What is the importance of a CTE EXPO?

A CTE Expo can be important for a number of reasons. It can be important because it gives a chance to students enrolled in a CTE academy to have a chance to demonstrate all that they've learned through their best work. A CTE Expo can demonstrate work from a number of different academies from Apple, Video Production and Web Design. With this in mind, many students can demonstrate and explain their own unique hardships that they endured in their given course. In my case, Web Design is definitely not easy, the reason for this is that action script in adobe flash is a time consuming program, it's something that requires a lot of attention when coding. Despite this the work in the end is worth the struggle when one can make an animation. With tri-folds, students are able to demonstrate their work in a step by step process.

Project 6 My Story

To begin I would like to say I made a pretty huge error with this project and its that for some reason this project ended up in my Lab 21 folder. With that in mind I have attached a link at the bottom of this reflection with my Project 6, titled my story. Moving on, this project was indeed pretty interesting and troublesome. There were moments when I had no idea what I was doing and just felt like giving up. Regardless, I did not give up. I am sure I could have done better on this assignment, but I can honestly say I felt pressured in terms of how much was required of me in this project. With this in mind I can plan my steps more accordingly for the future. What you see below is the project that indeed could of used more improvement, I believe that what I really wanted to show is still in Fla form but I guess all I can do is pull through and keep working hard. 

Project 7

In this Final Project, the father of all projects, my task was to make a video reflecting on what I had learned this year and actually since I joined this academy. I also attache links to my projects, lab 27,( Dragon Ball Z game), Portfolio and Blog. Next to my name at the top I put a set of key blades from my favorite video game series, Kingdom Hearts. I recorded the video with photo booth, which ended up being approximately 2 minutes after that with the use of adobe premier i was able to export the video file on to Adobe Flash animation, I imported to stage but was suppose to import to library, I later learned from this and resolved the dilemma. In the video I spoke about Adobe Flash, Indesign, Photoshop an Illustrator. With that in mind I had to ad cue points to where in the video I spoke about such things, what these cue points did was for example, the second I said Flash, an Image of Flash shows up, the moment i said Photoshop, an Image of Photoshop showed up. This as probably one of if not the hardest parts of this project. Despite that I was able to complete my project and by clicking the video, able to look back on how I progressed as a web designer.

Lab 27

Lab 27, probably my favorite Lab, was the game I create using action script. This game was created from scratch and definitely was not easy to make. I decided to do something based on my childhood, my favorite series, Dragon Ball Z. The object was have Goku in front of two doors. One door leads to the next level, the other day will lead to a message that says try again. Though I wish I had more levels in my game I am proud of what I made and if anything I would love to go back to it if I ever have the chance to and continue to add more levels so I can further enjoy it. I spent a lot of time on the background and the images. The code wasn't easy either, despite this I can say all went well. Once you press start a game will commence that will make you think"wow I should have picked the other door".

Lab 26

In this lab a lot of action script was involved. The point was for me to create a movable image, the heart, and with the arrows on the key board the heart will move in the direction that I want it to. With that in mind, the heart will also be able to move based on clicking on the arrows on the screen. The other image on the screen is a prop. The background with the vines was created using the deco tool, a very useful tool that can add an interesting feel to any form of animation. Originally, the heart is suppose to be able to be moved to a specific location and then cause the whole animation to move to another scene.Despite my efforts I was not able to accomplish that part of the lab, but I was able to make it so that I can move the heart with arrows on the screen or the arrows on the keyboard. I am defintely proud of my work and I know that I can improve, since nothing is perfect.

Lab 25

In this Lab what I did was build on my work from the previous lab. though my Lab did not come out the way I wanted it to and I may not have achieve the level of satisfaction for this Lab that I had oped, I honestly can say that I have improved over time and the work that I did in this lab was done with the utmost dedication. I did try my best in some areas and could of improved in others. When going back to this work to improve it I think I can honestly say that since this work was done when I had started with action script that I could have done better and that I had much to improve. With this in mind my code in this Lab may have been incorrect and at this point maybe it would be better for me to start from scratch.

Lab 24

In this lab was when I began using action script in order to cause a movement in animation on its own. The objective of this lab was for me to create three smiley faces, all of them are different, they consist of graphs images and movie clips. The idea is for me to create a scenario so that I can get the red face to move from one side of the page to the other using animation. These images are all instances. When clicking on the other faces other than the red one, they become interactive by clicking on them. This work then becomes more interactive. These images are what become very helpful in my next lab.