Friday, May 14, 2010

Post Trial Reflection
Please post this entry to your blog no later than 11:59:59pm tonight.

1. Summarize the facts of the case, as presented by the prosecution. Include relevant witnesses and testimony.

2. Summarize the facts of the case, as presented by the defense. Include relevant witnesses and testimony.

3. What was the most significant piece of evidence, in your personal opinion?

4. What was the most significant argument made, in your opinion?

5. What do you personally believe the correct verdict should be? Do you agree with the jury? Why or why not?

Then, in a final paragraph (or in a private email to me), complete the following:

I think I deserve a ___ out of 50 points because..... I did the following things very well.... because.... I could have done better at .... by.....
Posted by randell scherer at 8:08 AM

Thursday, April 22, 2010

BLOG 15

Semester DOS, Blog #15
Many aspects of our modern world can be traced wholly or in part to World War 2 and it's aftermath. Take a look at the following list and select one section that interests you most. Write a blog entry in which you explain why it interests you, what you already know and what you hope to learn about it in the near future. Optional, but highly encouraged: post pictures, images, and links to helpful resources.

A partial list:

* Technology (like nuclear energy)
* International organizations and agencies (like the UN)
* International agreements (like the Geneva Convention)
* Modern ideas of war & war crimes (hint: Nuremberg Trials)
* Postwar rebuilding (hint: Marshall Plan)

Blog due at 11:59:59 pm tonight!

Monday, April 19, 2010

blog 14

Answer each of the following, and cite statistics or sources wherever appropriate:

1. What are the most interesting aspects of World Wars 1 and 2?

2. What do you hope to learn about these wars?

3. How/Why are these wars important today? How do they impact and/or inform our world today? hint: think about alliances, democracies around the world, cultures, international institutions, nuclear (and other) technologies, etc.

This blog is due at 11:59:59pm on Tuesday 4/20.

Monday, March 15, 2010

GOW

3. Describe how the balance between specific stories about the Joad family and broader description of the migration of Dust Bowl farmers impacts the novel as a whole.

the joad family was represented all of Americans that left there homes, the struggles that many family's encountered, some got through it some didn't. many family's barely surviving to eat, and not having enough money to go on to California. the justice system was corrupted at the time, the police would do things for money. jobs were being cut, people doing everything they can to keep there jobs. money was almost worthless. searching for work no matter the condition. surviving is difficult enough but surviving it sane is incredible.

Your response will need to have:
X1. An answer to the question, as evidenced by a straightforward thesis.
XX2. Organization, as evidenced by topic sentences that further develop the thesis.
XXX3. Support for your points, as evidenced by thoughtfully selected pieces of direct evidence from the novel.


Please post your complete, revised, and thoughtful response by 11:59:59pm on 3/16/10.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

blog 10

Richard Ramirez
Photo Essay

Before we walked in not a building or offices we see but a small white house next to a fire department. The house seemed empty, we didn’t know what to expect. I thought we were going to be doing house work. I thought to myself, “What did I get myself into”. I walked up the front porch, pushed the door bell, expecting that I got the wrong directions. My classmates opened the door, I was in luck, and I didn’t receive the awkward “hello”. I took one step and turned my head to my right and saw a row of computers lined up. As I pondered to myself about what this place was about, I assumed I would be stationed at one of these computers. We all sat down, waited for someone to tell us what was going on. A young lady came down no older then 24, greeted us with a big HELLO, my name is Belinda welcome to the Media Arts Center San Diego. Sharing smiles and our names with each other, she gave us a brief explanation of what we would be doing for the next three weeks.

As we took a tour of the house, I saw a poster of the San Diego Latino Film Festival, a notorious film festival known throughout San Diego. I was afraid to ask why they had this, so I stayed quite. This struck me most, my mind wouldn’t let this go maybe they had some sort of sponsorship. As she walked us around showing us things we would be using, and what programs we have used. In the back of my head, I was still thinking about that one poster and the many more I saw as we continued our walk around the room. I was fascinated with this poster, curious if we were going to have anything to do with the San Diego Latino Film Festival. I asked the question. To my surprise, they were the founders; I was excited, but with a blank face and said “oh”. I didn’t want to show my reaction but I knew this was going to be an interesting experience.

It was big, it was flat, and it was the biggest computer/TV I had ever seen. This place had the most electronics in one house that I had ever seen, I felt like I was in Best Buy. Every electronic device could be found here. Though this computer was slow it was just cool to use, we thought we were so cool watching documentaries, and playing YouTube songs. We didn’t know what this computer was used for at first but Belinda said it was an old computer that they only used for meetings. Commenting in my head about everything she said about the computer, I wouldn’t have mind taking it home if they didn’t use it. The room looked old yet kept clean in an antic fashion, from the old oak wood floors to the locks on every door that looked like it could be from an old castle. This was the best room so far, it was a kitchen with a refrigerator, microwave and most importantly of all, a bathroom with a walking of 4 steps. This room had it all; I was nothing less then ready to get started, with anything thrown my way.


