Final Blog

1. My most enjoyed part of Digital Communication was working with the computers. Flash was fun to use, and one of the more easy things to use.
2. My favorite project was the train project because I had the guide to go by and finish the project with. I don't need the guide necessarily, it just helped to finish it faster.
3. The project I enjoyed the least was learning how to use flash, pretty much only because I knew how to use it already.
4. The project I enjoyed the least probably has to be the Flash Picture Slideshow. I did learn some things I didn't know before, like how tweens work, and how they don't work after you've tried to fix them 10 times.
5. I'd like to add programming, It could be fun and simple to set up for web design.
6. Yes and no, I didn't exactly do much in my groups but the groups I were in were great groups, and I had no problem with them.
7. Randomly assigned. Sometimes there is a benefit to picking your own group but other kids might feel left out.
8. Yes. It teaches some of the more 'necessary' knowledge about video editing, and creating animations. All websites usually have one or two animations anyways.

This is pretty much our last blog, not counting the final one for finals. Overall this semester has been great. It would've been better if I kept up with my work in Digital Comm. This week we didn't really do much, besides me doing late work to catch up. Hopefully when I am in Web Design Junior year I am better spacing out my work and completing it on time.

This is my 2nd to last post since finals, and the end of the school year is coming up.

I have to finish up some projects, but otherwise we just recently finished a current one about a news program.

It had to be around 5 minutes long if I remember correctly, maybe longer.

My group and I did a great job in my opinion, as well as the other groups too.

Now I have to complete a finals project and my missing work.

Either way I hope I can bring my grade up in all my classes overall and end the year right.

This week I am working on finishing up my past projects from Digital Communications. Right now we are doing a flash project, and I have to finish up some wevideo projects. Other than the blogs, thats it.

This week in Digital Communications I've preoccupied myself with learning Python and doing the new animation project in Adobe Flash.

Im about 40% finished with my Python course on Codecademy and plan on doing some web-based things with it.

As for the Flash Project I plan on making the balls use actual physics with no-gravity.

Plan to be finished with everything by Monday.

____________________Week 11 Blog__________________

This week in Digital Comm. we are creating a Flash Tribute project. I already have some experience with Flash, so it should be an easy project. If I can complete this over break (might not be able to though, I have Flash CS6 (and as we know CS6 can't be opened in CS3). This will also allow me to get my other 2 projects done and be set for the next

Miyagi to Denial with all of eLv

Danny 'Miyagi' Ho recently left Team Elevated due to his inability to participate in the yearly CoD Champs million dollar tournament due to age restrictions. Co-players Strife, Enable, and PRPLXD, in place of Miyagi, picked up Bloodz for the CoD Champs Roster to pass age restrictions. After Champs Team Elevated is going to disband and join the Denial eSports organization under the Team Denial West.

Due to age restrictions and lack of developer support in the game so far many players like Mitagi have been feeling wary about competing after CoD Champs. Much like Miyagi, Will 'BigTymer" Johnson and Adam "KiLLa" Sloss have already expressed their disdain for the game. BigTymer has retired while KiLLa is only thinking about leaving his organization Curse for a break from the competitive scene after CoD Champs.

Sochi 2014 Olympics

and their use of technology

     The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia has shown us the use of technology in everything can be good. Recently I have tried to watch sports, online tournaments, and live shows on a tablet but cannot. They require a subscription on most sites, then past that most sites don't even have HTML5 enabled or mobile viewing enabled.

     The Sochi Olympics showed us that the use of live broadcast over the internet could greatly help the viewership of the Olympics and other sports. I myself, not being a football fan, would keep the Super Bowl open in a background tab just to listen to the scores. Most major companies and corporations assume there is not a market for something until proven otherwise, leading to a loop of not advancing technology. Now we see the demand with the Sochi 2014 Olympics, and will hopefully see a market increase for these types of things.

     As well as that, the technology I hated was how NBC runs the Olympics. Since they are the sole programmer running the Olympics they get all viewership for it, and most of the times mes up. They don't run the Olympics like, so we see mistakes like in 2008 where they announced Michael Phelps had won the Gold medal for swimming before they had shown the event.

     

     What I learned from the Sochi Olympics is until you show support and demand for something, it takes a foreign market to pressure people into listening. Sometimes even the domestic companies have to pressure the monopolies into advancing. Much like Google Fiber did for others, I hope the support shown at the Olympics by Samsung and other companies help force others like Apple to advance instead of sitting still on a market letting us be passed up around the globe.

Broken HTML is more fun

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