New Media: Technological Format
New Media Final Project: Reflection
Laura Arango Ochoa
Have you ever wondered what would be out lives without technology? Well, I did, and I got a clear conclusion that changed my entire perspective about new media. After my investigation made in the essay and the comparison with other articles regarding social media and its negative and positive effects on society, I developed my main claim: New media should not be criticized because it’s the main reason why the current era is so highly advanced and everything in the world seems to be working faster than it was before. In my final project, I decided to transfer my essay into a creative video, which could serve as an inspiration and motivation to society into start using internet responsibly by knowing background information about the negative effects that it can cause if there is an excessive or wrong use, but at the same time, know all the positive effects that can bring to society and how the world can use in advantage to grow economically, politically, and socially.
The first step of the project was the creation of the essay, where I used multiple sources from class and my own to express my claim about social media. The process was long because after investigating, I had to create a pre-write and two drafts based on the feedback I received. The second step of the project was the translation from a written essay to a physical interactive video in Powtoon, where I had to summarize the main claim and points, and expressed them in a video of animated cartoons. The result of these two steps was a video posted on the internet for all the world to see, and a physical essay for my classmates to read and get background information of the video. The essay and the video relate to each other because they both try to express the same idea in different formats and they both include the same sources by following the same order. The differences are quite notorious because they are in different formats and they look different at first sight. The essay is an in-class project where I used up to four sources, which can only be reached by my classmates and teacher. The new media format is a video posted in the internet for all the world to see, that can attracts lots of attention by being visually entertaining. Basically, although both formats share bases and information, they can differentiate because they follow a different process due to they fact that each of them have a different purpose on society.
The development of the essay and the video had both difficulties and pleasures. At first, the essay was not as interesting as the video, and making it entertaining for the readers was really complicated because I did no had as much opportunities as I did on the video. Although the conversion from my thoughts to paper was long and confusing, I got the chance to express all my thought without having a limited space, and I had the opportunity to include as much sources as I could to provide a clear idea. During he creation of the video, the difficulties appeared when I had to concentrate in a deep thought: How can I change a written essay into an interesting video that people are willing to watch for a certain amount of time without getting bored? The complications did appeared when I realized that the creation of the video was ironic, because while I was criticizing media, I was using it to present my ideas, just like I expressed in my essay about it being useful for school manners and spread information. The only other problematic was limited time that I had to summarize the essay into a video and the fact that I could not use too much text so that it would not become boring. In comparison to the essay, the video had more pleasures such as th fact that it attracts more attention based on its level of entertainment, and it teaches people how technology can be useful if its used correctly for school manners. In conclusion, the creation of these two formats was complicated, but the result was useful for society and it proved the point about the positive multiple uses that technology can provide.
Laura Arango Ochoa
Have you ever wondered what would be out lives without technology? Well, I did, and I got a clear conclusion that changed my entire perspective about new media. After my investigation made in the essay and the comparison with other articles regarding social media and its negative and positive effects on society, I developed my main claim: New media should not be criticized because it’s the main reason why the current era is so highly advanced and everything in the world seems to be working faster than it was before. In my final project, I decided to transfer my essay into a creative video, which could serve as an inspiration and motivation to society into start using internet responsibly by knowing background information about the negative effects that it can cause if there is an excessive or wrong use, but at the same time, know all the positive effects that can bring to society and how the world can use in advantage to grow economically, politically, and socially.
The first step of the project was the creation of the essay, where I used multiple sources from class and my own to express my claim about social media. The process was long because after investigating, I had to create a pre-write and two drafts based on the feedback I received. The second step of the project was the translation from a written essay to a physical interactive video in Powtoon, where I had to summarize the main claim and points, and expressed them in a video of animated cartoons. The result of these two steps was a video posted on the internet for all the world to see, and a physical essay for my classmates to read and get background information of the video. The essay and the video relate to each other because they both try to express the same idea in different formats and they both include the same sources by following the same order. The differences are quite notorious because they are in different formats and they look different at first sight. The essay is an in-class project where I used up to four sources, which can only be reached by my classmates and teacher. The new media format is a video posted in the internet for all the world to see, that can attracts lots of attention by being visually entertaining. Basically, although both formats share bases and information, they can differentiate because they follow a different process due to they fact that each of them have a different purpose on society.
