Final Blog Post

It is sad to say but this is my final blog post for this class. I feel that over the course of this class I have gained and learned a lot of new information but have also improved myself with understanding better social/political issues. When I first came into this classed I would say I had no idea what I meant to be a collaborator. If I was asked to define what being a "collaborator" meant, I would probably have said something like "someone who adds to a group". When now looking back on that I would say my new definition is much different. The past 15 weeks have been filled with interesting information and topics that I never thought I would ever learn about. From how groups work with each other to rape culture. We have really learned a lot. Also, our group project went very well. Our project was about rape culture and I feel like we really put across a good message. one of our group members eden found a piece of work on Pinterest that we remixed and turned into our video for the project. For this video, the idea was that someone's watch was going to be stolen off of them but could not find any help. responses such as "why are you wearing a Rolex" or "why not just wear a long sleeve shirt to cover it up". Though these ideas may seem silly or idiotic, These are some of the responses actual rape victims here when trying to search for help. Our goal for this video is to get the message out there and aid to help the end of rape culture. One thing from rape culture that makes it seem funny or cool is from memes. There are many memes online that poke fun at rape culture and try to use it as humor. When in fact, nothing about it is funny.


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Finished Filming & Class

Yesterday our group met at the student union to film our scenes for the final project. We met at 7:30. Everyone showed up on time and it worked out really well. We only had to have a couple of takes to get the shots right but in the end, it all turned out very well. After we were finished filming we were deciding whether or not we wanted to add any music to it or maybe even some sound effects that would enhance our video.

In class today we played a game on the spreadable media quiz. The class broke up into their unit 2 projects group and began reading over our team's discussion post. after that, the game began. In this game, the proof would show us a picture on the board that had some words blanked ou. We had to determine if they were either Spreadable or Sticky depending on the situation. Today, the prof announced an option for extra credit. She showed us the sheet of paper with the multiple options on it. I'm really excited for this as it will let me bring my grade up a little more.

I can't wait to start watching all the other group projects. It will be very interesting to see all the different ways and directions all the groups went with their projects.

Adobe Spark & Group Project

Last class, we had a guest speaker who came from the Adobe department of the University of Arizona. He introduced us to Adobe Spark and gave us a presentation and demonstration for us. He also gave students a piece of paper with a code on it for every to get the Adobe Creative Cloud for free. Which includes all of Adobe's photo and media programs. In this presentation, he showed and demonstrated how easy and simple it is to use. It is very user-friendly and pretty much anyone would be able to work it. After that, we then got into our project groups and had thirty minutes to put together a video presentation. Our prompt was to make a video presentation on the Wikipedia information we gathered from the class before. After completing our video presentation on baby clothes and then started to upload the presentation to D2L. The class, however, ran into a problem. Everyone around the same time was attempting to upload their presentations at the same time. Nobody as able to upload their projects.

Today our group is meeting to discuss and plan out how we are going to do the project. We plan on meeting at the library. This will be helpful and will get everyone on the same page for how the project is going to get done.

Unit 2 project groups

Last class, we created our Unit 2 project groups. My group "The BedBugs" has myself, Miros, Caleb, Katie, and Eden. During this class, we had another competition. This competition was based off the reading the Tweaker. This reading focused on a few different things. The most interesting part to me was when it talked about Steve Jobs. Most of the article was spent bashing him and giving examples of how bad of a person he is. Our group focused our question on a quote at the end of the reading. "The architects wanted the windows to open. Jobs said no. He “had never liked the idea of people being able to open things. ‘That would just allow people to screw things up". We thought this related well to the overall design and goals of apple. Since with most of their products you can not get into them and modify the technology. I thought that our group did a really good job coming together for the first time and doing very well in the class comp. we ended up getting 100% along with only one other group. I look forward to learning and creating with this group as I believe we will create a really great project that will earn us a solid grade.