Epic Mickey

Mickey has to defeat the ink monster which is te main objective of the game. and in the begining of the clip it shows all the events hes done so far to epic mickey. So after after he gets sucked in some kind of portal, he needs to fight the ink monster with a brush.

Miguel V. 13

"Strange Days On Planet Earth"

Part 4

Global warming is so dangerous, for example theres some kind of crabs that die quickly if theres global warming, that can happen if the degrees increases by 2 which is not good, also for the predators that hunt crabs can go extinct since theres no crabs to eat. Also thanks to global warming the famous lake that used to be located in Africa disappeared 15 years ago. A thing that provokes asthma is dust that travels all the time.

Part 5

In this part of the program it talks about the disappearance of predators. Ants, monkeys, iguanas, are being destructive other habitats that causes a lot of damage. Some rivers are also disappearing because we consume to much. Since wolf are helpful for the ecosystem some people in Canada brought few wolfs to Yellowstone park and then released them after that the wolf are reproducing which is good.

Part 6

In this part it talks about frogs going to extinction,theres about 20 species of frogs going extinct. The frogs salvation is us, because theres some people that are trying to help them, they are also studying them to see the reason they're going to extinction. This also talks about water, they're are trying to discover whats wrong with water. Its all because of the fertilizer so that means that the water is turning into toxic. There is a scientist that is trying to see if plants can consume the toxins that is polluting the water, and species.

Miguel V. 13

"Strange Days On Earth"

Part 1: The movie is mostly about invaders, not those invaders you think of its about some kind of species that are dangerous for earth. Some of them are not though. Like the termites, they are bad, they consume wood a lot, specially in New Orleans. The termites might be weak but when theres a bunch of them they get really strong that New Orleans may be only water.

Part 2: Since theres to many infestations theres diseases, which comes from invaders, those diseases affect humans a lot which is not good, because when that appens theres a chance that human race might go to extinction.

Part 3: There is to much population in earth that were consuming to much that habitats are being destroyed by us which kills species, and it slowly kills us, because since were consuming to much, there will be a point were everything will decrease, and there will be nothing to consume anymore. Climate change is another thing that is consuming us, in this part o the movie it some knd of moose that is going extinct beacsue of mosquito, and during winter they get really cold and start to disapear.

Miguel V. 12

The things I learned from the "Age Of Stupid" are global warming, global warming is not good for the environment, because in the movie it shows that everything is flooded, buildings burning and so many disasters, also theres a tower somewhere in a sea. In that tower they put two same animals in a cage. And theres a guy showing videos, telling the natural disasters that had happened before. Another thing I learned is consumerism. This word means taking in something. For example, the USA consumes the most wealth and some other regions they don't. Theres another example that one percent of wealthy people take almost all the pie, and for those who are not wealthy, get crumbs. Theres to much heat in earth that if we don't fix the global warming problem there will be no way to reverse it which means it can be impossible to establish earth's climate. If this problem isn't solved until 2015, it can be to late. In the end of the movie, it seemed to me that the movie is giving us a warning from the future.

Miguel V. 10 2010

Source 1-Author: unknown. Title: Global warming: early warning signs Web adress: ultimatehotmap.org/index.html Copyright date:1999 date found:10-11-10

Source 2-Author: Ozark Hellbender Title: Endangered species program Web adress: fws.gov/endangered/ Copyright date: unknown Date found: 10-11-10

Source 3- Author: Joanie Kleypass Title: The encyclopedia of earth, coral reef Web adress: eoearth.org/article/coral-reef?topic=49570 Copyright date: unknown Date found:10-11-10

Source 4- Author: Arild Angelsen Title: Causes of deforstation Web adress: wrm.org.uy/deforestation/index.html Copyright date :unknown Date found:10-11-10

Miguel V. 9 2010

How to properly Cite Internet Resources



Wikipedia: Tedy Lecap Bruschi

Miguel V. 8 2010

The movie we watched was really interesting, it was about the coral reefs. In the movie I learned what are coral reefs, they are home for many species that live beneath the ocean. The reefs are found in tropical oceans, nearby Australia. The reefs can be really helpful for us human beings, because it can cure someones life, and it can aid people. sadly the reef are endangered, because of pollution, especially global warming, global warming makes the ocean get warm that the reefs start to get white, and then die. Luckily there's people trying to stop global warming, and they are also trying to protect the coral reefs from destruction. Some ideas that might be helpful are stoping pollution, which means to recycle, pickup trash, stop global warming by using less cars, and killing less trees.

