March 29, 2010

This past weekend, our girls lacrosse team traveled to Houston, Texas to play several games against their best teams. Our games were challenging, and we were not successful at beating any of them but it showed us how hard we would have to work to become just as good. The strongest team we played was St. John's and I managed to score two goals in the JV game. It was a tiring weekend, but it helped us improve all of our skills. I'm now looking forward to this week because I will be going to NYC on Wednesday night. On Thursday and Friday we plan to shop, see some musicals, and tour the NBC studios, NYU, and Julliard. Then on Saturday and Sunday I will be at a jazz intensive at the Joffrey Ballet which should be great. I can't wait to be in New York, it's one of my favorite places.

Blaire

Tables

This week we created a web page for tables. At first I was extremely confused and had no idea what was going on but I managed to complete the page and have a better understanding of the process. Overall, creating tables aren't to difficult. You just have to be aware that you have all the correct tags. We learned to create a basic table, and tables with borders, width, cell spacing, cell padding, and we even learned how to add background images in the table. It took us about three days to create the page and overall I think it was pretty easy and not too difficult.

march 2010

Spring Break

Today is the last day of the third quarter, and it's about to be the start of spring break. Lots of people have already left town but throughout the day more people will be gone. Everyone is pretty excited for spring break but I'm honestly not as excited as I usually am. Its been a stressful time so I haven't been in the best mood for things. I'm happy to finally have a break from school but my trip for the break includes more sports which is school related so its somewhat of a buzzkill. I'm glad our trip is in florida but I wish I could relax rather than be playing a sport the majority of the time. Before the lacrosse trip, I'm going to a family friends lakehouse so hopefully I can relax a lot there. Lots of my friends are going to Mexico so I bet they'll have a great time. Happy spring break!

3/12/10

Third quarter is finally coming to an end...thank goodness. This quarter has been especially tough for me due to the several holidays, new material, and stress outside of school. Lacrosse season is off to a good start except I've been injured the whole time so I haven't done a whole lot. But our team is pretty good and I think we have a great season ahead of us. We've won all our games except one which was against hockaday. It stinks to not be as active as I usually am but I guess it's somewhat of a learning experience to watch everyone and see how they play from a different point of view. I apparently strained some muscles in my back due to tumbling so I've been trying to recover that past 3-4 weeks. I had an MRI on monday so I willl have the results on thursday, and I've begun therapy so hopefully I'll be back to normal by next week. And next week is spring break which will be a nice break from school. For the first part of the break, my family and I are going to a friends lakehouse for a couple of days. On wednesday I'm going to florida for our lacrosse trip. I look forward to that because the beach should be super nice! Then fourth quarter will finally begin which means summer isn't too far away. And shortly after spring break I'll be going to NYC for easter weekend with my mom. We plan to see some musicals, shop, and tour some sites. But the main reason we're going there is for my dance workshop. The Geoffrey Ballet is having a jazz intensive that weekend so I plan to attend that which I'm really excited for. It'll be fun to dance in a place like NYC and I hope to learn some new stuff that will help me improve and expand my skills and style.

3/9/10
blaire

HTML Elements

During web design class we have learned several things about creating web pages. We've learned how to upload our pages on the internet, how to create links, and insert text, images, and more onto our pages. It was confusing and sometimes difficult at first, but its now all beginning to make sense to me. All the different tags are coming more naturally to me, and I'm not having to search things as often. I haven't found many of the elements extremely difficult but I guess just remembering which tags work for what confuses me sometimes. I also tend to notice errors on my page so sometimes I struggle fixing those errors. But overall I'm enjoying the whole process and I'm glad to be understanding it.

3/9/10

Color 2

This week we finally finished creating our color pages. Overall, I learned a lot and realized that making a page isn't that difficult. As long as you know the important tags and simple codes, it can be an easy task. I feel that I've accomplished making several things such as a web page, a heading, links, and more. I've also learned that color has an important value on web pages. If you're page is all black and white it can sometimes be found boring to people. Having more bold colors that stand out can make your page look more exciting. Color can also affect those who are colorblind. Colorblind people can only see certain colors certain ways so it's important to know what colors may work best for your page if you're concerned about colorblind people looking at it.

3/9/10
blaire

Color

This week in computer class, we are learning about colors and how to use them on pages. We're also learning to different types of colors and how they work. There are certain color groups such as the primary and secondary colors. We've also learned about the "hex" values. I didn't know that there was this much to know about colors. This week we've been assigned to create our own color page without our teachers help with gives us a challenge, but its a good learning experience. This assignment has proved to me that I actually know more than I thought and creating a webpage isn't as difficult as it used to be. I'm also learning new techniques on my own without our teachers help. Hope I can finish it all in time!

Blaire
March 3, 2010