CTE Expo 2015

     On February 12, 2015 a CTE expo was setup by the CTE teachers and students where many freshmen were able to get a good feel of every CTE academy available to them. This CTE expo took place in the Web Design room , Video Production room and Apple room. The students that are currently in these academies including myself, contributed by showing the freshmen our previous work and answering any questions they had. We also had many of our previous work displayed where we were able to describe what we did and how we did it. This was a good opportunity for us to explain our work to other people and inform them what our academy is about and how it will best suit them.

     This CTE expo was setup to inform the freshmen about what our academy is about and why they should join. The results of the CTE expo were good because all of the classes that came into the Web Design Academy were all informed. There were many interested students that said they wanted to join after informing them what Web Design was about and what they would be doing for the next three years if they joined. These students had a good idea of what the academy was about and it interested them more after they knew more about the academy. I feel like the expo went really good and many more students found out how interesting each academy can be.

Fall Semester - Self Evaluation

     This fall semester I was happy with my grade but I felt like I could have done better with my labs by adding more detail. I learned many things during the fall semester and these things included experience with textedit, Dreamweaver and Flash. I learned how to create different types of symbols with Adobe Flash CS6 and animate them so that the symbols had their own actions. I also learned how to save the animation as a SWF file and how to insert it into a HTML document. I then added code to add a title and background color which I learned how to do in the beginning of the semester.
   
     The fun, easy and enjoyable part of this semester was creating the symbols and animations even though it was the hardest it was enjoyable because you were able to make whatever you want and choose the colors you wanted. Another easy part was adding the SWF file to a HTML document and upload it to the server so that it would be able to be seen online. The challenging part of this semester was using the tweens in the animations and making the animations work. It was hard because I felt like there was more than 1 way to do it and it was hard to make only one symbol move and not have it affect other symbols or the background. Making the symbols were also challenging and changing the shapes and adding colors and filters to make your symbol look more realistic. The boring part of this semester was adding the SWF files into a HTML document and uploading it online.
   

     This semester I can improve by adding more details into my labs. I can pay more attention in class and focus more on my work. I felt like this semester I did good with time management but I feel like I can still do better with it. Adding more details to my labs can make them look better and will help me in future projects which will make  my work look more presentable. Everything I experienced this fall semester from troubleshooting to animations and coding was very vital to my future because it will all be needed. These skills and experience will be very helpful and can impact my future.