tech

I'm writing this on my iPad. I wrote every other Youth Voices post on my iPad. One was written while my family was driving to my grandma's house, another while sitting in my non-operational car in a 7/11 parking lot, waiting for someone to give it a jump. I posted some of them from my phone while trying to kill a couple minutes. The text file was just there. Didn't have to do anything but open Pages and copy and paste some text. Worked like magic. A lot of technology recently has made me feel same way; things are starting to work in a way that just seems right.

Making a game through video tutorial which was relatively easy using this methods was cool. The link was http://learnscratch.org/sc3-u3/sc3-l12.
I liked the video game tutorial although the only problem I had was the quality of the video and I could not ask any questions. Although I could repeatedly watch the video, my questions were not answered at all by the video,
For the level 1 video, I have made a simple pong game following the instructions similar to the ones in the link.

In our Technology class, we learned how to make electronic and online games from an animator called "Scratch." To learn how to make the games, we used video tutorials provided for us from Scratch. The video tutorials were helpful because they were walkthroughs and taught me what to do step by step. However, there were some problems I've experienced like what to do when I had a question or if I couldn't follow along the tutorial. The tutorials overall were helpful and informative in helping me make my games.

I've been meaning to write about this for a while now. Steve Jobs passed away on the 5th of October. We lost one this generation's greatest minds. Not only was he a great business man, inventor and polymath; he was a visionary. He spoke of using computers as primarily something you connect to some sort of worldwide communications network in the early 80's, effectively predicting the Internet. There's a video that Apple made 20 years ago of an intelligent voice controlled assistant at some point in the future. They introduced on with the new iPhone that came out on the 14th.

http://survivalspanish.libsyn.com/int

        - This podcast will teach me how to learn Spanish. Right now I am taking Spanish and this podcast is perfect for me, to learn Spanish and get better at it. This podcast is organized into different podcast series and in different episodes. Each episode has its own topic and what is discussed changes each time. For example, one may be about conjugation, whereas another might be about certain words. There website is quite dull and empty. There is not much on it except for the different episodes that they have, it also says to check out their apps on itunes.

http://www.adamcarolla.com/ACPBlog/

This is a tutorial screen cast on how to create an account on youthvoices, and how to use the site for educational purposes (discussion post:

http://www.screencast.com/users/afsharm/folders/Jing/media/335b18f8-7c21...

This is the Design Spec:

I have learned a lot by just doing this homework assignment.

the personal project exhibition was pretty interesting. some projects gave interesting new ideas about school life etc. and others were boring.

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