Day 1 Explanation of Why This is Bad

I my personal opinion, these adolescents are not responsible for there actions. Why? Because the brain does not develop until the age of 24-27 this is why most kids should not hold accountable for there actions. They are being brainwashed and being pressured by the scenario around them or by adults. Because of this we shall not accuse these innocent kids of much violent actions. Kids are not suppose to be evil, but because of the environment which they are in. Along with the fact the family maybe poor and maybe willing to give their kids up for the some amount of money. And let's look at what minimum education they have received they have no understanding from right or wrong. 

Locking them up just makes the situation even worse instead we can teach and educate them from the harms. So no, we should not lock up these innocent kids up, 

Response to Article 2:

After the second article I feel even stronger about my belief. Even if the rebuttal says so, the side of arguing against child soldiers is stronger since the fact of their environment comes into play. As well as the examples I have provided in the previous paragraph. But it's surprising that a informational based paper is making the con side stronger. Even though I talked about this before reading the article.

Ted Talk Preparation

 This week in Media Literacy we made a very hard decision. You may be asking what this maybe, but this is one of the ISTE standards.(If you don’t understand what I’m talking about  here is a  link to my past Blog) The ISTE standard section is called the Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making. Underneath these is 4 bullet points explaining the Title; the 4 points each with it’s own purpose. The first point talks about identifying a problem and investigating it, the second point talks about creating a plan to find a solution to the problem, the third point talks about collecting data or feedback to solve the problem; lastly the 4th step talks about exploring different solution and alternative ways to fix the problem. So when put together is ISTE standard 4, Critical thinking.

Throughout our project we have had many occasions of critical thinking. An example is when our videos were

• Made too long videos

• Confusing videos
• The voiceover and music did not sych

So what we did after that was to construct a plan with all of the errors and each one of us pitched in ideas on improving it.( You can take a look yourself on our How To Shoot), “Major Improvement” said Mr.Monagardi. Looking at this compared to our past two videos from the previous weeks; this was one of the ways we critically thought, since we needed a change, so we changed the way we format our videos. Resulting in a short but understandable video which expresses our points.

Another way we used ISTE standard 4 was by collecting feedback. Just recently we have used this standard. Ayham, Ram and I all had different ideas of how many videos we should post before the Ted Talk presentation. This led up to a debate, and we came to a compromise where we record one more video before the presentations, You may be asking WHAT HAS THIS GOT TO DO WITH ISTE STANDARD 4. Well the compromise we did came from feedback from peers and others who we asked. And at the end we put together the feedback so we can find a solution to the question. How Many more videos?

Author's name: Vidswap

 

In my opinion I think we have hit the goal of ISTE standard 4. We came up with solutions to our problems and I think it’s utterly impressive. Because we did solve a problem, we did collect feedback and we did make a plan. But I think we could’ve done more on other departments especially Research which we haven’t done. But along with Media comes the pressure the pressure of Blog post grades, Ted talk presentations, videos published on time and many more. But the one thing I feel confident about is the  ISTE  standards, which I think we have annihilated.

Author’s Name: Michael Bentley

In conclusion, I think we have a set goal which we can reach for the Ted Talk. As well as many examples for the ISTE standards. So I believe that we are going to be ready for the Ted Talk as we have many examples to pick from and can use during the Ted Talk.

The Adjustmen

Intro:

 This week in Media Literacy, we had a sit down with Mr. Mongardi. We discussed our video and how we should look at it looking forward. And mind you this was on a Monday, where we planned to go to the Gym and start to record more game play. Mr. Mongradi suddenly stopped us and wanted to talk to us. I got nervous did we do something wrong( copyrighted song.) No, turns out Mr. Mongardi gave us feedback on what we were doing wrong. As a group we,

• Made too long videos

• Confusing videos
• The voice over and music did not sych

But he gave us some advice on our videos

• To shorten videos
• Make it easy to understand for others
• And to stop voice overs and start using texts instead

  So after that we did so and on Monday we finished recording and editing our video. But all we need to do now is to add music to our movie and to publish it.

Author:Wiki

(YouTube channel) Is right here click on the link so when the video drops you know about it. The title will be all about the basics of shooting a basketball.

Author:Wikimedia

 This week in Media Literacy, Mr. Mongardi gave us a new task. This task includes the ISTE standards. And we have to do at-least one every blog post(6 in total.) This blog post I want to spend time on Technology operations and concepts.

 We have done a lot of this recently. We have used 2 applications which we used efficiently. One of them is Youtube. This platform allowed us to share and upload content and transferred our current knowledge to the world to see. And the other one is IMovie. This was a very helpful app which allowed us to edit videos. This tool was used when we wanted to upload a clear and presentable video on YouTube. The videos made were to show our knowledge and experiences to others who want to get better at Basketball, and we used Youtube a digital platform to do so . Another example is trouble shooting. When we had a glitched Imovie we tried to go to YouTube so we can learn from others knowledge. So that we could move all the audio back, which got glitched beforehand. And because of this we understand the technology in front of us and we try to use all of the online resources to get a fantastic video out to YouTube for people to view. This put together makes all the steps of Technology operations and concepts

Authors Name:Pixabay

In my opinion i think we should have recorded more on Wednesday than doing Blog post. Because the deadline is getting closer and we only have got 3 videos so far. But by far I feel more stressed up our Ted-Talk as I said in previous. Because of all these idea I have I don’t know which one to pick.

I am also glad we have gotten up to double digits in subscribers. As I want more people to watch the videos and try our techniques out. As we want to make people better from our experiences.

In, conclusion I want us to

• Finish the shooting video
• Begin our next one
• Prepare for the Ted Talk
• And have a goal to reach

Procrastination

This week was a pretty busy weak, we have officially uploaded a video. This video is titled How To Layup, this video was delayed. Why?  Well because of the different places we recorded from the gym to the outdoor court we practically been everywhere. This caused us to have issues editing because some areas were brighter than others, so we had to do a lot of adjustments on the lighting of the video. But other than that I am proud of the progress since the video recording was fluent not shaking that often.  We also have recorded footage of the next video how to shoot. So make sure you subscribe to our channel to get the latest updates!

Author's name: Wikipedia

This week was very stressful, we had a unit test in Social Studies about the U.S Constitution. So it was pretty stressful as well as a Arabic presentation which put more gas on the flame.

In our next video about shooting, I hope this can open up to more views since our channel has gained subscribers since the last video.

The reason why I was `proud of the layup video was, because when I was a kid I never knew a proper layup. I thought a right handed layup was for both sides. But on the left side you had to do a left handed layup, so the first time on the basketball team Mr. Campbell corrected me. So now I want the views to learn from my mistakes.

Moving forward I hope to finish the jump shot video and to upload it. So next week we can start on our defensive video.

Author's Name: Linux Screenshots