Video Commercial Projects

The commercials were pretty good and they definitely reflected the creativity and skill some of my classmates have. I personally enjoyed them all but I had a few favorite. The one Jose did about Coke, was very funny and it was perfectly edited. Marifer's really showed the purpose of the commercial and her creativity to relate the animals to an institution. The three Mastercard ads were also very creative and full of entertaining scenes. My video is still in the process of editing so I need to add some things that will show different effects. In general, they were all great and in my opinion they are fine the way the are so they don't to be changed or manipulated.

New technologies

I think these new technologies are just making our life easier every day. With the senses you can now control objects, that sounds pretty awesome but I don't know if I desire to have one. Maybe in the near future it would be great to sort of interact with the things that were design to stay on a wall and just make your own ideas. It sounds like it is a good proposal for education because we can now improve our skills with our sense of touch. The other thing in which I was amazed is how you can take pictures and edit them in the palm of your hand or any wall available. The information that this software has is incredible, it can relate everything in your hand with the facts online or included in the software.

The greatest things of this technology are definitely the way in which you interact with any object of the physical world. For example, it can show you a video of a related article in the newspaper in the wall or in the newspaper itself. Or it can also give you the information displayed in your boarding pass and inform you about the flight conditions. It can do almost everything,we can say it is the new way in which science and technology bond together with the computing technologies and create a software for everyone. This can also have its limitations like for example, if you're having a class or a meeting, i wouldn't imagine how would that be with everyone using this software. It would be like if there were robots in the room, all the values and other moral teachings would not be displayed.

When he says this software is going to be open source he refers that the technology is going to be available for people with no restrictions. This could be a great opportunity for us to take advantage of the situation and use this software to interact with technology. Without a doubt the software has everything it needs to succeed and I'm sure we would see it in the future but, when he says it would be available for everyone, I doubt it would last because people try to adjust it to their own purposes and goals. Making this open source would leave out other projects that were aiming to charge something, out of the market.

Sexting Article

Jessica Logan was a girl involved in a sexting issue that caused her death due to depression. The school is not responsible for her death as their parents think, but it is important to know both sides for this problem. When her picture appeared in almost every cellphone of Sycamore High she went to get an advice and help from the school's councelor. The only help she could get is a "there's nothing I can do" from the authorities of the school. Their parents are arguing that they could've tried agressive ways to attack this issue. The only guilty is her boyfriend because he is the one that started circulating the picture of her naked.

The school is not guilty of this issue because they are not responsible for others actions, although their part of the society inside the school. Chacking every cellphone or every blog account from the students would invade people's privacy and it would be worthless cause the students would still have the pictures. The real guilty as a I said, is the boyfriend he should feel worse than any of the students because he is the real responsible for lowering Jessica's self-steem.

School Posting

According to teachers, there has been an offensive posting against some staff members of the school. They are planning new ways to avoid this kinds of situations from students, which i think is kind old harsh because not all them are guilty or have to do with that issue. When involving others as targets to make fun of, can be rude and quite disrespectful, but as i say, not all students have to do with this problem, it might only be one. Now that we know the school is concerned, students can now be more careful with what they post or just start by getting rid of the staff members in their contacts.

Facebook security

The new Facebook security measures are quite strict but they hope to get a better functionality in users providing a safer zone for them to interact. The new things implemented include an age for members to start creating their blogs. The 13 year old limit is one of the most criticized because teens want to have the freedom to get to share pictures and comments with their friends and family. It seems users have more restrictions but new ways they can be affected online by other users, this is why they are creating a list of things you should consider when your login in. I think this would last because although it might change some stuff in the general idea of Facebook, it can provide a safer service for users.

Video Editing

On the video project I think I'm going to create a commercial for a new soccer ball.
My team is Jose Vallarta and Raffa Kollinger.
Im planning on having a short commercial with someone freestyling with the product.

Academic career

My academic career started here in the American School since I was like 6 years old. Soon, I was taught how to use technology as a helping tool for school. Throught the years things got more complicated in terms of the usage of new programs but at the same time they serve as tools. Technology has been part of many of us since we were little. I had Mr. Davis for 2 years and he taught me how to use programs like Photoshop and Dreamweaver.

When I left the American School for 3 years, I had to use a laptop in my new school instead of books and notebooks. This was great in some ocasions because we get to use the computer not only as a search engine for school work and homework, but also as an organization tool which helped sometimes. Using technology had its pro's and con's but overall it was a good idea because sometime in the future Im pretty sure things would be more like that.

I remember having a project with Mr. Davis about creating a web pages that took weeks and weeks. He was teaching us the basics of Notepad but the majority of us weren't that good at building them. I think I might remember that project because I was not good at it. Teachers should integrate technology in their daily presentations because it gets the students attention and I think we were remember it easily.