Topics
Family relationship
Friends
School life
Partying/drinking
Relationships
Sex/teen pregnancy
Computer games
Gangs
Cars
Audience
Teens, young adults
Design
1. Clubbing/drinking
A.Talk about clubs,places to go in Mongolia
B.Talk about how important or not it is for people
C.Talk about myself and partying/drinking
D.Talk about peer pressure
2.School life
A.Talk about how important it is for our lives
B.Talk about my school and my academic achievements
C.Talk about teachers
3.Sex/teen pregnancy
A.Talk about how we all demand/need sex
B.Talk about the dangers of sex
C.Talk about how becoming pregnant can be serious
D.Talk about how others will respond to this
I choose to do the topic about partying/drinking because i feel like it is the topic that has the most thing to talk about. Even though I dont go out partying and getting wasted and stuff, i have friends who do and who talk about it a lot so i know what I am going to talk about. I am going to make a voice not a video podcast because its much more simple. Videoing requires some materials such as lighting, smaller mics etc which can be hard to find. Plus, videos take longer to load or download than just audio. Having audio can be more comfortable because when videoing we all worry about how we look etc. After recording my podcast, i am going to add background music through windows movie maker. Having background music makes podcasts much more interesting to hear than just someone talking all the time. After finished with all the editing process, i will upload my podcast to www.podomatic.com. This site is very simple with easy-to-use tools and you can easily find different podcasts.
Design Specifications
-Has background music
-Around 5-10 minutes
-Clear audio
-Not dragging (fun to hear)
-Include expressions (changing pitch etc.)
Monday, November 30, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Criterion A my podcast
Podcasts are not much different from having your own TV show, but on the internet. People can talk about any subject and there are no limits. A podcast is a series (can be only one episode) of digital media files, video or audio, that you post to the internet for viewers.
In this unit, we are to create our own podcasts about our lives. We must choose a topic to talk about, record it, and post it to our blogs. We can talk about any topic that is related to adolescence. This unit is important because we are all teens, and there are many things we are in common and different. I believe we should listen to podcasts or other teens from different backgrounds and listen to their opinions of what it is like being a teen.
First off, we are listening to other podcasts on the net and writing about it.
-Fisher, Bruce. "Hawaii Vacation for Toddlers". 20/11/2009: #349. Hawaii Vacation Connection. 25/11/2009.
In this podcast, a man and his wife talk about Hawaii, what you can do there and recommend some sights, hotels and places to visit. Mostly, they answer the questions that their listeners ask. In this episode, a family said that they cant swim, they cant eat eggs and seafood. And the two had trouble solving that because basically in Hawaii, swimming is the basic thing you need. And Hawaii has the best seafood in the world. However they recommended hiking and other things that they could do. I think the podcast was very good, nice background music, very clear audio and they way he talks was just fun to hear. And he also gave very good information about Hawaii. They make podcasts every Wednesday and Friday and they have their own website that gives discount packages.
-Parent, Scott. "American Cliche Podcast". #213. 29/11/2009.
This podcast sounds as if it is a news-type serious thing, but it is actually a comedy podcast. The host Scott, talks about almost anything and makes funny comments about them. It does contain some explicit language but nothing too serious. I like it because this guy has a great sense on humor, and makes hilarious criticisms now and then in the podcast. I searched for 'funny podcasts' on Google and then i found this podcast. He makes one episode every week and was first created in 2006.
-Kelley, Brian. "QuickTips". 25/11/2009. #22. nlnnet. 29/11/2009.
The title explains it all. In this podcast the host gives some very short and helpful tips about computers and the internet that can help your modern everyday life. In this episode, he gives info about a site "cli.gs" which shortens very long URLs and it can track who is entering that site. I found this podcast by searching "short podcasts" on Google because i was bored of listening to long ones. This podcast is only about a minute long.
