Digital storytelling part 2. SInce I have switched to AP Lit, a lot has changed, but not too much. Right now my classmates are doing what I did last Tri, the This I Believe/ We Video project. Since I already did that, I am doing a different form of digital storytelling. Instead of telling my own story I am recording the story of another person, or in my case two other people. I am using the StoryCorps app, which you start by selecting questions, then asking them, and the app records the response from the other person. Later, you can take/add pictures. I am very excited to see my final product. I haven't barely had any time to start due to my work schedule interfering with the time that I can meet with my story tellers and interview them. My topic is very important to me and I am doing it for my family and my friends. A lot of artwork that I have done is along the same topic as well. I have done paintings and drawings of my mother and behind her or around her, put all the things she likes to portray her as a person. My family, especially my mother, as long as a great majority of Muslims in this country have had a lot of things said and done to them just because of the religious path they follow. My digital story will be interviewing my mother and one of her friends, asking them about their lives, growing up, their children, different things they like, introducing them as people, then getting to the core by asking them about their feelings on the election, and how it has changed this country and their lives. My hopes with this piece is that it will wipe away some of the red people are seeing, so they can see that my mother, our friends, and the whole Muslim community, is a community of humans, of people just like the people seeing the red, same as the people that they live next door to, same as the people that hand their food out the window. People that love their children, they have families, they have jobs, they have favorite actors, favorite foods, favorite sports players, they have feelings, and they are existing. They deserve the right as a living being, to live a safe, comfortable,
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This week we have been working on an activity about online tracking and whether the government should intervene and regulate all the information that industries have on us. We had two articles we had to analyze and two days worth of partner notes. On the final day we took a stance on whether we think the government should step in or not. I chose the opposing side. I don't really think industries can do a lot of damage with information unless they are going to sell it to some hacker or group that is going to steal your identity. These industries have our information for profit and to cycle information and advertisements through us in attempts that we will buy their products etc... I think the word tracking just scares people but they really need to think about how much damage an industry like Microsoft could do to your personal privacy vs. the Government. Especially right now in our country, I personally would not want the government having access to more information than they need. Yes they can get that information if they really wanted but I don't think that is a smart idea. There are a lot of groups right now in our country being targeted and I would hate to see something like 1984 (Orwell) happen and to have people slowly disappearing out of the internet then out of the physical world. We spend so much of our lives online and quite honestly we are getting to a point in time where it is impossible to have less than two ties to the internet, everything is there. I know the 1984 idea is quite a jump, but it is the reality of what is going on now and to willingly give the already corrupt system complete access to all of our information may mean significant harm to others.
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