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Abstraction

Posted by Ashley Bailey in ART ADV - Hertz - b2 on
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I notice how quickly the crayon dries back after you turn off the blow dryer. I really do like the method and this process. I realize that you have to turn the gun on an angle to really get the crayons dripping. I probably will also place my canvas on an angle for better position. I believe that I will hold the board long ways to get a better flowing picture.

Cut-Out Fashion

Posted by Cierrah Brown in ART ADV - Hertz - b2 on
This is a rough sketch of my project. My experience with this is knowing the basics and learning as I go to complete this. I know my materials that I need to do and the videos I need. While I was doing this , I realized that I have to make my cut-outs the same sizes. , if not it would not be a good outcome. But , from prior experience I know you have to sketch and measure things out in order for it to match up. Another thing is to always put things in place before you glue because if you make a mistake there isn't no going back.
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The love of crayola

Posted by Khabreah Rodgers in ART ADV - Hertz - b2 on
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This was a first time and enjoyable experience. During this class, it was only one blowdryer and someone was already using it. Therefore, I melted the crayons with a lighter. When I was melting it, the wax starting melting very quickly, and it hardened very quickly. While I was melting my crayons, I saw the girl who was melting hers with a blowdryer. I will use this advantage to my best because I for sure know that this is fast, but if I spill it somewhere else, I need to clean it up ASAP The blow dryer method took very long. However, this was still a wonderful experience overall.

Research for Doodle Art

Posted by Moesha Grant in ART ADV - Hertz - b2 on
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For the art piece, I experimented with the medium marker. I've experienced many times before with the medium marker. I tried different shading with this medium and outlining. This practice with this medium helped me decide what techniques I want to use in my art project. Marker is my favorite medium out of all the mediums. Marker is so simple to use, but has so many possibilities.

Art elective Project Preliminary research

Posted by Tiffany Irick in ART ADV - Hertz - b2 on
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My experience with the pastel was cool. Its thick like a paste kind of. I like the way the colors pop they look real bright. I know i have to practice, but practice makes perfect. I wish that I could have used more colors but what I've chose to draw or color in witht he pastel it really on required the reddish color. I know that I have to put pressure on the pastels to acheive a darker color. And the same if i wanted a lighter color. I like The pastels overall.

Project Quarter 2 "The Colors of Life"

Posted by Taaysia Jones in ART ADV - Hertz - b2 on
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Art Elective Project Reflection




  1. Describe your project: My project was a  geometric painting  with the use of basic acrylic   colors paint. Each color represents a certain emotion/aspect of life. Black means life, yellow means pain, green means power, red means love and  blue means strength.


  2. What knowledge did you already have about the project before you started?

     Knowledge i have about this project is that theres a lot of paint textures and also that sometimes geometry plays a great role in painting and patience.



  1. What new skill did you want to learn coming into the project?
     I hope to learn how to better express myself with painting and also learn how to do different styles of  painting.




  1. Did you accomplish this goal?

    Yes I did accomplish that goal.

  2. How do you know you accomplished the goal? If you didn’t accomplish the goal, why do you think that is?
    I know I accomplished it because as i was was painting i used a lot of emotions and i took my time. I wasn't really thinking of a plan of how it would look but it came out exactly how I feel at times. I accomplished using geometry while painting with some squares and some hidden triangles.


  3. What other skill(s) did you learn along the way?

    Stroking the brush in the same pattern makes the painting look my neat and smooth.

  4. What are you most proud of in this project?
    I am most proud of the thought i put into the project and not just the finishing product being perfect.

  5. What would you do differently if you had to do the project over again? I would try to explore more designs and colors.

