Christmas
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Scenes Reflection
The cat is walking through the stage then movie theater then a party. You initialize sprites in a scene by making the backdrop at the beginning. Cartoon movies would use scene changes. People use backdrops to create a story.
Conversations Reflection
The Broadcast block sends a broadcast throughout the Scratch program, activating "When I Receive ()" blocks that are set to that broadcast. You would use timing when you want time for the message to be read. You would use broadcasting when you want two sprites to have a conversation.
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Characters Reflection
I would explain "Make A Block" as a way of creating one block for many different blocks together. You would use it if you had a lot of actions that you wanted to repeat.
Debug-It Reflection
The debugging strategy I used was to determine which block does what action and then see what block would do the missing action. I would help someone else by showing them one example of a debug-it.
10 Blocks Challenge Reflection
This activity helped me learn scratch because it exposed me to many of the buttons I can choose. It restraints my ideas because I have to use all 10 of the buttons so I cannot use the blocks that I might want.
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Friday, December 12, 2014
Scratch- Try it out Reflection
It was surprising that the scripts are able to move when given directions. It made it easier and less frustrating to be led step-by-step through the activity. As a learner, I like having more structure when I am first introduced to a new project. I like having freedom when I feel comfortable with the instructions so that I can explore and be creative. I feel the most creative when I discover new things that weren't in the instructions.
Monday, December 1, 2014
X-Ray Goggles
I changed the "Recommended" box to "WATCH" and the YouTube logo in the top left corner to a music picture. I changed the first video picture to a different picture. I changed the "Upload" button to "Listen to Music." I changes the red box in the left top to "EVERYONE LOOK."
I changed the red box in top right corner to say "Hello" and the Blue box on the left to say "I Love Watching Movies" and the white writing to say "Computer Applications with Ms. Conner." I changed the bottom middle to say "Hi Ms. Conner" under the TV icon and under the open door icon to the right to say "My favorite movie is 21 Jumpstreet."
Thursday, November 13, 2014
HTML #1
<head>
<title>A Short HTML Document About Me</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>About Me</h1>
<p>H! My Name is Jenna! I am a student at RMHS!</p>
<p>Computer Science is a lot of fun! I hope you also enjoy it!</p>
</body>
</html>
<title>A Short HTML Document About Me</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>About Me</h1>
<p>H! My Name is Jenna! I am a student at RMHS!</p>
<p>Computer Science is a lot of fun! I hope you also enjoy it!</p>
</body>
</html>
Friday, November 7, 2014
HTML Intro
What I Want to Learn:
1. What is a type declaration?
2. Why do you need to use brackets?
3. What are markup tags?
What I Learned:
1. HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.
2. HTML documents are described by HTML tags.
What I'm Concerned About Making a Webpage:
1. I might mess up the tag names.
1. What is a type declaration?
2. Why do you need to use brackets?
3. What are markup tags?
What I Learned:
1. HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.
2. HTML documents are described by HTML tags.
What I'm Concerned About Making a Webpage:
1. I might mess up the tag names.
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Other New Codes
I liked Sean Conroy and Adam Joos' new binary codes. They both give a good representation of the numbers that they are supposed to symbol and they are easy to follow.
Sean Conroy's New Binary Code:
My message using Sean's: *%*** **%*% %%**% ***** *%*** *%%%% %*%*% ***** ****% %**%* **%*% ***** **%** **%*% *%**% *%%%* **%%%
Adam Joos' New Binary Code:
My Message using Adam's: blank-filled-blank-blank-blank blank-filled-blank-blank-blank filled-blank-blank-blank-blank filled-blank-filled-blank-blank blank-blank-blank-blank-blank blank-filled-blank-blank-filled filled-blank-blank-filled-filled blank-blank-blank-blank-blank filled-blank-filled-blank-filled filled-blank-blank-blank-blank
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
New Binary Code
$ is on and * is off. $ is like 1 and * is like 0. For example, if you have **$*$ shown, that equals 5. Also, if you need to show 15, you would show *$$$$.
