Final Exam

For a part of my exam I have to answer the question "Should smartphones be allowed in the classrooms?".  Below is my answer.

Many people think that cellphones should be allowed in classes. The smartphone is still a cellphone, the difference is that you can connect to the WiFi.  My opinion is that they should not be allowed in classrooms.  They are still a cell phone.

I have a few reasons to think this. My first reason is that the during a test you would be able to look the answer up on the internet, you wouldn't have to actually learn to get the answer correct.  Another reason is that it is still a cell phone.  Teachers are trying to stop the texting in class, with the smartphones allowed in the classroom the student would continue to text during class and the teacher wouldn't know if they were actually texting or just using the WiFi.  My last reason why is because students could go onto the WiFi and just use another person's work and pass it as their own.

In conclusion, I do not think that smartphones should be allowed in the classrooms.  Students would not learn, they would playgerise, and they would still text in class. Those are the reasons on why I think this.

Smartphones.

Week Before Christmas

So this weeks blogpost is for the past three days, since today is the last school day before Christmas break.  During this week things for Christmas were happening around the school, some teachers were getting their students into the Christmas spirit.  In CommTech this week, we practised photoshopping pictures.  Which is all we did the past two days.  Other then that in CommTech we watched Christmas movies the last two days. While the people who haven't finished work do that.  So that's all there is. Talk to you after Christmas.

Collage Week, with some Photo Shop

 This week in Comm Tech we worked on a collage, and liquefying an image in photo shop.  The collage had to be made in Corel Draw.  For the collage we had to pick a theme for the pictures to be based on.  My theme was friends.  Pictures were just of my friends and I hanging out at lunch.  Our teacher wanted us to use developed techniques that we gained over using the program over using it multiple times.  I added different shapes in the background, added a frame around the whole thing, then added a little quote in a corner close to the title.  The picture of my collage is in the post that I posted last week.   This week we also had to liquify an image in photo shop.  This is just using multiple tools to move the pixels of the image around, or to increase/decrease their size.  I will post a picture of this, with the original picture next to it, so that you can see the difference in the pictures.  This week as something to do, I drew PAC Man with a bunch of dots in front of him to 'eat'.  The dots change their colour slightly each time making them go from dark blue to light blue for example.  I have it so that once the colours are dark or light that they will change into a different colour in the same family.

Before picture.

After liquefying the picture.

My PAC Man drawing.

My Collage

This is my collage that I mentioned on starting last week. 
More information about this will be in my weekly post on Friday.

Photography week again.

Well this week was not very eventful.  This week I finished my brochure for the top ten tips for photography.  The teacher had us add effects to the pictures once they were taken and out into the brochure.  The effects could be, a drop shadow or shapes behind the pictures, pretty much anything to give the brochure a little bit of characteristic to it.  When I got my mark for the brochure I saw that it was a level 4.  Other then that, I spent one period just drawing in CorelDraw.  Then the last thing we did this week was start a collage in CorelDraw.  The collage had to have a theme and my theme was going to be friendship, so I can just take pictures of my friends and I hanging out. 



One side of my brochure.



Start of Photography

This week in CommTech we started our photography unit.  What we started to do was our top ten tips for photography brochure.  We had to make this brochure in CorelDraw.  Once we wrote down the ten tips down on the brochure, we had to take two pictures for each tip.  One demostraighting, without the tip, and one demostraighting while using the tip, how the picture would look each time.  Then we have to put those pictures into the brochure.  I will post the final picture of my brochure when it is done.  Just for one day this week me and two friends spent the period in the studio of our CommTech room.  That's all we really did this week.

Just Another Week in CommTech

Last week was very similar to the week before. The few differences during the week were that the class had to use Audacity and create an mp3 file using 5 different songs.  The whole thing had to be 25 seconds long.  I used guitar riffs in majority of my file.  In order they were: Kryptonight by 3 Doors Down, Your Love is A Lie  by Simple Plan, Accoriding to You by Orianthi, Summer of '69 by Bryan Adams.  The last song was I Remember You by Skid Row, and I used part of the chorus for that.  The next thing we did was take our screen printing test.  We had to do an application part of the test.  It was to make a poster that is appealing to Grade 8 students for CommTech. Mine is posted below.  That's all we did last week.  Bye.

Poster for the Test.