Storyboard Group Project!

I worked on the group project of creating the storyboard for a course at Peoria Notre Dame with Sarah Mattern, Jensen Lawless, and Katie Querciagrossa. . I liked working in a group because all the work was evenly distributed, and everyone had ideas to contribute, making the work much easier and much more fun. Our storyboard project worked out really well because all of our different abilities allowed us to be creative and unique from other groups. Our group was chosen wisely because all of our personality "colors" from the Color Test we took online fit each other's colors well so we could get work done quickly and efficiently. I look forward to continuing our group project work.

Name Project

I liked doing the name project because I thought it was fun to do. I liked looking for letters within the pictures, most of which had actually been taken by me. I cropped and rotated different pictures to emphasize the letter that I found within the picture itself. Most of the pictures I found letters in I had taken on various vacations I'd been on. I used the internet only for a few select letters which I found difficult to find within my own original photos. For example, I found both the letters "K" and "G" in pictures using the internet because I could not find any way in my pictures to make those two specific letters.  I also used personal pictures of my family and me to add at the end of the slideshow. The song I used with the slideshow of pictures is called "Secrets" by OneRepublic.

Charity

We had to write a charity letter for Tech class. The charity I chose was St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. I chose to use this charity for my letter because my uncle went there to get treatment for lung cancer when he had cancer. The organization is close to my heart as well as my family's. I looked up facts about St. Jude, like that public donations help cover the $1.6 million operating cost, and included the facts in the letter. St. Jude is a great organization that helps many people, and that's why I chose to use it in my letter.

M&M Project

Today we worked on the M&M project. Although I did this project almost every year in grade school, I never remembered how to do this project. I learned it better this time around, and we finished it much quicker than in grade school. I understand the M&M excel project and how excel works much better now than I ever did doing it every year in grade school. I liked the M&M project. It was a good project to work on for the second day of class. I look forward to learning more about computers and how to use them effectively as time goes on.

My Expectations

I haven't heard much about Tech class, but I expect to learn about computers. Although I haven't heard much about the class, I have been told about some of the projects we do. For example, other people have told me about the "My Life" project and the name project. I expect to learn how we will complete those. Also, although I have an HP laptop, I also expect to learn about the usage of Apple Mac computers. I am a sophomore, but this is my first year at Notre Dame. I decided to transfer a week before school started back in August, which explains why I don't have a Mac.