FYS Digital Story Works Cited (if needed)

These were the websites that were used throughout the entire prezi.

http://www.avert.org/aids-timeline.htm

http://www.aidshealth.org/?gclid=CNqK4Kr-7awCFRDHKgodkAzrLA

http://www.developafrica.org/hiv-aids-Africa

http://www.iavi.org/research-development/IAVI-RD-Programs/Pages/antibodies.aspx

http://www.nike.com/nikefootball/red/home?locale=en_GB

FYS Final Digital Story

Music is at the the end the file would not let me play throughout if you'd like to open it in a new tab or window it sounds very nice.

lace-up-save-lives

eWaste action blog

I feel that it is not necessary to take action in this matter. who is telling the people in india to break down the parts from old computers and cell phones. most of this waste is very similar to that of general garbage in the world. when we throw out our trash it goes to landfill where it soaks into the ground and creates big areas of grass and emits toxins as well. what would we do if we had no place to put our garbage? then where would it go? we have no place to put this waste so we just tend to send to other countries instead of dealing with it ourselves. when all else fails, where and what and who do we turn to? from garbage to electronics we have no place to store it except for ruining this beautiful land of ours called the United States of America. everyone knows that we have this problem through garbage and electronic waste, but no one has found a liable solution to the problem. what should we really do with all of our waste in the world. for starters, our electronics can be recycled. as we have tried this before it only catches the attention of not even a quarter of the people in the world. one person cannot change the entire world by spreading the word about recycling. This movement has not gone very far or been improved in the past couple years. it is a struggle to change the world as a whole, therefore there is no hope for the electronic waste problems.

Whats in your computer group proj 1

1) It is not mined anywhere on earth. It is a man made chemical compound

2)There is no enviromental effect from mining since this is not performed. However the production of phthalates is regulated by the Enviromental Protection Agency (EPA)

3)Human health concerns come in the form of asthma and allergies in kids, possibility of precocious puberty in females, high hormone levels, and birth defects.

4)Health impacts relate to women prematurely delivering their children.

fys comic #1 and Bilbliography

ZUCKERMAN, ETHAN. "The First Twitter Revolution? - By Ethan Zuckerman | Foreign Policy." Foreign Policy - the global magazine of economics, politics, and ideas. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Nov. 2011. <http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/01/14/the_first_twitter_revolution>.


http://Pixton.com/ic:6n371bk5


Here is the link to comic if it doesn't work. i had trouble with the postings and it forced me to create two new ones. hopefully this link works

Blogger 11

Annotated Bib??

http://inside.nike.com/blogs/nikefootball-en_GB/tags/lace_up_save_lives
http://therepublikofmancunia.com/lace-up-save-lives/
http://www.arsenal.com/laceupsavelives
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lace-Up-Save-Lives/279566937363
http://www.premierleague.com/page/Headlines/0,,12306~2318455,00.html

These sources are valid that i used for my previous and most recent initial proposal.

**NEW** Proposal for my digital storytelling

Nike "Lace Up, Save Lives"is a global organization that helps fight AIDS for kids in Africa. AIDS in Africa is world problem and this recent organization has helped provide vaccinations for millions of kids, especially ones who love the game of soccer. FIFA is known as the worlds largest International Organization, and has about three more member associations than that of the International Olympic Committee. Soccer is the number one sport in the world, so the impact that this project has had so far is impeccable. First released a few months before the previous 2010 World Cup in South Africa, players everywhere would spend 3 dollars, at least thats how much they are in american dollars, and those three dollars would help vaccinate children and others in South Africa that have been or could be, affected by AIDS. The headliner for this project is Chelsea and Ivory Coast Captain, Didier Drogba, who being from South Africa and recognized as one of the greatest players in the game, has surely spread the word through Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and advertisements all around the world. During the World Cup in South Africa, all of the players had the option to wear these RED laces and support the project against AIDS in Africa. In my digital story i will use video and blog posts to show how these laces have affected peoples lives in Africa and around the world and in some cases inspired others like myself to send money and help children in South Africa become better educated and enjoy life to the fullest.
http://inside.nike.com/blogs/nikefootball-en_GB/tags/lace_up_save_lives
http://therepublikofmancunia.com/lace-up-save-lives/
http://www.arsenal.com/laceupsavelives
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lace-Up-Save-Lives/279566937363
http://www.premierleague.com/page/Headlines/0,,12306~2318455,00.html