The development of the essay and the video had both difficulties and pleasures. At first, the essay was not as interesting as the video, and making it entertaining for the readers was really complicated because I did no had as much opportunities as I did on the video. Although the conversion from my thoughts to paper was long and confusing, I got the chance to express all my thought without having a limited space, and I had the opportunity to include as much sources as I could to provide a clear idea. During he creation of the video, the difficulties appeared when I had to concentrate in a deep thought: How can I change a written essay into an interesting video that people are willing to watch for a certain amount of time without getting bored? The complications did appeared when I realized that the creation of the video was ironic, because while I was criticizing media, I was using it to present my ideas, just like I expressed in my essay about it being useful for school manners and spread information. The only other problematic was limited time that I had to summarize the essay into a video and the fact that I could not use too much text so that it would not become boring. In comparison to the essay, the video had more pleasures such as th fact that it attracts more attention based on its level of entertainment, and it teaches people how technology can be useful if its used correctly for school manners. In conclusion, the creation of these two formats was complicated, but the result was useful for society and it proved the point about the positive multiple uses that technology can provide.
Student Sparknotes
Saving Zanaih
Laura Arango Ochoa
Ella. It was an unique name in her planet, only the saviors had it, the people who were
considered to have an opportunity to save their planet, Zanaih. People in Zanaih were characterized
fro being extremely good looking and they all had unique characteristics that made them different
from the people on Earth. On her 28th birthday, Ella was ready and she had everything prepared for
her journey. She was leaving her planet in the most technological spaceship ever created. She
investigated and planned her trip as long as the ship was traveling and getting into Earth.
When the spaceship finally arrived to earth, Ella got out of the ship and saw the amazing
landscape in the which they had arrived in. She got out and she went into the city where she could
start looking for the people to make deals in order to get peace between earth and Zanaih and save
her planet from any danger, specially any attacks. Ella was alone in the mission, she did not had any
help or any people from her planet that could help her. In other words, she was the only hope for her
planet.
When she arrived to the most important building in town, where some of the most important
people in Earth worked, she saw many people who looked at her in a weird way. People of Earth
were obsessed with their physical appearance, they did not had any feelings, and to Ella, they all
seemed really ignorant. In Zanaih, Ella had always been great and had always had her own light that
followed her and made her look amazing. When people saw this and saw her good looks, they were
really jealous, specially the women because Ella was being the center of attention inside the
building and she was the direction in which all the eyes went to.
Ella was finally getting into the elevator until a group of women took her and started hitting her
by trying to scratch her face. Everybody united against Ella because they were all scared about the
fact that a person from another planet was in Earth territory. Ella felt weak, people started calling
the police and the firefighters just because they all wanted her dead.
"Stop it, please, I'm another human being just like you, I'm not a bad person! Just let me explain...," said Ella.
She felt scared and she cried for help. Out of the sudden, three robots came into the building. People in Zanaih had heard her prayers and had sent their true form robots into Earth in order to help Ella and save her life. The robots made everyone scared and the people immediately stopped fighting against Ella. When the fight was over, two people came out of the elevator and got impressed about what was
happening. It was Mr. Gold and Mrs. Mills. They most important people in the entire world, together, they controlled Earth. They yelled at everybody and made them apologize to Ella and her robots.
Mr. Gold exclaimed, "What are you doing? Who do you think you are? She's another human being, just because she looks better than most of you, it doesn't mean that you should punish her."
"You should all be ashamed of yourself, you are all in this social problem bubble which only
makes you think about yourself and does not let you be openminded," agreed Mrs. Mills.
Ella stepped up and whispered to her robots, "It's time, we had found the ones that can helps us
get peace."
