Final Project

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M3KspMg2R2IYgDmGRF-xJUv54EFrljBwglPQ_eJ5AYY/edit

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10J_L9lVtbUJ8stXBFmEqgfKs9tW1NuAr1UTIpe96Fh8/edit

        The first thing that I did on my final is I created two interviews, one to give to my mom and the other to my dad. I did this to get information for my infographic and my prezi.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qj4u5nB-I_QS03JOkbmFovF4nuLz7plHAELcln9YB78/edit

          The next thing I did is I wrote an email and I sent it to my grandma on my dads side and gave me some information on the Alaimo family.

http://www.familyecho.com/?p=START&c=t474ws4s9r&f=977133164756887443

          Once I got enough information from my family members I made a family tree using familyecho.com.

         


        Then, the next thing I did with all of the information I got is make a family tree prezi with interesting facts about my family members.







                The final thing I did for my final project is put intersesting facts and stats on the Neal and Alaimo families into an infographic.

4/28/15

Read THIS blog post by a teacher. I mean actually read it. Take it in. Think about it. And then, write about it. What do you think about it? What is the teacher trying to say? In your own words explain what "the main event" is.

                 I think that this teacher is trying to tell people and students what being a good student really means and what teachers look for in students. Also it is saying that his students really stress him out. So overall he is saying what students need to do to be successful in life and also to be good in school.

Stop Motion Reflection

1. 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).
2. 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.
3. In hindsight, what would you do differently the second time around? Better lighting? Time management? Explain yourself.
4. Explain what makes your stop motion animation unique. How do you believe you thought "outside of the box" on this project? 
5. What grade do you feel you deserve on this project? Explain your reasoning.

When you have done a really thorough job of answering these questions on your blog, you may have a study hall the rest of the hour. This blog post is worth 3 times as many as the others. Make it count!

                  1. My stop motion animation video is skittles moving around. I chose it because I thought I could do some creative things with it. I also thought it wouldn't be to easy, and it wouldn't be too challenging.

2. I would give my project a rating of 9, because it wasn't out of this world or mindblowing but it still was really good.

3. Something I could have done better is have better lighting. For about half of my photos I didn't have good lighting.

4. The thing that made my stop motion video was unique was the designs that I made with my skittles.

5. I think I deserve an A on this project because it was creative and it was very consistent in a lot of things.

April 14, 2015

3 day weekend... how was it? Give me a good story or something funny that happened this weekend. Go.

           My weekend consisted of doing homework and playing baseball. On Friday I had baseball practice after school. On Saturday about 7 kids from my baseball team went up to the school baseball field with about 5 players from the C team and we hit and did other baseball related stuff. And on Monday I had practice and I watched the C team beat West.

4/7/15

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.

            My project is going to me about skittles on a table and they will make a lot of cool patterns and they will move around the table and disappear and reappear. I will have someone stand still over the skittles, so yes I will have someone help me. Obviously I need a phone to take pictures, I need skittles, and I need a tripod to take high quality photos. I plan on shooting this on my kitchen table at my house.

April 6, 2015

Tell me all about your weekend and please share photos!

          On Friday I had two baseball games against Olathe Northwest, and we went 1-1. We lost the first game 3-1 and won the second game 11-1. On Saturday I came up here to the school with some friends and we went up to the baseball field and did baseball stuff then we went to Buffalo Wild Wings and watched the Kentucky game. Then, on Sunday I did homework pretty much the whole day after I went out to eat with my family for Easter.

5 frame storyboard

April 2, 2015

What do you love most about this time of year? Explain why you love it.

             The thing that I love most about this time of year is baseball. This is the time of year when baseball starts. MLB opening night is in a couple of days and my first career highschool baseball game was two days ago. I also love the weather, when it's sunny and no clouds are in the sky and it is the perfect temperature.

Spencer and Nathan Pictures

March 30, 2015

Did you complete the photo scavenger hunt? What kind of fun pictures were you able to capture? Did you do all your photos at school or did you do some at home over the weekend? Share one of your favorites.

            Yes me and my partner completed the photo scavenger hunt. We got all different kinds of pictures. We got pictures of people, posters, and many cool things all around the BV campus. We took all of our magnificent photos at the school. One of my favorites is the close up of the eye and we took a photo of Mr. Bacon's eye.

March 27, 2015

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?

           I know that photography is the action of taking a picture. I take some photos, and I only take photos with my cell phone. I don't really edit photos before posting them on social network, I just take the picture and post it. I don't really have any background information on photography. I do have interest, because it would be cool to take a cool photo.

Water Pollution Prezi

March 23, 2015

Welcome back! Go ahead. Tell me all about your Spring Break. Include photos!

            For my Spring Break I didn't travel anywhere, and I just stayed in the good ol town of Leawood, Kansas. All I did was I had three baseball practices for the school and I watched NCAA March Madness. I kind of hope that next year I can travel somewhere, but its hard to because my dad works for H&R Block and Spring Break is in the middle of tax season, so he has to work a lot.