Creating a podcast isnt very difficult, you just need a microphone, recording software and the internet. There are many different sites that you can upload your podcasts such as mypodcast.com; podomatic.com; podcastalley.com; podcastlinks.com etc.
Test: What do you think the purpose of my podcast was?
In this unit, we are to create our own podcasts about our lives. We must choose a topic to talk about, record it, and post it to our blogs. We can talk about any topic that is related to adolescence. This unit is important because we are all teens, and there are many things we are in common and different. I believe we should listen to podcasts or other teens from different backgrounds and listen to their opinions of what it is like being a teen.
First off, we are listening to other podcasts on the net and writing about it.
-Fisher, Bruce. "Hawaii Vacation for Toddlers". 20/11/2009: #349. Hawaii Vacation Connection. 25/11/2009.
In this podcast, a man and his wife talk about Hawaii, what you can do there and recommend some sights, hotels and places to visit. Mostly, they answer the questions that their listeners ask. In this episode, a family said that they cant swim, they cant eat eggs and seafood. And the two had trouble solving that because basically in Hawaii, swimming is the basic thing you need. And Hawaii has the best seafood in the world. However they recommended hiking and other things that they could do. I think the podcast was very good, nice background music, very clear audio and they way he talks was just fun to hear. And he also gave very good information about Hawaii. They make podcasts every Wednesday and Friday and they have their own website that gives discount packages.
-Parent, Scott. "American Cliche Podcast". #213. 29/11/2009.
This podcast sounds as if it is a news-type serious thing, but it is actually a comedy podcast. The host Scott, talks about almost anything and makes funny comments about them. It does contain some explicit language but nothing too serious. I like it because this guy has a great sense on humor, and makes hilarious criticisms now and then in the podcast. I searched for 'funny podcasts' on Google and then i found this podcast. He makes one episode every week and was first created in 2006.
-Kelley, Brian. "QuickTips". 25/11/2009. #22. nlnnet. 29/11/2009.
The title explains it all. In this podcast the host gives some very short and helpful tips about computers and the internet that can help your modern everyday life. In this episode, he gives info about a site "cli.gs" which shortens very long URLs and it can track who is entering that site. I found this podcast by searching "short podcasts" on Google because i was bored of listening to long ones. This podcast is only about a minute long.
Creating a podcast isnt very difficult, you just need a microphone, recording software and the internet. There are many different sites that you can upload your podcasts such as mypodcast.com; podomatic.com; podcastalley.com; podcastlinks.com etc.
Test: What do you think the purpose of my podcast was?
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Fictional teen living in UB
The topic is about poverty and how he manages to survive in the ger district. And also about his parent-teen relationship. This teen's outlook and desires are totally different from their parents. His dad is a drunk an says that he 'will never succeed at anything, just like your father.' But he has a dream to help all the poor people living in the ger district to have a better life.
He is a 17 year old boy, with no history of importance. He is a typical poor boy, but has wild dreams. He likes leading people, been to only 1-5 th grades.
"I do whatever it takes to live and survive. My ger district isn’t one of the worst ones, it pretty close to the city than the other districts. There are 4 of us in my family: me, my father, my mother and my little brother. I really don’t like my father; whenever he finds money he spends it on alcohol and stuff. I don’t like the way my dad acts when he’s drunk, so I am never going to become a drunk. Instead, I will use that money to buy food and other things we need. That’s what I actually do now. I find the money for our family to survive. How I find money is actually pretty easy; I am the big boy around here, and everyone kind of works for me. They give me whatever money they find, and I protect them from other hooligan kids. I think they were pretty convinced when I gave them that speech about danger in these places. My brother is my right hand side. He goes wherever I go, and always helps me with whatever i do. We work together to feed our family. I feel very sorry for my mom, always getting beat up by my father. One time I confronted him but he knocked me out. Its really hard to call ‘father’ now. But ive lived like this for a long time so I don’t really pay attention to him now. Every day we go get water, and its really hard pulling the water uphill. Me and my brother take turns pulling it. After that, we gather up wood for burning. It’s really hard to find wood here now, so we usually buy them. It’s a shame buying a natural resource, when we could just go out and get it. Then we just continue digging a hole, in case if our old toilet gets filled up. I don’t really find the rich people as bad people, theyre just people like me and my brother. They just have more resources for their wealth and they were born from a wealthy family. Our family has no history. My dream is to make the ger district a better place to live, and help all the poor people when I grow up. I hope this comes true, my dad always tell me that I will never succeed at anything, just like him."
