Blog #14- Alumni Artist Day

          Alumni artist day was pretty interesting. I learned some new things. The first woman talked about how she got to college and how some people told her not to apply. She applied anyways and and got in and does not regret it at all. She also showed us some of her artwork. A few things that she showed us were creative and artistic. I learned how interesting art can be and how much hard work goes into making a sculpture.

         The man, Dan Ricardelli, showed us some of his architecture. He is very good at designing things for his architecture and sculptures. It looked like he works really hard at what he does. He also enjoys it a lot, too. This made me more interested in finding out about art careers.

Holiday Traditions

        At holiday traditions there were many foods. One of the foods was Charoset. Jewish people have it on Passover which is a holiday that is not really a celebration, but its more of a remembrance. Charoset is made of apples and nuts mostly, and it is very delicious. It represents the stuff that held the bricks together that the Jews had to make. The next food is a Passover Seder plate. The Seder is a dinner that is also a service. Jews have dinner and do the service at the same time. The Charoset is part of the Seder plate. The last food that I looked at was a Greek food. It was some bread stuff with some Greek dip.   

Blog #12- Website Redo

Edited Version

Original Website

The original website had several problems. The first problem was the color scheme. There were far too many colors and they did not work together. I fixed this problem by changing the many colors to a monochromatic color scheme. There is different shades of gray. The new colors keep it simple and clean. The next problem was the column organization. There was no organization for the columns and it made it very difficult to read. I solved this problem by organizing the columns into three even columns. This made the website look much easier to read and understand. Another problem was the high amount of little images. I fixed that problem by having only two pictures that made sense to the website. I also changed the headings to make it easier to understand what the reader is reading about. 

Blog Post #11- Art App

           My favorite app is Photoshop express. In order to edit this picture on Photoshop express, I had to do several things. First I had to click select photo and then press edit. After that I went to effects and made the picture vibrant. Then I made the picture black and white by going to the little icon that looks like a sun. I went to the little icon with the stars and clicked borders and chose vignette. Also, I played around with the contrast. Lastly, I cropped some of the old picture out. This app is a very good app. There are a lot of things you can do on it to edit a picture. I would give this app a 9 out of 10 and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to easily edit a picture.

Blog Post #10- Volunteering

        I have volunteered at Memorial Elementary School. Two of my friends and I went there to help out at the halloween dance. We were assigned stations where we had to work at. I had to work at the fake tattoos. I gave little kids fake tattoos where they wanted it. At first there were not many kids who wanted tattoos, but by the middle of he night there were a lot of kids coming over. It became stressful.

        When there was no kids who wanted fake tattoos, I would go help either my friends or somewhere that was busy and needed help. Some of the kids were stubborn, but others were cute and sweet. Volunteering for this gave me scholarship points. I volunteered from 6:30 to 9. My friend and I also, wore our halloween costumes.

BlogPost #9 Website Documenting.org

         The website Do Something.org's purpose is to get teens to do good stuff offline. It shows all of the causes that teens can do.  The causes are animal welfare, disaster response and relief, discrimination, education, environment, health and fitness, HIV and sexuality, international human rights, poverty, violence and bullying, war, peace and politics. It also gives you options for what you can do to get involved. It shows you what you can do for each cause.  It shows you what cause, with who, where, and how long for getting involved in one of the causes. Then it has their programs.
     
        The overall appearance is pretty good. I like the way the categories are organized because it makes sense. The organization lets me easily know what things are. When I first got to the website, I knew what it was about. I think the colors are contrasted well. The blue and yellow work well together. This website's appearance is okay.

Blog 8- My Favorite Ipad App for Entertainment

                 My favorite app for entertainment is temple run.  Temple run is fun because you run and you have to jump over things.  You slide under things too.  You try to collect coins.  When you collect coins, you can buy people to run and things that help you get more coins.  It also makes me feel accomplished when I beat my high score or when I earn a lot of coins.  I play this game a lot when I want to relax.