Trimester Reflect

1) What have you learned from the application of multimedia activities in class?

I learned different ways to problem solve.

2) How could you use the skills, knowledge and understanding that you have learned from I.T. into other classes?

Maybe, use muti-media presentations for normal presentations to make the whole thng more interesting.

3) What was challenging?

Having to start things over again when you fail to save your work.

4) If given the opportunity, what activities would you change?

The 4 people interview project, I'd make it a 3 people interview.

Application Image

Applications Project

1. Facefighter

Facefighter is a game application, and it works like this. First, you take a picture of a friend's or foe's head (face). Then you can drop the person's face on a body and then you can fight with it. The cool thing about this game is that you can drop anyone onto the game (as long as you have the image of the face). I would be interested in buying this application, because basiclly it is an application that is fun, and can help to rid of stress, and people get stressed pretty easily. And it is only 0.99 dollars. Another reason I'd get this application is that in life, there are some people who you can shout at like your brothers or sisters, but there are some people who can boss you around, and you are forced to obey them, like a teacher or a boss at work. With this application, you can fight with ANYONE. It is amusing to fight with your friends in this game but it is even more amusing to fight eith a person who is in a higher position than you are.

2. Pacman

Everyone should have heard of, or done pacman before. Pacman is a game where a yellow circluar man eats all the points while avoiding the ghosts. The game is won when the Pacman eats all the points. A long time ago people would get so excited by the latest Pacman. I like Pacman because it is not complicated and you don't have to think very hard, like all games these days. Somtimes when I want to kill time, I'd play a game, but all the games that are made these days are so complicated, it is not very good for killing a short space of time. But Pacman is a simple game, which is very straight forward. It is a perfect game people who likes to keep things simple (like myself). I can think of a hundred peoplem who would be willing to play Pacman, like old people and small kids. Somtimes simple is good.

3. Unblock me

Unblock me is a game where in order to win, you must slide the blocks and get the red block out of the board. The 'Unblock me FREE' has 400 puzzles in beginners level, and 200 in intermidiate level, and 200 in advanced level. Apparently the advanced level take hours to work out. There is also two types of modes, relax mode, and challenge mode. It can keep track of the puzzles you cleared so that you don't have to clear the same puzzle over and over again. I would buy this app because it is addicting. Addicting as in if you keep doing it, you'll find yourself trying and trying until you can clear the puzzle.

My Application

My idea for an application is a game. I have no idea for a name yet, but it works like this. First when you start the game, there will be an ordinary room with a bed, desk, computer, and closet. Soon, bugs will start to come out of all sorts of places, like from under the bed or out of the closet. I order to win, you must keep killing the bugs by touching them. When you touch them, they will get squished. The more bugs you kill, the harder it is to kill the bugs. And to make it more fun, the bus will make a squelching sound as they get squished.

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NY Times Multimedia Slideshows

(Russia Suicide Bombing)

(Russia Suicide Bombing)

(Russia Suicide Bombing)

(Kabul Bombing)

(Kabul Bombing)

i)

First slide show:

An Ambush and a Comrade Lost

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/04/19/world/20090420-aliabad-ambush/index.html

1. What was effective about the presentation

The slide shows had images from during the ambush, and it helped me imagine what was happening. The graphics were clear because it contained the soldiers being so depressed to find one of their friends gone. The presentation had audio explaining more about the graphics. The audio also gave an idea about what it was like to lose a friend so suddenly.

2. What multimedia was used?

It had graphics of during the ambush, it also had text under the slide show describing what the graphics contain. It had audio of the soldiers telling what happened in the graphics. There are multiple people who speaks in the audio part of the presentation.

3. What did you want to know more about?

I wanted to know more about what exactly happened to the lost comrade, and how they were ambushed. I also want to know what it feels like to live in fear all the time, and what it feels like when you loose a close friend.

4. What emotions did the images evoke.

It made the feeling that 'war is worthless' more real to me than an ordinary journal, or movie. It was pretty sad to hear about a person who died for practically no reason at all. I did n't take war very seriously before now.

