Great Game!.

Hello.
I would really like to inform you on what we did today in class but I would like to point out that I was not in class because my team mates and I were at a volleyball tournament. The only thing I can really say is that we were supposed to have our test on Microsoft Word and the legal document guide, and I'm pretty sure the class did their test. I'm guessing it took the whole period. That's about it for now, I guess.
I'm studying for my test tomorrow, since I couldn't do it today, so i better go.
Oh and by the way, we won four our games and lost six. Yeah I know, that's pretty sad, but hey we tryed our best and that's all that matters right ? =] Well try harder next time!

Bye for now.

-Peggy .

What did we do?

On Wednesday, Mr.Case wasn't here and we had a supply teacher. So we had to go on the wiki and read our assignment off the wiki page. We had to go into photoshop and make something using the tools. Anything like a banner for our podcast, edit a picture of some sort, or make your own original design. That's about all we did. We also had to study for our test on Wednesday the 18th.
Oh and by the way, we were supposed to have the test on Wednesday but then it got postponed to the 18th.
So study hard!
Bye.

-Peggy .

At this point, everyone appriciates binary. . !

Here's the most confusing thing you'll ever hear. Hexadecimals!! But gladly, its not so confusing after today's class. We spent all of today's class reviewing hexadecimals, and touching upon a little bit of binary as well. The only reason I'm saying that hexadecimals are confusing is because it not only requirs numbers, but letters too. But once you listen very carefully, and actually try to understand, rather than giving up, its fairly easy to grasp the context. Of course today wasn't our first class on learning hexadecimals, but I feel that a review always helps the proccess of understanding. So here's a quick review, and everything we talked about in class.
As you know, hexadecimals is base 16. Of course, in grade 2, we all learned this consept but with base 10, and a lot easier information. The reason i reflect back on grade 2 is because we have learned that there is always a ones place and a tens place. You can only go up to nine on the ones place, then you need to start carrying into the next column, which is the tens. Hexadecimals is similar. You go up to 9, and then when you get to 10, you also carry the one to the next column. The only difference here is that you cant have two digit numbers in one place value. So you can't write 10 under the tens value, because that would not work. So instead of writting a ten, you would start with the letter of the alphabet and work your way down. So you would write ''A'' under 16, and any number lower than 10 under the ones, depending on what number you are trying to get. So for example, if you wanted to make the number164, you would have to think how many 16's are in 164. In this case, there are ten 16's in 164. So you would put an ''A'' under 16, giving you 160. And you put place a 4 under the ones column, making 164!
Its very easy once you practice it a few times. Although, keep in mind that the letters only go up to ''F'', which is 15, because that is the highest value.
Another thing we quickly reviewed today was photoshop. We explored some photoshop, and got a general idea. Though we still have a lot to cover in the next while. We are soon going to learn how to fix pictures like their color, shapes, and so much more. But a cool fact that we learned today is that the hexadecimal code for colors can only go up to six digits. This is because of the RGB pixels. (red, green, blue) In every color there is some red, some gree, and some blue. Now each of them more or less, but they are always there, unless you want an absolute color. I wont get into a lot of detail for now untill we learn more.
So see you next time.
Bye.

-Peggy .

Do you want to go to jail?

You all better know that legal document Mr.Case gave us a while ago, and you better know it good, because were having a test on it on Wednesday, and whoever fails that part. . goes to JAIL ! No I'm just kidding. But its a great idea to know that document because you never know where it might come handy. Don't just memorize everything because we have a test on Wednesday [and yes i said test], but actually take the time to learn it and be familiar with it. Now I'm not saying read the whole thing because its a heck of a long thing, but know the basic facts. That's pretty much all i can say about that section of the test that you need to study for. Also another thing you need to know about is Microsoft Word. Especially after we did all those tutorials, you should be an expert at it. Were having a test on Wednesday on these two things so make sure you study! And if your wondering if the hexadecimals are going to be on the test, then you don't need to worry about them just yet, but they will show up on the next test. Which is by the way coming up pretty soon. So be familiar with it all.
That's about all I can say for now.
Just study hard!
Report cards are coming out soon!! :\

Bye.

- Peggy .

A friday. .

Heres what we all did today. We finished out tutorials and spent the rest of the class bulding the wiki. What a great way to end a friday evening, dont you think?
Well, we are about finished with out tutorials, so now its up to the layout people to finish the job and for the editors to edit everything and hand it in.
Hurraayyy !!!
And hopefully we can get everything done and sell some of our books to people.

Thats all the news for now.
Oh by the way, check out P&N News, me and Neda's podcast!! =]

byee.

- Peggy .

How many colors can we realy see?

Look around you. How many colors can you spot in a busy room? I bet you think you can see all the different colors in this world just perfectly. Sorry to tell you that your wrong. Humans can only see a certain amount of colors, after that we see nothing but white. But in truth, there are many colors that exist out there, but our eyes are just not strong enough to spot them all. We learned a bit about the color prism, and how you shine light through one end, and you see all the colors of the rainbow on the other. But I wont get into detail about science. Anyways, today in class we got familiar with colors. Although all of us were hoping to learn a little about photoshop, we were surprised on the color lesson. But as we learned later on, that color is a very important aspect of photoshop, and about anything else too. We talked a little about the color wheel. How we use each of the colors in the color wheel everyday, and sometimes without knowing we use them. For example, when you go to print a picture in color, have you noticed that the colors almost never turn out the same shade as in the picture on your computer screen? Well that's because the printer we use actually uses four other colors to make the colors we want. These four colors are CYMK (cyan, yellow,magenta and key which really is black.)
As we learned at the beginning of the year, the computer uses pixels to show any image. Each pixel is called an RGB pixel. Also known as Red, Green, and Blue pixels. Each pixel contains red, green, and blue. As we take away or add more of these three colors to our pixels, the colors change. For example, if you have more red and blue than green in your pixel, the color will come out shades closer to red and blue.
Each color has 256 picture elements(pixels) in every color. As mentioned before, it contains red, green and blue to make a perfect color. A perfect color is if you enter 255, because 0 is also a level. Then your result will be a perfect blue, meaning it contains no red and green.
If you put all the colors together, you are going to end up with white, and if you enter no levels, you will get black.

Here's a cool fact. There are 16.7 million different shades of colors that we can see! So if you thought you could ever run out of colors to use, think about how many you can choose from!

We learned that the computer has pixels that show colors, but each color on the computer screen is measured in hexadecimals. Just like the binary code we learned about, this is similar to it. Except this is base 16, rather than base 10. So you have to go up by 16's. But here's the tricky part. You cant write two digit numbers in the space because that would give the wrong impression. So what you have to do is use the letters of the alphabet to represent numbers higher than 9. So instead of writing 10 in the box, you would write A. B would be equal to 11. C=12. D=13. E=14. And F=15. Keep in mind that you cant go any further than F(15). Hexadecimals is like the computers language. Its just another way of showing different shades of colors on a computer screen!

Well that's a lot of learning to do.
But for now, its done.

Later days.

- Peggy .

Only 10 friends.

Hey! Today in class we spent the whole period working on the assignment Mr.Case had left for us. We each had to make up a letter for 10 different people, that we would like so send to, suing mail merge. We write our letter and print the document to the Microsoft image. And once your done, work on the wiki.

That's about all we did today.
Bye.

Peggy .