Blogpost 10

Yes i would most certainly constitute Facebook as a super-organism. Everywhere around the world people are connecting through Facebook and since it started at the users and expanded to the media and now products it has clearly taken over as a super-organism. Every user is considered as an organism because it is possible for this organism to do work and improve its daily life. When many organisms come together to form a super-organism this creates new ideas and different outcomes similar to the swarm lecture on monday. From personal experience i had joined Facebook when my older sister had told me she had been on that instead of myspace and that myspace is old news now. Well as a young lad, I followed my sisters guidance and come to find out this old social network for helping to find books and schools is now a network for finding friends and businesses. Facebook is a great example of a consumer takeover, meaning that once it became poplar to the world, the media and other businesses started using it to their advantage. Now, you can find certain coupons and special deals on the Facebook pages of these businesses and products. About two years ago in the summer, i was applying for jobs and one of the jobs i wanted because it looked like it was an awesome place to work, was Yogen Fruz in my local mall. This was similar to an ice cream shoppe and a ColdStone mixed together but using frozen yogurt. I thought that this would be the new best thing, and i was in the mall so i could get  to see a bunch of people that i knew walking around, make some money, it was the cats pajamas. Well i go to apply to this Yogen Fruz and they tell me that all their applications are on their Facebook page. This was very interesting to me, that Facebook had this much impact on the world could control whether someone applied for a job or not. The way people are is that everyone follows the community. If everyone in one city is wearing pink armbands to promote breast cancer and you don't wear that armband, you're going to be criticized and discriminated against for not supporting the breast cancer awareness. Everything is slowly become super-organisms.

blog post 9

From what i can understand emergence behavior is the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions. i have experienced one of these complex systems this past summer while i was in Disney World Theme Parks: Animal Kingdom. While riding on the safari tour through the different areas with different animals, i noticed something that caught my eye. It was an ant farm, that was built by these small ants to live in and it was huge. this farm was taller than me, it had to be about 7 feet tall. I was thinking to myself, how could a group of things so small make something so big and complex. Inside that hill, could have been a million ants living together in one community. The definition of emergence behavior has to do with complex systems and patterns arising from simple interactions. Ants are very simple insects, they work all day. building such a complex living area is an amazing sight to see that something so small can build something so big. I feel that my individual perspective is very similar to the global perspective. It was an amazing sight even though I had only seen it for a couple of minutes.