Second slide show:

Pauses for Effect

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/05/17/nyregion/20090517-portrait_index.html

1. What was effective about the presentation

It had interesting graphics, but oddly it I cannot get a good idea what the presentation's purpose is. There are interesting graphics, but I keep wondering what it is trying to tell us. Since I can't see what this presentation is for I don't think this is a good presentation.

2. What multimedia was used?

The slide show had graphics but nothing else as far as I can see.

3. What did you want to know more about?

Like I said, I want to know the purpose of the slide show, and how they got the picture of the street with the woman right in the middle.

4. What emotions did the images evoke.

The images made me feel curious. And weird creepy feelings find me because all the pictures have the same woman with the same pose with the same clothes in every single picture. It gave me wondering thoughts about whether these pictures are photoshoped pictures or not.

ii)

First Slide

Kabul Bombing

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/08/15/world/asia/20090815-AFGHAN_3.html

1. What was effective about the presentation

It was pretty real with pictures a dead body and injured people in the hospital. And not only the burning cars there were pictures of people trying to clean up all the mess that the bombing made in the streets.

2. What multimedia was used?

Their are graphics containing the aftermath of the bombing and people saving other people from dieing

3. What did you want to know more about?

How did the bombing happen anyway? Why would people want to bomb the place. And how many people died because of the bombing. This incident happen in Kabul, and I wondered where is Kabul on the world map? Because army people were all over the scene.

4. What emotions did the images evoke.

It had me scared for a moment because of image 3 where you can actually see the dead and burnt body of a person. It also had me sad because the images also has people being depressed about the accident.

5. How could you use multimedia slides shows in any class?

Maybe in Humanities class when the teacher wants to show us images of ancient pyramids

Second Slide

Russia Suicide Bombing

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/08/17/world/20090817_RUSSIA_SLIDESHOW_index.html
1. What was effective about the presentation

The slide show had graphics, but these graphics had a large variety of contents. For example, the scene of all the people around the damage. And the people who are searching for survivors. And people trying to clean everything up.

2. What multimedia was used?

Graphics of the scene (from far away and close up) and the people cleaning the place

3. What did you want to know more about?

Way would someone chose to bomb himself when killing himself. Exactly how much damage was done. And how many people got perished. Could all this just be an accident?

4. What emotions did the images evoke.

Anger at the person who bombed the scene. And pity for the people who got injured and who lost their homes and who has to clean up the mess. It also amazes me to get to see all the cars, bricks and even the ground smudged with black.

5. How could you use multimedia slides shows in any class?

Perhaps in science class to show microscopic organisms

Thought Provoking Images

These are groups of images I had chosen which (I my opinion) are thought provoking and are worth a thousand words. I have three images on this blog post in total. One of a baboon, a shotgun, and a weird photoshoped image. First is the picture of the baboon. This baboon is showing it's fangs and clearly screaming. The baboon makes me think of jungles and long dark tunnels beacuse it makes me feel uncomfortable. This Image made me feel scared perticularly because of the fangs, I can't imagine what it would feel like to be biten by that baboon. A lot of people say animals are furry, cute, and loving, but are they? This picture makes me think otherwise. How is this fang baboon cute and loving? It certainly is furry, with it's dirty dark dirty hair growing all over is body. Now I just realized that I had just typed down my thoughts about this image without even knowing it. This proves that this image is thought provoking.

This is an image of a man with a shotgun. This image in perticular is thought provoking, because of the angle of the shotgun. It looks as if the man in the image is about to shoot you in the eye. This shotgun reminds me of the feeling I have and the things I see when I have to stand up in front of the whole class and make a speech. This Image makes me feel nervous because that what I feel when I get up and stand in front of the class. And if I were in a position in which someone is about to shoot me, the shotgun would surely provoke my thoughts.

The final image. This is a image of four fingers sticking out of someone's eye. The reason that I think this image is thought provoking, is because most of the people wondered how the photographer took this photo (which proves that this picture made them think). This picture also provoked my thoughts, it made me wish that I could make weird pictures through photoshop such as this. This photo is (obviously) a phtotshoped picture. It also makes me think of horror movies I've seen about bits and body parts sticking out of very odd places.

(All of these pictures are taken from http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/)