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What is an infographic? If you don't know, go look it up. Read about it and then in your own words tell me what an infographic is. What do infographics do? How do they work? What makes a really good infographic?

They're like graphs that inform you about world problems or that tells you a path to choose something. They display graphs with images, like if you wanted to know how much oil each country uses, you can see the percentage of oil above each country. A really good infographic displays beautiful images that stick with the mind. If you do an infographic over something very interesting, it will stick with people.

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Tell me about your Homecoming weekend! If you didn't participate in the Homecoming festivities, what did you do? Share pics!

This weekend was pretty fun! After the long week, I caught a ride with my friend; Will, and we went to the Homecoming game this Friday. After we walked to Walmart, where we cruised around in the electronic-riding chairs with the basket. On Saturday, I had to work at my grandfathers where I put in 8 hours of doing farm work. On Sunday, it was really lazy. Probably the most relaxing Sunday in a very long time.  After all my weekend was pretty fun.

 

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How was your weekend? Did you do anything exciting? Share photos!

After the long, tiring, and exhausting weekend I went over to a friends house after football and we went to Walmart, played some Destiny, and walked around in the wilderness at 11 during the night. On Saturday I went to my sister's soccer game and went with my family to touch a truck. Let me just say, it was pretty weird. On Sunday I went to church, then I was at home watching the football games all day. So after all, not really much happened this weekend, just a relaxing couple of days.

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Now that you are several weeks in to this class and have coded one (super small) website, what do you think? What are your thoughts on web design? Is it what you thought it would be? Is it better? Worse? What's your favorite part? What's your least favorite part? Explain.

I think it's fun, but a little confusing for me. I generally like web design so far, but I feel like I struggle at times when I'm continuing in this class. Yes, it is what I thought it was going to be, I obviously knew about codes before, but it does seem a lot harder than I thought it was going to be.  I think it's better than I thought it was going to be. My favorite part is using css mixed in with the html codes, I found that cool. My least favorite part is going to try to understand how my stylesheet.css corresponds with my 6 html pages.

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What is the importance of deadlines? How do high school deadlines reflect or simulate "real world" experience? Give an example of when you met or or didn't meet a deadline that was important.

Deadlines with tests, projects, etc. is very important. These deadlines reflect off the real world by when you work at a office or job you are required to finish your assignment by a deadline. If you don't meet the deadline, that means you risk losing your job or possibly getting fired. One time I did a science project and I didn't meet the time I needed it to be done. I lost points after turning it in late, and I ended up getting a "not-so-great" grade. The next day I was grounded by my parents. I think it's great high school has deadlines, because it helps us prepare for the real world.

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This quote means if you prepare for what you're doing, you'll fail during that one thing when the time comes. I really like this quote, because it's actually true. When I don't prepare well enough at something, I will fail, and it's happened before. Last year during the end of eight grade we had a big science test coming up. I thought I had it in the bag; however, I was wrong. I ended up not studying and I got a huge fat F on the test. Since I failed that, I had to work at a project to get my grade up. I prepared for the project and got a 100% on it and extra credit. This quote does mean a lot, and it's true.

What did you do this weekend? Share pictures if you have them!

I visited my aunt over the weekend and spent the night. I hung out with my family over at her house and I had a blast! On Saturday we just relaxed and slept all day, and on Sunday I was glued to the T.V. watching all my NFL games, and let me tell you, I almost cried when the Chiefs lost. All together my weekend was pretty fun, but kinda dreading to come back to school. I'll be anticipating the K-State game this Thursday against Auburn. Go cats!

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Below is one of my favorite quotes that I found on Pinterest. Think read and think about what this says and then blog about it. What does this quote mean to you? Elaborate! Feel free to give an example of tell a story.

The story is saying how you should NEVER say you're bored. Because the world you live in is so vast and big you really can't say you're bored, because there is so much to do, not to sit around and say you're bored. You can even imagine things to entertain yourself because your mind is endless. It says "The fact you are alive is amazing.." so you can't say you're bored at life, because you should be greatful to even be alive; to explore this vast world we live in.

This quote makes me want to do something, not just sit around and wake up, eat, go to school, and sleep every day. I want to explore the world, not live in it. I want to live a fun and great life, not sit at a office desk my whole life.

How do you express your creativity? Explain.

I express my creativity by drawing on paper. I can just image all of these images I want to draw, and I just let it flow! Drawing is really soothing for me, I can just start doing it for countless hours in a peaceful environment. I usually express my creativity on landscape and cartoon like figures. Drawing can be an escape zone for me, I love it!

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What did you do this weekend? Share pictures if you have them!

After the long, exhausting, and stressful week, I went to the Blue Valley High School game up in Shawnee, we won 29-0! We pretty much crushed them, but our football team is really good. I got to bed around 2 a.m. from a friends house, I had to wake up early and attend a wedding downtown. It was really tiring and boring, but the food was fantastic! After the weddings I went to my friends house. I woke up the next day feeling sick, which was a bummer. But, my dad and I watched NFL all day, so it was a pretty awesome. 

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Tell me about what you have learned in this class so far. Have you learned a lot? Do you want to learn more? What do you want to be able to do by the end of the semester?

What I've learned in this class so far is how to set up a website with pages in Note pad ++. We've been learning how to code pictures, lists, paragraphs, and more! We even know how to change the font size, and color. Yes, I would love to learn more, especially CSS!! I'm mostly excited for CSS, but I know I got to learn the "bones" of coding, which is HTML. By the end of the semester, I would like to be able to create an awesome looking website. Not just a dull, colorless, piece of trash, a wonderful, colorful, piece of artwork.

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Tell me all about your Labor Day weekend. What did you do? Include photos!

During the Labor Day weekend I was icing and taking Advil every 4 hours! Why? Well, I was in pain from my akeeles injury (back of the foot) that happened during football. I'm pretty sure I got injured there because this summer I really didn't do any hardcore-workouts, because I was on vacation a lot. And shooting into football like that; my muscles weren't prepared for that. Aside from that, I went to my mom's friend's 40th birthday party (she forced me to go), it was okay, the best part was the food and the K-State game. Sunday I just hung out with friends and slept over at a buddies's house. And monday, I worked for my grandpa and made 40 bucks!

All together, it wasn't to bad!

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