Hardflip Skating

Posted by Zykai Gibbs in TECH (INTRO TO DESIGN MULTIMEDIA) - Hertz - C1 on
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Describe your project
My project is a logo for a skate company I my open up in the future


What knowledge did you already have about the project before you started?
I have a friend who started up his own company and he gave me some pointers on how  to make a good logo



What new skill did you want to learn coming into the project?
I learned new forms of creating a picture 



Did you accomplish the goal of learning this new skill? 
I Have accomplished this goal because instead of using photoshop I had to use an online editor, which was harder to use. 



How do you know you accomplished the goal? If you didn’t accomplish your goal, why do you think that is?
I know I accomplished my project because the image was saved, colored, and exported to a JPEG file ready to submit.



What other skill(s) did you learn along the way?
I learned that 3d printing files are not the same as regular text files and PNG files .



What are you most proud of in this project?
The thing that i’m most proud of is the color scheme of the logo. Blue and white just go so good together and blue is one of my favorite colors.



What would you do differently if you had to do the project over again?
If I could do this project over again I would make the logo better and make it more appealing to the eye.

Raven's Website

Posted by Raven Johnson in TECH (INTRO TO DESIGN MULTIMEDIA) - Hertz - C1 on
http://ravenajoh.wix.com/teenevents215

Tech Elective Project Reflection

Please answer the questions below. Do not delete the prompts!



  1. Describe your project

In  my project i created a website dedicated to teen events in philadelphia


  1. What knowledge did you already have about the project before you started?

i knew how to gather information to put on the website



  1. What new skill did you want to learn coming into the project?
    I learned how to make and edit a website


  2. Did you accomplish the goal of learning this new skill?
    Yes i believe i did


  3. How do you know you accomplished the goal? If you didn’t accomplish your goal, why do you think that is?

    I know because i learned skills that i have never knew before i started this project.

  4. What other skill(s) did you learn along the way?

    I learned how to set up a website and i even looked at how to make a mobile website.



  1. What are you most proud of in this project?
    I am most proud of completing


  2. What would you do differently if you had to do the project over again?

I would put more pages on my website


Anaiah's Music Score

Posted by Anaiah Davis in TECH (INTRO TO DESIGN MULTIMEDIA) - Hertz - C1 on
My project is a score that I've made online on a website called Noteflight, using only piano. Some knowledge I had before is the major and minor scale, the rhythm of notes, and naturals. A skill I wanted to learn is learning new time signatures. I did accomplish this goal. I know I accomplished my goal because now I know how different time signatures work. I’m not sure of the other skills I've learned. I’m most proud of finishing the project and it sounding good. What I would do different is change the scale of the notes.

Code Combat!!!!!

Posted by Tymere Alexander in TECH (INTRO TO DESIGN MULTIMEDIA) - Hertz - C1 on
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  1. Describe your project
    My project was Code Combat (www.codecombat.com) Code Combat is a coding website that helps people code while playing the game at the same time.

  2. What knowledge did you already have about the project before you started?
    I knew that this project will have a heavy use of coding and that there are many levels


  3. What new skill did you want to learn coming into the project?
    I wanted to know what action coders use to make your character perform specific actions


  4. Did you accomplish the goal of learning this new skill?
    Yes I did, I now know what actions to type so the character can that said action.

  5. How do you know you accomplished the goal? If you didn’t accomplish your goal, why do you think that is?
    I know I accomplished my goal because, whenever I see enemies everywhere, I can act fast and type the attack action without second thought.


  6. What other skill(s) did you learn along the way?
     I learned how to set where your character is going using coordinate planes.


  7. What are you most proud of in this project?
    I’m proud that I was able to adapt to the coding process real easy.


  8. What would you do differently if you had to do the project over again?

I would probably try getting use to the coding process a lot faster.


