Final Exam Review

The Review for the Final Exam

Creating an Original Blog Post 2

• You must address the suggestions from your classmate's comment on your blog post.
• You must include at least 3 pictures in your blog post.
• You must add a caption (at least a sentence) to all 3 of your pictures.
• You must include at least 40-50 of your own words in your new blog post.
• You must make it neat and write your blog post in complete sentences.

You will get a daily grade for participation on this assignment for starting on your new blog post and working on it during class time.

Comment: Blog Post Suggestions

You are going to write a constructive comment on the original blog post created by a classmate. 

You MUST write in complete sentences to get full credit for the assignment.

You can only complete this assignment by leaving a comment on the original blog post.

You must ask at least three questions (or offer 3 suggestions) about your classmate’s blog. You should also offer some insight into how your classmate can improve their original blog post.

Examples: What improvements would you suggest to your classmate about their blog? What other information would you like to know about the subject they blogged about? What did you like about their blog? Is there something you would like to see more of in their blog post? What important information do you think they left off of their blog post? Are the links they provided interesting? Or should they provide links to different websites? Did they use correct spelling and was it easy to read? Or hard to understand? Was the blog neat? Or could it use some improvements visually like changing the layout of the pictures used?

Assignment 10: Webpage Using Notepad

We are going to make a simple webpage using only notepad.

You will follow the directions using the following link: Create a Simple Webpage Using Notepad

You can also use this website with html examples as a great tool for HTML examples and codes.

Make sure you answer/complete items 1-5 for your webpage and follow the first link exactly to get full credit for the assignment. 

This video How To Make a Basic Webpage using Notepad is a helpful tool that should be looked at as well.

1. First you must create a new folder on your desktop and title it yourfullname_web. (ex: fierroromeo_web)
2. Open Notepad and save your file as an html file in the new folder you just created.
3. Must include at least one image in your webpage. (The image needs to be saved in the new folder as well.)
4. Must include a heading for your webpage.
5. Answer at least 3 of the following questions in separate paragraphs (in at least 3 sentences) on your webpage.(What do you like to learn about? What is your favorite movie? What is your favorite sport? What is your favorite book? What is your favorite meal to eat? Why is your family important to you? What do you want to be when you get older? What is your favorite extracurricular activity at school? What is your favorite technology to use? Who is your favorite athlete? What do you like to do for fun?)


Once you are done with the assignment you will send it to fierro.r.1025@gmail.com as an html attachment.

Remember you must save it as an html file in order for it to be a webpage!

This assignment is due November 15 (Friday) at 6 p.m.

Assignment 8 - 9

.org -  Part of the Internet address of many organizations or individuals that don't fit any other top-level domain (com,edu, or gov). (.org domains are usually limited to non-profit organizations.)  
.com - Part of the Internet address of many companies. It indicates that the site is commercial, as opposed toeducational or governmental. 
Animation is also one of the most important ways to show how motion in film is actually an illusion generated by the way our eyes acquire information (in discrete images) and how our brain processes it. 
There are many software applications that enable you to create animations that you can display on a computer monitor.
Stop motion animation is a simulation of movement created by displaying a series of pictures, or frames.
An animation key frame is a single still image in an animated sequence that occurs at an important point in that sequence; key frames are defined throughout an animated sequence, in order to define pivotal points of motion before the frames in between are drawn or otherwise created to "tween" the motion between the two key frames. One example of key frames could be an animation of a swinging baseball bat; the bat at rest would be one key frame, and the bat at the end of of its swing would be another. All other frames would be "tweened" frames
Animation starts with ind ependent pictures and puts them together to form the illusion of continuous motion.
Normally there are 12 frames per second in high production animation.


Both Assignment 8 and 9 Are Due November 5 (Tuesday)at 11:59 p.m.

Assignment 8

You must write at least 3 sentences for questions 1,2,5, and 6. You should answer in your own words and will need to do internet research to complete the assignment.

1. Go to http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/new-fantasyland/ and look around it a little bit. Now go to http://www.byteland.org/angeloflife. Now why do you think the .com website is more exciting than the .org website? 


2. Why do you think the Disney website has more hyperlinks, advertisements, and other distracting options to click on?


3. If you had to construct/create your own webpage from the beginning, what would you want it to be about and why?



4. How many programmers do you think would have to work with you to make your website possible? Would it seem impossible to construct/create a webpage by yourself? Why? 



5. What would you want to name your website? Type that name into the web-address bar, is it taken already?



6. Explain why webpages with flash videos, images, and color take longer to load than pages with only text?




Assignment 9

• Create an animation video using TuxPaint
• It should be themed to either Halloween, autumn, or Dia de Muetros. 
• Must be at least 25-30 seconds long
• Each student must show Mr. Fierro their animation in order to get credit for the assignment

To download Tux Paint Click Here

Creating a Blog Post

You must have your blog posted on your blogger webpage by October 28 (Monday) at 11:59 p.m.  

When you present your blog post to the class you must be able to answer the following questions: "Why did you choose your blog post and why does it interest you?" and "Explain why you chose those specific hyperlinks to share in your blog post". 


You are going to create a blog post similar to the one I created about Frank the pug.

• Make your blog about 1 subject (maybe a hobbie, a sport or team you're on, a vacation, etc.)
• Must include at least 3 pictures related to your topic in some way
• At least one picture inserted; must be your own original picture taken with a digital camera, or iPhone, etc. 
• Must include at least 2 hyperlinks total (to other blogs or information related to your topic)
• Must include at least one Youtube video embedded that is related to your topic
• Must include at least one link to the music website freemusicarchive.org
• Must include at least 80 words (your own words) about or related to your topic
• Must be extremely close to grammatically correct English
• Make it look nice, legible, and as if you worked hard on it!

Frank the Pug

Frank is a pug who has been my best friend for 10 years.

He also goes by the name "Frank the Tank." 
Frank the Tank enjoys walking at his favorite park, eating science diet dog food, and hanging out with his best friend named Butters.

To learn more about pugs you can visit this website.
But basically pugs need a lot of attention. It might seem like a lot but you literally need to spend at least 1 hour a day with your pug petting him, grooming him, and giving him treats as reward for good behavior.

I think if Frank could talk and appreciate music he would enjoy music like this!

Or probably this song!

Finally, look at these pugs... Frank does this all the time and it makes me laugh for hours and hours!



Some other interesting blogs to look at:

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Here
and Here.