Blog 7 and 8

In regards to the query 1 that states, "The US government should institute formal policy that bars overseas sales of systems that provide targeted Internet surveillance if such systems are used to violate human rights or freedom of speech (such as the current internet censorship in China)." i have found one overall website that can help me explain each and every aspect and provide questions for the topic. There are in turn two ways of proving and refuting this topic and these ways are, that the United States is helping to change the set up of how the Chinese can control their internet so strictly. The other way has to deal with, well if we live in the US why should we care? Its not us, and its not our problem, should we really feel the need to interfere with foreign relations? Well in this website that helps me to explain everything that has to deal with the internet censorship in China. The fact of the matter is that the United States is actually doing something to help the people of China and this is actual documents and congressional hearings that support the ideas of people like Hillary Clinton and Condolezza Rice, two main governmental figures that feel the need to stand up and say something against the views of this chinese censorship. The article writes,"The 2006 Congressional hearings (NYT) marked one of the first prominent U.S. airings of the issue after revelations that several Internet companies, including Yahoo, had conformed to restrictions demanded by China." This helps the case by saying that China will not let people into their internet society and therefore someone needs to step in because as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton campaigned in their most recent run for President of the United States, they opted for "CHANGE".
The reverse side of this argument has to do with the idea that if we live in the United States, why do we care about what other countries do? China is a Dictatorship and through their government they have many different aspects that most of their citizens need to abide by the laws created for them. Based on the laws in China and what i have researched due to this project it seems that China is not a place anyone would want to live in. China controls their internet very strictly and as a person of the United States personally, if it has no effect on me or my life, then i could care less what is happening in China right now. I never knew about their restrictions until this project started. The internet ban in china had no effect on my life so why should i care about the people there? come to America if your life is honestly that bad. Anyone can change their situation if they want to at anytime. The restrictions on internet activity in China gets so bad that my source says, "Authorities institute increasingly invasive controls on visitors to China's 140,000 Internet cafés. Users must present identification to use the computers, and the records are then handed over (Chronicle) to the authorities." These types of controls are absurd but China does what it needs to do in order to stay a healthy country. I may not agree with it, but i can't change it and it doesn't affect my life.
The second part of this assignment is to look at the second query and provide a side of rebuttal and a side of proof. The second rebuttal states, "The evolving capabilities to speak out and criticize the Chinese government using microblogs and other Internet social media will lead to more and greater freedoms for the Chinese people." This query brings across two different ideas that i encountered through my thought process.The first is that with the use of twitter and other blogs that the Chinese government or even the people of China do not even know about, Americans can work their way to help these people that are struggling through the abuses of internet use in China. they call this "The Great Fire Wall of China". Using microblogs and other unknown resources the Chinese can find ways to help them breakthrough this defense of the chinese restrictions. Many different people have done so already and through some of the different sources and videos we watched in class, my notes help me to explain some different people and their ways that they can help the chinese people breakthrough these walls.
The other side to this query is that the restrictions that the Chinese government create on these internet users is far greater than anyone could imagine. From the day some of these chinese kids were born they were born into a world with nearly no internet use. The advantages that the government is taking away in terms of learning, trade, and social interactions with people of other countries is something that most of these kids can never experience. I had a student live at my house from Germany while i was in high school an through that interaction, it opened up so many doors for me through the ideas and lifestyle of these other students. I grew as a new person a lost seeing how these other kids live and i lifestyle that i may one day want encounter. The chinese people are deprived of this even through meeting these students and broadening their horizons are restricted by their use of the amazing power that the internet has to offer.

http://www.cfr.org/china/us-internet-providers-great-firewall-china/p9856

Digital Story : Proposal

For my digital story i will be taking on the idea of my missionary project in Pennsylvania that i encountered while in my sophomore year of high school. This memory is very fond to me because not only did i help change a families relationship, but i changed the opportunities and lives of their kids and themselves. Based on the lectures through First Year Seminar as well as the multiple hours of classwork put in to learn and use a Blog, not only do i understand the knowledge of this social network but i have a Facebook and a twitter to help communicate and learn about new activities and world events. The storyline for my digital story will consist of the people that i went with from my church group, starting from who they are, where they are from, the place we resided in doing our trip, and the gathering of Presbyterian people to help support one another for a good cause. From then i will move into the family, who they are, what they do, how they got to where they are now, and how we as a community can help them. For the third part in the story i plan to tell of the things we did to help this family out, how we changed their lives as well as the steps we made to better ourselves as well as this family in dire need. I intend to use the digital story to support my views of how social justice will tie into the culture of this family as compared to my life and how i live on a daily basis in Buffalo, NY. I intend to use still photos mainly, and make my digital story come to life with detail and emotion as best as i can. with the use of the resources given of the webpage of Dr. Shutkin i have many options to choose from in regards to how i can show the audience my experience and how it changed me as a person.
Annotated Sources: http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/starttofinish/storyboarding/
(this super site will be efficient in helping to tell me how to properly plan and organize my ideas)
http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways
http://www.ourstory.com/ (for the actual digital story telling)
If there are any questions or concerns, feel free to ask.

