May 14th 2012

1. Talk about where you are at with your independent project?

I am very proud of finishing up my leaf picture, it was a bit of a pain to outline and select certain parts of the leaf and deleting the mistakes but still I FINISHED IT!!!!

I have learned to select certain things and just doing changes to them instead of the whole picture, how to make parts of a picture that you don't like blend in the background and many mreo things.

The biggest challenge that I have had is trying to undo my mistakes that I have done that I just relized I have, so I had to go back and do the undo button ovdr and over until I got to the part that was wrong and then redo it.

What I am doing next is taking a picture of my mom and trying to change her hair color with out making it look really fake.

May 3rd

1. What progress am I making this week?

2.What am I learning (independently) Be specific as possible

 I am learning a lot in photoshop. For example, I now know how to change the hue and satruation, I can make the photo black and white, change the colors to make the picture stand out more and  I also know how to crop pictures

3. What challenges do I have?

Since I just started to learn about photoshop, I am still new at most of the tools, but I understand most of them now.

4. What are next steps for the week

Inspirational Photo

I looked at many photos, but theses ones caugth my eye.



 This is a photo of a river in Mexoco. I like how the angle of the photo makes it look like the river is a giant tree.


I like this photo because it comptures emotion. When I take picture I always try to put a feeling or emotion in it. That is something I would like learn how to do more. Make a picture louder than words. I also would like to learn how to change the lightings in pictures

This is the link to my e-portfolio website.

https://sites.google.com/site/nataliesgr9eportfolio/home

I still need to find a picture of myself and do a few minor changes.

TYPING TEST FEB 23

Starting Speed: 14 wpm
End Online Typing Test: 22 wpm
Paper Test: 29 wpm

My goal was to try and reach 50 wpm, as you can see I did not quite  make it. But I still got better at typing so overall, I did not make my goal but I still improved my typing skills.

What I need to do this week



This week I need to finish up my e-portfolio.


I have laid out most of the design that I wanted, so now I just need to get the evidence of me doing what I say I am doing. My e-portfolio is due on Thursday. So my plan is to gather all my evidence at home and send it to my e-mail and get  it at school. But to make things easy, I also try to do as much as I can on my own at my house.

 I really struggle at motivating myself into doing things so I write little reminders to myself every where and I do it because when I see those reminders I get really annoyed and do the work that I am suppose to do so I don't have to see those reminders again. I believe that I do my best when there are people encouraging me on and when I have that satisfactory feeling that I completed a huge hurdle I feel like I can do anything and that really makes me want to try harder next time. 

Self-Directed Learning:
Motivation is a struggle and getting interested in it.
I can set goals, but depends on if I finish them or not.

Today I was learning how to create a website. I am not not finished yet but I hope that it looks great!

Technology Challenges

I never really had a problem dealing with technology. If I ever did have a problem, I guess that I would read the intructions like a dozen times until I get it or just get my dad to help me.

Top 5 Fav Food!!!!

1. Apples
2. Pizza
3. Sushi
4. Ice Cream
5. Mash Potatoes and Gravy