Postcards

WOW! Weather sure is balanced here. It's a good thing too because I almost chose to go to Antarctica and the Gondwana Desert.  As a caring person, I chose to come here because these amazing sites may not be around forever. These environments are home rare reptiles and fantastic fish. Hopefully, they’ll let me jump off that waterfall!

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Boy, it sure is hot out here! I guess that it was a great choice to come here. I came out here to be an Inquirer. While here, I found the difference in temperature of here and Stamford. I also learned that it takes 2 days of being stranded in the desert to hallucinate and oasis. HEY! Is that a pool behind me?

WOW! What a contraption of art! Rome is very different than Stamford. You have to be very open-minded. People here are different, so you have to keep an open-mind. I came here to experience new culture and activities. So far I got to fight in the Mini-Colosseum. SHOOT! Gotta-run, Augustus is chasing me!

AHHHHHHH! I’m falling! Hey, look it’s James Bond! Just kidding, it’s only my good friend Chuck Berry. Chuck is a professional “Red Bulls” skydiver. I don’t even know how he dragged me into this. Chuck has taught me that technology varies beyond phone and laptop. As a digital citizen, I was exposed to new parachute technology and a special Go-Pro helmet. Thanks Chuck!

WOW! Didn’t see you there! Oh, not you, I meant Mt. Fuji. What a relief that I finally found it too. I’ve climbed around 650 feet already and still have a while to go. I knowledgeable to walk up steps to get here. Yeah, I’m burning those calories! However, oxygen is lower up here and I’m almost out of breath. C’mon only 11,738 feet left to go!

Marking Period 2/ first 5 weeks

For the first week of the new 2nd marking period, I got to learn to how to use pixlr. Pixlr.com is basically like photo shop. The assignment I had to do consisted of 5 Pictures of myself in 5 different parts of the world.

For my 2nd week I had to decide where I was going to be in my 5 pictures. It took some thinking but I finally decided through trial and error. I had decided the Colosseum, Amazon Rain forest, Gondwana Desert, Mt. Fuji and the pink lake. I chose all of these places because I thought  each of them was very unique. 

Before starting the project, I needed some practice. So I chose a celebrity and a random place. From there I ended up with Trumpzilla in the Gondwana Desert. It took some work, but finally came out great......and a little funny!

Now came week 4, which gave me a good two weeks to finish my project. I started with a picture of myself in the Amazon Rain forest. After finishing my first 3 pictures, I had finally realized that the picture of me in the Amazon had a bit of a godly glow. So I decided to keep it because it gave the picture a cool effect.

Final week. I had to complete my final picture. This picture showed me and a skydiver over the Pink Lake in Australia. Of all my pictures, I think this one was the hardest because I could of done it better and it was very hard/stressful to find the right pose for my self over the skydiver.



Link to all pictures and write-ups for all 5 pictures

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jJPQSDnGRA4jplx6hEtJEFLazQF78MOBd1hzsiuWCaA/edit

Marking Period 1 Journal Entries 1,2 and 3

                  

                  In marking period 1, I learned new things. I first got to make  my first post on blogger.com. My post was a pdf. picture of Digital Citizenship. However, I impressed myself with the work I did on my brochure. In the making of this, I researched Digital Citizenship and found that most problems on the Internet are due to digital access and communication. 

                  Another thing I got to do, was be in my first video. My first video was the commercial for  Socktober. I can say that I did well reading my lines. However, I should improve by looking right at the camera more. I also hope to later have my own morning  comedy show with surprise guests. 

                  The  final thing that I  got to do this quarter was editing with pixlr.com. Pixlr is like photoshop but easier and a little faster. Our project was to put a celebrity of any kind into  a background of our choice. I mixed Donald Trump and Godzilla and therefor it became Trumpzilla in the desert. Maybe if I can add a third picture it could be a HillaryZilla and I'll add fire to make it look like a battle.

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Mr. Dubuque,

HERE is today's assignment