Windows Movie Maker (WMM) Reflection

In the past week, our Web Design class enhanced our Pivot Animations in Windows Movie Maker. Bundled with Windows, Windows Movie Maker enables one to create slide shows, make and introduction and credits scene, and add music, sounds, or both. We used Windows Movie Maker to better our Pivot animations by adding an introduction, credits scene, background music that changes three times during the movie, and sound effects. It was fun to use, and I was surprised by how easy and feature-packed Windows Movie Maker was to use. The version of Windows Movie Maker I used was Windows Movie Maker 2.6.

Below, is my Pivot animation, enhanced in Windows Movie Maker 2.6

Pivot Animation

Last week, my Web Design class learned how to use Pivot, a free software to create stick figure animations. I already knew how to use the program, so I didn't learn anything new. Our class was tasked to create a Free Running animation. This is my attempt at doing so:

 The most interesting part of the assignment was watching what others made. Their animations were unique in ways I didn't expect. Even though we got the same assignment, the content people made was vastly different from each other. 

11/18 Learning Reflection

Last week, we learned how to use Adobe Photoshop CS6 to make a web banner. The banner is used for our Web Design's wiki-spaces pages. Within Photoshop, we learned how to cut out images from their backgrounds using the Magnetic Lasso tool. Also, we learned how to change the order of layers (by dragging the layer on top of the others) and how to hide layers (by clicking the eye next to the layer). 

11/8 Learning Reflection

This past week, I've learned more about HTML. In HTML, pairs of tags are used to structure a web page. An HTML page could be made using a free software, Notepad++. I made a basic HTML page using the Notepad++ software. To further improve my knowledge of HTML, my web design class turned to Codeacademy, a website that teaches web design. I am wrapping up on the exercises, which taught me more about the formatting of webpages, more attributes to modify the tags of a webpage, and more.

10-17 Learning Reflection

Our Web Design class split up into teams, to create presentations. The group I was in, Team 1, made a presentation about the history of the Internet, along with other topics such as the first computer. The team members contributed many of their own ideas to the project, so no one person did all  the work. 

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Learning Reflection

• I've learned much in the past week. The first thing I've learned how to do was how to customize my blog, from changing the font of the Blog Title to adding RSS feeds and other widgets. The other thing I've learned how to do was how to record and embed a podcast to my blog. 
• This will help me in real life by being able to help others who have trouble doing these things for themselves. By knowing what I've learned in the past week, I'm able to teach others what I know.
• I had trouble with embedding the podcast into my blog. What I did to address the problem was to ask  my teacher for help. She performed a search engine search, using the query "upload podcast to blogger." She came across a handy tutorial, which told me to upload the MP3 file of my podcast to archive.org. Once I did that, I was able to embed the podcast to my blog.