New Program Testing

The remote desktop feature is pretty cool that we have been using. I imagine that it will save the school alot of money as well. The chat program is neat as well, but I was having trouble recieving messages. I think it still needs a few tweaks. All I have left to do is to color my hard drive now.

Still 3d Modelling

The hard drive is taking forever! I'm pretty sure I've been saying that all week, but its the truth. I really cant wait to finish it. The last part thast I'm working on is the reader arm. I do NOT want to do the circuit board on the bottom...

Almost Done!

Today, I am almost done the hard drive, and almost finished the course. Surprisingly enough, I made alot of progress with the hard drive. The pins in the back made me mad, because there are too many of them, but the actual disk is now in place. Tomorrow, I have to add the arm reader thing. Then I am done!!

A New Project in Sketchup...

Google Sketchup is driving me crazy! Fortunately, I will be doing a hard drive and not a mouse as my project. It is such a complicated program! There are so many things I would improve. It would've been a good idea to learn sketchup earlier. That's what made vector graphics easy for me. I am also thinking about what I would like to do for my original sketchup design. I think I know what it will be: the School. It has no angles whatsoever, even a flat roof! That will be a better project for me to do.

Frusterations with Sketchup

The base of the mouse I am trying to make is very complicated. It is confusing me, and It will probably take me a long time to complete. I might need to take a break from it tomorrow.

My Movie

I really started to have fun with my flash movie today. I will have to move on soon though. The last thing I want to add is a stop action. I am looking forward to learning how to use Google Sketchup. The end is nearly in sight!

Original Movie

My flash movie is not finished yet, but I have the first scene done and a good starton the second one. The Best part is adding the sound effects. I might leave the movie for a bit and come back to it. Google Sketchup will take a while too, so I'd like to get a start on it.

Stuff

Today I worked on lots of stuff, tying up loose ends, etc. I finished my Flash Tutorial and Magazine cover. I also finished up all of my vector graphics assignment. Lots of progress has been made today! Now, I am left to ponder how I will make my very own flash movie. I think I will do it with a picture of a snowboarder. It can't be too complicated (I am very bad at flash).

Vector Graphics

I decided to leave my magazine project only partially finished to work on vector graphics. Illustrator is a fun program to use. It is MUCH better than photoshop. It is also more user friendly. I think that after I'm done the magazine I will forego the animation software projects and move onto GIS first. I will come back to Animation Software later, but I think it will take me a while to complete.

Photoshop

Photoshop is a really neat program. Today, I put myself and Rasputia from Norbit in a picture of Lake Louise. You could make a picture of almost anything. In light of that fact, It's important to keep in mind that not all pictures on the web or in magazines are authentic. Many images that you see on Google have been altered from their original state.

Still in Digital Presentations...

I still need to finish my powerpoint quiz. some of the questions were no problem, but others are really hard, more specifically the copyright one. I really need to finish digital presentations allready, or I won't pass this class.

PowerPoint

I took the images quiz and got 100%, so now I am doing the powerpoint quiz. I was dissappointed to see that it will be mostly text, because I like putting pictures into PowerPoint. I will just add more anyways. The tutorials really helped me understand Microsoft Office. I can now create new content faster than I did before. It text wrapping tool was also really neat, I thought.

Postcards

I got my technology newsletter finished on my own time but the postcards are still holding me up! I had a mini disaster today when I accidentally deleted one of my postcards. I guess it was more of a minor setback, but I am really anxious to finish Digital Presentations already.

Oops!

I was happily chugging along with my Road Trip assignment, and did not notice that there is a Publisher Newsletter assignment that we need to complete. I think I sohuld do it at home tonight. It is pretty simple, and I need to pick up the pace. I am starting to become concerned that I will not be able to finish the course if I dont finish digital presentations soon. The other sections seem a little smaller.