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Why Do Computers Use Binary
3 Things I learned:
1. Sound is vibration in the air.
2. A digital signal represents a value as a series of discrete values.
3. Binary is a base 2 numeral system because it uses digits 0 and 1.
2 Things I don't understand well:
1. How a computer uses these numbers.
2. The emphasis on the importance of the number 2.
Something I'd like to know more about:
How is choice the "essence of two-ness?"
Binary Numbers
The highest level I got to on the Binary game was 5. The hardest part of the game was trying to keep up when more rows came up from the bottom. I don't like binary numbers to count with because it takes longer for me to count. You could use each of your fingers as one number. Computers use the numbers as on and off buttons to tell what action to do.
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Google Boys Video
Google originated in the late 1990s from only two men, Brim and Page. After the first year of being created, Google had 39 employees. Google is now the standard for how people search things. Since Google has moved forward, two challenges include having to compete with Microsoft and Yahoo. Google is ahead of all it's competition because it of its advertisement. Advertisers pay per click and Google marries search results with Ads so that the advertisements are related to the search words. In order to allow people to make fast searches, Google has a GoogleBot in cyberspace to find all of the information.
Monday, October 20, 2014
Eliza
Eliza is human-like because she responds to whatever you say to her. I would make her seem more human by adding a voice to her. It cannot elaborate on feelings, only give definitions. Computers cannot be good "human-like" substitutes because they do not make sense when you talk to them. People get frustrated trying to communicate with them.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Latino Culture: Pre-Columbian Pyramids
Mayans
- Left behind great cities-ceremonial and trading centers
- Different types of buildings: pyramid-temples, platforms, arcaded halls, and palaces
- Surviving codices and carved monuments called stelae
- Lived in Mesoamerica
- History is divided into three periods: the Pre-Classic, Classic, and Post-Classic
- 400 BCE to the arrival of the Spanish in 1520 CE
- Pyramid-temples of Mesoamerica were surmounted by religious temples
- Believed that sacred buildings should be located at places of power
- Built using fairly simple and rustic tools made of stone
Monday, September 29, 2014
Native American Cultural Background
This bead work is well-known for its beauty and is used in mathematics. This design type is based on four-fold symmetry. The four images of four fold symmetry #1 are Embroidery Plains Indians, Shoshone Beadwork, Pawnee Buffalo Hide Drum, and Navajo Rug. Reflection symmetry is when the right half of something is a mirror image of the left half. Base four counting was used for Native languages. Four fold symmetry #3 is used as Navajo sand paintings in healing ceremonies. Four fold symmetry #4 is used for Yupik parka decorations. Four fold symmetry is shown with beads in rows and columns. The Native American beadwork was created before Europeans arrived. These designs were used to create wampum belts and to record messages and historic events.
Monday, September 22, 2014
Scavenger Hunt Reflection
I am good at finding the most important words to search. I need to work on deciding which website is the most reliable. I also must work on determining if a website is reliable or not.
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Computer Project Reflection
I liked seeing the differences between two different computers, along with getting to know details about one specific computer. I enjoyed working with a partner so that we could discuss which computer we thought best fit the needs of the situation. It was challenging to find some of the specific details for a computer, such as the sound card or the optical drive.
Friday, September 12, 2014
Working With A Partner
I like working with a partner because it is easy to divide the work evenly. This way, each person doesn't have to do as much work as we would if we were working by ourselves. Each of us had to find the same information about two different computers and we split up the terms to define in half.
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Introduction to Me
My name is Jenna and and am a Junior at RMHS. I love hanging out with my friends and watching Gossip Girl on Netflix. I have a brother who is a sophomore at UVM and a small dog named Cocoa. I love watching movies, like horror, comedies and romances. I can't wait to go to college, although I don't know where I want to go yet. My favorite subjects in school are biology and Spanish. I want to travel to Italy and Paris someday.
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