Final Project

For our final project we were to dig deep into our family roots. We were asked to interview a family member, email family members asking for information about my family, research our family on ancestry.com, create an infographic about our family, make a family tree on family echo, and create a presentation on prezi with 15 or more family members. You can find the links to all of these below.

Email to mom

Interview

Family Echo

easel.ly

Friday, April 17, 2015

GIANT blog post of the day:

Answer the following questions thoroughly on your blog: 

What was your stop motion animation about? Why did you choose your video to be about this? Was it because it was easy, because it would be fun, or it would be challenging? Explain your reasoning behind your project (and be honest).

My stop motion was about me playing a game on my IPhone. Honestly, I chose this because I don't have much time for school work due to working, my pageant training, spending time with my family and boyfriend, and trying to squeeze a social life somewhere in there. My idea seemed really quick and easy to organize because I just took screen shots.

If you could rate your stop motion on a 1-10 scale. 1 being low effort and no very good and 10 being out of this world/mindblowing, how would you rate your project? Explain why.

I would rate my stop motion video a 7. Though I didn't put a whole lot of thought into it, it was clean and well organized.

In hindsight, what would you do differently the second time around? Better lighting? Time management? Explain yourself.

I think that I would have put more creative effort into this project. If I would have had more free time to take pictures, I definitely would have made a stop motion that was more creative.

Explain what makes your stop motion animation unique. How do you believe you thought "outside of the box" on this project?

My stop motion was unique because not many people would think about using a game app ad screen shotting their every move. Most students recreated a game like snake or tetras, and most of those stop motions looked very similar.

What grade do you feel you deserve on this project? Explain your reasoning.

I think that I deserve a low A because my stop motion looked neat and organized, but was lacking some creativity. 

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:
3 day weekend... how was it? Give me a good story or something funny that happened this weekend. Go.

I worked Friday evening. On Saturday I went to get my hair and makeup done for prom. Adam, my date, came to my house at 5. He lives in Lawrence so he was planning on crashing at my house after prom. On Sunday I spent the whole day with him and we went to Shawnee Mission Park. On Monday I slept in until about 3 and then went to work at 4.

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me ALL about what your idea is for your stop-motion animation. I need detail. Who is going to help you take photos? What props do you need? Where do you plan on shooting? EXPLAIN everything.

I plan on using the game app 1010! for my stop motion video. It's a game very similar to tetris. I will screen shot every move that i make in the game.

Monday, April 6, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:

I had a migraine on Friday so I did't do very much. My boyfriend came over and watched TV with me. Saturday morning I worked and then I went over to Lawrence to spend the day with Adam. We went out to dinner and walked around downtown Lawrence. Then we made a bonfire at his house. On Easter, my dad's side of the family came over for dinner.

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:
"What do you love most about this time of year? Explain why you love it."

The thing I love most about this time of year is the weather. I love going on hikes, to the dog park, or anything where I can enjoy the outdoors. Yesterday, my boyfriend Adam and I went on a hike around the outside of Clinton Lake. It was nice and cool with a good breeze. You can enjoy the outdoors without it being too cold or too hot, plus their aren't nearly as many bugs out like there are during the summer.

Edited Photos

Friday, March 27, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:
"What do you know about photography and/or photo editing? Do you take photos? How do you take photos? Do you edit photos before posting them on social media? How do you edit them? Explain any background or knowledge you have about photography and photo editing. Do you like it? Do you have any interest?"

My best friend, Ally, is a photographer. She's a freelance music photographer and goes to Lawrence a lot to take pictures at the venues there. Also, her and I will go to Loose Park, the Art District, and the Westbottoms sometimes to take pictures of each other. She took a lot of pictures of be while we were out in California for spring break as well. Sometimes I'll help her edit photos on Photoshop or another program on her Mac. We play with the contrast, saturation, tints, blurring effects, etc. I'm fairly comfortable behind a camera, but I know that I'm definitely not as skilled as Ally.

