ROLLER COASTER

"“Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off”"

famous life saying.

Today, December 14 2009, the twelfth grade of the American School presented their “school-made-rollercoasters”. They had to create a rollercoaster that had at least two loops. It was an enormous challenge to put everything together. Some of them used ½ tubes others complete tubes or opened tubes. There were points taken off the more your tube was closed. This obviously made the “ride” more exiting and difficult to complete. The loops had to be calculated and the energy and the speed in which the marble rolled down the tube had to be exact. If something went wrong then they would lose points. They didn’t only used physics but art. They were also graded on their theme. They had to have an original idea to win over all the other. Some did: Alice in Wonderland. This one was full of color and had pictures of the actual movie this one was made by Ricardo Stein, Raffael Kollinger, Rodolpho de la Llanta. There was also FIFA soccer. At the end when the marble rolled to the last part it entered the goal. This was very creative from J. Rafael A., Paulina A. and Sandra Alvarez. Another very creative one was the Oriental Castle made by Eric S, Alicia and Heather. This was decorated with dragons, bamboo, and Light balloons. A very interesting theme was Victoria, Daniela and Andrea’s coaster. They used the theme of NY. It had pictures of time-square. The Jungle was made by the new students of 12^th garde. The sweetes was Mrifer, Melida and Lea’s Candy mountain. It was covered in candies and as a bonus they gave cotton candy. There was one made by Diego Tron, Ruslan Gomez ,Alex Riviere and Carlos Vital that suffered dmages when they were transporting it to school. In one of the bumps the coaster flew up and got destroyed.If they ever made them real I would ride all of them just to feel the different expreinces with everyone’s different theme.And creativity. They would attarct many visitors because they are so different from the "NORMAL" rollercoasters of amusment parks. All of them worked. The marbles rolled perfectly and they completed their ride. They did an amazing job. A lot of thinking and fixing but at the end they did it. Just like their project they had their us and their downs but they made it thorough the ride alive.

DEBO

Hey! To start my name is Debora. I was born April 22 1995 in Mexico City. I lived there for 11 years , i really liked a lot there it's a big city with malls and restaurants.. I went to a french school.After being 11 years in mexico city my parents decideds to move to Puerto Vallarta. Here i made new friends and discovered a whole new lifestyle. I have a family that consist of 5 people: Mymom Frida , my dad Santiago, my sister Alexa(12 years old) , my brother santiago (9). My family is all over the world i have famli;y in belgium , mexico city, tokyo,greece, spain, guadalajara and other plkaces. My dad has 11 brothers and sisters. It used to be very common oyt have those ammounts not any more. My mom has 1 brother and 1 sister . I lovr oy be with my family in big family meetings. i live in Nuevo Vallarta that is 15 minutes from school.My school is the American School of Puerto Vallarta.

Puerto Vallarta is a samll town. It has 350,000 residents and attracts almost 3 million visitors annually.It has about 25 miles of beaches.My favorite is Punta Mita the water is very clear and is like a wildlife park.I love to live here. For example the weekends you can either go to the movies or to the beach.You vcan go hiking upo the mountain, boat rides, water skiing,shopping( my favorite activity),or do whatever you wnat.

SO now it's time to talk more about me.Well, i'm easy going and i make friends very fast. I'm empathetic and i try to look the bright side of things. People say i'm very positive.I'm not shy i rather people to know me the way i am from the first moement they are with me than them getting a diferent idea of me every time. I have amny friends that are very close to me. I am very respectful to my techers and friends. I help my friends with any type of problem they have.I;m very stylish and i L-o-v-e FASHION. I have 2 cats that i absolutly love and 2 little birds. I love animals and if i could i would give them al home no matter their species.I do my best in school but sometimes i get distarcted. I'm about 5"5 i have light brown hair or dark blone hair . It's wavy some days other it's staright. my eyes are brown iwth the sun light they seem clearer. I'm tanned but not very dark it's kind of a gold tann. I really don't like to talk about my self because i feel like very selfish and very self centrated when i;m not. I love languages and sunsets. I don't care about what religion what race or where people are form i treat them all equal. My goal in life is toi travel and discover many places.When i grow up i want to do something related to design but that's not fashion design or interior designer. Some adults say i could study communications, politics, and exterior relations.I get alone with everyone and i try to be kind to all. I enjoy going to school because i foiund it like another excuse to be with my friends. I have friends of all ages. Even the 12 grader are my friends. I love to be with people and get to know them.I love to be barefoot and woth my hair undone.

I hope with all this information you get to know something about me.

