Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Storyboard

I was very glad to do this project. I like the fact that we are in groups and we can divide the work. It was fun for me to look up photos and quotes. I was definitely doing something I was interested in because I love visuals and I love quotes. The Google Docs was a big help. Everyone in our group got to work on the project at once. It was definitely a time saver. I was also glad we got to do the Christian Service Program because there was so much information for us to use. We had so many options. Also, it will be fun to interview Mr. Donnelly because he is always so nice, and he definitely knows what he's talking about when it comes the Christian Service Program.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

iPhoto Project

The iPhoto project was very fun to work on. I learned so many things about iPhoto. I realized how much I like to make media projects on my computer and I am very excited to continue media projects in this class. Putting music to the video was tricky, and I tried to cut a song to fit my video, but it didn't work as well as I was hoping. I decided that it looked better with four second intervals between pictures, and it went better with the beat of the song that way. The iPhoto project has been the most fun project we have done this year, and it has also allowed us to be more creative.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Mail Merge

The mail merge project was very interesting. I had no idea what a mail merge even was before I did this project. Mail Merge is probably very helpful to many business people and to many company's. Knowing how to mail merge will definitely help me in the future to send many letters at once. Mail merge saves people lots of time that they would otherwise have to waste writing names, adresses, cities, states, and zip codes. I also think that pretending to be a charity was very nice too, when I looked up the American Cancer Society's fundraisers it made me more aware of what they have to offer and what I can do to help

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

M&M spreadsheet

This project was kind of hard to understand. It was also interesting to use the auto-sum button, and once you got the hang of it, it did make it easier. Other then the getting the hang of the auto-sum button I found everything else fairly easy. It was just difficult to find the correct buttons. It was also fun to decorate the spread sheet, and be creative. The pie chart was very interesting also. It had so many different options and views. It was fun to change all of the colors on the pie chart to match the M&M's too.

Monday, March 14, 2011

What I hope to learn in this class...

In the next few months in Intermediate Tech Apps I hope to learn more about iMovie. I have heard of and seen many people use iMovie, and I can't wait to learn more and use iMovie regularly. I'm also excited to learn more about editing photos using iPhoto and Photoshop. Photoshop is something that I have had to use but haven't really had a good idea how to use. I'm hoping to be more educated with photoshop so I can use everything it offers. I have also used iPhoto a little, but mostly for uploading photos to my computer. I am very excited to learn all of the programs and functions my computer has to offer.