#reflection 4

Project 4 — Reflection 4

I adored doing this project. While doing the character sheets, it allowed me to really practice thinking of different symbols for the same subject, but my best choices were made at home in my sketchbook after continuously brainstorming on my own time. This is how I ended up with the hair/star/headpiece like scorpion for Shadowheart, and the claw on the skull for Raphael based on his silly lyrics during a super hard battle. This project really helped me create logos based on symbolism, not just silhouettes of actual things, like a helmet you can acquire in game. I learned to put together elements into a unique piece that then creates a different image, and I’m really proud of that.

As for the actual building of the image, I’ve learned that I am obsessed with the curvature tool. It allows you to keep the drawing-like element with smoother lines, almost creating the curved yet jagged shapes of the braids. This tool also let me work with shapes easier, and keeping objects as one, such as the nails of the hand not being separate.

While I do think I like the images as one color on one color, I don’t mind the red and purple as those colors, if not black and white. I believe the shapes and logos are well articulated and recognizable enough if on any material or merchandise.

This reflection reflects on the skills that I have obtained in the edit week.

I have improved on my sound design editing skill through active practice. i have come to know more on how to use premier pro to edit interview, behind the scene and cutaway footages. I have been shown ways in which you can: split a video into two different sections, delete excess material of a video clip, importing videos from finder adjusting volumes and footages by fading it and zooming in and to of it, making titles and co-operating with a peer to achieve a complete edit of a section of a film.

When working together on a film section with a peer, we had great fun messing around with people’s voice from the interview and also people’s movements; but eventually, we still finished that project we were asked to work on and amend. That’s what I think had gone particularly well. 

Here I am, editing Pablo’s interview:

I have also worked with Ibrahim in editing the narrative scenes:

Taking on the role of editing obviously would be challenging but different people may find different things more challenging over the other, such as; for me, it’s to accept the creative manager’s criticism on my work and to amend my work according to his advice. This was challenging because I might need to delete a few parts of my work which may mean that the time I spent on creating that certain feature will be wasted. It frustrates me when I had to do that. Also, working under the time pressure was hard because the quality of your work will judged when the deadline’s due.

    Looking back at the history of African American women and birth control  makes it clear that access to forms of birth control and abortion have never been about women, but about what the men around them wanted. An African American woman’s access to birth control has mainly been determined by the power structure at the time, whether that be men wanting to maintain the power structure at the time or men wanting to change the power structure at the time. In the past, slave owners did not want African American women to know about birth control because they wanted them to have more children so that the slave owners could have more slaves and money. Later on, black men also did not want them to have abortions or use birth control so that they could have more children and increase the black population, and white men wanted to have them sterilized so that there would be less “undesirables”. Its upsetting that a woman’s right over her body is never about her, but about maintaining or changing a power structure around her. Men try to limit what a woman has access to so that they can keep control, they also seem to only view women as someone who can have children and ignore everything else.

     Men never pay much attention to a women’s access to birth control until they think it’s going affect them. As if what man wants is always to be prioritized over what a woman knows is best for her. In past history men have wanted women to have children for their own personal reasons and then just ignore the well being of the child and leave women alone to handle everything.

I’ve never really wanted to go to Japan - simply because I don’t like eating fish.

~Britney Spears

As someone who grew up in a Filipino family, I was surrounded by seafood and fish products. Right until my family fed me salmon (they didn’t believe the doctor when they told them I was allergic to all seafood and fish products) and discovered I was in fact allergic to all of it. Then there was an incident with a shrimp when I was 7 years old and my tongue burned and my throat felt itchy and uncomfortable.

Needless to say, fish and I have a very strained relationship. And yet here I am in Japan where fish is a staple and national treasure. Some people are surprised by my being allergic to fish and worry that I’m missing out. They’re right. I can’t eat certain foods that have fish sauce. But I do anyway, and my lips become irritatingly inflamed with pruritis and my face swells a little, but the food is so good. I ate shrimp chips by the bag as a child and ignored the scratchy feeling in my throat. I miss out on an elaborate dinner on a night cruise as I wait for the fried vegetables to arrive on the plate.

Ayaka-sensei told me that the ship didn’t have any other options. It was a very traditional boat ride that didn’t think of people who have allergies or special eating conditions. I asked Ayaka-sensei if there were less people with allergies in Japan. She said there was about the same, but people in Japan are not as loud about it as people in America. Americans made it known that there are people with allergies that we should accommodate for by placing allergy warnings on food labels. In Japan, they are much more quiet about their allergies and conditions and look out for themselves.

It’s ok. This is my truth. I can live with it. I can’t have fish and seafood, and I never will or else face the consequences. But maybe some more awareness can be made to help others who have been fending by themselves. Some places can be allergy friendly, but they are far and few between in Japan. I know I love Canada for their peanut free factories and large peanut warnings. It makes my day when I know I don’t have to worry about dying from a peanut. Did I mention that I’m allergic to all tree nuts, peanuts, and hazelnut? A little warning would be appreciated.

This links to an article that discusses the current state of allergy awareness and how to survive with an allergy while in Japan: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2017/03/05/how-tos/whats-visitor-food-allergy-japan/#.WyyN3ispCEe

Come out with netiquette in online communicating

The internet has been one of the widely used medium to connect with one another and is mushrooming over time. It is also has been a source of information and interaction where people can collect information and connect to other users all around the world. However, since it is being widely used by all kinds of people from different background, different culture, it is hard to control the content posted and shared on the internet whether it is appropriate or suitable for others. To make it worse, some individuals think it is totally fine to reprimand, to criticise and to make fun of others’ differences just because it was not done physically.  