At last the day had begun we all gathered down stairs in our new so called offices aka The Kitchen. Working on a table that took up the entire room, with enough space for one person walk one way why another waited for him to get through so they could. As we worked on the Mac pros, being in a kitchen our first thoughts were when are we going to eat and what are we going to eat? Skeptical with what was around this area, other than the 7 11 across the street we were at a lost. Getting insider information, we heard there was a good taco shop downs the street, we decided later to check it out. Before we went out for our hunt of food, we had to go receive our tasks.


The stairs of no return we called them, every step was a pound on our hearts intimidated to walk up felt like it took forever. Every step our it felt like our feet got heavier and heavier and the stairs got longer and longer. However long it took us to get up this stairs we didn’t know where to go next, in confusion of who to talk to or what to do we went as a group at first. Knowing that they were going to assign us all something different going in the group was the best idea. Naming out tasks that had to be done I was able to call out what I wanted to do before anyone else. Though the walk up the stairs were intimidating at first, as time went on it got easier. It was like walking up the stairs was not a punishment but a reward because we were going down the stairs it was exciting to get the work done and ask them if there was more for me to do.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

blog 9

Walking into the room i saw my mentor, stressed and irritated with all the work they she had to do, yet calm while listening to her music sooth her mood. wearing glasses and biting on the pen with tasks on her mind. As i got ready to sit down, she moved her paper work of her desk and set her arms on the table with a glare of anticipation and ready to answer any question coming towards her.

1. How did you come across the Media Arts Center of San Diego?

I came across MACSD while I was looking for a job while I was I was attending Cal State San Marcos. I was looking through our career services website and found this place listed there.

2. Knowing that it was a Non- Profit Organization did you know what to expect?

Before working here I had worked for non-profits before so I did now that it would be a lot of work.

3. Before the Media Arts Center what did you work before?

Before working at MACSD I was a research assistant for a for profit company in San Marcos, CA. I worked on an environmental project for Keep America Beautiful, which entailed extensive researching the environmental and smoking laws of 21 cities through out the US, then actually traveling to those cities and doing field observations. And filially compiling the data and getting it ready for data analysis.


4. Is Media Arts Center the job you thought you would end up at?

I am fresh out of college and I want to work in the media industry, so right now it is a great fit. I have learned a lot of valuable skills that I will be very useful for my future career goals.

5. What did you want to do when you were a teenager?

When I was a teenager I wanted to be a fashion designer and or an artist.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

blog8

Internship #14: Wednesday, January 27
Post a portrait of your mentor. Use this photo to artistically display qualities & characteristics of your mentor, his/her work, biographical details, etc. Consider what is in the foreground, background, what is visible, what can be read (on a name tag or on a wall, etc.). Simply from looking at this portrait, we should glean valuable information about your mentor.

Below the portrait, post your mentor's full name, his/her job title, company and location.

The, post the highlights of your mentor interview. This should be three to five questions and their answers.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

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Internship #13: Tuesday, January 26
For this blog entry, you will need to post three pictures with captions. Choose which prompt you'd like to follow:

Choice 1. Post three pictures that show a specific "perspective" of your internship—this could be taken to be a client or customer's perspective, a physically unique perspective (maybe the worm's eye shot is a metaphor for life as an intern! or a bird's eye shot is the view of the CEO?), or maybe you have a better idea for how to use perspective to shed new light on your internship.

Pic one.
in his photo is where students from san diego and other people of the community come in and use the equipment to make there digital stories and work.

Pic two.
is a small sample of what there known for around san diego.

Pic Three.
is the stairs to there offices, showing where they work in house rooms.

Monday, January 25, 2010

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Internship #12: Monday 1/25
Hey everyone, this is a two-part blog entry, so be sure to do both:

Part 1: Documenting collaboration


Post photos of collaboration at your workplace—this may be people working together or the result(s) of people working together.

Part 2: Writing about collaboration

i directly work for three people. depending on what i am doing each day is who i report to.
i work with four other students from high tech high. we work with each other well communicating with each other. seeing that work is getting done, they seem to be more or less impressed or surprised.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

blog 5



So much technology

questions...

1. Where do you live?
2. are you always stressed?
3. do you see yourself working here in the next 5 years
4. Is your work fun?
5. what do you need to do to work for Media Arts Center San Diego?


Internship #10: Thursday 1/21
Hey everyone, this entry is a three-parter, so make sure you do all of them.

First, post a picture that sums up your day (make sure you get permission for the pic!).

Second, post a caption in which you use the pic to get into a discussion the following: What new questions has your internship inspired you to ask about our world? What has it made you wonder about? What are you moved to go out and do or learn about on your own time?

Third, post at least five possible questions that you'd like to ask your mentor (or other important coworker) in your upcoming interview. Your questions should be based on yesterday's blog post. If you did not do yesterday's blog post, then you should do it as background for this post

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

blog4

Time to think about your mentor interview!

My mentor grew up in Escondido, she started last year. she travels every day from Escondido, she like her job al though it can e very stress full it is still fun and in a good environment, she seems to being doing a lot of work for the company, but work is work and you need to do the work to get paid to be able to survive in the real world.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

blog 3

What new appreciations (for who? of what?) have you gained through internship that you did not have before? How did you develop these appreciations?