Ella and her robots made their way into the elevator accompanied by Mr. Gold and Mrs. Mills.
They made their way into the biggest office in the building. Mr. Gold and Mrs. Mills seemed like
really nice people to Ella, but that was something that not everybody noticed back in Zanaih.
"I would like to start this negotiation with an explanation, I just want my planet to be safe and
we do not want any more attacks from you," said Ella.
"Sure, but what is the problem exactly?" argued Mr.Gold.
"Well, our planet is really small and when the people from Earth send ships to investigate us and
attack us, it really affect us."
"It's true, we are not bad people, we do not cause any harm, you should not attack us anymore,"
commanded one of the Robots.
"Some of those problems we did not even knew that were happening, we are truly sorry. So, ehat
are you expecting us to do?" remarked Mrs. Mills.
"Just stop sending all this ships to attack us, we'll welcome you whenever you want, just don't
kill us!"
Mr. Gold promised, "We will make sure that everything go as you want to, we will not attack, we
will be visitors. Only if you are okay with that arrangements."
"Deal!" cried Ella and the robots at the same time.
As the contracts were being signed, Ella sent an email to her planet announcing the news.
Zanaih's president, Mr. Rumple, used his tele-transport machine and arrived to Earth in less than a
second. He seemed really happy and exited about the amazing news and he was ready to go back to
their planet to announce the changed that were going to be made.
Ella, the robots, and the president quickly gave their thanks and got into a spaceship. Mr.Rumple used some of his tele-transport machine powers and got the spaceship to Zanaih in less than a second. They all rushed out of the ship and saw all the people waiting for them while they acted on a celebration mood. The city was decorated and everything looked really nice. Everyone screamed Ella's name and everyone wanted to talk to her, after all, she was the new celebrity. Mr. Rumple gave Ella a hug and he gave her awards. Firsts, he gave her a huge home where she could live with the robots. Then she received an award from the entire planet, and as last, she received her very own spaceship in her favorite colors, Pink and White. Out of the sudden, a man appeared next to Ella. It was James, the love of her life since she was little. James got on his knees and pulled out a small box.
With tears on his eyes, James requested, "Ella, will you marry me?"
"Off course I will, James, I love you!" Ella and James kissed and while everybody looked and clapped at them. Everyone seemed happy
and surprised because everything happened in less than a day, and Ella was the new famous savior for being able to accomplish the goal of saving Zanaih in such short notice.
Ella. It was an unique name in her planet, only the saviors had it, the people who were
considered to have an opportunity to save their planet, Zanaih. People in Zanaih were characterized
fro being extremely good looking and they all had unique characteristics that made them different
from the people on Earth. On her 28th birthday, Ella was ready and she had everything prepared for
her journey. She was leaving her planet in the most technological spaceship ever created. She
investigated and planned her trip as long as the ship was traveling and getting into Earth.
When the spaceship finally arrived to earth, Ella got out of the ship and saw the amazing
landscape in the which they had arrived in. She got out and she went into the city where she could
start looking for the people to make deals in order to get peace between earth and Zanaih and save
her planet from any danger, specially any attacks. Ella was alone in the mission, she did not had any
help or any people from her planet that could help her. In other words, she was the only hope for her
planet.
When she arrived to the most important building in town, where some of the most important
people in Earth worked, she saw many people who looked at her in a weird way. People of Earth
were obsessed with their physical appearance, they did not had any feelings, and to Ella, they all
seemed really ignorant. In Zanaih, Ella had always been great and had always had her own light that
followed her and made her look amazing. When people saw this and saw her good looks, they were
really jealous, specially the women because Ella was being the center of attention inside the
building and she was the direction in which all the eyes went to.
Ella was finally getting into the elevator until a group of women took her and started hitting her
by trying to scratch her face. Everybody united against Ella because they were all scared about the
fact that a person from another planet was in Earth territory. Ella felt weak, people started calling
the police and the firefighters just because they all wanted her dead.
"Stop it, please, I'm another human being just like you, I'm not a bad person! Just let me explain...," said Ella.