He is a 17 year old boy, with no history of importance. He is a typical poor boy, but has wild dreams. He likes leading people, been to only 1-5 th grades.
"I do whatever it takes to live and survive. My ger district isn’t one of the worst ones, it pretty close to the city than the other districts. There are 4 of us in my family: me, my father, my mother and my little brother. I really don’t like my father; whenever he finds money he spends it on alcohol and stuff. I don’t like the way my dad acts when he’s drunk, so I am never going to become a drunk. Instead, I will use that money to buy food and other things we need. That’s what I actually do now. I find the money for our family to survive. How I find money is actually pretty easy; I am the big boy around here, and everyone kind of works for me. They give me whatever money they find, and I protect them from other hooligan kids. I think they were pretty convinced when I gave them that speech about danger in these places. My brother is my right hand side. He goes wherever I go, and always helps me with whatever i do. We work together to feed our family. I feel very sorry for my mom, always getting beat up by my father. One time I confronted him but he knocked me out. Its really hard to call ‘father’ now. But ive lived like this for a long time so I don’t really pay attention to him now. Every day we go get water, and its really hard pulling the water uphill. Me and my brother take turns pulling it. After that, we gather up wood for burning. It’s really hard to find wood here now, so we usually buy them. It’s a shame buying a natural resource, when we could just go out and get it. Then we just continue digging a hole, in case if our old toilet gets filled up. I don’t really find the rich people as bad people, theyre just people like me and my brother. They just have more resources for their wealth and they were born from a wealthy family. Our family has no history. My dream is to make the ger district a better place to live, and help all the poor people when I grow up. I hope this comes true, my dad always tell me that I will never succeed at anything, just like him."
Monday, November 2, 2009
Criterion A Podcasts
Adolescence is the most difficult time of life where you have to start leading your life on your own without your parents' help. It is also a time where mental and physical changes that happen can be unforgettable and can change your future. There are so many countries and so many different teens with different backgrounds, which makes every teen different from each other. And teens also have similarities since they are the same age. Most teens worry about their looks, fashion, make-up and relationships. But there was this one kid named Boris Lemeshev who doesn't care about all these stuff, piano is his only passion. While there was another girl named Maria D'Onofrio who is a typical teen: likes shopping, clothes and all that girl stuff. One person who really inspired me was this kid named Jason Monegro. He has a really difficult life, and he strives to survive and feed his family by working. Here is his speech:
"I Had to Work, Because if I Didn’t, There Wouldn’t Be Food on the Plate"
RIGHT now, life is confusing and a little stressful. This is the age that a lot of people consider you a young adult. That means a lot of responsibilities, a lot of depending on yourself and not on your parents.
Since my mom is divorced and unemployed, she has her hands full with my younger sister, who is 15, and my baby sister, who was born in 2004. I helped her out with the rent. It was around $900 a month. I would make $400 and change. I paid $300 for rent and $100 for groceries.
The job that I had was with my grandfather working after school and on weekends in a bike rental shop in Central Park. My grandfather needed help and he doesn’t trust people, so he’d rather have his family with him. Basically, I would repair bikes, make sure that they are returned, and give bike tours. For a time I liked it, but I wanted bigger and better things, so I stopped. I worked from when I was 15 until January of this year.
My mom had a lot of bills back then. I have two older brothers; they already grew up, and my three older sisters moved out and have their own families. At that time, it was just me, my mother and my two little sisters. All of my paycheck would be for food and rent.
