Week 11 Stars

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This week my huge capstone paper was due Thursday so I put all of this off until Friday.. 0/10 do not recommend. I’m exhausted. Anyways, I chose 3 really cool assignments and kind of ran with them! I chose to incorporate my capstone into these stars by creating the Tell Me Something I Don’t Know assignment & reporting on food allergies in the classroom! I chose the “report” theme on iMovie & pretty much summarized my paper. I also included links and references if anyone wanted to go see them. All of this research and putting everything together was a TON of work so I made it a 5 star assignment if anyone else felt like taking it on. You can see it here:

Next I found the 4 star Self Documentary assignment & ran with it! The creator mentioned documenting our favorite place to vacation, so I put together a picture montage of my trip to St. Thomas with my family. If you’ve never been there you HAVE to go; it’s perfect. I used iMovie’s “playful” theme for the captions, freesound.org for the intro and exiting music, and recorded a voice over on my phone. It was a lot of work but I’m proud of the result! Check out my cute kid & see the final result here:

Lastly, I did the Saving Junk to Save the Earth assignment. You guys… I’m not crafty. What was supposed to be a cute video turned into a pathetic fail. I used iMovie to edit my video & got my idea from youtube. I used only materials that would be thrown away (except the tape.) Watch my attempt at getting crafty here:

Since my character (Manny) is a nanny I tried to make all of them relevant to his profession! The report on food allergies will help him deal with food allergies if the kids he watches ever has them! Th St. Thomas video emphasized how awesome it is for kids, so this could help him figure out a place to take the kids on vacation. Lastly, the reduce, reuse, and recycle video shows that crafts are NEVER as easy as they seem & help bring some of the struggles to light. This way he knows to try crafts himself before he does it with the kids & to be totally prepared!

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Eco-friendly PSA

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For my first assignment I decided to channel my character Weather Woman and help push her eco-friendly agenda by creating a “5 Easy Ways to be More Eco-friendly in Your Everyday Life”. I adapt the Save the Earth by Saving Junk assignment (4 stars) by switching reusing old objects to general environmentally friendly practices.

I used OpenShot to edit this video. I recorded all the videos myself and the guitar background came from freesound.org. In the radio show, Weather Woman did a small segment on this environment. I decided to build on that and create a PSA to give people five simple ways to be more environmentally friendly. This is very representative of her ideals and could appear as a small segment on the news channel she works for. It’s also something that good appear as an ad on Facebook or any other social media platform. The five tips I had were: turn off water while brushing your teeth, reusable bottle, reusable bags, turning off the lights when you leave a room, and recycling. I chose these because they are simple things that people may not do, but that can really help. I also chose them because they are steps that I have taken in my own life to be more environmentally friendly. I like the message this video gives with simple images. I wish I had been able to more animation within the video, like a “X” over the plastic bags instead of moving them off the screen, but the software that I was using didn’t have a lot of extra features. Overall, I feel really good with what I did using what I had available to me.

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Saving junk to save the Earth

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Going green and saving the world is becoming trendy, but saving global resources should be permanent and go beyond a fad. Here is where you come in! Record a video of yourself doing something Earth friendly. Example: Creatively re-use supplies, find something usefull for objects that would otherwise be junk

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