Thursday, April 23, 2009

Group 1 Video

7 comments:

  1. That's fantastic. Congratulations. Ethelene Whitmire

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  2. Thanks Professor Whitmire!

    I just wanted to say a little bit about our video and what I, personally, did for the project. Our group really just wanted to get across the point that so many of the people who are actually most likely to be able to change/help the digital divide are college students just like us, yet they don't even know what it is! I'll admit, I had no idea about the digital divide before taking this class, and I am so glad that I have had the opportunity to learn about these really important issues. I just think it's ironic how college students are being educated to change big issues like these, yet they don't even know the basics of a very fundamental one - the digital divide. That is obviously an issue in itself and one that maybe the class will look into further in the future. For our group video, I wrote the introduction and conclusion and read them aloud for the video. I also came up with several questions to ask the random interviewees, and finally, I did some of the actual interviewing. Working on this video made me realize exactly why it's important to know about and understand the digital divide.

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  3. My role in the project was the a/v tech guy. I had a camera, and plenty of experience chopping together simple videos for Youtube, so that responsibility went to me. I held the camera during filming, then edited and compiled the clips together. I tried to order the clips in an interesting, fast-moving fashion.

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  4. Like everyone else in the group, I compiled a few questions to brainstorm while we were trying to figure out the direction in which our project was going to go. I also helped interview various people along with Valerie. My main contribution for the video was creating the slides with Nick that we integrated within the video responses.

    I believe we picked an excellent topic for our video documentary that highlighted one of the most crucial topics of the digital divide --that people are unaware that it even exists.

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  5. like the other members of the group I compiled some questions which i thought would be of value to answer. Unfortunately, I missed the last two discussions, the first due to being sick, and the last one due to being in Miami to attend an event with my dad. These time conflicts made my participation somewhat difficult, but I attempted to add value to the project via email as much as possible, and some of the questions I suggested seemed to find their way into the video. I had really hoped to be involved in the later portions of the project, with the editing and posting of the video, but Barry seemed to have a real understanding of a/v technologies, and posted the blog before I returned to madison or checked my email to see that he was going ahead and posting it. All in all, the video looks great and I am happy to be part of the group, even though I was unable to participate as much as I had hoped. I was able to evaluate some of the materials, including the intro and conclusion before the video was made, and gave my approval of these aspects, as well as adding some questions to be asked. Thanks again to the whole team for being so understanding of my absence, and the video looks great.

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  6. This project proved to me that most students here, and people in general, are oblivious to the digital divide and its harsh reality. No one that we interviewed could recall what the digital divide was and the one girl who said she learned about it had no idea either. This additionally shows the ignorance of people in facing this important issue.

    As for my contributions to the project, I wrote up some questions to be used in the interviews and made the power point slides along with Connie.

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  7. I apologize for the delayed post. From this video project it is rather clear that the concept of a digital divide is far from common knowledge. However, the underlying principles that define a "digital divide" seem to resonate in the answers given by our interviewees. The most significant thing I took away from this project was gaining perspective on the idea of access, connectivity, and informationalism from those who have not been influenced by what we have studied in lIS 202.

    For the project, I helped compose a couple of the interview questions. I also approached some of the interviewees and asked them to participate. Lastly, I briefly appeared in the video where I explained how the idea of a digital divide personally effects my life.

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