web blog 666666

My personal twitter literacy level is very slim. i just recently made a twitter because i think its awesome that you can follow celebrities and athletes. i am really excited to start getting into it. i understand some of the lingoes but others i have no idea what people are saying. From my understanding you can tweet anything you want and it doesn't have to mean anything or have to do with anyone. ESPN uses twitter to keep up to date on famous athletes and what they do in their daily lives. 21st Century literary skills are very short and abrupt. people get down to the point a lot quicker than they used to. if you've ever heard the saying "practice makes perfect" that most definitely applies here. The only way to pick up what people are saying and the words they are using is getting involved and being active in the ways of Facebook, twitter, and other social networking sites. the more your on it, the more you learn and the more you find out. Schools cannot teach kids how to act freely outside of the classroom. these different social networking sites have brought new opportunities, good and bad, to the people that want to find information in the blink of an eye. word spreads fast when things are posted in Facebook and twitter. what people learn outside of the classroom is then brought inside the classroom and this is where the problems arise. Kids these days are doing everything a lot faster than previous years. for example, i didn't get a cell phone until i was in about 8th grade. now my neighbor who is in 5th grade, is on her cell phone everyday. what has this world come to?? The relationship between technology, 21st century literacy and participatory culture is that in the world today they are all intertwined. Being that our generation is a participatory culture and we were born into being consumers but producers as well, we find it easier to speak our mind and do what we have to do in order to succeed. We grew up in the time period where only the public can change the overall whole of the decisions and have an influence on the economic market and sometimes, what happens in the world.Technology plays a huge advancing role in the way we live, without technology life would not be this easy. technology has given us the power and influence that no other generation had. it has changed the way we live and from these new creations we can only move forward. Personally i can't imagine the world without the drama of social networking sites or even meeting a person over the age of 15 that doesn't own a cell phone or at least know how to use one. Nowadays kids are learning to rely on the internet and other databases and moving more away from the actual books. the literacy levels of the younger generations will be significantly worse than the previous ones because they are living and learning from texting and a world full of incomplete sentences and random statements. the public in turn, provides the literacy level, but also uses it bringing us to the new 21st century literacy level, thus it is the year of the twitter.

Web Blog numero 5: Internet and Digital Divide

My personal experiences with computers are not much. From the time i was little i have always had a brief knowledge of computers and how to use them, then again, i tend to learn something new everyday. Since i was in Second Grade at Lindbergh Elementary School, i have been using Dell computers and always got the newest Dell. My father loved the Dell systems and thought they were very easy to use and maintain. In middle school and high school more and more assignments needed to be typed. and now that i am in college everything is typed. I haven't created much in terms of the internet so i would say i love being a consumer and seeing what other people like to throw out on the table. I have made a few websites and messed around with different Windows products and Operating Systems. Over time i feel like all skills will get better if you practice or if you are constantly perfuming such acts. Typing and writing are two different skills and someone can be a really good writer but not a very good typist. Learning about a computer is like learning a new language, where you know nothing about this computer and nothing about the language. Based on my knowledge and usage of the internet i have experienced so much more in the world that i would never ever experience in my life. i haves laughed too hard, i have felt sympathy, i have learned and obtained the most possible information with the click of a button, literally.

WebBlog 4: Where Race Lives

In the "A Tale of Two Families" story it spoke of a family with a kid named Byron. Byron was a black man that found it hard to get a job due to the fact that he was black and during the years of segregation, not many people would hire blacks and if they did they would be the first to get fired. When manufacturing crashed in Chester, PA where Byron Green lived, many people left and the ones who stayed were heavily taxed. Luckily for Byron he received a scholarship to an Ivy League University and due to his parents unstable financial situation, he used his personal money to get to college. Byron's parents sold their home in Chester and moved elsewhere leaving byron in charge of their finances. Racial segregation played a huge role in this mans life and because he was not white and couldn't do what the whites had the opportunities to do. The opposite story of Byron Green, was Max Holland, whose family was very wealthy and thus made him into a successful man. Through the struggles that Byron had to deal with as a child to the everyday struggles he has with his parents finances, Byron has worked hard all of his life and doesn't receive much credit for it. One thing that helps save people like byron is the government's aid. Due to the Social Security Act of 1935, Byron's parents, when they reach a certain age, are able to obtain money now that they are older. Most people today are living off what the government gives them and these same people, are uneducated, have no jobs, and contributing nothing to the American society, but still the United States sends them a big check every month to help pay for their food and water. When the Fair Housing Laws were passed in the 1960's this helped get people who deserve to have homes, have homes. No one could be left out on the street and everyone was able to have an opportunity to live where they pleased. Segregation was now not an issue in terms of housing.