Miguel V. 7 2010

Retrieved from, Dr Marianne Handler

My thoughts for saving species are, cutting less trees, less burning grasslands, and less polluting. If we conserve papers, or recycle them we might help species to survive, and without trees they can't live. There was also discovered species, that people never have never seen before, and some of those animals are rare, but they can go extinct again, so it is important to help species because almost all of them are going extinct, like the pandas, polar bears, tigers, and frogs. Theres also another chance that us humans might go extinct to, beacause for example, if the ice starts melting, the ice could turn into water which makes the ocean overflow and cover up cities, countries, and other places. There can be an oppurtunity to save humanity from natural disasters, just by using earth properly. I also noticed that theres people protecting species that means that if that continues to grow there can be a chance that animals wont go extinct anymore.

Miguel V.6 2010

My to favorite topics are, http://www.takepart.com/issues/conflict-in-afghanistan/13776, and http://www.takepart.com/categories/health. I chosed these because they can be very helpful for earth and there can be a chance to stop pollution.

Miguel V. 5 2010

Possible Game Topics

These are some websites that I found on

http://kids.yahoo.com/directory/Around-the-World/Social-and-Political-Issues

I will begin researching different topics found on this directory to help me come up with more game ideas that I would like to focus on.

The link that you see above has good websites like http://www.globalgang.org.uk/, http://www.childhelpusa.org/, http://www.dreamfactoryinc.com/, and http://www.care.org/ I chosed these sites because it has important information it can also help you understand whats going on in the world. I also chosed these, http://www.childrenoftheearth.org/Navy%20Pages/earth_issues.htm, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_emissions,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_disaster, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution. I got these from the wiki. I choosed these because it gives information about why is earth getting polluted easily.

Miguel V. 3 2010

My thoughts about the documentary are,that the speech of Al Gore are important, because he helps us understand how can we help planet earth. I also think that global warming should be stopped, because its causing natural disasters and destruction around the world and that's because of us, the humans, we can stop this by closing down factories and using hybrid or electrical cars, and also start recycling because if cut down trees, then trees wont get to eat the c2o and you cut them down there Will be a lot of c20 trapped around the atmosphere which means, that when the sun rays go to the earth some of it or maybe all of the rays can get trapped and melt north and south pole. The information I heard made me feel like we humans are not taking care of our earth. And its all because wars, cars, factories, and other kind of pollution. If I want to prevent the ultimate destruction which might be the apocalypse, I would act fast, and I mean fast because, the depends on us so it so important to do the right thing, for example recycle, save energy,use bike instead than car, close factories, let trees grow so they can eat some c20, and anything that can help earth.

Miguel V. 2 2010

Some games we played were, energy hog, energy ville, national geographic for kids, energy quest, and so many others but my top favorite was national geographic for kids. In energy hog you have check parts of your house like the attic, kitchen, living room, and your room, when your finished a hog will appear and you need to defeat it by doing a fun activity. On energy ville you make your own city and you need to power it. And my most favorite is national geographic, you can play different games like big gulp. This game is pretty exciting you are a rat that is trying to get out of a snake and you need to try not to touch the sides of the snakes or you die, its just like a maze. I recommend you these games, because their entertaining, it helps you learn faster to.

Miguel V. 1 2010

Retrieved from Edgar Monsivais



I choosed this picture because I love cars, and i also think this picture might go with my wiki and its also cool. I found this image in pics4learning.com

The things I learned

The six week that just passed was so cool i learned how to post other people by just doing a simple click. And the thing i learned was that each time i watch a video it buffers. If i double click on a icon a page will appear then you just use the URL text then you type what you want to see. Another thing i learned is that i learned how to publish a photo on my profile and learned how to publish a screen saver on the screen because it kinda looks cool than ever. after that you could access time on what you've done. I learned so much that i pretty know allot of technology Well i actually don't know that much of technology, but lets just say that I'm getting better at it. But i will not stop till i get to to learn about it, i will work till i get tired and i give up, but that's not gonna happen.Oh yeah there's a cool video i haven't seen before, hope you like it, and found thisIn technology class we have lots of rules, and those rules are important, because if you don't follow these instructions you may get in trouble or get a warning. If you get a warning you need to pay more attention and do not play while teacher is talking. But if you get in trouble you might go see the principal or get a phone call to your parents, good thing that didint happened to me, but theres something worst if you dont get lucky you go with the principal and you get a phone call home. Some of the instructions are:do not talk while the teacher is talking, do not distract others, keep your hands to your self, and much more. These are really important rules, these directions affect your report cards and that goes to your permanent record, thats how the rules are important. Another thing you should know is that if you follow directions, do what you suppost to do, and behave, you could have a special surprise. And if you wanna find out, you need to do well in school.

