Me, Prisci

This post is going to be all about me! I am 14 years old and live in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. I was born in Mexico City. I lived there until I was 7, then I moved to Los Angeles, California. I lived there until I was 11. That is when I moved to Puerto Vallarta. Right now, I'm in eighth grade in the American School. I have a brother that is 2 and a half years old. My birthday is March 3. I have about 5 best friends. Their names are Debora, Adriana, Ximena, Courtney, and Hope.

I have two favorite sports, soccer and tennis. I'm not very good at neither of them but I still like them a lot. I practice each sport about twice a week, at least. I love going to school, well not really. Only because I get to see my friends and talk. Everyday to me is totally different. Sometimes I feel down and others I feel extremely happy. Two words that to me have a lot of meaning are peace and love. If there wasn't peace anywhere people would go crazy and without love we wouldn't exsist. I try to spread that to everyone I meet. People say I'm very polite and nice. I try to meet people before I judge them but it's sometimes hard.

For my future I would like to be a doctor. I feel it's a great profession because we get to help people. Doctors also make a lot of money! :D When I grow up I want to get married and have 4 children. I will name them Paulina, Santiago, Sebastian, and Debora. I want to live in a city, a big city. Like Mexico City or Los Angeles. Well I have to go now, Bye! :)

My music

Well, I will tell you about the songs we made in computer class again. I personally didn't really use much effects. I made most of them. The ones I made were mostly words and random sounds. My classmates, also did that, but also downloaded effects from the computer. Somethings I did was mute part of my effects and raise the volume on others. The ones I heard from my class, was probably the same. They lowered the volume on some parts, and raised it in other.

I heard about 9 songs. In all, they were preatty good and had a lot of beat and rythm. Some had more effects than others, but there were a few with no effects, which I liked a lot beacuse the person that made it had to really think about what they were going to say or do. The ones that had only effects were really cool too because they had to find effects that would match with each other. I enjoyed listening to all of them a lot because you could actually kind of see the type of music people like.

music

In computers class we did music, only using sound effects and our voice. It was kind of hard for me because I couldn's really decide what effects I wanted to use, and where to put them. I probably could have done a better job with using effects instead of my own noices. For the eight graders next year, I think they should use more sound effects and mix it with their noices.

Mash-ups! (:

On computers class, we've been doing mash-ups. On my team today I had Ximena, Mahonry, Hope, Marifer, and Sebastian. Hope's mash-up was really cool. It had a lot of songs and various effects, it wa really creative. Mahonry's mash-up was very well done. It had so many songs, but they all mixed perfectly. Ximena was absent all week so she didn't do a mash-up. I didn't hear Marifer's nor Sebastian's for some weird reason. In conclusion, the two mash-ups I heard, were very creative.

My mash-up I feel was very cool! I can maybe improve it by mixing other songs that have different beats. Another way I can improve it is by maybe muting parts of other songs and making it higher. I personally reallt liked my mash-up.

blur family tree

Typing Scores

I've been doing typing tests at least twice a week since the beginning of the year. I feel that I have improved in various ways. Now, I don't look that much at my keyboard when I type and I don't make many mistakes anymore. My accuracy at the beginning of the year was about 87%, now it has raised up to about 94%. I hope to go up to, at least 98%. My gross speed gets higher and lower but it is not very different from the one at the beginning. It started at 15 and my highest right now is 21. My goal in this is to at least double it. To accomplish this, I will type paragraphs and stuff like that more often, without looking at my keyboard. Next week, we have the "Blind Test", which is a test for typing where we get our hands covered, so we can't look at the keyboard. I hope to do well, and get at least 18 wpm and 90% accuracy.

Future Artifact

Well, I feel like this project was actually very fun and easy for me. The only hard thing about my project was that I couldn't think of a good idea. I had to start my project over a again, a couple of times. Another thing I didn't like was that I couldn't get help during the moment I needed it, so I had to do simpler things. What I liked about my project was that once I thought of something, I got really inspired and started adding things to the iPod. If I had to change something in my project, I would probably make it more sophisticated.

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This is a link to Fernanda's project. The project she did was the one I liked the most. I really liked how she is recording the dreams the lady is having and then she is able to see her dream all over again when she wakes up. Although, I think that she used skills from photoshop that I've already used and have already talked about.

I would absolutely love to have this artifact in my house. Maybe this artifact can be created in the future and it would probably be very cool. If it exsisted, I would totally buy it and watch my dreams every day. If people bought this artifact, it would be very cool, but it could cause many problems. It would cause problems because there are some dreams that probably should not be seen, and we would be watching them, and also other people could find out about your secret dreams. Other than that, this artifact is really cool and it is a great idea. I think a lot of people would buy it.

tutorail 2

This tutorial http://fx.worth1000.com/tutorials/161124/how-to-create-rain helped me for my project. I used this kind of effect for the laser coming out of the iPod. While doing the tutorial, I got completely lost because for some reason I couldn’t find some applications, but after searching I did. I actually liked this tutorial because it wasn’t as complicated as others.

tutorial 1

This tutorial http://fx.worth1000.com/tutorials/161386/lighting-a-giant-elephant helped me in many ways. Well in my project I’m not really going to use it, but it was really cool so I still took it. When I started taking it, I got sort of confused, but after a while I could actually see how it all ends up. Even though I’m not going to use it, I would personally like to do another project and use it.

Classroom management

In my opinion our classroom needs a lot of management. We don't listen to the teacher, and don't follow instructions. Instead of listening to the teacher we are doing something else, so maybe we should get instructions before we turn on our computers. We should also be able to use facebook but after we turn in our work and never before because it entertains us. I think that the punishment we get for going into facebook on inappropiete time is great, maybe that way we learn how to listen to the teachers.

Artifacts from the Future

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I chose this artifact because in my opinion it is perfect and a lot of people would love to have it.
You wouldn't even need to get out of your house to do shopping. You could just choose the artifact you like and it recreates it right there. It's from the future because it makes the artifact next to you and you can just choose it in your computer and wait a few seconds and there, done you have it. This inspires me to make something where you choose the outfit you want to wear, stand on a plataform and there you have you new outfit on you and you are ready to go.

family tree

I chose this tree because it is big and it stands out. It also looks very peaceful to me. I also like it because it is big enough for my family.

Name card

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS7Uq-wcgjc

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me! :D

hey i'm priscila, i'm 14 years old! :D