Due to its negativity, we have come up with a new term for netiquette which is internethics. It means the ethics on how to use the internet properly. For the first internethics that all users should abide when interacting with their online friends is to use proper language and avoid using profanity language; which is vulgar and offensive words. This is because our personality is based on what we posted or shared on the internet. Social media is one of the examples, where it reflects individual’s personality, attitudes and also interests on something, especially for those who are quite actively involved in it.

Respect other users’ opinion is the second internethics that most people nowadays tend to forget. The internet is a platform for us to discuss freely on almost everything regardless of any issues whether in religions, politics, economics and etc. But this does not mean that we can involve in unnecessary arguments by attacking others who do not share the same beliefs as us. If we came across any issues or critics on something that we have been agreed upon, instead of replying to the comments as an intellect, we can write our own opinions and discuss it professionally. There is no use engaging in useless conversations. Everyone has their own preferences and belief and if we do not agree with it, the least we can do is to respect their ideas.  

Other than that, internet users also need to protect their own personal information as best as they could. Everything that is posted nowadays is public and permanent. Therefore, in order to protect ourselves from any danger possible, it is encouraged for the users to avoid posting anything that is private online. For example, social media has been used by the employers nowadays to know their employee before accepting their application for jobs. It is also used by the lecturers and some issues have arisen regarding the status that has been put up online by students to mock their lecturer. Worse case scenarios may happen if you are fond of updating your whereabouts on the Internet. Cases such as robbery and rape can possibly happen as it can be used to navigate you down by the people who mean to do harm to you. Keeping your life private and confidential is better than exposing yourself to any possible danger.

The digital native and the digital immigrants are very opposite. The generation of the digital native is the generation who born with the internet, phones, smart TVs and all that kinds of thigs that make our lives easy.  For this reason is why they are native with the digital stuff, they start to used when they were babies and step by step they learn. For the other side the "oldest people", the persons who weren't  born with all these gadgets is considered like a digital immigrant. So yes they are very different because for the digital immigrant is more difficult but for the native, it doesn't.  Most of the time the immigrant are asking for help to the native and for they is very easy.  Other different is for native is more simple to communicate with people and also they always find a way to make the work more quickly and easy but for the other hand, the immigrant prefers to stay in the old way to don't make a mistake.

Today is Tuesday, the 27th of October. Today I walked 11,534 steps. Altogether, I was walking throughout the streets of London for 2 hours. I burned 389 calories in these 11,534 steps and walked a total of 6 miles.

Today is Tuesday, the 27th of October and in my trek across town, I couldn’t go five or six steps without stopping and grabbing hold of my camera, which waited conveniently for me via the strap around my neck. Today I took 153 pictures on my canon rebel.

Today is Tuesday, the 27th of October and by Friday, the 30th of October I have to pick my classes for the spring term and e-mail my choices to the study abroad office.

Yesterday was Monday, the 26th of October and I didn’t think I’d return to London for a second term after the holidays back home. I’d been thinking that a lot the last week or so.

Today is Tuesday, the 27th of October, and instead of spending 5.80 on the tube to get to and from my several destinations on my to-do list, I walked several thousand steps and realized how much of this city I’ve yet to see and explore, how much I’ve yet to do.

Today is Tuesday, the 27th of October, and I’m in my fifth week of classes at the University of Westminster. I’m in my sixth week of living in London.

Blogging, website and wiki platforms are modern Internet technologies that can be utilised in the 21st century classroom. They are all under a banner known as Web 2.0. Until recently, the Internet was utilised as a ‘read-only’ resource, meaning that it was used to access information that had been previously uploaded. Web 2.0 was the introduction of ‘read/write web’, which allowed users to upload, collaborate and share information on the Internet with others. Popular examples of this include Facebook and Wikipedia. This type of technology can be a powerful tool in the modern classroom.

In a senior classroom setting, I would use the creation of a blog as a form of both assessment and for student benefit. One application for this would be for a composition task. As composition tasks are often assessed on the process as well as the final product, a running blog with sections due every week would mean the students could upload their processes online. Examples of weekly work could be general song ideas (Week 1), Song structure/Form (Week 2), Chords (Week 3) etc. This also gives the teachers access to the work without students having to hand in hard copy work every week.

Another way Web 2.0 technology could be used in the classroom would be the creation of websites or wikis by students as a way of peer teaching for a topic. For example, if the students in a year 9 class were learning about jazz music, the class could be split up into groups to study different sub-genres of jazz e.g. cool jazz, bebop, and fusion. After the groups have studied the chosen topic, they will create a website or wiki based on a teacher given criteria. When all of the information has been placed on the Internet, the students in the class could do a research task on the other topics of jazz uploaded by classmates. This is a far more engaging process for the students in gathering, uploading and researching information on class topics.

A class website could also be a creative way to create subject related interaction with teachers and students. This could be a place where assignments are discussed, where interesting Internet links about a topic can be posted by either teachers or students and a place where students work can be uploaded for marking. Creating the website at the beginning of the term/year could also be a very effective icebreaker activity for the teacher to conduct.

All of these examples are a very small scope of what can be done with Web 2.0 technology in the classroom. The options and opportunities are almost endless. The amount of success experienced by integrating this into the daily classroom will depend on how much effort the educator is willing to go to. I am certain that the rewards will be reaped if the teacher is prepared to sow.

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