Adobe Flash Week 4, Assignment #4 - Visiting the Dutch Countryside!

Wow! It's the week of February 13th!! The weeks are flying by - after this week, we will have 5 days of school left in February!! Soon we will be sending out progress grades and the quarter is going to be over!! This blog is your opportunity to post your completed assignment for the "Working with Symbols and Managing our Library" assignment - also known as the Windmill Assignment. I hope you had fun creating your own little windmill scene. I aways associate windmills with the Dutch countryside - specifically Zaanse Schans and Keukenhof ... perhaps you'll travel there someday.

Similar to previous assignments, the blog questions are:

• Describe the assignment you just completed? What was the task and what needed to be done in order for you to successfully complete the assignment?
• What new skills did you learn from completing this assignment? Be specific and use correct names for the different tools you needed to use to complete the assignment. ie Classic Motion Guide, Keyframes, symbols, etc.  Reread the assignment description or watch the tutorial to remind yourself
• Was the assignment easy to complete? Did you have any trouble? What did you have trouble with and how did you resolve the issue? What was the most fun aspect of the project and the most challenging?
• Besides making the windmill rotate consistently using these new skills, what other types of animations could you make successfully now using similar tools to the ones used in this project?

As we finish this week, for those of you who have had a great start, keep it up - for those of you who struggled as we got going, now's your time to stay focused and get all of your assignments in - progress grades come out Friday. For your blog - please be sure to write well written thorough responses that you would be proud to share your friends, family and, of course, ME :)

Menlo College Reflection

  

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday!  What an amazing experience yesterday - to be able to get off our High School campus and have the opportunity to visit a college/university in our own community.  This morning, it would be a shame not to take a moment to reflect on this experience.  Below are a series of questions I hope you will take the time to think about and reflect on to personally benefit yourself.  Take your time - this is due at the end of the period:

• Introduce the activity you were involved in yesterday - what did you physically do?  Include the name of college visited and day/date visited
• What was your overall impression, or feeling, about this college?
• Can you imagine yourself attending this college, or one like it? Why or why not?
• What did you like best about this college?
• What did you like least?
• What were some important details you learned from being on the trip yesterday?
• What would you like to know more about?
• How will your visit yesterday affect your future plans? Will you apply to this college (or one like it)? Why or why not?
• How has the college visit affected your decision about going to college and ideas about what you need or want from a post-secondary education?
• What is your interest level in getting a 4 year college degree on a scale of 1 to 5 (1= not interested; 5 = absolutely will get that degree).  Did yesterday's trip affect your commitment level to this?
• What do you personally need to do (be specific) to go to a college like the one you visited yesterday?

Although it seems like a different topic, please finish your post today by discussing the class scheduled you plan to sign up for next year.  While you will all be enrolled in Academy Government/Econ and AP Computer Science Principles, what other courses do you also plan to enroll in and how will those help you with ensuring you are meeting your personal academic goals?  What are some steps you can take to ensure you are getting the best grades possible?

Thanks for your thorough and thoughtful response!!  I look forward to reviewing it!