Raccoon Mania!!!

Two really nice raccoon pictures both made on bighugelabs.com. I like how the Extreme double poster came out but the movie poster didn't come out so well. If you noticed the movie is written, directed, and is starring John Wayne. I couldn't find a way to crop the movie poster but It works to an extent.

A Day Without Technology Pixton Comic

Pretty simple Pixton comic. Depicts a man hunting for food because without technology he needs a source of food. Fairly difficult to create considering the annoying controls that Pixton operates with. I believe that it accurately represents my vision of what I wanted it to be like. I was disappointed  however that is is very difficult to see the facial expressions on the first two panels. I think  their point gets across successfully however. The main problem that I faced though was whenever I zoomed in to work on expressions it centered around that character and when I zoomed back out it cut off a large section of the work I had just done and their was no way that I could find to fix it without starting over. Not to mention whenever I tried to click on something there was a good chance that I would grab the background and mess it up.

In the first panel I discovered how difficult it is to show someone throwing an object in Pixton. The final result, which is the best I could do, makes it seem likes he's walking towards the bird and causally tossing a spear at best. The second panel took a while but I think it came out decently. The main problem was the zooming in issue. By comparison the third panel was easy and it took me all of five minutes. I am slightly disappointed in that I can't make the bird look like it is actually being held by the man but I find it acceptable. The fourth panel was also fairly simple apart from changing the feathers colors and naturally the zooming in problem. Surprisingly though the background moving was the hardest part of the forth panel.

So in summary the comic is fine but it is far from perfect due to the annoying problems with zooming in and out along with background issues. I found Pixton fun but I doubt that I will return to it unless it makes major interface changes.    

Ninja Raccoon

Ninja raccoon about to take on James Bond. I think the winner is clear. Nature's Ninjas will easily defeat the weak human. NINJA RACCOON ATTACK!!!

Social Learning

Social learning is the idea that students can collaborate together either in person or, more recently, on the internet. Social learning is also called peer to peer and includes things like online resources and online instruction. Social learning also has been seen as an opportunity to create a place where students can help and teach each other. The idea of social learning has been gaining steam recently due to the increasing accessibility of the internet and it seems that it will become bigger in the upcoming years.

Tagxedo Check Mark

I really nice check mark I made on Tagxedo. Full of western stars and Grimith.Liked how John Wayne's name lined up.

Wordle Design

Great Wordle that I created that shows things that I like. Mainly westerns and video games.

The Good and Bad of Facebook

I believe that Facebook is bad overall. It is simply a giant corporation that makes billions of dollars from ads as well as millions more from their uninteresting "games". They are currently hurting the gaming industry buy filling it with low quality games that, while are called free, try to take peoples money at all times. Facebook also allows people to stay in touch with old friends. While this may seem good it actually keeps people in the past and prevents them from going on to different friends. Facebook is only a source of problems for individual people and humanity in general.

Here's a link to my Prezi: http://prezi.com/7h92znjhsp8i/walter-wright/

Summer Reflection

Looking back my summer was fairly average overall. The best part of the summer was the first part of it when I was still in the going to school mode. After awhile however that initial excitement wore off and it became normal. I did however spend a week in Branson, Missouri. It was also fairly uneventful but the change in scenery was nice. Near the end however I needed to change my computers video card which was a pain but it needed to be done. That was most everything I did other than hanging out with my friends which was fairly entertaining.