-          Sprite 1 : {WILD BUNNY} the job of this sprite is to draw a coordinate

-          Sprite 2 : {ERASER} this sprite erases everything and draw a coordinate again

-          Sprite 3 : {2PM} this sprite draw a faces

If I press ‘space bar’ it will draw a face with angry face with teeth

If I press ‘a’ it will draw a face with smiling

Fist, when I click the green flag on top, the ‘WILD BUNNY’ will start to draw a coordinate. After the ‘WILD BUNNY’ finished drawing the coordinate, I have to press space bar to order ‘2PM’ to draw an angry face with teeth on the coordinate. When I press the space bar, ‘2PM’ will go to -120 in the x axis and 120 in the y axis and then it will point direction 90 and turn 15 degrees for 24times to make sparkling eyes. To draw a nose, sprite will go to 20 in x axis and 30 in y axis and point in direction 90. After that it will turn 120 degrees and move 40 steps two times, then it will point in direction 90 and move 40steps. Lastly to draw a mouth, the sprite  has to go to -150 in x axis and -40 in y axis and 300 steps, point direction 180, move 60steps, point in direction -90, move 300 steps, point in direction 0, move 60 steps and point in direction 90. Now, did you get the idea of using Scracth program? Drawing teeth is easy, we just have to repeat turning 45 degrees, move 30 steps, 45 degrees two times, and move 30 steps and point in direction 90.

Secondly, we have to draw a face with smiley face. It is easier than drawing the first face. To draw smiling face, we have to draw eyes again, which is same as the first face. Drawing nose is also same as the first face. Drawing the mouth is little bit confusing. But when you realize how to draw the mouth, it is extremely easy. The rules for the mouth is, first point in direction 180, go to 150 in x axis and -20 in y axis. Then turn 15 degrees, move 40 steps and repeat them for 11 times. Next point in direction 90 and move 300 steps. And you are done! There would be a smiley face on you coordinate! Drawing in Scratch is mostly repeating. The ‘repeat’ will make you more convenient because we don’t have to do again and again.

 We created a survey about internet use. In this activity, 133 people surveyed, and 67 of them were female, and 66 people were male. We have surveyed students at Saigon South International School (SSIS) and Holy Redeemer High School (HRHS). At SSIS there were 72 people who completed the survey and 60 from HRHS.

Hypothesis: We think most people in SSIS will use CNN, because it’s popular and proportional. Most of student use CNN for resources. We have used CNN and BBC for resources/homework.

Result: Most students (36%) at SSIS use other website for news and least students (7%) use BBC for news. The rest of the websites were all about on average. As many as 28 students (47%) in Canada don’t use internet for news, and no one use BBC for news.

Conclusion: Our hypothesis didn’t support the result. The plot shows you that students at SSIS mostly use other website for news. On the other hand, students at HRHs mostly don’t use any website for news. Also, nobody use BBC for news in Canada. We think it’s interesting that most people in Canada don’t use any website for news and they don’t even use BBC. Maybe they watch news in television or newspaper, otherwise they are not interest in news. Canadian has their own news broadcast.

Miriam & Ja Young

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings.

Eddie is an eighty three year old man who dedicated his life to keep the amusement park safe for its hundreds of guests. After his death, as he reached the heaven, he meets five people every five people he meets are related to Eddie or died because of Eddie. He was unaware of their existence.

As he reaches the heaven, he meets five people and learns about the meaning of his life. For Eddie this includes his army captain, his wife and others with whom he had some significant encounter. Eddie was a good man, who was very good to his family and his wife. He was good to the kids at the park and they liked him.

He learns about the interrelationship of all lives, about sacrifice, the value of love, and a source of joy, for generations of children, etc.

I really wanted to read this book before I read Tuesday with Morrie. When I saw this book standing on the “Good books” shelves in the library I was so surprised, and snapped that book directly. “This is my book!” This story is very similar to his another book called, “Tuesday with Morrie.” This book teaches life lessons and has great morals.

This is my favorite quote from this book.

“Sacrifice,” The Captain said. “You made one. I made one. We all make them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about t what you lost.”

If you click green bar with “ERASER”, it will everthing and start drawing the coordinate plane again.

 If you click the “2PM” it will draw a face like this.

Xtranormal is similar to Animoto, they are all easy to make a video. Xtranormal is a site to create a video with 3d models. First of all we have to create our own account to log in. It is free! When you log in, on the top it says ‘make video’ when you click ‘make video,’ there are 6 different avatars, you can choose your type of avatar. You can either choose 1 actor or 2 actors. After you selected your avatars, you can start making dialogues. You can make a script and make your own story! As you are making the dialogue, you can also make your avatars to act. It’s very easy, you just have to scroll ‘person shaped’ symbol to your script and choose your act! You can also put music on your script too. It is same as putting actions, you just have to scroll music shaped symbol to your script and choose your music.  When you are done with your video,  click “action” to save and upload to You tube! 

