NCAA Bracket Sheet

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3/24 Current Events

Apple's New Video App

The article I read was, "The Hidden Breakthrough In Apple's New Video App" by Margaret Rhodes. This article clearly explains Apple's new video app, which is called "Clip." The app will be extremely popular because of its facial recognition, sharibility, filters, fun effects, and most importantly, the app's ability to convert live speech into readable text. This feature is called Live Titles. Live Titles is going to make captioning videos easier than it has ever been before. Before this app, one would have to download a specific app that lets you type in your own captioning, but this process is slow, time-consuming and sometimes, not even free. It seems the reason Apple decided to launch this new video app is because of the increase in popularity of video apps such as Snapchat and even Facebook and Instagram. The use of videos in social media is becoming more and more common, so Apple wanted to take things a step further for consumers.

3/22 Spring Break

For Spring Break, I went to Chicago to visit my friends and family. I went to the St. Paddy's parade downtown to surprise my cousin (since he was playing drums in the parade). My cousin Michael turned four, so my whole family met at my uncle's house for a party. I went to an ariana grande concert with my best friend Demetri and saw a lot of movies with my friends. My boyfriend, Joey, asked me to prom, as imaged here...

And I ate a lot of Cuban food and pizza. My favorite place to get pizza from in Chicago is probably Blaze Pizza. (Like a Chipotle for pizza)...

3/22 Bracket

3/21 Photo Editing

I am comparing Picmonkey and adobe Lightroom. I highly prefer Adobe Lightroom to edit my photos, Picmonkey doesn't have as much variety. I believe Lightroom is a little more on the professional side of editing as well.
The first picture, is from Picmonkey. As you might not be able to tell, I added a pink tint to Joey's cheeks. There aren't many options.

In the second photo, I used Lightroom to edit some senior photos. I could adjust saturation, exposure, contrast, highlights, fix blemishes, etc.

Infographic Peer Feedback

Provide me with a quick overview of the student Infographics you viewed for this assignment.  In your reflection to me, provide the student name & 1-2 things you liked/learned by looking at their infographic. Finally, did you enjoy this project?


Maria - She made her infographic fun and creative. The title was very neat.

Grace- She provided viewers with a perfect amount of data to get her point across.

Amit - His infographic was simple and followed a neat pattern.

Gavin - His infographic was something I would have never thought of, which makes it all the more fun. I would add some keys for the charts though.

This project was easy and fun. It let me teach my interests to other students in a fun way.

Infographic + Reflection

I enjoyed creating my own infographic, because it was for something I'm passionate about.I've seen infographics a lot in school, as posters, or even as ads online. I would use an infographic in school, for example in Bioscience, to present data in a simpler form. Or I could also use it in my personal life as a means of presenting data on the meat and dairy industry. (: The site was easy to navigate, except I couldn't figure out how to make bullet lists. This is a website I would use again (piktochart).

Links:
https://img.clipartfest.com/5141a11d29f89bd21bd7e2267456101c_big-image-png-png-smart-man-clipart_2181-1759.png
https://img.clipartfest.com/c0b81d6d1fe4d941377b4e3483037f36_reading-weekly-overview-reading_288-177.png
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/23/who-doesnt-read-books-in-america/
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/10-benefits-reading-why-you-should-read-everyday.html

Infographic Research

What is an infographic?
A visual image such as a chart or diagram used to represent information or data.

What is the purpose of an infographic?
 Graphic or visual representations of information or data in a concise and easy to understand format.. They can improve cognition by utilizing graphics to enhance the human visual system's ability to see patterns and trends. -wiki

What type of information is best displayed in an infographic?
 Probably statistical data. Like poll or survey results.

How can an infographic help convey your message to an audience?
Infographics make presenting data to a younger audience, or an audience that doesn't understand how to interpret raw data, a lot easier.

How might you use an infographic in your class assignments?
Infographics would be very useful in my bioscience research class. I have a number of experiments that I have collected raw data from and I'll need to format this data in such a way that every viewer will be able to comprehend.

Infographic on Gov. Spending 
This infographic shows the difference between militaristic vs. educational spending in different parts of the world.

Earth Day Infographic 
This infographic shows people small ways to help the environment.