Water pollution Prezi

March 11, 2015

What are you doing for Spring Break?

       I am staying in Kansas for Spring Break. My only plans so far are that I have two baseball practices for the school baseball team. I will also watch the NCAA basketball tournament when it starts.

March 9, 2015

Tell me about your weekend.

           On Friday I had my last day of baseball tryouts, and I figured out if I made the team or not and I made the team. On Saturday I had practice for the first time, and before that we had a player meeting where coach told us what he expected from us. That was all I really did this weekend.

March 6, 2015

If you were the Principal for a week at BVHS, what would that look like? What changes would you make? Why?

            The first thing that I would do as the BVHS principal is fix the BV district's wifi. This is unacceptabe, no students are able to learn by using their phones, and I like when my students learn when I am principal. I would also give my students 10 minutes to get from class to class, so they they can learn more.

March 5, 2015

List out 10 pieces of advice you would give someone on how to create an amazing presentation.

1. Be prepared
2. talk clearly
3. eye contact
4. talk loud
5. Have a good presentation
6. Be confident in yourself
7. Be smart
8. Explain important points
9. Don't mumble
10. Know what you are talking about

March 2, 2015

Tell me about your weekend.

           On Friday I went to buckets for Bacon. The boys team didn't come out with the win, but the girls and the staff came out victorious. The rest of the weekend I chilled at home and I worked on my science experiment all of Saturday.

Water Pollution Info Graphic

February 24, 2015

1. People would rather read info graphics
2. 90% of information in our brain is visual.
3. 87% of stuff read on is info graphics
4. People only remember 20% of stuff they read
5. Info graphics aren't easy to make.

February 23, 2015

Tell me about your weekend. Give me a story, something funny that happened, an experiencing you had, the way you felt, etc. Include photos!

            This weekend was a pretty chill weekend. I went to a friends house on Friday after school, and then we went to the basketball games. Although we lost I still had a good time watching the BV Tigers. The rest of the weekend I just chilled at home. 

February 20, 2015

       I think the perfect curriculum is the core classes and some type of sports marketing class that I could take every year. Obviously I would study math, ela, and science. In the sports marketing class I would study different things that could help me later in life if I wanted to be a sports marketer. Stuff I would learn is how to promote games and other stuff you need to know to be a sports marketer. I could just do sports marketing instead of other electives.

February 19, 2015

My favorite food: Lobster
Foods I'd like to avoid: Ham
My favorite things to learn: Math
My favorite color: Purple
My best friends are: Everyone
My favorite games to play: Baseball
My favorite books: Hunger Games
My favorite movies or TV shows: Breaking Bad
My favorite holiday: Thanksgiving
Things I do well: Baseball
Things I need to practice more: Study Skills for school
My favorite place to go: New York City
My favorite family activities: Eating food together
My favorite thing to do outside: Baseball
My favorite chore: Taking out the trash
My least favorite chore: Cleaning
What I want to be when I grow up: Professional baseball player
A place I want to visit: Italy
My favorite part of the year: Memorial Day- Labor Day
My favorite part of each day: 4 PM- 10 PMFebruary 19, 2015

February 17, 2015

Tell me what you believe this cartoon is trying to say. Do you agree or disagree with this idea? Try and look at this from two different perspectives. What is your perspective? What would be an adult/teacher's perspective?

           I disagree with this idea. Someone who agrees with this would say that China and India are doing things right now to help the country out, and the US isn't really doing anything right now to help fix the US' problems. Someone who disagrees with this, like myself, would say that the US is doing just as much as India and China if not more. I think that it depends on if the adult likes how the US is right now, and thinks we have very little problems that need to be solved.

February 10, 2015

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 this means to me is that when you are doing a task to focus and get it done no matter what the task is. When i play baseball if I focus up I will end up playing better. I think if you gave us less work in class nothing would really change. I think that the amount of focus i have will stay the exact same if you give us less work, but I would be happier because I am getting less work. I think that if you gave us less work it would work for me, because I am getting less work.

February 9, 2015

Tell me all about your weekend! I sure hope you have photos to share.

           On Friday I hung out with some friends for pretty much the whole day. Then at around seven I went to the BV basketball games. I saw the last half of the girls game and all of the men's game. It was really fun, but it would have been more fun if BV won. Saturday was a pretty chill day, I just lied down the whole day, then i went over to a friends that night. Then, on Sunday I stayed home and I did all of my homework due the next day.

February 5, 2015

You haven't had a chance to tell me about your Sweetheart weekend yet - tell me about it now! Include photos if you have them. Even if you just laid around on the couch and watched Netflix, tell me all about it.

         This weekend was a pretty average weekend. I hung out with friends on Friday, and that is all I did on Friday. I didn't really do anything on Saturday, I just kind of lied around the house and watched TV. Then, on Super Bowl Sunday I went to my friends Super Bowl Party and lost 15 bucks, because I bet on the Seahawks to win, and they didn't. So, that's pretty much all I did this weekend.