EARTH WEEK

Global warming:Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of Earth's near surface air and oceans.

Climate Control:Climate refers to the overall weather of a location over a long period of time. Climate and climate change is determined by many things including distance from the equator, closeness to an ocean or major body of water, and geographical conditions such as mountains, plains and forests. There are 12 distinct types of climates on our planet, ranging from tropical to polar.

Air Pollution:Air pollution contamination of the air by noxious gases and minute particles of solid and liquid matter particulates in concentrations that endanger health. The major sources of air pollution are transportation engines, power and heat generation, industrial processes, and the burning of solid waste.

Ground Pollution:Ground water pollution, stratum contamination, and ground air pollution are all types of ground pollution. It is the consequence of noxious industrial wastes being dumped. The ground is soaked with them, and contamination is accumulated little by little. As a result, plants begin to die. Then, creatures die too. If the ground is polluted, man will not be able to live either.

Water Pollution:Water conservation refers to reducing the usage of water and recycling of waste water for different purposes such as cleaning, manufacturing, and agricultural irrigation.

Flash

When we started to create flash it was kind of hard because I didn't know what to do, so we watched this video that has to do with Globoloria. I really didn't understand the video, it was confusing that I couldn't understand a word she was saying. The only thing that I knew to do, was t0 convert the symbol, and to draw rectangles with text in them. I also knew how to add layers, and to name them. It is important to know this flash because its helping you to know more things in life, if you want to become a game designer you need to flash in order to those activities. When I'm trying to do flash I try to ask other people to help some friends told how to do it and its helpful, that's were I got used to doing flash, and I think that will help me get better at flash and become an expert at it. When classmates are distracting others I just ignore them so I can concentrate on what I'm doing, unless they need help on their flash, sometimes when my friends are not following instructions I can concentrate which leads me to not understand directions of the flash. And the only way to change this is to not to do what other people are doing, we need to mind our own business. I think the video is helpful because it tells me what to do and its specific and tells me directions step by step. I feel new with flash because it help understand more things that I never heard of, and it makes me have fun because I can create a game and it can be helpful for the future, because it will be useful strategies for others to learn new experience, in order to do that they need to study and concentrate on the instructions that has been given but if you don't you might end up knowing nothing about flash.

My teammates

I feel good working with my teammates because we are doing a good job . It was kind of cool because your classmates could see what you are doing and how your game is so far. it helped my team to understand, we needed a little bit of more time to get every thing together and get ready to do our representation and to put some math in the game were doing. Some of the frustrations happens sometimes with my teammates sometimes we get mad at each other we fight because we do not do our work. But since everything went right we started to treat our selves nice.

Snow in Austin

Today is a fun day because it started to snow and its been a while since it haven't snowed, and everybody is going crazy because of the snow and I think its kinda dumb because its like they haven't seen snow in their lives. And I cant wait to get home and play outside. But I don't think that she will let me be outside because then she will get worried if I get sick or something. Or I could stay home drinking something hot or watching a movie so i feel relaxed. I really want to leave early because I'm really bored and I don't want to stay at school when its snowing. The last time it snowed was in 2004 and 2009. I wonder if it started to snow for a week that would be great because we could miss the test and we wont have school. If that happened I would be happy and I would be celebrating because there is not gonna be school, wouldn't that be a miracle?

Globoloria

My thoughts for Globoloria are, learning new things like creating a flash, uploading files, and much more. In all of technology I learned lots of stuff that I never learned before. I learned how to post letters to friends, how to hyperlink URLs, and adding photos or videos, I learned how to add new stuff on my blog and my wiki, it's so fun I don't get bored unless I do the same assignment over and over again. I learned about updating flash on my wiki page and making my own mini game by just putting the pictures in order and by naming them. I had trouble doing that assignment because I had a hard time doing all that copying and pasting and other hard stuff but then I understood the basics of the mini game so that's were I started to improve my skills on technology. Its not that hard as I thought, what I think about flash is that its something cool to do because you get to learn how to create your game maybe with the flash and learn how you are going to make them move with codes. And I like the flash because you get to make the things in the flash move and you could make them move fast slow or to slow that they take forever to pass throw the screen. And I really learned how to do more things in the flash because they went over the steps but more slow and I know how to do all of this. And this things are so cool and fun because you get to learn stuff about this. I do like to blog because you could tell someone that is reading it if you are having and problem or the things you struggle with it or what have you learned. What we are currently working on is on or game project with are group that we are with to get the game ready to present them to the class.