5/16/15 Stop Motion Animation

Stop Motion Animation and Answers

Ryan Hakim

1. What was your stop motion animation about? Why did you choose to do 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).

Answer: My stop motion animation was about a kid who can dunk that shatters the entire basketball hoop after doing a 360-between the legs-free throw-backflip dunk. After he does that, Michael Jordan shows him his magic powers by fixing the hoop and with a bunch of logos that don't make sense. I chose this because it was Tuesday, I hadn't taken one picture yet and I ran out of ideas so I thought of this creative train-wreck.

2. If you could rate your stop motion on a 1-10 scale. 1 being low effort and not very good and 10 being out of this world/mind-blowing, how would you rate your project? Explain why.

Answer: I would actually give this project out of 10 an 8 despite my flaws in ideas. The pictures flowed well, the drawings were more than mediocre, and the story kind of made sense. I feel like I made a mountain out of a molehill (figuratively).

3. In hindsight, what would you do differently the second time around? Better lighting? Time management? Different topic? Explain yourself.

Answer: The thing that killed my 2 points that would make this would be TIME MANAGEMENT. The domino effect fell on my project because of this because once I realized that I didn't have a strong storyline, I was frantically trying to scramble something with Michael Jordan and a story with a whiteboard. Another attribute that could have been avoided was my photo taker (not me, you know who) kept taking pictures that were shaky.

4. Explain what makes your stop motion animation unique. How do you believe you thought "outside of the box" on this project?

Answer: My story was very progressive and I'll credit myself with that. No one I know could have thought of a topic to finish in 2 days (or how ever long I didn't mess around) it combines weirdness, exclusiveness, and a good story.

5. What grade do you feel you deserve on this project? Explain your reasoning.

Answer: I believe that I deserve a B+, I may have butchered my last chance to get an outstanding grade in Emerging Tech, but I know I have emerged to be one of the best students in the class with projects but I don't want to have to see how bad I did for my last 8th grade assignment ever...

Magic Jordan

5/6/15 Be Like Mike 5 Picture Video

5/1/15 Copyright Powtoon RH

4/17/15 Unethical Practice

(Jack: accused of plagiarism, stayed up too late playing Fifa so he copied and pasted things from the internet, no citing)
(Adeline: accused of having someone ghostwrite her paper and she paid for it)
(Samir: accused of using someone else's essay's elements in his (purloining))
(Mohammed/Sandra: accused of collusion... Mohammed copied Sandra's notes instead of using his own (collusion))

Unethical Practice


"unethical1" from Pepperdine University

Question 1: Why do you think that most people use unethical practices to cheat academically?

Answer 1: Most people do not deliberately use unethical practice to cheat academically, rather they are usually too desperate or lazy to not use unethical practice. Three out of the four scenarios in the Murdoch University video had either been a desperate or lazy situation. 

Jack had known he had a paper to write about ethics that was due but he was too LAZY to type it, rather playing FIFA on his PlayStation at 1 in the morning leading to him having to copy and paste works from the internet for his paper.

Mohammed and Sandra had been working together on studying, but Mohammed had been behind on his notes being DESPERATE with using Sandra's notes as his own.

Samir didn't know what to study for, so he was LAZY enough to use his friend's essay as his to "study" from.

But, Adeline had deliberately bought a paper written for her with no background information behind WHY she bought the paper. It seems it was not for desperation or laziness...

Question 2: Which one of the four offences committed you think should have been let off with a warning rather than expelled? Why?

Answer 2: I think that Mohammed's and Sandra's situation was the offense that should have been let off with a warning. I mean, all of them were but, college is a fast-paced lifestyle that is very unpredictable when you are behind on notes for a class, so aid from a fellow classmate is needed sometimes. But do the universities look through students' notes?

Question 3: What kinds of problems will follow the students with this on their record?

Answer 3: For ALL four students, they will have an "expulsion from Murdoch University: Dubai" line on their record. Job interviewers, other universities, and other institutions will see their mistakes and not accept them.

Question 4: Search the unethical academic practices or plagiarism at the school you want to attend and see what the offense for these practices are and explain.

Answer 4: Since I am from Michigan and I am a Spartans fan, I picked Michigan State's Plagiarism Policy to look up. (I could only find plagiarism on their website; not ghost writing, purloining, or collusion. Sorry!)

The plagiarism policy website of Michigan State University states that a "penalty grade" will be deducted from the assignment leading to a failing grade or failing from a class.

3/9/15 Sphero MacroLab Lessons 1 and 2

Sphero MacroLab Lessons 1 and 2

Group Members: Jack Robertson, Tyler Rapavi, and Ryan Hakim

Lesson 1:

(No live photo due to technical difficulties)

In Lesson 1, my group learned how to make the Sphero ball stop and start by using percentages in the app. Delay was the variable that we learned about that stopped the Sphero.

Lesson 2:

(No live photo due to technical difficulties)

In Lesson 2, the main thing my group learned to do was changing the colors of the Sphero by changing the RGB percentages. R is Red, G is Green, and B is Blue and there are three lights for each color that can change for other more vibrant colors on the color wheel!

2/17/15 SixthSense

SixthSense

A new (new as in a few years... the video introducing it was from 2009) technology has been released. It is called "SixthSense" and it is the pioneer of a new form of human/computer interaction. The device has a mini-camera, mini-projector, and color markers for the fingers. All of these components add up to make the SixthSense. It is amazing in four ways:

1. SixthSense can make pretty much any object a device from the miniature projector and the object becomes a touchscreen therefore giving it a variety of things to do with it.

2. With the color markers and camera, pictures can be taken without a click of a button, but rather with a shape made by the hands in a rectangle!

3. The device can be used as an information tool to look up something... the camera recognizes what it is looking at and then the projector projects a web search with information about whatever the object is.

4. Cell phones can be paired with SixthSense and phone numbers and text messages can be typed on the hand rather than typing on a regular phone!

The problem with the product is that it is a high-power demanding machine and it would need to be charged frequently. Another problem is, is there a case? If you are in an area or place in which you had to take off and put away SixthSense; you couldn't fit it in your pocket or put it in a backpack without breaking it. Finally, if the surface is not flat, the device will not work properly.

2/6/15 PSA Texting and Driving: Tyler Rapavi, Jack Robertson, and Ryan Hakim

Texting and Driving PSA: Tyler Rapavi, Jack Robertson, and Ryan Hakim