Global Issue Presentation

Monday, March 23, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:

I went to San Diego, California with my best friend Ally and her parents Don and Carey, her brothers Ryan and Andrew, and Andrew's friend Spencer. We've both been to San Diego before so we were planning on spending most of our time around the Mission Bay area. Her parents got Andrew, Spencer, Ally and me our own separate room from the rest of the group. We could do whatever we wanted as long as we told Carey where we were. Ally and I spent a lot of time walking and riding our bikes along Mission Bay Drive and the boardwalk along the beach and shopping in the stores. At night we would go out on the board walk and would find a lot of college parties at houses that were right next to the board walk. We met a lot of really awesome people! We looked at a fully furnished apartment that was right on the beach because Ally and I want to move up to San Diego for a few months the summer after graduation. One day I drove ally and me up to La Jolla in the rental car. On the last day that we were in San Diego, we drove up to SDSU and drove around the campus. I hope to be going back up to San Diego in the Fall for a college visit. I love San Diego, I feel like it's home for me.

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:
What are you doing for Spring Break?

On Sunday, I'm leaving to go to San Diego with my friend Ally and her family. We're staying right on Mission Bay in Northern San Diego. Both Ally and I have been there so we don't plan on going to any of the tourist attractions. We're just going to lay on the beach, drive up to LA for a day, and go shopping. I'm wanting to learn how to surf and paddle board so we'll most likely do that as well. I'm just excited to be going to the beach :) 

Infographic

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Blog Post of the Day: 
give me 10 points of advice on how to give the best presentation

1. Dress for success!
2. Speak with confidence.
3. Stand tall and have good posture.
4. Don't fold your arms.
5. Don't sway back and forth.
6. Speak loudly and clearly.
7. Don't just read from your slides.
8. present the information in an engaging way.
9. be yourself! let your personality shine through your presentation.
10. Remember that everyone is nervous presenting something in front of an audience.

Monday. February 24, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:
"Tell me about your weekend. Give me a story, something funny that happened, an experiencing you had, the way you felt, etc."

My weekend started really well, but ended up turning bad on Sunday. Friday evening I just ended up relaxing at home, hanging out with my older brother. We watched our favorite show on Netflix, Trailer Park Boys. On Saturday I started my first shift at my new job as a hostess and Fox and Hound English Pub. After I got off at 9, I headed over to my friends Ally's house for a sleepover. We ate a bunch of junk food and watched the movie Gone Girl. Ally has a sleepover room in her basement where there are two bunk beds for us. When I got up on Sunday morning, I must have forgot that we were sleeping in the bunk bed room. I swung my feet over the side of the bed and stood up and hit my head right on the metal bar of the top bunk. It hurt really badly. I went home and thought that i'd just have a headache for an hour or so but that wasn't the case. The pain kept growing and growing. In an attempt to cure myself from the headache, I took a three hour nap. When I woke up, the pain was excruciating. There was so much pressure in my head and walking around for more than 30 seconds made my head throb so much that I thought I was going to pass out from the pain. My parents rushed me to the ER to get it checked out. We ended up spending 5 hours in the ER waiting to get me a CT scan of my head. It ended up checking out okay, the doctor said that I just have a bad concussion. It definitely wasn't how I expected my weekend to end.

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:
Copy and past these over to your blog and tell me a little about yourself. If you have a picture or two that might represent one of your answers make sure to include it.

My favorite food: Shrimp and pistachios 


Foods I'd like to avoid: tofu, beef, and tacos


My favorite things to learn: current events


My favorite color: purple


My best friends are: Ally, Hannah, and Diego


My favorite games to play: Cards Against Humanity


My favorite books: True Grit, The Great Gatsby, and Stolen


My favorite movies or TV shows: Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, The Office, Skins (UK), Orange is the New Black, and The Walking Dead


My favorite holiday: New Year's Eve which is my birthday :)

Things I do well: take naps, hunting, shopping, and sassing people


Things I need to practice more: pactients and not sleeping too much


My favorite place to go: the lake, Colorado, San Diego, my farm, and the doggy park


My favorite family activities: Hunting, boating, and movie nights


My favorite thing to do outside: Hunting, hiking, mudding, fishing, going on adventures, and grilling out


My favorite chore: feeding my puppies


My least favorite chore: cleaning my bathroom >:(


What I want to be when I grow up: to become an established business-lady then later becoming a trophy-housewife/stay-at-home mom once I have kids, all while continuing my advocation and enthusiasm with the outdoors


A place I want to visit: Greece, Florida Keys, Hawaii, Bora Bora, and Ireland


My favorite part of the year: Summer


My favorite part of each day: my daily after school nap:)

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:
"Think about the quote above. What does this mean to you? How could this apply to your life? How could this apply to your school work?  I would love to give you less work in class if it meant you were going to focus harder on the work. Do you think you would get more out of it? Would that work for you? Why or why not?"

