Words I Learned from "How to Export for Multiple Screens"

EUPB - Stands for electronic production, is a open e-book standard from IDPF.

XHMTML- Stands for Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, a type of XML markup language or a extended version of HTML to formulate web pages.

HTML - A language in which to formulated web pages.

HTML5 - The fifth reversion of the HTML W3C.

CSS - Stands for Cascading style sheets, a style sheet language for the look and formatting for a document of a web content.

SWF Video Format - a Adobe Flash format created for graphic with animations or interactivity.

Footnotes - words that are printed at the very bottom of the page.

Internal Cross-References - a instant in a document the refers to a other part of the same document.

Cell Stroke - The outline of each cell in a table.

Spry Data - an arrangement of a web document.

Lab 19 Feathering

      The purpose of lab 19 is for us to learn about what is smoothing, feathering, and blending and the difference between them. In this lab we each we handed a paper with all the procedures and the steps to blend, feather, and smooth, so we just need to follow the guide. Smoothing, feathering, and blending  are mostly used for irregular selection to make to edges to blend in to the new background. The picture we use in this lab can be our own or a picture we find online, so I just chose a picture I took of a car around the school
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      To started smoothing, feathering, and blending, we first use the polygon lasso tools to create a selection of the main focus or the object. After the selection, right click, and choose refine edge. Adjust the Smooth to whatever that I like. Adjust the the feathering to increase the outline of the image, it's best limit to 3-5 pixels. Then click the decontaminate color option, and click OK. After we finished all the steps above, we created a new empty layer. This layer is for us to make a color behind our selection that we just create and applied with smoothing, feathering, and blending. I chose a color between green and blue and decrease the opacity of this layer to a point where you can see the color and also see the background at the same time.

Project 8 Brochure

      Project 8 is to create a brochure with the assigned group of people our teacher told us to work together. This helps us to learn to collaborated with everyone, even with people I am not familiar with, because in my future career, I will need to be able to collaborate with everyone and be able to produce the best work with the people I am working with. I am assigned in a group with Shamonie and Ravi. Ravi is the secretary, Shamonie is the manager, and I am the designer. In this brochure, we decided to create a informational brochure that shows you information about our school, Information Technology.

      In our brochure, we created the first panel for the title, the second panel for the introduction, the third panel for the classes that we have, the fourth panel for the special programs and classes, the fifth panel for sports, and the last panel for the CTE programs we have in our school. Since we have 3 people, we assign each person to take charge of 2 panels. We are still working together, we are just more focusing on our own panels. The design we used for the brochure is cutting it in half and use black, red, and white in different orders, because these are our school color. We also add a few small designs on the edges of the panels to make it look more creative and interesting.
      In the first panel, I put the title to the school along with a picture that I took earlier in the school year. In the second panel, I wrote a introduce about this school and the information about this school. In the third panel, we listed all the classes we have in this school. In the fourth panel, we introduced different classes and different types of clubs we have. In the fifth panel, we wrote about each of the CTE programs we have and the skills they teach. In the last panel, we listed different types of sports we have in each season for boys and girls. Overall, this project was really fun, and I have learned to be better at working with others, and that is a important skill in the my future workplace.

Synopsis

      The last video we watched from "Skills to Pay the Bill" is everything synopsis in the workplace, its like a summary of all the skills we need to succeed  in the workplace environment. The video tells us that when you are applying for a job, a positive attitude, enthusiasm, and a good networking can help you succeed in finding the job and applying for the job. And in the work place, you need to have good communication skills that you can listen well and knows how to communicate information and ideas to others. Good teamwork skills that you can help each other and complete the work better, which benefits everyone. Good critical thinking and problem solving skills can make your work easier, and more valuable in the employer's eyes. And last, professionalism, and that is to be on time, managing time effectively, and conduct responsibility.

Critical Thinking And Problem Solving

      The other video we watched from "Skills to Pay the Bills" was about 

Critical Thinking And Problem Solving skills. This video begins by showing a teacher in a kindergarten school and she was looking for a pair of shoes for a kid, because a another kid stole those shoes, hid them during nap time and can't remember where he hid them. After another of her co- worker comes in, she told her what happened. Then she used good critical thinking and create a plan for her so she was able to get the shoes back. And since these things happens from time to time she used colored labels for all the items to keep them in order. This video tells us that there will always be problem at the workplace, and good critical think and problem solving skills can help you be better while facing these problems. And people who are good at these skills are the ones employers are looking for. 

