Podcast Experience

I liked how the podcast directory could easily be navigated since it categorized the different sets of podcasts it has available. It was great how you could get every podcast you wanted with no fees required. Podcasting is a great way of getting some in-depth information you want on certain topics that are free of charge. It also doesn't require much experience to function properly. I use Itunes regularly but don't pay much attention to the podcast icon. Now that podcasting has been introduced to me, I'd actually consider downloading some onto my Ipod.

Family

A family can be loving, trustworthy, entertaining, humorous, strict, thoughtful, supportive, and so much more. Not one family in this world is perfect. All families come with different types of flaws that actually help blossom our families' relationships. My family consists of my dad, Leo, my mom, Anna, and my younger sister, Krizelle. There's barely any moment that my family goes through harsh arguments; even if we did, we would just be arguing about the funniest topics you'd ever think about. You may think this is peculiar, but believe it or not, my parents still act as if they were my age. At times, my sister and I think that we are much maturer than our own parents.

Families don't always consist only of your parents and their offsprings; in fact, your closest friends could also be a part of your family. Just like your main family, they could provide the love and support that you need to go through your daily life. In addition, they also bear flaws in their personalities that, at times, could lead to fights.

Copyright

Copyright is a law enforced to protect any literary and artistic work. We have copyrighting because it is necessary for artists to get credit where credit is due. It would be unfair for them if someone else used their idea and had gotten credit, even if the idea didn’t originate from them.

The copyright law protects literary works, music and lyrics, movies, graphics, sound recordings, and architectural works.

What is Family?

In my opinion, a family can be anyone that truly loves and cares for you no matter what. A family can range from your own loving circle of relatives and even to your well-trusted circle of friends. It could also range from your household pets to your hated neighbors as well. A family can be absolutely anyone that has left an imprint in your life, whether it may be big or small, good or bad, they could still impact your life.

My main family circle includes my parents, my younger sister, as well as my close relatives. They often keep me on my feet and joyously entertained 24/7. A circle of friends could be considered family as well. Typically, they provide the same love and care as your main family does, just with a slight difference.

My family circle doesn't have as much of a variety as my circle of friends. I don't think it really matters whether or not there is a variety of people in a family, either way, the results would still be the same. Although there is not much of a variety in my main family, there is still a great variety of generations between my family members. To think about it, I believe my mom's side of the family have a total of four generations currently living.

The quote, "Families evolve from a patchwork of possibilities", is meant to explain the various possibilities that could result in forming a family. It helps people realize that forming any type of family could work in various ways.

Our Survey

Getting Involved

School_______________ Grade________ Age Male_____ Female_____

1.How would you define community?

2. Would you say you are involved with your school and community?

3. If you are, then in what ways are you involved? (for eg. religious purposes, charity, afterschool sports, extracurricular activites etc.)

4. How can you or others get involved?

5. What will be a good motivation?

6. What would be your purpose to get more involved in the community?

7. Do you think peer-pressure would influence your decision to get more involved in your community? Why or why not?

8. Would you like to become involved with the community and school?

9. Several adolescents are concerned with managing their time. Do you think this is one of the basic factors why most teenagers decide not to be involved with their community? Why or why not?

10. What did you think of this survey?

An Overlook of the Project

Overall, I thought this project made me more experienced with editing videos on a computer. I learned so much from our selected topic. I never knew that there are actually teenagers out there that are against getting involved in their own school and communities. Our topic made me realize what I could possibly do to get more involved as I am now. It also made me think of what activities I could possibly be involved in in the near future. For now, I'm only involved in one after school activity, which is Softball. For awhile, I was also involved in a newly proposed teenage health center here in Capuchino, but since I failed to attend one of their meetings, they thought I was no longer interested and stopped sending me information about when and where the meetings were held anymore. Making the movie was a bit frustrating since my computer kept on freezing on me once again, just like my last experience with my final project last semester. There was a point when I was so close to finishing, but due to my bad luck, the computer froze and I was forced to restart the computer and edit the parts of the movie again. If Angelina and I were to make any changes to make our project better, we would've recorded our interviews in a closed space so that we could avoid any distractions with sound. If we had more time, we could've taken pictures of our surveyors as well and edited the whole movie on a Mac computer rather than any regular PC.

Finishing Touches

Over the break, Angelina and I managed to talk a bit more about what we should do to sum up our project. Due to the lack of time, we couldn't get as much pictures of our surveyors so we just decided to leave the pictures off and just stick with the videos since the videos itself took more than 4 minutes already. Today, we also decided on adding a graph to explain whether students were for or against getting involved in their school and community. We got numerable responses from students that were in favor of getting involved. In fact, there were 66.7% of the entire surveyors that we found were in favor of getting involved while there were only 33.3% of the other students that found this topic discouraging.