MASH UP

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Listening to all the mash ups is very cool and interesting it gives you a different idea on what other people feel, and how they think.In my mash up i most use a music background and a voice. The reason i used them the most was because the background music help all the project get together and it also was like a loop for other parts.My friends/ classmates used a lot a "Punch" sound. I liked it because it gives beat to the song and a compass. Something hard to do was to put it all together in the right times. Like for example i used more than n 4 different ones ans they were like new tracks so then in the fifth i couldn't see the 1 so to get them together was hard.
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Everyone's are really cool but some could use more things. In my opinion we all got the main idea and all the mash ups were awesome. They were so different and very creative.l You can see the type of music they like and see how they feel. Also they were incredibly moving and with a constant beat. Some used a guitar a lot and i had fun listening to some of them I wish i could have listened to more. I feel like this project thought us so many new things that we'll use in the future projects.

MUSIC

We've been working in so many things in computer class. The last project was a Mp3 music mash up with only sound effects. It was hard to pick the right sounds and make them flow correct. We had to augment the sounds so it lasts 1:45 . Also a difficult part was to make the sounds repeat. It took me a little while until i learned the basic thing. I was a little frustrated at the beginning.Talking about music , in school we have a talent show. This year the theme was AMERICAN IDOL. i think Ximena, Courtney and Ferris win. They are singing something and i really like them and i want them to be happy and if winning makes them happy i wish to them the best luck of all.I think we should do this activity next year but we should change it to use different songs but only the beginnings, and no excel things! Anyway this project thought me new things that I'll be able to use later. Thanks a lot Mr. Mark for the patience with this project and the weird internet connections.

TYPING SCORES!

Typing is something i really don't like but i'm gettingused to do it. This year i think my scores have been imporving since the begining of the year. Now i can type way faster than i did on august.My goal is to type many , many words per minute. I'm not really sure of a number i want to reach I just want to every class get over my old score. As you might know we will hve a BLIND typing test.I'll try my best but still i'm nervous. I can't do things under pressure. I know that i can write without looking at my hands. Sometimes i can write continously and maybe just look down to see that my hands are in the right possition.Well anyway i am exited, nervous and i'm wishing i could do really well.In august my speed was between 15-17 wpm , now its betwen 18-22 wpm.Also my acurracy was in the 70% now it inb 80%-90%! It's really tierd to write continously because my eyes get tierd and i get lost in the text. Its very frustrating not being able to go back and erease! I really believe this will help me become better, especially because this is the ERA of computers so i must learn how to do thing correct! Well this is pretty much what i think of the TYPING!

FUTURE ARTIFACT

My artifact is a two things. The first one is car that has party in it. Like having "MANDALA" inside your car.This is a complete new type of entertaining because it's more private, and it takes way less space than a complete building. Also it has a minimizer that makes the guests in a microscopic size and takes them through space toa newdimension inside the car.Also it's a car that can take the party to places. For example if it's ypour 15th birthday you can be in Guadalajara and travel all the way to vallarta.The car is also able to fly our be a boat without changing anything in the car. Its the safest of the safest artifacts yet created.It has sound prouf windows so that it is not disturbing in the night. There is always a camara reproducimg hollographically the party so that the guests can be outside and see what's going on inside.Also the guests that go in and the are transported out adquire the effect of being able to hear the music. This is only able if they saty in the limits. When they go out they loose the power. Also this a safer way of controlling the parties because only the guests that were invited are allowed in. There is also a scaner that will look for weapons, drugs and things thgat could cause a mess. Inside the car there is a robotic police that is only activated by the "PARTY OWNER".This car will take entrtainment to a whole new level.

Doing this project was really cool. I had a hard time doing all the hollogram thingbecause there were no tutorials about that.Also it was easy because i dremed about the idea of the car party the night before starting it so i already had a base. The only thing i had to do is put everything together.The other fun part is that i actually used something i would reallylike to be possible. I wished they invent it fast so that i can live my dream. Apart form that it was really easy.

I have seen all my peers work and i really liked FERNANDA GERBER.http://espressopvreview.blogspot.com/. HER IDEA isPRACTICAL. It would be really cool to have an iphone or ipod tpuch that could do all those things. It would help everyone especially old people that usually loose their things. I t would make traveling easier.

social media comments

By seeing the response of my peers. I can see we are all in the same page when it comes that social media should be seen as a positive thing. We are not the only ones involved.Now even teachers are.The world is changing and we must change with it if not we'll be consumed by the society. The society today demans to be connected instantly.We have to be always ready for all kinds of thing.If we ise FACEBOOK and things like that it'll be easier to keep in touch with the world.I belive we are all interested in learing more and that is a really bad idea to prohibit facebook.If they do that then we'll find something else, it's a chain that will nevere end.I think facbook isn't bad it helps us see many things in different ways, find people that live in China that were in our classroom when we were 7! That keeps friendships alive when people can;t go to the home of the other.I see we the 8 graders and even other grades use facbook to keep intouch with ohmeowrk questions and doubts.

