Journal #4

Happy Sunday 🐶

I chose the Computer Science (Microsoft Word) standard for 6-8th grade. The standard I chose is to think about and deduce why some assignments and tasks would be easier for a human to do than a computer. I do feel like I am prepared to implement this standard. I know that computers are not always prefect, and you cannot count on Microsoft Word spelling and grammar editor to make sure your syntax is actually correct. 

I chose to search under Kindergarten Social Studies. The activity was locked, but it essentially is a coloring activity that goes along with a video to understand what the American flag looks like. I think this is great for Kindergarten, it is something really basic they should know. It is easy and stimulating for young children to be able to learn through technology and creativity. 

In order to find exactly what you need, you should know hoe to be able to use advance search on Google. I did not know you could edit the colors for results when you search, this is helpful when you have to find color-specific items like a newsletter. In my school district growing up, Google was actually banned, so we had to use alternative search engines. My favorite was Duckduckgo.com since it did not track and sell your data. 

Journal 3

Happy Sunday ☺

Copyright is type of ownership. If someone has a copyright to something, they own it. It can usually get into the hands of other people, because it could be an online source or a physical book that people can own a copy of. Just because you buy something that is copyrighted does not mean you can do just anything with it. You are not allowed to share it. Fair use is an act that gives people to use someone else's copyright as long as it is educational, within fair use. There are a lot limits to fair use, but it helps teachers teach their students. As a teacher, it would be hard to teach this concept to my students. It is really easy to assign a project and ten use graphics they have gotten online. If I said they could not do that than they might have trouble finding resources. 

Cyberbullying is a terrifying concept. It saddens me so much to imagine being bullied. I think it is important to teach students to have limits. Maybe having social media in elementary school is not a good idea. Young children should not be online, no social media site is secure, and there are so many weirdos out there that know how to manipulate children. I would not allow my students to be on social media in my classroom, hopefully not be on their phones at all. I would also teach them that it is really scary, and it should be avoided if it can. Student privacy is also a hot topic. Especially now with cellphones that have cameras, teachers are taking more and more photos of children. Sometimes there are waivers parents can sign but its not enough. I would not allow other parents to come into my classroom and take pictures of their children if there were other students in the background. 

The Newsletter design as pretty fun. I viewed it as an artistic outlet. It is really nice to try to convey your message in an aesthetic and personal way. Next time, I would start working on it, step away take some time and then come back to it with a fresh mind so that I could have a great final piece.  

Journal 2

    I have been using Microsoft Word for almost all of my schooling. Admittedly, up until about second grade we were not using technology to complete assignments, we would just use computers to take quizzes on. I did have Apple products when I was younger, and my parents did not want to pay for the Microsoft Suite so I often used an app called Pages, but I would use Word in school. By the time I was in high school, using Google Docs was the bets because you did not have the physically save the document onto a hard drive and pick up where you left off. Now, I will usually start writing my papers on Docs, and once its time to format and such I will finish on Word to make sure everything is up to standards.

                                     "Students creating podcasts" by shersh is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0.

    The ISTE standard that is most important to me is "2.3.b Establish a learning culture that promotes curiosity and critical examination of online resources and fosters digital literacy and media fluency." This standard means that an educator's duty is to cultivate a love for learning while ensuring that students are able to navigate technology which is ever so present in our society. I like this standard so much because it is implemented in K-12. Technology evolves so incredibly fast, and from the time someone is in Kindergarten to the time someone is about to start University or College, learning and teaching can change so much. From having physical workbooks and textbooks, to technology being a need in order to purse education, it is important to teach children digital literacy. 

Digital natives are youths who are comfortably familiar with technology and the internet. Digital natives can navigate technology easily. One silly difference I notice between digital natives and digital immigrants is typing in "www." or "https://" into a search bar. It is not necessary, but something small I notice that not everyone knows about. Another difference is using shortcuts, especially on phones. For example, using Siri or using one's iPhone in a more efficient manner, digital immigrants sometimes have a bit of a hard time figuring it out. I anticipate a lot of differences between me and my future students. Like I mentioned earlier, technology is evolving at warp speed. By the time I get there who knows that types of technology and the challenges they will bring for me and my students (like ChatGPT).

    The Newsletter assignment seems like a good introduction into how time consuming and in depth simple assignments can be. Teachers have to go through a lot to ensure that their students have material that is concise, appropriate, well-done, and actually helpful. Leaving out some components can make a teacher and their students life harder. I would like to include in my newsletter more information on how to study well. I think I will probably target 5th graders or middle schoolers, since they are about to start experiencing new teaching styles as they become older and more mature. Their grades will be dependent more on them studying and working on problems by themselves, learning in class will not be the only way they practice. I have never designed a newsletter, but I know in order to make an appealing newsletter I would need to take my time and ensure that it visually looks good so my students actually want to use the resource. 