Networking

      The nest video we watched from "Skills to Pay the Bills" is about Networking. This video begins by showing Mark handing in a data compilation to one of his co- worker that he work for. Since he was a intern, she ask him how did he got in, and he responded by saying that he did a research of the companies that might want him as a worker. He found this company and the owner of this company. He saw that he will be representing the company in the job fare, so he went to the job fare, introduced himself, and told him that he was interested in his company in result at a follow up interview. Then he was hired after the interview. The video shows that networking is important, because network of people you know can really help when you are searching a job, since you get all the information you know from the people around you, and it can be as important as all of your other skills.

Teamwork

      The forth video we watched in class from "Skills to Pay the Bills" is about teamwork. At the beginning, the video shows a woman come in to Jessica and starts telling what a great work she did in her presentation, and claimed that she will show everyone the presentation and how wonderful it is. But instead of taking all the credit for the presentation to herself since she is the only there, Jessica told that it wasn't just herself who completed this presentation. It was also a few co- workers that she worked with who gave her ideas, plans, and worked together. The videos tells us that when you get credit for something, always share the with your teammates, because "teamwork is a essential for success at the workplace. And employers look for worker who work well with others." At the same time everyone accomplishes more and benefits.

Professionalism

      The third video we watch from "Skills to Pay the Bills" is about professionalism. In the video, the new employee shows up to work late,does only the things he was told too, and while he drop something he didn't want to pick them up until the next day. The other person with him seems to be his employer or a more experienced co- worker of his had to teach him every steps of professionalism. And that includes being on time, do the work that needs to be done even if no one told you to, and conducting yourself with responsibility. We have also talked about some examples of professionalism in class, such as good punctuality, good effort to work, do the things that needs to be done with out something telling you, and good time management

Attitudes and Enthusiasm

      The second video from "Skills to Pay the Bills" teaches you the correct attitude and enthusiasm during a interview or in a workplace. In the video, a young men showed up into the interview with unprofessional street cloth, he didn't show a professional attitude, didn't show much respect, and talk on his phone to his friend during the Interview. After that, the same person showed up in a different situation. He was prepared with business attire, gave good respect to the person he was in a interview with, and had a great attitude towards the workplace environment. Attitude and enthusiasm is important, because when you show good attitude and good enthusiasm such as dress professionally, be on time, good facial expressions, and be confident. It will give the interviewer a good impression of you and more likely to get the job you are applying for.

Communication Skills

      In my visual design class, my teacher  wanted us to be ready and prepared to have to skills we need for our future work place and succeed in our future careers. So she showed a series of video from "Skill to Pay the Bills" that teaches you what to do, and how to do the best in any job you want to have in the future. The first video we watched from "Skills to Pay the Bills" is about communication skill and why it is important to our future careers. In the video, a casher was using internet slang in her first day of her job to all her customers and none of them understood what she was talking about. This makes the communication difficult because it's a unusual language to use and it's not a proper language to use in the work place. Later on, her employer told her that the customers don't know what she was saying and complain about it. Communication skills are important because you need to send the correct message to the custom and also to receive the correct message from other, also a good communications skills can create a good relationship which others.

Project 7 Respect For All GIF

      In the previous lab, we learned how to create a simple GIF that can move around for a few seconds. And to continue what we have learned in the previous lab, we will be creating our own GIF for the Respect for All week in this project. This seems like a really easy project since there is no specific objective, and all we have to do is create a respect for all GIF in Photoshop. But in fact,I struggled, since there are no specific objective, there are no guidelines for us either. I really didn't truly understand the meaning of "respect for all". And I had no idea how to create a GIF to express the idea of this phrase. So I had went online to understand what it really means. It turned out to be more related to bullying than I thought, and its mostly about bullying, caring, equality, harassment, and discrimination. And I created my GIF based on these things.
      To create this GIF, I first created a gradient in the background to make it look better. I then used the timeline to create a video timeline for this GIF. In the first frame, I used the custom shape tool to create different kinds to people to show that "we can be different". In the second frame, I used the shape tools to create a balance with two people in each side while it's balanced, which means that "we were all created equally" to show equality. In the third frame, I used the shape tools and the pen tool to make a stronger person bullying a weaker person with a huge stop sign in front of it. This means that "we should stop bullying," and be friends with each other. In the forth frame, I used the pen tool and the custom shape tool to create 2 hands, one trying to help the other and a heart in the middle. This tells us to help people when they need you. And in the last frame, I used the custom shape tools and the pen tool to create a man bowing to different types of people. This frame symbolize that we should respect everyone even if they are different.