Category: Segal

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I liked coding because it was cool to do something new and explore something that I see all the time but have never learned. What I mean is I’ve been on hundreds of websites but I have never learned how to make one, and not many people have. I think one of the coolest parts of learning this was that we actually made our own websites and posted them on the web! One thing I learned was that every “tag” opens with a “<” and ends with a “/>”.  A challenge for me was remembering the really long code. It just hard to memorize.  This was SUPER fun and I really want to do something like this again.

Infographic Reflection

During this project I learned  many interesting facts about NYC. I learned that 2 million New Yorkers are under the age of eighteen and that half  of the New Yorkers speak a different language at home.

A skill I learned during this project was to mask in photoshop. Before I had hardly ever had touched photoshop and I was extremely unfamiliar  with it. Now I can use it independently for other projects.

I loved this  project because we got to work in groups and explore different softwares. It was cool to be able to work with people I don’t normally work with. The Photoshop was cool because for a long time I’ve been wanting to use Photoshop but I wasn’t able to use it because I didn’t know how to work it. I also enjoyed Adobe Illustrator because it was like one of the softwares I was very used to so it sort of felt familiar even though I’d never used it before.

I would really want to use these programs more often because they  have a lot to offer, more than I have already discovered. I also think that new softwares that are better or good for other uses are worth learning too, so we have a variety of options for the future.

Infographics were fun to make, so I would like to do something like this again, even if it isn’t the exact same thing.

I think this project was incredibly simple when you knew what you were doing, but when we were trying to figure out how to do something, many people had difficulties.

I especially liked helping other people when I had got a grasp of the assessment.  That was probably the best part because it was really nice to inspire and help people discover what new things like I had discovered, so they could learn all the cool things I had learned, and maybe re-explaining instructions to make them more understandable. (Even though we had very handy instructions in our d lab folders.)

Summer Book Review

My Rotten Life

By David Lubar

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I read My Rotten Life by David Lubar. This book is about a kid called Nathan, who lives in a small town. He has a best friend called Mookie who is obsessed with zombie movies. After having a very bad day at school being bullied, Nathan runs into a small girl called Abigail. She says she can take away bad feelings with a potion her and her uncle made, but it’s not tested. Nathan takes the risk, but it goes terribly wrong. Nathan turns into a half dead accidental zombie.

 

Nathan made a big decision to try out the potion, but was it a good idea, or a bad one?  He makes a friend and becomes a hero. He made a decision that changed his fate and his friends fate. Nathan risks his life for his friends, now his normal life will not come back. ‘You’re a zombie,’ Mookie said. ‘Forever.’ He was right. There was nothing I could do about it. No way I could change what I’d done. There was really only one thing to say. I spread my arms and said, ‘I’ll live.’”

 

I did enjoy this book because it was about zombies and science fiction along with friendship and heroism. Science fiction because there is potions, heroism because Nathan saves someone’s life and friendship because they make a new friend. So if you like zombies, science fiction, heroes without powers and friendship this is a good book for you. But mostly zombie lovers. I would say that because Nathan is a half dead zombie. I would rate this book 3 stars.

 

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