Journal #1

 Good Evening :)

Welcome to my blog. I am sure you are wondering what is up with the older posts on here. In high school, I was in AICE media studies where I had a big final project that I was required to keep my teacher updated constantly, so we made blog posts on blogger. 

A little about me, I am 20 years old and I am from Fort Lauderdale. My mom has two French Bulldogs that  am obsessed with. I live here in Tallahassee with my wonderful boyfriend who is studying Chemical Engineering here. My major is Public Health with a minor in Education and Chemistry. I aspire to go to Physician Assistant school after I graduate, I hope that having some background in Public Health will make me a better PA. 

When the world shut down for COVID in March of 2020, I was a senior in high school. We were initially just told that we were not going to come back after Spring Break for one week, and we we went almost 2 weeks with no instruction periods. Soon we all got on Microsoft Teams. Initially, it was a very hard adjustment. If you read back on some of my posts here, you can see how COVID impacted my project and myself. Using Zoom and Teams is now super common and super easy. There really was no choice but to adapt to 100% online, and now almost all classes have some online aspect.

The resources I most commonly use are Quizlet. I love Quizlet. I believe in order to really learn you need to memorize first, once it is in your head you can start using the words/terms/ideas and then you really integrate it into your learning. Another online resource me and every other FSU student is Canvas! There is really no good learning resources on Canvas, but documents and resources my Professors posts are really 

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CCR Script

I have done a couple practice rounds and boy oh boy have I gone over 10 minutes. Here is my final script so I don't bore you to death

Hello Cambridge. My name is Danielle Velez and I created the film opening drive. My main actor was my sister, Samantha, and I decided to work alone to challenge myself and my creativity.

Leaving college is something that I am facing right now, and when I thought about it I realized that I personally had not seen any films that address this.

 My opening uses drama conventions as drama  films tend to follow the emotional development of a character that is usually related to some type of conflict.  Dramas show humans from their highpoints to their low points. It can be argued that dramas have the most subgenres: crime films, courtroom dramas, melodramas, epics (historical dramas), biopics (biographical), or romantic genres.The target audiences for Drama usually appeal to males and females in both young and older audiences. I believe that my opening will be one of a "teen drama", so my target audience will most likely consist of 12-18 years old females. Some of the best-known drama film producers are: Steven Spielberg for Schindler's List,  James Cameron for Avatar, Christopher Nolan for Dunkirk, Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, and Martin Scorsese Taxi Driver.

The Protagonist usually is the main character in the film. The audience usually can relate to this character and root for them throughout the film. The protagonist is usually played by a male character however having a female protagonist has recently increased.

My film represents the latinx community. More specifically the challenges that first generation americans face.Here is an article about how first gen kids aren't represented.  It's different when your parents grew up in a completely different country, with different customs. You take some of those customs but you grow up here and you adopt those as well.  Then comes the day where you cannot really identify with one group. You are either too "gringa" or not "American" enough. You can relate to and identify with both (or all) cultures, but you're not completely accepted by either.

In these articles ,the New York Times and the University of Southern California (my old dream school:(! ) find that Latinxs are grossly underrepresented in Hollywood. Representation is how the media portrays a group of people.  There are enough stereotypes about all minorities. Portraying this family in an accurately normal-ish manner would be beneficial. 

Some famous hispanic/ latinx actors are Penople cruz pedro pascal selma hayek antonio bandera 

I would like for my audience to be within the ages of preteen too early thirties. Because of this, I would like to have my film first be promoted on social media. online platforms are going to be my major source of engagement. Not only with ads of trailers on twitter, instagram, youtube, FACEBOOK and snapchat, I believe that tik tok will be even more important. TIKTOK HAS 800 million monthly active users. Explain the ads. By putting my adon the for you page, a common feed most users view  Through ads i will be able to reach a large audience. 

I would like to say My production skills improved throughout this project

I am still not where I want to be but i realized how much work really goes into this. So many little things, make the end result beautiful and coherent, so i definitely learned how important it is to plan.

For software, I started to use wevideo but I really was not that comfortable. I know that imovie isn't necessarily the best but it was what I was most comfortable with. If i had ventured out and used some other online software perhaps I would have been able to manipulate some things more to my liking.

For hardware, I used my dads noce camera, the Nikon D3200. I also used a tripod. However during the pandemic….. So i never got the tripod back soi had to use a ladder for some shots…...

Next time I want to have a really clear idea. For this, I kinda knew what i was aiming for me at it wasn't advantageous if anything it harmed me more. Being able to finish my project early would have let me have extra time to film more and or cadd things to make it better. Thank you cambridge for giving me an opportunity to complete this project, I hope that you are safe and well, bye 

*trumpet noises*

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u3-kURWsd5T64RXrci4Xtle2_GNM-ne2/view?usp=sharing

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