This time we created video by using “Animoto.” It was very easy to create video by using Animoto, we just have to upload our pictures and then the Animoto will make the video by using picture that we uploaded. Animoto is a very unique and comfortable engine to create videos. All we have to do is upload our pictures and we can also upload our music, or we can choose the music from Animoto.

When you go to the Animoto site and log in, you click create video which appears on the top. Secondly you choose your video type. There are ‘Animoto short’ which is only 30 seconds video and full length, which is extended length video. Next get your images and videos! You can upload your own from your computer, retrieve, which you can get the images or videos from another site, or you can either select from the Animoto collection. After you uploaded all images, you have to choose music! You can upload music from your computer, or select from the Animoto collection. Finally when you are done with your images and music, finalize your video. And you are done!

Before you snap the picture, imagine your picture area divided into thirds both horizontally and vertically. The intersections of these imaginary lines suggest four options for placing the center of interest for good composition. The option you select depends upon the subject and how you would like that subject to be presented.

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 - Before we snapped the picture, we imagined to divide the picture area into thirds both horizontally and vertically. Then we took a picture placing one of the intersections of these imaginary lines suggested. This toy is located in left top, and it exactly placing the center of one of intersection of these imaginary lines. 

 Lines:

Lines also play an important role composition. This sculpture has some beautiful lines, but they’re obscured by the busy background. This is what we simplify this picture by moving our camera view point in close to the base of the sculpture.

Now we can look up and see the lines against a clear blue sky. The picture on the right is much more dynamic because of the strong diagonal lines.

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- As the picture above, we took a picture of a chair with lines and me. You can see the lines against a wall. The lines of the chair are equal and strong diagonal lines.

These pictures show one of the most common and graceful lines used in composition are called the S curve.

Guidelines for better photographic composition: avoiding mergers

 The merger of this tree with Dave’s head is so obvious; you probably think no one could avoid seeing it before snapping the shutter. Remember: we see things in three dimensions, so it’s easier than you might guess to focus our eyes in the principal subject only and not see that background at all. Avoiding mergers is our sixth guideline for better composition.

 This is a fun picture, but when we cut people in half or trim their heads or feet, we’ve committed a border merger. To avoid border mergers, line your eye up squarely behind the viewfinder and adjust the picture format to leave a little space around everyone.

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- For this picture, we are not sure about what we are trying to take. Tree? Me? 

- This picture shows what we are trying to take, we are trying to take a picture of that person who is ready for the shot.

Guidelines for Better Photographic Composition: Balance:

Achieving good balance is another one of our guidelines for better picture composition. Notice how the leaves, the window, and the couple all seem to be in the right place. The camera viewpoint and subject placement were all carefully selected to create this well-balanced photograph.

 + The flamingo has relaxed, and his neck now forms a pleasing S curve against a better background. So, the S curve is an attractive shape to look for when you compose a photograph.

You can use other simple geometric shapes to help your picture composition. The triangle you get by connecting imaginary lines between the three nuns.   

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- This picture is what we took for balance. We can see triangle by connecting imaginary lines between the two people in the picture. The camera ciewpoint and subject placement were all carefully selected and well balanced.

Guidelines for Better Photographic Composition: Framing

What we mean is to frame the center of interest with objects in the foreground. This can give a picture the feeling of depth it needs to make it more than just another snapshot.

 The Washington Monument on the left is composed in the center without a frame. The picture on the right has a stronger feeling of depth and tells a more complete story because the photographer chose an appropriate foreground to complement the Washington Monument. 

 You use people for scale and foreground; make sure they look into the picture area. No matter what subjects you choose to photograph, you should avoid mergers.

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  - In this picture, there are two people are in the center of interest. This can give a picture the feeling of depth it needs to make it more than just another snapshot. This picture tells the viewers we have to give attention to the two people. We avoided mergers and the white wall makes viewers to give attention to the two people in the center. 

Simplicity:

Before you take pictures, you have to look for ways to give the center of interest in your picture or a point of your picture to be having most casual attention. Sometimes viewers get confused by the just background to find a point of your picture.

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- For this picture, we are not sure about what we are looking for, person?or tree? a swing with kids?We are confusing by the background of the picuture. The person is not in the center of this picture and there are other objects that attracts our views. We are hard to find which is a point of this picture. To make this picture better, we have to make a point of the picture in the center and make it remarkable.

- This picture shows clearly what is the center and important in this picture. Attention of the grass is not as strong as the person in the picture. Also two people in the picture are looking at the camera to show that they are the center and we have to give them an attention. The background of this picture is a white wall, nothing else. So, we don’t have to get confused by the background.

I want to recommand this song and this piece to other people! this piece is not that hard, so you can try playing this piece. This song is really good. If I didn’t listen to this song I could’ve not find this piece.

I looking for other piece to try. I am looking for these pieces, “If i ain’t got you”, “A million miles away”, “Slow motion”, etc.