New appreciations i have all for everyone that i have worked with so far, they all have there duties, most never seem to eat, because time is precious and deadlines need to be met, eat while they work they never seem to have a break. They still have energy to do everything they need to do

Friday, January 15, 2010

blog 2

For our final project we will be creating a digital stories on anything we choose. i am going to do a story on my experience here and to show how every here works hard even though there isn't enough space or money.

Internship site: Media Arts Center San Diego
Department:N/a
Project Title:Digital Stories
General Description:Documentary
Learning Objectives: Self reflection
Organization/Company Objectives & Benefits:
Schedule:8 am - 2PM
Academic Skills:
Technical Skills:Orginization and deadlines
Collaboration—Skills and Opportunities: Photo shop,Blitv, Kintera,
Exhibition Plans: Show Documentary
Schedule & Timelines:

Thursday, January 14, 2010

blog 1

My mentor lives in north county, while driving all the way south she seems to still enjoy her job and have fun while doing it. listening to very relaxing music doing work to get the job done to make sure that everything is working correctly.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Intership 5

Internship projects, continued!

Please refer back to the past two blogs. Can you answer all of the questions? If yes, that's great! If not, then use the first part of this blog entry to tie together any loose ends.

Okay, now that you have done that, please complete the following:

Project title:Digital Storie
Project description: Creating a digital storie of events or transions in our lifes
Project schedule: Last week of imersion
Materials & Equipment needed: Video Camrea
Project documentation: How will you keep track of your work? How will others know about it? What will you have to show when internship is over? Please note that some internship projects cannot be fully documented for legal reasons or because of organizational regulations (i.e., if you are working on an ongoing case at a law firm or working on a project that will receive a patent, etc.).

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Intership 4

Keep brainstorming internship projects!

Remember, an internship projects is a coherent work experience, work sample or collection of experiences and samples that are relevant, useful and meaningful to the company and you.

Answer the following questions to help develop your project:

1. What academic skills could you use on the job?
Spell checking things that are miss spelled
2. What forms of collaboration could you use in a project?
a collarberation i can do is some type of history with my digital storie
3. What technical skills can you use at your internship?
my experiences with certian programs
4. What new things can you learn while working at your site?
How to make sure that things get done, and that it is all correct
5. How can you exhibit, showcase or otherwise share your work?
With my next project, Digital Stories about experinces working there.
6. How can your work or your skills & abilities help your company or organization?
Another helping hand, its a non profit orginization so a useful helping hand is alwasy good.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Internship #2

What have you actively done to start off on the right note?
Being polite, Completing the work assigned quickly and correctly.

What have you actively done to advance the interests of your mentor and/or site?
Updating the website so it doesn't have certain defects.

What can you do in the immediate future to improve yourself and your experience in the above areas?
When i start the new project to expand my view on what i just see and think of my intership but get some ideas from the actually workers to see what this job means to them, and how much work they put in to make it successful.

Monday, January 4, 2010

Internship #1

Post your pictures from Brandon's photo assignment with captions that describe what we are seeing. For each photo, write a few sentences to describe the scene, people and share your initial ideas.

Next, post your questions & answers from Sarah's economics & life class.

Will the economy effect my Internship site?
- no my internship will not be effected because they have many people always giving them grants every month or so.

Have people been laid off at my internship site because of the recession?
- No one has been laid of at all

1. When did you wake up?
At 5 am
2. What did you have for breakfast?
Hot Pocket
3. How did you get to internship? How long did it take? How did it go?
Ride, it took about 25 mins, it went well.
4. What did you do when you first arrived at internship? Who did you see? Who did you talk to?
Introduce my self, i saw my mentor first. I didn't really talk to any one.
5. Where do you work (in the company, in the building, etc.)? What is your area like?
I worked in the kitchen, its basically my office. The building is an old house, that looks like its been around for a while.
6. What did you do for lunch?
walk across the street to the taco shop
7. What did you do during the afternoon?
In the afternoon i did some more website editing
8. What type of work do you see yourself doing in the next few days?
Some more website editing and making a digital story later on in the week
9. What do you feel prepared to do? What do you think you'll do well?
Anything they show me once to do ill be ready to handle, the website editing
10. What are you going to need to learn to succeed at your internship?
To get the work done with my free schedule
11. What makes you excited about working there?
Its a professional environment with a laid back touch to it
12. What makes you nervous about working there?
Nothing really, just excited to get more into the week
13. When did you get home? What was your afternoon/evening commute like?
I got home around 4, the ride was long and tired

Friday, January 1, 2010

Intership 3

Post your project ideas here!

Projects should be coherent collections of work samples and/or work experiences that are relevant and meaningful to both you and your company.

Answer these questions to get started:

1. What skills would you like to develop at your site?
Working habits in the office, priortizing
2. What interests do you have regarding the work done at your site?
Editing and oginizing work together
3. What needs can you address (needs your mentor has, your company has, etc.) based on your skills and interests?
To get work done,its a free enviorment but teaches us how to manage time and work

Post the project ideas tonight!
A project i am doing is A Digital Stories