I really didn’t care. I wasn’t very materialistic. I was the man of the house. I was raised in a Christian house and my mom has Christian rules and Christian morals. Material things, clothes and things like that, are the least we should worry about, because when we go to heaven, we’re not going to have any of those things, and we’re not going to worry about them.
Right now, my dad is in prison. I really don’t know why, but what they told me is that they found him with a big amount of drugs.
I looked up to him. Half of my morals I got from him. He was a hard-working man, sweet and kind, and he had a good heart. If anybody on the block needed food or money or anything, it didn’t matter if he had to pay bills the next week, he gave it to them.
He’s been locked up for the past four years in upstate New York. I don’t know where exactly. I visited him two years ago. That’s when I got the courage to be the man of the house, because no one else was present at the time.
I was an honor student until I got to high school. Unfortunately, I started hanging out with the wrong crew, and education-wise I started going downhill. I started cutting class. I was having all of these personal issues, family issues. School at the time wasn’t the last thing in my head, but it wasn’t as important as wrestling and work. Work at the time was a duty. I had to work, because if I didn’t, there wouldn’t be food on the plate. Wrestling is just my passion.
I’m into freestyle wrestling. It’s been my passion since I was little. I started when I was 8. I like the adrenaline. I love the attention and I love seeing the smiles. The sport at first seems brutal and the people violent and unprofessional, but when you train for it, you learn that it’s all about finesse and precision and that it’s a very serious sport. There’s also acting involved. They call me Vargas. I’m part of a tag-team called SPIC. It’s an acronym for Spanish Political International Cartel.
I want to be a professional wrestler. I make $40 an hour with SPIC, but it’s only one show a month and I still need another job. I have that dream to take my wrestling to an arena in Manhattan or somewhere big. My other goal is to get enough money to buy a center where anyone who’s interested could train for free, to give back to the community.
Recently, my aunt bought a house down in Kissimmee, Fla. My mom decided to move there because everything is cheaper down there and it’s more economical. I decided to go in April because it was better for me educationally and to help her out, because she needed a man of the house. I came back after a month. It’s a nice place, but it’s not my home.
I’m staying with my sister right now. She’s helping me out, but in a way I’m helping her out too. She’s 23 and she’s a single mother; she has a 6-year-old and a 2-year-old. She works nights at the front desk of a hotel in Manhattan, so I baby-sit and she gives me like 20 or 40 bucks. Tomorrow she has to go work, so she’ll leave at 5 or 6 p.m. and I’ll pick up the kids from day care, take them home, feed them, bathe them, whatever.
I’m looking for a job. I’m really good with my hands, so I’m looking for a job in maintenance or something like that. I’m trying to go back to high school, but since I already left this year, I didn’t finish the year because I was officially discharged, so going back now would be a total waste of time. Either I take the G.E.D., which I really don’t want to do, or I go back to Florida and try and get my own place and finish school there.
I could make a novel out of my life. I don’t even know what I would call it, but my life has been crazy, let’s put it that way.
Brady, Emily. "I Had to Work, Because if I Didn’t, There Wouldn’t Be Food on the Plate." The New York Times. The New York Times, Web. 3 Nov 2009..
This kid inspires me because i wonder how hard it must be to be the man of the house and working hard to feed his family.
In this unit, our final project is to make our own podcast. This unit is important to us because all teens have different views and opinions so it is a
"I Had to Work, Because if I Didn’t, There Wouldn’t Be Food on the Plate"
RIGHT now, life is confusing and a little stressful. This is the age that a lot of people consider you a young adult. That means a lot of responsibilities, a lot of depending on yourself and not on your parents.
Since my mom is divorced and unemployed, she has her hands full with my younger sister, who is 15, and my baby sister, who was born in 2004. I helped her out with the rent. It was around $900 a month. I would make $400 and change. I paid $300 for rent and $100 for groceries.
