facebook!

The new security measures that were released this week by the facebook staff are supposed to make this site a lot more private. The only difference is that now you can be more specific as to what sections of your information you want to share with whom, or don’t share at all. They were created for security means, so that users can be more confident about what they say and that their info is not going to fall into the wrong hands. I think these measures are great, especially because nowadays sharing personal information in the web is so dangerous and could be life-threatening. However, this doesn’t mean that we should not be careful at all because these measures don’t guarantee 100% security that your info will not be leaked to other unsecure sources. This will not affect I use facebook because I don’t publish very personal info anyway, so these measures are definitely a plus, but I’ll still be equally careful.

I’m aware of what’s been going on in facebook and the posting of quotes and videos from people at ASPV and I do not think that should be an issue. Nobody at any time has been rude to anyone from the staff or from the students. I’ve seen these quotes (I’m not sure of what videos they’re talking about) and all they do is make me laugh. If people would post a quote that I usually say, I wouldn’t be offended or affected by it because all they do is site my words and nothing else. It is not like they are making up lies about me, or referring to me in a rude way. Plagiarism? These quotes have nothing to do with plagiarism because the person who is posting them, is not claiming those words their own. The fact that people are not being noticed of these things is irrelevant. Facebook to begin with is private, if teachers and staff members are on facebook too that is no wrong, what I disagree with is the fact that they must be looking into our stuff (our profiles) to be aware of these things. I don’t see in wrong with facebook and especially because it harming no one. I guess it is quite obvious that I think the school should not interfere with facebook. If people are members, they decided to do so under their own risk (teachers, staff and students) school has nothing to do.

tech

I’ve had access to computers since I was little, both in school and at home. I was fortunate enough to always have a computer at hand to do my homework or even just play around with it. How was it integrated into my education? Well, like I said, I’ve had computers classes every year since I was young, both on and out of campus because my parents and teachers thought technology should be an important part of our lives. Outside of school, I was given a cell phone to communicate with my parents, music devices because I love listening to it, dvd’s etc. etc. Technology has definitely been an essential part of my life in every aspect that I see it.

Projects that I remember during my time at aspv are typing master when we were in like 7th grade, excel, we learned how to add or subtract columns of numbers and all its devices, creating web pages with html format (I don’t know if that’s how it’s called, but literally writing out weird codes and symbols) or using Dreamweaver (which was actually easier just designing the web page) Photoshop (all Photoshop functions), and for now, that’s all I remember. I guess I remember them because they I actually enjoyed learning how to manipulate them and later on I was able to use my knowledge in my everyday life. Typing for example, now, I can type almost without any error and without seeing the keyboard because they taught me how to do it (it was annoying at the time tho).

It has been nice to have good efficient technology at school, however I do think that we should USE IT more, there’s no reason to have it there and not take advantage of it. What I’m saying is that teachers should integrate technology when are being taught, when we do projects or even conducting simple research. We have had the opportunity to do this, but the only thing that I recall is like three or four years ago, in geography class we had to do webpages! And I remember that because it was really fun and efficient when learning the info.

I survived to my first animation!

The first animation I ever did in my life was about a week ago on flash and it was a girl doing gymnastics on a balance beam. She did two back flips and at the end of the animation a bubble showed her score and then said "perfect score" (effect done by the shape twin). This assignment created a lot of chaos in the class because we were all surprised of how complicated this software was. I don't feel strong about my skills with flash at all, in fact I feel I barely survived  the assignment, obviously with tremendous amounts of help from the teacher and from another classmate who was the only who knew how to use flash perfectly. The thing was that the teacher could not attend to the million questions we all had, I mean, it was almost impossible for him to listen to 25 people's questions at the same time, neither did my other classmate, so the situation got out of control because we were all worried we were not going to make the deadline of the assignment. The problem is that we need more time to even learn the bases of flash, most of us have a really hard time with it and it because we don't know how to use it. 
Regardless of that problem, my animation turned out pretty well, I liked it, specially considering the fact that I had never done it before. For someone who's not an expert with flash, my product was significantly good. However, due to the circumstances, it was a little bit primitive, and if we ever get the chance to LEARN how to improve it, I would love to pimp it a little bit and make it look a bit more pro.   

Doing animations I discovered is fun, it was just that we didnt know how to use it on a basic level, I would definetly love to learn more about flash.

family tree

Last christmas we had our annual family renunion where we spend quality time with my whole family. Aunts, uncles and cousins came from all over Mexico gathered in my grandmother's house to have dinner and celebrate christmas holidays together. This is the only time during the year that I get to see all my cousins because they are unable to visit more often due to their parents jobs and their school, it is hard for them to travel. Regardless of that, last year we had the most awesome reunion ever; we danced, exchanged presents, we ate all kinds of mexican traditional dishes, we drank all night, shared experiences and we just bonded so perfectly it reminded myself how lucky I am for having such a great family. 

life in technicolor..

Ok, so this is my second post and this time im going to talk about a very interesting video we say on youtube called Social Media Revolution. This topic is quite controversial because of the variety of opinions people have about technology and the fact that it is expanding world wide at a suprisingly fast rate. Despite of how the citizens of the world view this revolution and their perspective, it is certainly undenaible the fact that computers are taking over our lives.

In my opinion, I agree with what this video is trying to show us, it uses excellent facts about this topic; every single thing you can imagine somehow is related to technology and it is definetly a plus. I see it as an advantage for us to make well use of it to grow as rational humans that we are. Technolgy has eased the research of plenty of new discoveries that have improved our lives, even saved them. The tendency of the human being is to look forward and improve in every possible aspect; try to find solutions and explanations that we sometimes are not able to define, this is why i beleive technology is an excellent tool. Even though there might be adverse opinions that do not show sympathy with the effecfs of this incredible revolution, it has definetly provided with more good than bad.

We use the computer everyday, and some other people's lives rely on it in various forms or colors. We think that we know how important technology has become to the world's population, but certainly this video puts it all together in a way that you would never imagined it was happening. It is amazing how the impact of this revolution has changed planet earth forever, and there's no going back.

posting and blogging

Ok sooooo.. this is my first post on my new blog that I was recently introduced to by my compu teacher, and so we are expected to wonder about the functions of a blog and basically share it with the entire world :)

From what I know, and basically what everybody else knows, a blog is used to share information of ALMOST any kind. Internet in general is a quick and easy way to spread information and make it available to anybody, anywhere. To create your own blog is easier than creating an account on facebook for example, there's not much to it, you just have to go to Blogger.com and introduce your email adress and password, and finally pimp your profile up. Anyway... blogs can be used for various purposes, if you are a good writer that likes to write poems, you might as well publish them in a blog, or you could post research about a certain topic that could support some else's work, or even just sharing info about yourself, experiences, pictures etc.. to your friends (careful, could be dangerous.)
I pretend to use my blog for school purposes, if I have something I wanna share with my class, I will do so through this website; maybe posting up-to-date news, any thoughts I'd like the seniors to know, any complaints, or just fulfilling my task for computers class :D

Ps. To create our BlogList, we all posted our url's on facebook and copy-pasted them from there.

see ya around :) peace..
Sangui ♥