February 2, 2015

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 something that helps people all over the globe communicate. I just use email to email teachers about school and also just to sign up for different things. I also use email so I can email myself different schoolwork so I can work on that at home. Students use email to help communicate to the teachers, and co workers use email to stay in touch with each other. Email etiquette is good grammar, capitalization, and spelling.

January 29, 2015

Finish this sentence "10 years from now I will be...." (explain)

       10 years from now I will be a professional baseball player for the New York Mets and I will have won about 3 world series. Also, I will be a professional super fan of the New York Jets, and I will lead the Jets to many Super Bowls. 

January 27, 2015

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.

     Most people in the world are against water pollution. People are against water pollution, because it warms everyone who drinks water and it harms the aquatic life. It gets in peoples water and it contaminates the water so it hurts the fish. I don't think that people are for water pollution for the reasons that I have listed.

Water Pollution

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. :)

1. I know that water pollution affects tons of people and animals each year, and it can easily harm animals

2. I want to know if this issue affects anything else, and also where this issue is the worst in the world

3. I just chose this issue because it seemed interesting to research, and so I thought that I should do it

http://www.ecouterre.com/chinese-textile-polluters-regularly-violate-environmental-regulations-says-report/water-pollution-china-1/

January 26, 2015

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 do that because if we didn't "think differently" then the PSA we would be making for you would be very boring. The PSA will be something that you have seen before, or not original, so if you just read the same thing over and over again you as the reader will get really bored.

PSA

January 23, 2015

        Kids these days really don't get satisfied that easily anymore and they always are asking for the latest stuff. Kids these days don't understand how lucky they are. If they have food and they don't like the food they are eating and they complain they really don't understand that there are kids around the world that don't eat a lot of food.

January 22, 2015

What is a public service announcement (PSA)? What do PSA's do? What makes a good PSA? How can you get someone to take action after watching a PSA?  What is you PSA idea? Explain in detail.

      A PSA, or a Public Service Announcement, is an announcement thats goal is to get a certain message through to the public. What makes a good PSA is that the information is understood by the people that are lokking at your PSA. To get people to take action you can say something in the PSA that tells the reader how they can take action, and they should include many different ways.

Tuesday January 20, 2015

Tell me all about your 3 day weekend. Share photos!

         This weekend I hung out with friends on Friday for a bit and then also on Monday. That is pretty much all I did the whole weekend. The rest of the weekend I just chilled and watched the NFL playoffs. I also did a bunch of homework on Sunday night.

January 16, 2015

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.

         My Spencer Alaimo and I am a freshman here at Blue Valley High School. Right now I am only involved in one activity and that is baseball. Right now we are in conditioning and we will start the season in about 1 month and a half. My favorite class this far I have only been in for two weeks and that is Geography with Mrs. Cowan.

Who am I?

January 15, 2015

A. Answer the Phone
B. Be Good
C. Create Stuff
D. Do Good Things
E. Eat Food
F. Friendly, you might consider being
G. Get Food for other people
H. Handle thing well
I. I do good things
J. Just be good
K. Kangaroos are dangerous
L. Live your life the right way
M. Move fast
N. Not being mean
O. Otters are nice, so be friendly to them
P. People are good
Q. Queens are good
R. Ride in your car safely
S. Safety First
T. Time is precious
U. Under a falling bridge is not safe
V. Vandalism is bad
W. Whales can be dangerous, so stay away
X. X- Rays can be dangerous
Y. Yeast goes in bread, so use yeast in your bread
Z. Zebras have stripes, so don't say they have spots

January 13, 2015

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.

I think that so far this class is pretty easy, and I think that I am keeping up with what I am supposed to do. I have learned to use blogger, use google chrome, and use all the different features that google has. Stuff I want to learn is how to use google chrome and be able to use some the features they have. Also I want to learn BVbusiness, because I might have to use it some other time that I am here at Blue Valley High.

January 12, 2015

Tell me about your weekend. What did you do? Upload a photo to your Google Drive and then insert the photo (or photos!) to your blog post to show me what all you did.

      On Saturday I watched NFL football. I watched the Seahawks vs Panthers, and I watched one of my favorite teams lose, the Panthers. On Sunday it was my 15th birthday, and I went to a fancy restaurant called Sullivans for my birthday dinner.

January 9th, 2015

1. Baseball= A
2. Being on Phone= A
3. Sleeping= A
4. Listening to music= A
5. Walking= A
6. Watching TV= A
7. Fantasy Football= A
8. Getting Money= A
9. Tweeting= A
10. Drinking Diet Coke= A

January 8, 2015

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.

          I feel that this is wrong and people should not listen to this article. I don't agree with this article at all. I think that teenagers should still help around the house a little bit, but I don't think that is all that teenagers should do. Teens have the right to do something fun, and not just work and do chores all the time. Maybe after the teenager does a little bit of chores they can have a bit of fun. Also, if the kid cooks, gets a job, mow, wash dishes, and build a raft the parent is doing nothing and they owe the kids no fun? Really what I am trying to say is that this paragraph is very wrong, and also that this paragraph doesn't make any sense at all.