May Project Pre Writing

I'm going to do a life story video. The first thing I'll need to do is scan all of my older pictures onto our computer, and save them. Then I'll need to locate any pictures that already are on my computer. I will need to decide how long it will be, and how many pictures there will be. Will i concentrate on early life or more recent events. Should there be a more central theme, or just whatever? It will need good backup music, which will include that vitamin C song at the end and maybe good riddance by green day in the middle. I will have to make sure i get all this done quickly enough so i can use other technologies as well in this class, and not just use all the time on the video. This could really become a neat project if i can do it right. I think one thing that may slow it up is if all my baby pictures and sports pictures are already in an album permanently, but that's all i can think of. There are thousands of pictures of me so i shouldn't have much of a problem with finding good pictures. I hope this turns out as well as it is in my head. One last thing, will there be any captions on the photos?

Colabrative writing thoughts.

This assignment was very interesting. with all the use of technology i really learned something. Not only did we have to work together, but with the technology to make our story what it is. I like doing collaborative things like this because it always seems like people are more creative then me so i like to hear what their ideas are, and then help them develop these ideas. Although our story could be better, i thought the overall project was a success with all the technology we used and how quickly we put it together. I also liked at the end reading the other stories. Especially the narratives. There's something interesting about reading about other peoples lives. We all want to know what's going on in others lives, and the best way to find out is through reading their thoughts because they are more honest in their writing. Definitely continue to do this project in the future. Maybe a suggestion would be to do all short narratives like that one group did, then everyone edit them on google docs or something. Although the children's books and short story were okay the narratives were better.

Government AP test

Yesterday i took the AP government test. I can't disclose any information about the test itself, but i can talk about how i think i did. I hope and think i got a four on it which is what i need for college credit at St. Olaf. The FRQ's weren't as bad as some of the practice ones and i feel i did pretty well on all four of them. The multiple choice was very similar to the practice tests we took in terms of content which was to be expected. I definitely had enough time for both parts, but especially for the FRQ's. I finished my last FRQ with like 40 minutes left, and i wasn't the only one to be done that early. Seemingly everyone was done with at least 10 minutes left. For the multiple choice i finished with about 10 minutes left, and had time to go back and look over answers i was unsure of. Overall i hope i did well, we find out in July so fingers crossed!