What I tend to do when I have a lot of things to do it shut down and not get any of them accomplished. I'll have so much to do that I don't even know where to start and it gets overwhelming! Between school, trying to find a job, spending time with family, homework, and trying to balance a social life, it's hard to get every school assignment finished, or even enough sleep for that matter. Teachers assign so many meaningless or "busy work" assignments that seem like just a waste of time, so I'll either not do them or put little to no effort into them. Assigning work that takes hours doesn't help me learn the lesson and isn't doing the students any justice. Its cruel and unfair. Teenagers are expected to join clubs, sports teams, extra curricular activities, have a social life, have a job to save money for college, and spend time with family. Where is the time to relax, sleep, and actually enjoy our teenage years? Teachers should focus more on teaching the work in class and being productive in the eight hours of the day that we put aside for school. If teachers would just condense all of the assignments and projects they give us, our lives would be so much better and we would probably be more likely to put effort into our school work. Cut the bullshit out of school, we don't need to color or how to cut and glue things onto a poster to know the subject matter. I'd rather just write a few paragraphs about what I'm supposed to know and learn rather than color pictures and make a poster.

If I didn't have to take these unnecessary "requirements" to graduate school, I could focus more on subjects that I'm going to actually use in my life like math, reading, and sciences. I shouldn't have to take art classes, cooking/sewing, PE (especially because I played two sports for school during freshman year), or any of the other classes that the school district makes us take in order to be "qualified" to attend college. I'd much rather have a more open schedule to take classes that I plan on entering a career field relevant to them. Honestly, I'll never be an artist or an athlete so why should I have to take those classes, which increase my school work load greatly, when I could be taking business classes or learning about real-world things that high school doesn't teach me? It seems like a huge load of shit and waste of my time. A lot of things students have to do in high school is just bullshit. We're not in elementary school, we don't need to know how to color in the lines or how much glue to use; we need to know how to open up a new bank account, manage our finances, how to take out a loan, etc. Not everyone has responsible parents to teach them these things, therefor it should be added to the common core curriculum, and the unnecessary subjects shouldn't be requirements anymore. We should be able to personalize our education to our needs and future. It would increase student's focus on the important classes, increasing grades as well.

Monday, February 9, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me all about your weekend! I sure hope you have photos to share.

My weekend was actually pretty great! Friday night I went out to dinner with my parents, brother and grandpa at Oklahoma Joe's. After dinner my mom and I went swim suit shopping for my Spring Break trip to San Diego. 

On Saturday morning/early afternoon, I went fishing with my friend Steven at Lenexa Lake. Sadly, we didn't catch anything because it's a little too early for the fishing season. Saturday evening, I went out to dinner at Kyoto's with Ally, Hannah, and Sam to celebrate Ally's birthday. After that, I went and saw American Sniper. I really enjoyed it, it's probably the best movie I've seen.

I slept in until about noon yesterday. My dad and I took our dogs to the dog park. It was such a beautiful day so of course it was really crowded at Shawnee Mission Park. When we got home my dad and I played catch. I also cleaned up my DeMarini softball bats to get them in good shape to sell them on craigslist. To finish up our Sunday, my parents and I went to Jose Pepper's for dinner. My weekend was pretty great!

Monday, February 2, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:
What is email? When do you use email in your own personal life? List reasons and ways that people use email. What do you know about "email etiquette"? EXPLAIN

Email is a form of communication through the internet. People use email for business, to get a longer message out to many people at the same time, to send pictures, and for a more proper way of communicating. Emailing is definitely a more formal way of communication; you use complete sentences and proper grammar. 

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:
"Yesterday I had you choose a global issue and you wrote about it on your blog. Today on your blog I want you to tell me about two different perspectives of your global issue. Are there people for an against your issue? Do people disagree on your issue? Is it a topic that can cause controversy? Look at the issue for two different perspectives. Tell me about those perspectives."

I'm pretty sure that most people in the world are against using children as soldiers. The only people that would be for using children as soldiers would be the people that are actually using them as soldiers. Boys as young as 8 are being used as soldiers, when they should be going to school, playing sports and just being a kid. It takes their right to have a childhood from them.