House

Posted by Javon Michaels in TECH (INTRO TO DESIGN MULTIMEDIA) - Hertz - C1 on
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  • an explanation of your project
  • new knowledge you gained through completing the project
  • challenges you ran into while completing the project
  • what you are most proud of
  • what you would do differently if you had to do the project over
My Project was a house that I created.
I gained patience dealing with this website because it always seemed that it deleted.
The challenges I had with this project was it not saving
I am proud of getting it done and not giving up even when I was having problems with the house.
I dont think I would do anything different 


Darvell's Ball Court

Posted by Darvell Williams in TECH (INTRO TO DESIGN MULTIMEDIA) - Hertz - C1 on
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Tech Elective Project Reflection

Please answer the questions below. Do not delete the prompts!



  1. Describe your project
    My project is a 3d creation of a basketball court with my own logos and custom color scheme

  2. What knowledge did you already have about the project before you started?

    I knew how a court looked but I had no experience with tinkercad

  3. What new skill did you want to learn coming into the project?

    I wanted to learn how to properly use tinkercad to 3d print in the future

  4. Did you accomplish the goal of learning this new skill?

    I feel like I did learn a lot about using tinkercad but I think I can learn more by using all the features

  5. How do you know you accomplished the goal? If you didn’t accomplish your goal, why do you think that is?

    I think I accomplished my goal because I can effectively use tinkercad now

  6. What other skill(s) did you learn along the way?

    I really just learned to use tinkercad effectively

  7. What are you most proud of in this project?

    I think the outcome of the project looked really good so I’m really proud of my design

  8. What would you do differently if you had to do the project over again?

           I would probably use another color scheme for the logos and painted areas

Mikayla's Blog

Posted by Mikayla Brailsford in TECH (INTRO TO DESIGN MULTIMEDIA) - Hertz - C1 on
For my project, I went back and edited my second quarter blog. I added music to play in the background, I added more blog posts, and more photos. 

  1. Describe your project
    For my project, I went back and worked on my second quarter project and added some more details to it. I added music to play in the background while you’re on the site, I added more blog posts and I added a feature where you can subscribe to updates on the blog.

  2. What knowledge did you already have about the project before you started?
    I knew my way around Webs.

  3. What new skill did you want to learn coming into the project?
    How to make it an RSS feed, how to add trackbacks, which enables the user to be notified of a new post being added, embedding videos, have music playing in the background

  4. Did you accomplish the goal of learning this new skill?
    Yes, I did, I couldn’t make it an RSS feed, , or figure out how to add trackbacks.

  5. How do you know you accomplished the goal? If you didn’t accomplish your goal, why do you think that is?
    I accomplished the goal because I showed my project to other people along with the proposal and they said that it looks like I accomplished the goal.

  6. What other skill(s) did you learn along the way?
    None.

  7. What are you most proud of in this project?
    I’m most proud of the outcome.


  8. What would you do differently if you had to do the project over again?

I think that I would have used a different website that has more templates and options.

http://allaboutmemikayla.webs.com/

Max's Project

Posted by Max Brown in TECH (INTRO TO DESIGN MULTIMEDIA) - Hertz - C1 on
​For my Quarter 3 project I chose to learn how to photoshop images, I used to pixlr to create a hybrid of two animals: a giraffe and a guinea pig. While working on the project I learned how to use multiple tools within pixlr such as the magic wand. The challenges I ran into were learning how to edit pictures and actually editing the picture. Other challenges I faced were the background because it made combining two images very challenging. I am most proud of how seamless the transition of giraffe to guinea pig is. I don't think I would do anything differently besides choosing different animals and doing more of it in school and not at school.
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Tech Elective Project Reflection

Please answer the questions below. Do not delete the prompts!



  1. Describe your project
    My project is a photoshopped image of a hybrid of a guinea pig and a giraffe.

  2. What knowledge did you already have about the project before you started?

    I had almost no knowledge on how to use photo editing software, although I could use microsoft paint.

  3. What new skill did you want to learn coming into the project?

    I wanted to learn how to edit pictures.

  4. Did you accomplish the goal of learning this new skill?

    I did accomplish the goal of learning how to edit pictures.

