iTunes Podcast

At first I felt that the iTunes podcast system was too confusing. It seemed like almost every podcast I clicked on was a few years old. I clicked on one about world news and they were talking about 9/11. After i figured out how to find the recent podcasts, it got a lot better. I wanted to hear about world news but it was hard to find some without having to buy them. With this experience i felt that the podcast system, www.podomatic.com, was much easier to navigate through but loaded a lot slower. I think podcasts are a good way to relay information and I am going to keep looking at them.

Family Blog

My idea of what a family can be is your family, not just your immediate family, but your families’ parents, and all their children and all of your aunts and uncle’s children’s children. My friends to me are family as well; if I’m not with my family I am hanging out with my friends and having fun. My family is fun and energetic, they always make me laugh and never get boring, and this is probably where I get my personality from. My family circle includes not only people of my same race/religion but people of other ethnicities and ages. In the quote "Families evolve from a patchwork of possibilities" I think it means families are things that protect you and evolve from ideas of the new generations of the family.

Fuzzy Wuzzy

Fuzzy Logic is a way that computers copy the way that humans think and solve problems. Instead of only have a few alternatives for something, Fuzzy Logic uses rules based on experiences, which is what the human brain does as well. Fuzzy is a lot cheaper to produce and has a wider range of choices that it can make. The first person to come up with the idea of fuzzy was someone who worked at the University of California at Berkeley. Then Japan took on the idea and China soon after, both this countries made many of these smart machines. After reading this article I’m a little scared because these machines may smarten up and figure out that they don’t need us and attack us, just like in the Terminator’s 1-3.

My family

My idea of what a family should be is people that you enjoy being with, people who care for you and know what is best for you, who know when your down and how to get you back up. People you can trust that will always be there for you. People who are in my family circle are my close friends and my mom, dad, brother, and sister. My family is fun and exicting, happy at times, sad at others. To me the quote "Families evolve from a patchwork of possibilities" means that familes may have different opinions about things but they are still united and have learned from one another.

Done at last

I thought our presentation wasn't as good as i hoped it to be. The videos that we had didn't work because we didn't have the videos in the same spot on the computer out in the other room as we did in this room, but we got them to work after about five minutes. Also, the powerpoint very slow because there was a lot of excess windows open so it was lagging the computer. Compared to the other projects of our other classmates, I felt ours wasn't as long but had the same amount of information. If we would have done a iMovie on our topic I feel we would have done better because it would have been easier to show our information and examples while we were talking. All in all I liked this project because it was fun finding out the information and we used powerpoint which i enjoy using.

MultiMedia

My partener for my project is going to be Renzo Santillan. The purpose of our project is to find out what our friends and others think is the best skateboarding spot in the Bay Area. We changed our mind from doing an iMovie to doing a powerpoint because we didn't have access to a computer that had iMovie. In the slides we are going to show the results of our surveys and pictures of the person we are interviewing. Over the break we gave more of our friends the survey and went to the skate spots to see if everyone could skate there and the age/cultural diversity of the people skating those spots. Difficulties we faced were were on also most of our friends were on vacation so we couldn't film them and the camera we were planning on using didn't work in iMovie and we couldn't get a different camera to use. Also, finding a good date to do these things such as visit the park was hard because it was Spring Break and we were doing other things with our family and such.
Points of contention we might face is that people who live in different parts of the Bay Area might not be able to get to these spots over in the West Bay so they may disagree and say that there spots in the East Bay are better to skate. Also, some people who do live in the West Bay may have skated these spots but didn't like them so they say this spot was bad and disagree with us.