She felt scared and she cried for help. Out of the sudden, three robots came into the building. People in Zanaih had heard her prayers and had sent their true form robots into Earth in order to help Ella and save her life. The robots made everyone scared and the people immediately stopped fighting against Ella. When the fight was over, two people came out of the elevator and got impressed about what was
happening. It was Mr. Gold and Mrs. Mills. They most important people in the entire world, together, they controlled Earth. They yelled at everybody and made them apologize to Ella and her robots.
Mr. Gold exclaimed, "What are you doing? Who do you think you are? She's another human being, just because she looks better than most of you, it doesn't mean that you should punish her."
"You should all be ashamed of yourself, you are all in this social problem bubble which only
makes you think about yourself and does not let you be openminded," agreed Mrs. Mills.
Ella stepped up and whispered to her robots, "It's time, we had found the ones that can helps us
get peace."
Ella and her robots made their way into the elevator accompanied by Mr. Gold and Mrs. Mills.
They made their way into the biggest office in the building. Mr. Gold and Mrs. Mills seemed like
really nice people to Ella, but that was something that not everybody noticed back in Zanaih.
"I would like to start this negotiation with an explanation, I just want my planet to be safe and
we do not want any more attacks from you," said Ella.
"Sure, but what is the problem exactly?" argued Mr.Gold.
"Well, our planet is really small and when the people from Earth send ships to investigate us and
attack us, it really affect us."
"It's true, we are not bad people, we do not cause any harm, you should not attack us anymore,"
commanded one of the Robots.
"Some of those problems we did not even knew that were happening, we are truly sorry. So, ehat
are you expecting us to do?" remarked Mrs. Mills.
"Just stop sending all this ships to attack us, we'll welcome you whenever you want, just don't
kill us!"
Mr. Gold promised, "We will make sure that everything go as you want to, we will not attack, we
will be visitors. Only if you are okay with that arrangements."
"Deal!" cried Ella and the robots at the same time.
As the contracts were being signed, Ella sent an email to her planet announcing the news.
Zanaih's president, Mr. Rumple, used his tele-transport machine and arrived to Earth in less than a
second. He seemed really happy and exited about the amazing news and he was ready to go back to
their planet to announce the changed that were going to be made.
Ella, the robots, and the president quickly gave their thanks and got into a spaceship. Mr.Rumple used some of his tele-transport machine powers and got the spaceship to Zanaih in less than a second. They all rushed out of the ship and saw all the people waiting for them while they acted on a celebration mood. The city was decorated and everything looked really nice. Everyone screamed Ella's name and everyone wanted to talk to her, after all, she was the new celebrity. Mr. Rumple gave Ella a hug and he gave her awards. Firsts, he gave her a huge home where she could live with the robots. Then she received an award from the entire planet, and as last, she received her very own spaceship in her favorite colors, Pink and White. Out of the sudden, a man appeared next to Ella. It was James, the love of her life since she was little. James got on his knees and pulled out a small box.
With tears on his eyes, James requested, "Ella, will you marry me?"
"Off course I will, James, I love you!" Ella and James kissed and while everybody looked and clapped at them. Everyone seemed happy
and surprised because everything happened in less than a day, and Ella was the new famous savior for being able to accomplish the goal of saving Zanaih in such short notice.
I Just LOVE Chocolate
I had always loved candy, either sweet or tart
Specially, I love chocolate based on the sensational flavor
Chocolate is special, it can be black, brown, or white
Chocolate is just lovely, it brings me a delightful sense to my taste
It is as yummy as a banquet, falling from the sky
Chocolate just makes me feel happier every day
It is like the thought of heaven that I have in my mind
Chocolate can be in liquid form as a smooth river
Or in a solid form like the pencil I write with
Chocolate is not only delicious, it can also be compared to life
My life is a box of chocolates, I never know what will come next
Chocolate can feel really light either chilly or warm
Truly, it is the most amazing food in the entire universe
Chocolate will always be there sending me signals, to eat it back again.