a trustful program and a lot of people rely on it today.