  5. How do you know you accomplished the goal? If you didn’t accomplish your goal, why do you think that is?

    I know I accomplished the goal because I successfully created an edited picture.

  6. What other skill(s) did you learn along the way?

    I did not learn any other skills while working on the project.

  7. What are you most proud of in this project?

    I am most proud of the seamless transition between giraffe and guinea pig.

  8. What would you do differently if you had to do the project over again?


            I would use more of my time in school and I would pick two different animals.

Greg's House

Posted by Gregory Alston in TECH (INTRO TO DESIGN MULTIMEDIA) - Hertz - C1 on
These past few weeks I have been building a house on the site http://www.homestyler.com. This allowed me to make a virtual house with actual "name-brand" furniture too. Overall, this was an awesome site and gave me ideas and introduced me into a word of virtual architecture. I would love to do this again and this was one of my favorite projects.  

  1. Describe your project
    My project is a virtual house made on the site http://www.homestyler.com/designer .

  2. What knowledge did you already have about the project before you started?

The only thing I knew was I wanted to be an architect, so I researched blueprints and based my home off of that.

  1. What new skill did you want to learn coming into the project?

The new skill I wanted to learn was how to use the website and also learn how I would want to build my own soon.



  1. Did you accomplish the goal of learning this new skill?
    I did accomplish both of my skills. I learned how to use the site perfectly and this is a perfect way to make my house. I also learned how to use different furniture both inside and outside of my virtual house.


  2. How do you know you accomplished the goal? If you didn’t accomplish your goal, why do you think that is?

I know I accomplished my job of learning about the website because people using the same site ask me where things are and how to move an item and I always help them. I’m not confused and I love to help them because this site was simple to use.


  1. What other skill(s) did you learn along the way?

Another skill I learned was using an embed code. I’ve used it before with other things, however when you use this code you can see my home in both 2D and 3D which is very cool and it’s a great skill I picked up.



  1. What are you most proud of in this project?

The thing I am most proud of is not procrastinating this project. Usually, I wait until last minute to get a project done, but this time I used my time wisely and effectively. Since I did this, I get to have a little break thursday because I have everything done before the due date.



  1. What would you do differently if you had to do the project over again?

One thing I would do differently is make a second floor to my home for exceeding expectation.

Project Research

Posted by Gracehong Platt in ART ADV - Hertz - b2 on
I wanted to experiment with watercolor. Drawing bodies is my favorite thing to draw, so I drew a girl. My picture is about a girl who has a pure heart, and everywhere she goes, her light touches others. I represented this by using warm colors for the girl, and cool colors for the surroundings. I still am not skilled with paint, but I actually enjoyed creating this piece. 
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Wayne's animation on the court

Posted by Wayne Stackhouse in TECH (INTRO TO DESIGN MULTIMEDIA) - Hertz - C1 on

  1. Describe your project
    My project is an animation based on the dancing of a young man that can really move. The boy that i chose from the scratch sprites selection was one of many that had lots of costumes. The project is what happens when a boy dances on a court and takes it over.

  2. What knowledge did you already have about the project before you started?
    I had the knowledge that i wanted to create an animation using scratch. So i looked up some coding animations before hand which gave me the knowledge to create an animation using coding no matter which language, which i had also studied. I had the knowledge of different coding languages such as python which is the hardest coding language to learn.

  3. What new skill did you want to learn coming into the project?
    The new skill i wanted to learn was being able to create an animation. I had no idea on how to make animations before i did my research but after this project i now can create animations. My new skill will enable me to create new and better animations and even go for the harder stuff now.


  4. Did you accomplish the goal of learning this new skill?
    I accomplished the goal of learning this new skill because i used a animation card before, but now i can just create the animation i would like without the use of the cards. Although the cards are pretty helpful, but i still can create my own animation by myself. I can also change my backdrop and edit my sprites whenever i need to.