The job that I had was with my grandfather working after school and on weekends in a bike rental shop in Central Park. My grandfather needed help and he doesn’t trust people, so he’d rather have his family with him. Basically, I would repair bikes, make sure that they are returned, and give bike tours. For a time I liked it, but I wanted bigger and better things, so I stopped. I worked from when I was 15 until January of this year.
My mom had a lot of bills back then. I have two older brothers; they already grew up, and my three older sisters moved out and have their own families. At that time, it was just me, my mother and my two little sisters. All of my paycheck would be for food and rent.
I really didn’t care. I wasn’t very materialistic. I was the man of the house. I was raised in a Christian house and my mom has Christian rules and Christian morals. Material things, clothes and things like that, are the least we should worry about, because when we go to heaven, we’re not going to have any of those things, and we’re not going to worry about them.
Right now, my dad is in prison. I really don’t know why, but what they told me is that they found him with a big amount of drugs.
I looked up to him. Half of my morals I got from him. He was a hard-working man, sweet and kind, and he had a good heart. If anybody on the block needed food or money or anything, it didn’t matter if he had to pay bills the next week, he gave it to them.
He’s been locked up for the past four years in upstate New York. I don’t know where exactly. I visited him two years ago. That’s when I got the courage to be the man of the house, because no one else was present at the time.
I was an honor student until I got to high school. Unfortunately, I started hanging out with the wrong crew, and education-wise I started going downhill. I started cutting class. I was having all of these personal issues, family issues. School at the time wasn’t the last thing in my head, but it wasn’t as important as wrestling and work. Work at the time was a duty. I had to work, because if I didn’t, there wouldn’t be food on the plate. Wrestling is just my passion.
I’m into freestyle wrestling. It’s been my passion since I was little. I started when I was 8. I like the adrenaline. I love the attention and I love seeing the smiles. The sport at first seems brutal and the people violent and unprofessional, but when you train for it, you learn that it’s all about finesse and precision and that it’s a very serious sport. There’s also acting involved. They call me Vargas. I’m part of a tag-team called SPIC. It’s an acronym for Spanish Political International Cartel.
I want to be a professional wrestler. I make $40 an hour with SPIC, but it’s only one show a month and I still need another job. I have that dream to take my wrestling to an arena in Manhattan or somewhere big. My other goal is to get enough money to buy a center where anyone who’s interested could train for free, to give back to the community.
Recently, my aunt bought a house down in Kissimmee, Fla. My mom decided to move there because everything is cheaper down there and it’s more economical. I decided to go in April because it was better for me educationally and to help her out, because she needed a man of the house. I came back after a month. It’s a nice place, but it’s not my home.
I’m staying with my sister right now. She’s helping me out, but in a way I’m helping her out too. She’s 23 and she’s a single mother; she has a 6-year-old and a 2-year-old. She works nights at the front desk of a hotel in Manhattan, so I baby-sit and she gives me like 20 or 40 bucks. Tomorrow she has to go work, so she’ll leave at 5 or 6 p.m. and I’ll pick up the kids from day care, take them home, feed them, bathe them, whatever.
I’m looking for a job. I’m really good with my hands, so I’m looking for a job in maintenance or something like that. I’m trying to go back to high school, but since I already left this year, I didn’t finish the year because I was officially discharged, so going back now would be a total waste of time. Either I take the G.E.D., which I really don’t want to do, or I go back to Florida and try and get my own place and finish school there.
I could make a novel out of my life. I don’t even know what I would call it, but my life has been crazy, let’s put it that way.
Brady, Emily. "I Had to Work, Because if I Didn’t, There Wouldn’t Be Food on the Plate." The New York Times. The New York Times, Web. 3 Nov 2009.
This kid inspires me because i wonder how hard it must be to be the man of the house and working hard to feed his family.
In this unit, our final project is to make our own podcast. This unit is important to us because all teens have different views and opinions so it is a
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