Monday, May 10, 2010

May Project

I'm going to do a story of my life video for the May project. This will be fun, I think. I already have a bunch of old pictures scanned on my computer at home, and can scan more. Looking back on my old memories in picture form is amazing, time has flown by and I am graduating in less than a month. So doing a senior slide show/video on my entire life will be perfect for my graduation party. And being able to do this for a class project is even cooler. Adding in the effects and music will be awesome too. I LOVE MUSIC, so this will tie into my life story so well. This project will take a lot of time and effort but it will definitely be worth it because I will be able to keep it forever. There will be a very wide variety of pictures, because I have taken so many throughout my life. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, well it for sure is when it comes to my life. I have stories to tell for every picture I am in or have taken. I am really looking forward to this project.

Friday, May 7, 2010

collaborative writing thoughts

I am actually really glad we got a chance to do this collaborative writing proect. I was pretty skeptical at first, I admit, but all said and done, this was well worth it. Writing our ridiculous story about a boy getting attacked and killed then brought back to life as a vampire with really weird officers was so much fun! And working with these people I am not all too close with made it even better, getting to know them more was great! Putting all of our writing styles together to create such a story is so cool. Yes, parts of the story were absolutely ridiculous and somewhat awkward, but they were funny, and with a mystery-type story, it needed a little ridiculous humor. I am very pleased with the way our story turned out. And, after reading part of another group's narrative, looks like they did very well too. Writing is so great when you can choose what to write about and how to write it, and with the new technologies of writing collaboratively with each other through googledocs, this was a super cool way of writing a story. The personal narrative i started reading was very good, and I want to go back and finish reading it as soon as I can. Good job to that group!!