I choose this image because i found it funny and servicial.It would be great to fing pIZZA MATOES in MEGA. That would make it easier to cook and make all of your homemade pizzas taste like real pizzas. And if they can do PIZZAATOES they'll be ablo to do other things like a pinaple that has all fruitpunch flavors, or an apple with Tajin included. It would be a very important thing for Italian restaurants.Creating more species of food would be an advance in gastronomy and people would eat more varieties of things. Also it would make the movement of goods faster.You will have to just take aPIZZAMATO instead of tomatoes and a ll the pther ingridients..

Social MEDIA

Today, everyone is involved in the social media. Social media is the biggest shift since the industrial revolution. Now we use media not only to communicate but to advertise, learn, and even for jobs. In the aspect of education, media takes a very important roll today. We are teaching students things that haven’t been thought, preparing them for jobs that doesn`t exist yet, using technology that hasn`t been invented and last, we are teaching them to solve problems that aren`t problems yet. The population in the world has increased so much that India has more honored students than US has students. In 8 seconds 34 babies will be born .Also 1 in 6 higher education students enrolled in an online curriculum. Schools have been equipped with the latest technology that will increase the mental abilities in the future. There are 540,000 words in English and every year 54 is added. There is 5 times as much there were in Shakespeare’s times. The New York Times contains more information than a person in the 18 th century would come across in a life time. Students starting technical degree , the things they learn in their 1 st year will be outdated by their third. This evolution is becoming dangerous. In the future they`ll build a computer that is more intelligent than the human race. This could lead to destruction, but all this is happening because people are looking for things in the internet and want better results so companies want to be there when they are looking for something. This is all ADVERTISMENTS.


Advertising is the clue of success. More 80% of companies use advertisement via media just to find employees. The demand of jobs in 20010 didn’t existed in 2004.Phones are every important now, 210 million calls have been made every second. The text messages send every minute exceeds the world population. Imagine this, in Twitter users can update it everywhere anytime thanks to the phones that use wireless confection that means people will be talking about their costumer’s experiences everywhere. About 78% percent of the costumers’ trust peer recommendations. Preparing ourselves to a world full of social media and ruled by companies and sites such as FACEBOOk we have to keep moving with the technology. If we don’t accept that the world s moving, even if it`s not for good, if we don’t move with it, it will destruct us. We use all day long media. Right now, for this paragraph I had to use media, I had to look in YOUTUBE which is 2nd largest search engine more than 1 million videos posted to write about how media is influencing us. WE use Google instead of books; if we want to know why tables are made with artificial wood we look it up in Google.





We are using the sites people talk about to be in the SOCIETY. We use facebook to know what other people are doing. Facebook had more than 10 million users in its first 9 months while the radio took 38 years to reach 5 million. If Facebook was a country it would be the 4th largest after US. To answer questions we use Yahoo or Google. To have fun we use online games. We are all falling in the hole. Wikipedia has more that 13 million articles…more accurate than encyclopedia Britannica We has to change some education systems to live in this MEDIA world. It’s out of control. This media growth will continue for the next 20 years or more. We will change education things they will no longer be books but computers no longer pens but keyboards. There would be even machines that make the work for us. We will fall and become lazy while the MACHINE Empire rises over us. The machines will control us, even if we were the ones who made them. MEDIA controls us. WE use it everywhere. We see it everywhere, we hear about it everywhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpEnFwiqdx8&feature=fvw

FAMILY TREE

the family tree

the most challenging part of the assignment was to fin th pictures of my family. ,Y DAD HAS 12 brothers so to find pictures of them took me long long time.ALso the difficult part was to remember who i already had in the tree.WHat i did to solve that was that i made a list and stred checking until i had all.

it was all chalenging

FAMILY TREE

I DECIDED TO USE THIS ONE BEACUSE IT'S MORE A PAINTING THAN A JUSTA PICTURE.TO ME IT EXPRESSES MORE FEELINGS AND I LIKE IT BETTER.IT'S MORE UNIQUE

SISTERS

Bloging is a complete new universe for me. I've heard little about it, i understand that it's something to share things.. like facebook. jajaj but more formal . I expect to learn many things from it. I will use the blog only for sharing school things with my friends and things like that because we can't use it for bad things because we signed the bloggers contract. It was really hard to creat the blog.. it was very confusing. The part of changing the color and editing you blog and all that was easier but there are many things i still have no clue about.While all the confusion and all that i had to add my whole class to my blog! That was a disaster for me because the add window kept on closing. I think i might be missing 1 or 2 of my peers because of the different names and Url's ajaja. i wnat to make my profile and my blog better because i don't like it...I hope to like the bloging because it's another way to c
onect to people i care for.SO NOW I HAVE TO START BLOGING. :)