Genius Time Update

Hey everyone. So far things are going really well and I am making a lot of progress with my project. I recently just did my interviews with the people over at my organization I am working with and I got a lot of great footage. I interviewed two women and one of them was an older women who has been there for 17 years and had a lot of experience. She was so knowledgable about the organization and gave me a lot of great footage. 

Also this is the last week of my drives for hoodies and it has been going great. I have probably about 150-200 hoodies and jackets. My school drive has gone so much better than last year and I have collected so many more this year. 

Next week I plan on washing all of the used hoodies and then bringing them to the organization. 

My progress and what I learned.

So the past few weeks I have accomplished a lot. I started my drives in multiple places, and I also scheduled my interviews with the organization I am working with this friday. I had started the drives in my neighborhood, and my mom's work and it will start at my school next week. The hardest thing for me to figure out was how I was going to do my interviews. I needed to figure out the audio as well as the camera angels because I am filming it. Soon my teacher showed me a microphone that she had that I can attach to my ipad and I aslo I have a friend that is going to help film with another camera. 

Torwards the beginning of the quarter I wasn't sure if I was going to complete the goals I had set for completing of my project. I then buckled down and got my head right and started accomplishing one thing after the other. I contacted people to get the drives started and I also had to schedule interviews. For me these things are kind of scary. I hate having to talk to people but this project has increased my confidence and comfortability with talking to people. 

Next week I plan on starting the drive at my school as well as editing my interview video. It is going to be a long and tedious process editing the video, but it is going to be worth it because it is going to be an amzaing video and a great way to raise awareness for my cause. 

Technology's impact on us

The question for today is will technology connect or conquer us. Many of the adults now- a-days feel as if todays youth have an unhealthy dependence on technology. In some respects that accusation is justified. There are many people that cannot go two minutes without their phone. However todays day and age has adapted to incorporate technology into it. Schools are using ipads and computers, you can now pay with your phone or smart watch, and you can also talk to someone of your family on the other side of the world.

I believe that technology will eventually conquer us, but not necesarily in a bad way. Different technology companies like apple are coming out with different ways to incorporate technology into peoples lives. I believe that we will be completely dependent on technology. I don't think that normal human interactions like face to face with family and friends will go away because we will all be using technology together. We will be able to be with eachother but be connected somewhere else. Normal human interactions will not be lost, just enhanced in a way.

We as humans have the innate nature of advancing in society and technology whenever possible. We cannot stop advancement. We have to adapt to it.

Genious time reflection

The past few weeks, we had a genius time project. A bunch of teachers from the middle and highschool had posters, flyers or banners they needed for a number of things. My project was creating small posters to put around the school for the three home football games left, and the theme of the games. Each game has a different theme. There was Pinkout, Neon, and Homecoming. My job was to create a visual representation of these themes while advertising the football game. This was actually a really fun project. While it took a while because I had three posters to create while others had only one, but I enjoyed it. To make these posters, I used two apps on my ipad. I used canva, which is an app used to make advertisements, posters and what have you, and I also used photoshop mix. It is basically just a photo editing app. 

I thought that I did a really great job with the posters. In class we had critique sessions. We had two of them actually. Our designs would go up on the projector and everyone would critique them. They would give suggestions and compliments to help you make the best design. It felt good to not only help the teachers and the school, it also was a period of growth. Getting constructive criticism, while sometimes it can sting, it helps you grow and learn to become better.