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• Slide 1: Web design

• The overall vision and goal(s) of the project

• Slide 2:I wanted to make a website that highlighted my accomplishments and also told something about me.

• Was the project successful? Why? Why not?

• Slide3: I think the project was successful because I got to tell everything I wanted about me on the website, but it could still be better. I could have Included my family members, friends’ names, and more pictures of them both.

 Quarter 2

• Slide 1: Image Editing

• The overall vision and goal(s) of the project

• Slide 2: After seeing a cool movie in 2016, it’s theme stuck with me and I wanted to convey it in the image editing project. We had to create one image that encompasses a message and at least four images. There would have to be evidence that you used editing tools.

• Was the project successful? Why? Why not?

• Slide3: I think the project was successful because my vision was successfully met. I first found the images that I wanted and sometimes I found other images that changed how I wanted to show my final image. It was for the better and my final image turned out better than I thought.

 Quarter 3

• Slide 1: Graphic Design

• The overall vision and goal(s) of the project

• Slide 2: In this project, we were supposed to make a sign. I thought I could be realistic and make a street sign. I wanted it to be funny and a twist on what people usually think.

• Was the project successful? Why? Why not?

• Slide3: I think the project was a little successful. In the end I was still able to make the sign. But I was very limited to what I could make, probably because I didn't have much practice with the website. And the tool I was using wouldn’t let me do the things I wanted to, so I had to work around it.

Quarter 4

In this project I simply put a sign around the artwork I had done to make it more realistic and followed the directions of the project. I did this project because I felt I haven’t done as well on this project as the others. So wanted to improve my work.

Your high point of the course when it comes to your learning

In this class I think i have really good visions of what I want to create even before the next checkpoint would tell me to do so.

An area of growth for you

Although, my visions are great, my representation of them could be better. Due to me not fully realizing what I could do on a specific editing software, my ideas are limited because I can’t due much stuff on the editor, to knowledge.

How you have used or could use a skill or technique you learned this year outside of this class

A skill I’ve learned from this class in general is the idea of checkpoints. The thought of organizing on my own what I want to do would be great and the thought process will pay off in the end.

An idea you want to pitch for a project for next year's class

I think a good idea for next year could be making an animation skit or game.

3 tips for anyone taking this class

• Turn in checkpoints on time

• Even if it’s locked, still d the checkpoints (It’ll help with the thought process)

• Follow the basic/easy rules of the class

Q1 project Overview

The project that I did for the first quarter was a digital portfolio.The whole point of making a digital portfolio was for people to get to know more about our academic and social life.I think I was pretty successful in revising this project because when people will see it they won’t have to just read what I did with projects but will provide a visual as well. Even though the process was long and hard. At first I thought that making a website was going to be easy but there is actually a lot that comes with building a website. I was surprised at how well my website came out.

Q2 project Overview

Well for my revision I decided to do my 3D modelling project and in this project I fixed the shape because it is messed up and is irregular and also dis formed. Well I wanted to revise my 3D modelling project because the errors were obvious but small

Quarter 1: Website

• Overview

• Type: The project was to create a website using an online site builder, like for example, Weebly and Wix. I chose to use Weebly.

• The overall vision and goal(s): The goal, as mentioned above, is to create a website, but more specifically, a personal website with a resume, list of projects, and contact. A blog could be also included.
  My goal was to create just that, but with a very simplistic type of feel and very easy to navigate.

• Successes: I feel that I have created a good and nice website that anyone can visit and find out who I am. The goal for creating a simplistic website were fulfilled and I am soon planning to add a blog and some extras.

Quarter 2: Computer Science

• Overview

• Type: The type of project was a “code highschool” learning site to learn the basics of Javascript.

• The overall vision and goal(s): To learn and get general knowledge of Javascript, the language of the web. It was done via the way of Karel, a virtual dog who you controlled with Javascript.

• Successes: The project was quite fun all in all. To me, it was quite easy, considering that I already had a previous knowledge of programming. There were some problems with the logic of the situation and the commands, but I figured it out eventually

Quarter 3: 3-D Modeling

• Overview

• Type: The project was to create a 3-D model of something artistic or that can be used in something else. You also had to show the model being used somehow.

• The overall vision and goal(s): The goal like above was to create a model that can be used. For my model, I chose to create a player model for the game “Audiosurf 2”. It is a rhythm game where you control a character in a spaceship riding along a track made of the music you play, collecting blocks for score in time with the music.

• Successes: I feel that I made a good model of what I wanted to be in the game. I have also created a custom “skin” to match this space feel as well. Everything else just fell together well.

Quarter 4: Revision

• Overview

• I wanted to finalize the product of the Quarter 3 project to make it fit better in the game. Basically, add extra engines, make it colored to fit the theme I wanted and to tweak everything else.

Highlights:

• High Points

• A good high point was the ability to learn computer programming in a flexible and fun way.

• The best growth I had so far was the ability to get better in 3d modeling and some nice techniques.

• The JavaScript I have learned will help me create more dynamic websites with additional capability.