WebBlog 3 = David Miller's Scope of Social justice

Through the writings of David Miller and his essay on The Scope of Social Justice, he first introduced the theory of social justice by the late nineteenth century early twentieth century to the liberal societies in America. In the previous Omela story the first theory was based on the fact that life was almost perfect and in a way they could do as they please without having to worry about everyone else. Everyone was equal but everyone lived a life of solidarity through the many different ways of the Omela people during the festival.

As Miller's ideas and writing progressed he first spoke of his concept that philosophers describe social justice as an aspect of distributive justice and how these divisions of justice were found in many different associations, fairly. As said in Blog 1, the theory of freeing inhibitions and living equally but individually is the same idea as the distributive justice that Miller writes in his essay.

Miller talks about social justice being obtained as a way of welfare or aid. He tells us that he feels in order for social justice to be a way of guiding peoples behavior that it needs to assure the thoughts shown restraining the guidelines have to have fair principles and procedures so people actually follow them. In the Omela story many there weren't any specific guidelines introduced to us as a reader except the procedures and guidelines that were implied. The questions that Miller seems to be asking us are questions of how can these people have this culture if we can assume they get tired of it towards the end of their life.

This leads me to my second theory in the Omela story, about how as people get older they tend lose sight of those good habits and get caught up in the slow moving, days passing by, mentality. The Omela people are just ordinary people living equal lives in their community. Every area in which people live in is different and no matter where you live you have to make the most of your scenarios. Why sit through life and waste time when you can be out there in life, enjoying every minute of it doing what you love to do, working hard to achieve those goals?

WeBlog 2 : Omelas by Ursula Le Guin

The story about the Omelas was similar to a view from two different communities. One spoke of a community during the festival, filled with music, dancing, children running around and being free to do as they please. Music filled the streets for miles and everyone seemed to ‘leave’ reality for a while.  One theory of social justice is this first celebration of life and food and everything that the world has to offer to these Omela people.  This is the definition of social justice in that it is creating a society or institution based on the principles of equality and solidarity. Paragraph One says, “…a cheerful faint sweetness of the air that from time to time trembled and gathered together and broke out into the great joyous clanging of the bells.” This was obvious in the reading because everyone was free and able to enjoy themselves with no responsibility or things to get in the way, one could almost say it was a paradise or utopia.

            The second theory or view was from that of an adult, that spoke of living through days in despair, wishing for a miracle, complex people simply ‘going through the motions’. On top of this blandness, they were happy. Everyone was on their own path to do great things but it will take time to get through it. Life was equal but slow and calm. From the second paragraph the Omelas speak of, “The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid.” This speaks of their life being tough and that they were almost taught not to embrace happiness but to recognize it will always be there but be stupid.  Le Guin says that these people can be happy during this festival over something as simple as the victory of life. Le Guin addressed that the Omela people do not experience feelings of guilt, hope, victory and courage through this festival of dancing and happiness for the things they have been given and what the a gratefulA for. Some aspects that are implied are that they are educated people, educated enough to realize the good in life as well as what they need to do everyday to live out their beliefs and work together to keep this society of theirs. They believe in nature and that it is here to help them no matter what life through at them. These people live their lives like everyday human beings except them live them easier, simpler, and equally.

WeBlog 1 FYS

Im pretty much comfortable everywhere, i like to challenge myself and i like learning about new things on the computer.I feel that the most important invention was Benjamin Franklins invention of electricity because without it we would most certainly not be where we are today and as advanced as we are.
1. Telephones

2. Computers
3. Televisions
4. iPod
5. Xbox 360
I have been using computers for quite some time i am pretty proficient. I have not done much in digital media just photoshop and making websites. Social media i am familiar with the basics such as facebook, myspace, twitter, etc. i would have to say that i am about a 5 or 6 when it comes to Tech Savvy.

Dr. Shutkin...
How long have you been at Carroll?
Whats the coolest thing you've ever done on a computer?
What are your favorite things to do?