  5. How do you know you accomplished the goal? If you didn’t accomplish your goal, why do you think that is?
    I know i accomplished my goal because i worked really hard to complete my project. I also have analyzed my new skill well enough that now i can read the coding inside of the animations. I know this skills has been accomplished because i am able to help myself understand the coding.


  6. What other skill(s) did you learn along the way?
    The other skills i learned along the way was that i learned to find research really easily by going on certain websites and taking in the best information. This new skill will be efficient for my next project in this class because a good researcher can accomplish anything.


  7. What are you most proud of in this project?
    I am most proud of how determined i was because even though i had to start over i still finished my entire project in the time we had left. My project itself made me proud because it is my expression of what i like to do.


  8. What would you do differently if you had to do the project over again?

I would not do anything differently, although i might have made sure all my animations were finished before i logged out of scratch.


By: Wayne Stackhouse


Dejah's Mini Apartment

Posted by Dejah Williams in TECH (INTRO TO DESIGN MULTIMEDIA) - Hertz - C1 on

  1. Describe your project? My project was a designing website that had to do with designing your own house. So for my house I just created a one bedroom apartment that included:

  • Bedroom

  • Bathroom

  • Living Room

  • Dining Room/ Kitchen

  • Laundry Room

  1. What knowledge did you already have about the project before you started? I didn't really know anything about it but, that it was used to create or design your own house

  2. What new skill did you want to learn coming into the project I wanted to learn how to use it. What controls everything. I wanted to learn how to manage the measurements the the house was and the room that were in it.

  3. Did you accomplish the goal of learning this new skill? Yes I accomplished this by going through the project and learning more and more about it as I went on.

  4. How do you know you accomplished the goal? If you didn’t accomplish your goal, why do you think that is? I know that i accomplished this by my final project and the knowledge that I gained throughout the process of my project.

  5. What other skill(s) did you learn along the way? I really just learned all the controls or most of the controls for the website.

  6. What are you most proud of in this project? The final piece. I like how it turned out.

  7. What would you do differently if you had to do the project over again? If I was to do the project again I wouldn't do anything different but trying something more challenging like trying to add another floor or a basement.

Class of 2019 Admission Acceptances

Posted by Diana Laufenberg on
​​​Congratulations to all the SLA@Beeber Class of 2019 acceptances!

We could not be more excited for you to join our campus in the fall.  There were some administrative struggles with our acceptance list this year and you may not see SLA@Beeber in your options from the School District of Philadelphia system. We sent letters to all of our acceptances and will be following up with phone calls to make sure that all prospective students have been notified of their acceptance. If you have any questions or need clarification, please do not hesitate to call us (215-581-2107) for assistance. We are here to help and welcome you to the SLA@Beeber family.

Lanyard Masterpiece

Posted by Shjuan Fisher in ART ADV - Hertz - b2 on

Art Elective Project Reflection

Please answer the questions below. Do not delete the prompts!



  1. Describe your project

My project is creating key lanyards out of boondoggle/gimp.


  1. What knowledge did you already have about the project before you started?

I know that the material for the lanyard is a stitching material that is very popular and mostly children and teens use.



  1. What new skill did you want to learn coming into the project?

I wanted to learn how to do more challenging lanyard designs.

  1. Did you accomplish this goal?

I did accomplish this goal I learned how to do the spiral/twist and brick lanyard two of the hardest designs to create ever...well at least to me.





  1. How do you know you accomplished the goal? If you didn’t accomplish the goal, why do you think that is?
    I accomplished this goal because I kept on trying and when I finally got it I ended up very proud of the end result.


  2. What other skill(s) did you learn along the way?

I learned how to be patient. Being patient is a very important skill to have when doing art.



  1. What are you most proud of in this project?
    The outcome of my design. The fact that I can show people my art with confidence and they will love it and some may be inspired.


  2. What would you do differently if you had to do the project over again?

Use my time management better so I can finish and turn my project in on time.


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