• Tips

• TIP #1: Don’t forget to ask your classmates, especially ones who are working on the same project, for help if you are stuck.

• Tip #2: The internet has more solutions than you think. Look something up to be sure.

• Tip #3: If you are working on JavaScript, DON’T forget the semicolon at the end of the line!

Q1- For this project, I had to create a website. The website had to be all about me. The goal of the project was to tell information on me so that people would know. I think this project was a failure. I say that because I didn’t achieve everything I wanted.

Q2- For this project, I had to learn codes and do them to solve puzzles. I then had to record a video of me doing the project. The goal of this project was to learn codes and solve puzzles. This project was much better than my first one. I achieved mostly everything I wanted to

Q3- For this project, I had to create 3D model (although I didn’t have to print it out). I decided to do a meme for this project. The meme was called it’s time to stop. I created it by creating a clock with a circle, an arrow, and inside of the clock, I wrote stop all around it. I then wrote over the clock “oh boy would you look at time?” The goal of this project was to create an image that could be 3D modeled. I feel like I did that and it was a good project.

The reason I chose to do this project is because I didn’t finish everything I needed for it. There were still levels that I needed to complete. One was the “For Loops” level. I wanted to particularly do this one because I felt like it was easy and I didn’t try hard enough on it. That’s why I wanted to do it.

Your high point of the course when it comes to your learning.

A high point of the course when it comes to learning is being able to hear directions once and then not need help for the majority of the class.

An area of growth for you.

An area of growth for me is being able to do my projects better. I went from a really bad 1st quarter project to a really good 3rd quarter project.

How you have used or could use a skill or technique you learned this year outside of this class.

I could use my knowledge of making a website to help people make a website if they want to make one or need to make one.

An idea you want to pitch for a project for next year's class.

A project I want to pitch for next year is creating a music video. I think this would be good because not only is it something fun, it will also help kids learn about technology.

3 tips for anyone taking this class.

Listen to the teacher and pay attention. If you don’t, you could miss something that will mess up your project or assignment.

Finish your work early. If you wait until the last minute to do it, you could mess up or not get everything you wanted.

Work your hardest. If you don’t, you won’t get a good enough grade.

Slide 1: My name is Rymir Vaughn and this is my Media Design Ignite presentation. I'm going to talk about my projects from this year as well as some tips.

Slide 2: My Q1 project was the website. I didn't have a lot of trouble, but I did have a problem with the site builder and I ended up switching from Wix to Weebly. To make it better I added pictures

Slide 3: The pictures made it more visually appealing and easier to look at. I didn't just do this for the grade, but for future applications. I'm hoping to stand out by submitting a website instead of a normal resume.

Slide 4: My project was successful because I think I got my point across and uploaded my best projects over the past couple years. My grade was also decent and I might keep adding to it.

Slide 5: My quarter 2 project was the computer science project, I enhanced the knowledge I already had of coding. At end I needed to apply my knowledge and complete an activity. I made a screen cast of that activity

Slide 6: My goal was to get better at coding. I learned more about coding and different ways to make it easier and faster. Especially, since I've done some before, but not a lot

Slide 7: It was a king of a success. In the video there were noises in the background and I didn't like that, but besides that it was good. Also during the coding I ran into a lot of problems

Slide 8: My quarter three project started off as an advanced coding project that we would be entered in the TEC COM, but it didn't work out, so I ended up just making edits to the project we were going to make the edits to.

Slide 9: The goal was to not only make it better, but have it correspond with a light system that'll tell you if it wrong or not.

just changing the game site.

Slide 10: It wasn't a success in my eyes because of the fact that we didn't go through with it completely. We ended up scraping it and really just making changes to the game site.

Slide 11: The project I decided to revise was my quarter 3 project. All I did was change the colors so it looked better. It looks more visually appealing now with more consistency and has a color scheme.

Slide 12: Cyrus shared the code with me and all I did was change the color scheme of the level.

Slide 13: As you can see the color scheme wasn’t bad, but I wanted to change it and make it better. So, I changed the colors from blue and yellow to blue and silver/grey.

Slide 14: I would have to say quarter 2’s project was the height for me. I learned a lot from the computer science project and I enhanced my skills as a coder and programmer.

Slide 15:Something I could have improved in is getting my checkpoints in on time because that killed my grade last quarter.

Slide 16: I could use the computer science. I say this because I could possibly enter a career in electrical engineering. So this could help me possibly later in life.

Slide 17: I would have liked to do image editing. There were just other things that I wanted to do that I was more interested in. I probably would've done it for Q4 if this wasn't the project we had to do.

Slide 18: I would say that the first thing is submit your assignments on time. My grade took a hit because of not submitting the assignment at all. So, if you want a good grade submit.

Slide 19: Don't be afraid to ask question. If you don't get something ask. This could also help in other classes.

Slide 20: If you do something you like doing you'll actually do it. Like if you do image editing, edit an image you like or make it like something you like. You're grade will reflect it.