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Why Martial Arts?

As a TaeKwonDo instructor, I am often asked: “Why participate in martial arts?” For many students, that answer is realized after their first class; and for others, the answer is seen after years of training. The truth is martial arts can mean so many things. It can mean getting us …

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Week 15 Summary

Wow it’s the last week of the spring semester!!!! Wasting away the hours in the convergence center, has been the worst and the best. For my final week, I picked up on the work of the Freedom Fighters Agency. Their work was a little confusing, because there was not much …

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Tutorials 2

Transformation Video

Step 1. Get your camera, phone camera, whatever!

Step 2. Find something that is going to transform (ex. the paper towel roll, the dirty clothes hamper, the amount of people coming into your class)

Step 3. Film it! Show the process from start to finish. You could take …

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Tutorials

Tutorials:

Writing Assignment – Quote me on that

Step 1. Find a book, any book, do you read books? It could be Dr. Seuss, C.S. Lewis or a book for class

Step 2. Skim it (we all know you’re not gonna read the whole thing)

Step 3. Find a quote, …

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Final Reflection

The semester was fun but it was a lot of work. At first, I wasn’t sure if I would be able to complete everything. I was overwhelmed by all the work but throughout the semester I was able to get everything done.

I completed 2 daily create ideas, 2 assignment …

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Tutorial Links

Here are the links to the two tutorials I did.

http://www.dsnoir106.kassiarivera.com/blog/uncategorized/how-to-change-the-color-of-a-photo/

http://www.dsnoir106.kassiarivera.com/blog/random/navigating-audacity/

I apologize. My link function on my blog doesn’t seem to be working at the moment. …

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Navigating Audacity

Out of all of the editing we have been doing this semester, I feel the most comfortable with audio editing, so I wanted to explain some basic parts of Audacity for beginners.

The first thing that’s necessary in editing sound in Audacity is importing sounds to edit. Go to file …

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How to change the color of a photo

One of the first times I found my favorite image editor was the time I changed one of my noir safari photos to be orange and blue, so I wanted to show how to do it through that same image editor. Those who have followed my blog probably already know …

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Assignment Ideas

I created two assignments for my ideas.

Terrible Crossover Fanfiction– There are some terrible fanfictions out there that make us question our lives and make us laugh out loud. Go to http://kaction.com/ and generate yourself a terrible crossover fanfiction idea with fandoms you are familiar with. It can be …

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