Our flash project was a combination of our tech final and our integrated core final project. We wanted inform the people of our communities that carbon dioxide is given off in large quantities through transporting goods and people. In the end, we wanted them to know how to reduce their carbon footprint. Our group consisted of Ben, Laura, and Sergio.
So for my flash project, I’m going to be working with the same people in my podcast group: Laura and Sergio. Sergio is going to be the main person dealing with the actual flash application, while Laura will be the main one in charge of video, and I will be in charge of the layout. We all expect eachother to contribute equally towards the text put in. We want to do something along the lines of “how to get to know the RA’s”.
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We decided to do our podcast on deja vu with Laura and Sergio. We wanted to do deja vu becasue it was an interesting topic that most people don’t know too much about. Our main question that we wanted to answer was “what casues deja vu” becasue this would help people around the world have a better understanding of the topic.
Our podcast is simulated to be a radio show with Laura and I as the radio show hosts and Sergio and I also as professors guest speaking as well as 3 interviewees that “call in” on the show. It starts off with Laura and I introducing the topic leading into the phone calls, then the professors, then a closing with Laura and I once again.
The image relates to deja vu becasue it clearly says the words deja vu while also giving a sense of uneasiness with the different eyes, portraying confusion as well as the idea that deja vu is related with people seeing things.
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Our research topic question is “What causes deja vu?” We plan to research on the internet about deja vu and we are going to interview scholars, RA’s, and possibly others to support our main question. The format of our podcast is that of a radio show. My partners are Sergio and Laura.
This is the final draft of my PSA poster. I decided to do this version because it communicated to the viewers more quickly and the images stand out more. Second hand smoke has always been an important issue to me because it has dramatically changed my life. My father worsened my asthma as he continued to smoke in the house as well as the cars, not knowing the effect it took on me. I decided to do this poster because I wanted to give this message to adults around the world. The cigarette pack with the kid is a powerful image to the people. It communicates how smoking directly impacts growing people. I wish to aim this directly at the adult society who smokes as well as a more broader audience such as adults and children.
I’d like to do my PSA poster about recycling, second hand smoke, or saving water.
Making people aware about recycling is important to me because helping the environment has always been a big part of my life. If people can recycling more often, then we can re-use more of our materials while at the same time helping landfills decompose faster. For imagery, I can use something involving landfill with lots of non-decomposable materials in it. Or perhaps a trashcan full of recyclable materials. The overall tone of the poster would be dark then light, since not recycling is a bad thing and recycling is a good thing. I’m speaking directly to young people (young adults, teens, preteens) because they’re usually the ones who don’t understand the affect of not recycling the most.
Second hand smoke is also important to me because I’ve been a victim of it. Second hand smoke has worsened my asthma over the course of a couple years and I don’t want any other young kids taking the toll for something their parents or other adults are doing. For imagery, I could use an image of wispy smoke with a black background, or a child severely suffering from asthma, or maybe a picture of a little kid smoking a cigarette. My target audience would be adults, more specifically adults who around young kids.
Water consumption has also been an important topic in my life because I value water. I think it’s unfair that most of the USA gets an unlimited amount of clean water while almost all of Africa gets none. Saving water would mean helping out those who are in need of some as well as helping save money and energy for yourself and the world. For imagery, I could use the classic picture of a water droplet, or a thirsty African child, or maybe an overfilling tub of water. My target audience would be towards people in our country who take water for granted, which is almost everyone.
takes it’s first stepsIn february 2004, Mark Zuckerberg and co-founders Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin launch Facebook from their Harvard dorm room, not knowing it would change they way of communicating forever. At first, the website was named thefacebook.com and was primarily used for posting college-related topics which other students could then reply to. As years followed, the founders added more and more features while sponsors were donating millions of dollars. As of 2010, Facebook has grown to over 400 million active users. Facebook is now a way people, more specifically teens, can use Facebook to change their community.
Facebook is one of the the top social networking sites in the world. It’s also extremely accessible; anywhere there’s internet, there’s Facebook. Since most teens these days have cellphones with interne
t access, and since more than 100 million mobile users are on Facebook at any giving moment, a single message can travel across the globe in a matter of seconds. Surprisingly, only about 30% of Facebook users are housed in the United States, and the other 70% are located throughout the rest of the world, and Facebook is presented in over 70 languages, so most of the world can keep in touch with each other with no hassle. With all of these connections and availability, anyone can log into Facebook, make a public announcement, and get people to slowly change the future one step at a time. Proud of their work, the Facebook Team put together a page that has facts, statistics, as well as a time line of Facebook’s history and other helpful basic information
Once uploading and recording videos was introduced to Facebook, users took advantage of it immediately. At first they used it to say hey to their friends and family from afar, and to share cool videos about what they’ve seen recently. But as events occured in society, people form opinions and shared those emotions through videos. The Oscar Grant shooting is a perfect example. To summarize, an African American male was in a BART station when suddenly police took hold of him and his friends for suspicious activity. His friends went away uninjured, but Oscar was shot and killed for no reason. Once media exposed the story through television, newspapers, and radio, the news spread to Facebook. A user uploaded an oscar grant video to show his friends what happened. Only a few seconds later, people were shocked and organizing groups to protest and fight back. On average, the total amount of Facebook users spend 500 billion minutes per month on it, so that gives any video plenty of time to be watched. Once viewed, people started topic conversations that discussed how wrong the shooting was and what should the people do to justify Oscar; they wanted something to change.
Robert Sypher, a regular Facebook user, was commenting on the Oscar grant video when he said, “It’s so sad i live in Canada and we get mostly American news i had no idea that this young man was shot and killed till we started getting the Russian news Russia Today in English RT.com and for the first time i saw and heard what happened. What is really outrageous and disgusting is the American media did not feel that it was news but the whole world thinks different R.I.P Mr.Oscar Grant”. This quote shows how powerful a single video can affect and change someone’s life. It can alter people’s views of society and make them angry or upset. It can cause them to take action and do something.Along with videos, pictures are also a great way to start change. Most people today simply upload pictures of their day-to-day activities, not putting too much care into their pictures. Then there’s the photographers who carefully study the light and composition to take “deep” pictures. However, not many people upload pictures to induce change. If people could upload albums that had graphic pictures that motivated someone to do something, that album would become a very powerful symbol in people’s lives. That album of pictures might change what drives their daily decisions and actions.
Forming groups, events, and pages is one of the most significant features of Facebook. It allows anyone to make a group for whatever reason they want, and anyone can join any group for whatever reason they so choose. These three key things help unify an online community of people and can strengthen the amount of seriousness in a topic. For example, Berkeley High has a program called Youth and Government in which teens take charge in real government positions to pass and decline bills. This group also has a group on Facebook. Whenever someone joins the Facebook group, they’re promising to actually join the real thing and help make Berkeley a better place. Teens interact with each other to agree with certain old ideas or propose new ones, and they are always working to change any situation to make it better.
In conclusion, Facebook consists of many features that allow millions of teens to share their ideas and induce change. My friends have used these features to change my life as well as others in both positive and negative ways. Facebook has allowed me to connect with more people while also enabling me to change people’s opinions and the world around me. Teens are always finding new topics to bring up and new ways to present them to the rest of the world. So far, videos and groups are the most powerful in influencing the people of today’s world, but who knows what Facebook will be like in the next 5 years? It could gain its own TV station. All in all, teens are the voices of tomorrow’s future. Those millions of teens on Facebook today can change the lives of billions throughout the globe tomorrow.