Child Soldiers

"Once you have selected an issue, create a new blog post and answer the following questions:

1. Without doing any research, what background do you currently have on this issue? 
2. What do you want to know about this issue?
3. Why did you choose this issue? Had it effected your life? Is it something you are passionate about? Explain.

Include a couple images that represent your topic. Make sure to cite them. :)"

I took both the Area Studies: Africa and Middle East class and we somewhat studied this topic in both of those classes. I chose this issue because when I was taking those classes I really wanted to learn more about this specific topic. I want to see how much this issue has grown or depleted, why, and how we can stop it.

Monday, January 26, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:
"Last week I asked your to "think differently" and push yourself to be uncommon with your PSA project using Google Slides. Why do you think I asked you to do that? What is the point? Why not just use bullets and headers? Explain."

I think that you asked us to think differently about how we go about our PSA project to show us that we can present information in a more creative way to make the presentation more interesting and to grab the viewers attention.

PSA presentation

Friday, January 23, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:

Kids these days are so superficial and don't realize the simple and great things in life. They take everything for granted. They don't appreciate the things they have and the people who care about them. They only care about themselves and the material things that they have.

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:

I was sick over the weekend so I spent a majority of the time in bed resting. I finally started feeling a little better by Sunday so I went to my boyfriend's basketball game and then hung out with him and his family Sunday evening. Yesterday I still was feeling under the weather so I rested a lot and then went shopping to find work clothes for my new job.

Friday, January 16, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:

Tell me a little bit about yourself and your life here at BVHS. What activities or clubs are you involved in? What year are you in school? What is your favorite class and/or teacher so far this year? What are you looking forward to this school year? Include some original photos from your phone if you can.

I'm a junior and this is my first year here at BVHS. I transferred from BVN before the beginning of first semester. I'm not involved in any activities or clubs because I'm focused on making good grades and busy working a lot. My favorite teachers are Ms. Coefelt and Mr. Barikmo because they make the topic of learning fun and relatable to our everyday life.

Who Am I? Presentation

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:



Allow for mistakes.
Be confident.
Count your blessings.
Don't doubt yourself.
Embrace others.
Find what makes you happy.
Get involved.
Help those in need.
Imagine.
Juggle many activities.
Know your limits.
Love instead of hate.
Make time for yourself.
No one is perfect.
Open up your eyes.
Point others in the right direction
Question everything.
Rediscover who you are.
Stand up for what you think is right.
Tell them how you truly feel.
Use good judgement.
Versatility means success.
Wish on shooting stars.
Xerox is great.
Yesterday is over, focus on today.
Zap people with your personality.
  

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:
What are your thoughts on this class so far? Easy? Hard? Informative? Frustrating? What have you learned so far? What do you want to learn? Explain yourself.
Honestly, I don't know what to think about this class because I have no clue what this class is about. So far all we have done is make a blog, set it up, and set up our Google drive account. You haven't actually told us what this class is about so I have no clue what to expect. Are we just going to blog for this whole class or what?

Monday, January 12, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:
Over the weekend I spent a lot of time relaxing. On Friday I asked my boyfriend, Matt, to sweetheart. He said yes of course.

 Saturday morning, I dragged him to the mall to go dress shopping for me. After we bought my dress, I dropped him off at home and left to go the Westbottoms with my friend Ally.

  At the Westbottoms we took a lot of photography and went out to dinner. I slept in late Sunday morning, then went to Nebraska Furniture Mart with my parents to buy a new laptop. Later in the evening I went to see Taken 3 with Matt.

Friday, January 9, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:

Napping: A

Completing useless tasks as an attempt in blowing off school work: A

Frustrating my family: A

Spending all of my money: A

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:
Read this small newspaper clipping and then write a blog post about it. What are your thoughts? How does it make you feel? Do you agree? Disagree? Explain yourself.

After reading this newspaper clipping, I feel as if John Tapene expects more from teenagers than we can give. The world shouldn't have to rely on us to do good. Yes, I agree that we should do good deeds and help others but it shouldn't be consume all of our time. The teenage years are when we're supposed to make mistakes, learn from them, and figure out who we are. How are we supposed to know our likes and dislikes and what we're wanting to do as an occupation when we get older if we are just doing chores and helping others? It's the time of our lives that we do make mistakes, but we have our parents to help us out in a time of need. We're not supposed to be responsible, we're supposed to make mistakes, be selfish, and push the limits. It's the time in our life where we are able to do those things. We have the rest of our life to work and be responsible.