Sunday, November 30, 2008

Thanksgiving

What are you thankful for this year?
I am thankful for my family because they have showed how much they love me and because I know that my family will always be there for me. I’m thankful for my parents because they have done so much for me and my sister to give us a good life and had taught us so many good things for life.

1. fix my storyboard
2. read more articles about the water in Imperial Beach.
3. make schedule of the things I'm going to do when I get back to school.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

H2O Project

What are you discovering so far?
something that I have discovered so far is that there are many organizations that help animals that have been affected with in our water here in San Diego. I think that is really cool that people actually like taking care of our animal. Another thing that I have discovered is that in Mexico there is a River that has been affecting our beech in Imperial beach because the river in Mexico has been treaded like if it was a trash and all of that if affecting our animals.

What surprises you about this project?
Something that surprises me about this project is that there is a lot of animals that need our help because of us not taking care of our beaches. Now that i know that it can affect our animals i have to extra careful and try not to trash our beaches and take care of them. Another thing that surprised me is that we are willing to use school hours to go interview people or do whatever we got to do outside of school and i though that was really nice for the teacher to do.

What re your next steps to have a cool product and a great piece of writing?
My next step is to interview people from different nature centers and talk about what they do to help the animals and how they try to clean the water. Another step I have to do is take pictures because I'm going to make a photo essay and write mini paragraphs about each picture.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Blog 1#9

As we all know that Barack Obama is our new president elect of the United Sates of America. If you wonder what race were the one that made Obama win? “Obama received more than 90 percent of the African-American vote and three-quarters of the Hispanic vote”1 I believe that this happed because people did not want to go through the same thing because McCain was trying to follow Bush’s steps. People were ready for an change that’s why most of African Americans and Hispanics voted for Obama. “The Americans have surprised themselves and the entire world when they voted for Barack Obama to become the first black president in the history of America. By electing Obama, the US has sent a message of hope and optimism to the entire world. The message was that change has come”2

sources:
1: http://www.christianpost.com/article/20081110/survey-blacks-hispanics-forged-bulletproof-alliance-in-election.htm

2: http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/columns/world/10258908.html

examples of products

I choose this video because it’s a good example of how we want to make our video to look, professional and in good quality. In the video below it’s basically asking to help the animals that need to be rescued.



In our video we want to send a message similar to that. We need our beaches to be clean and provide more room for natural habitat. I also chose this video because it has really good editing and its professional looking and that can help us to make our video nice and neat. We are going to make our video as a documentary instead of just pictures like in the video you just watched.


This is another example i want to use because this is how my partner and i want to construct our video.I think this is going to be a really helpful video as an example even though it has nothing to do with our video what so ever we will obviously talk about our topic. I also liked how this was edited and has an example of a voiceover and uses pictures. We want to use that in our documentary.




Links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EYocy_DN60
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3AqWliYZNk

Sunday, November 2, 2008

H2O Project questions

Question 1: How does water qualities effect the animals onshore in Imperial Beach?

For this question I’m thinking to write about the affections on the animals onshore in Pacific Beach. I plan to give a list of animals that have had effect by the water quality. I also want to talk about the quality of the water that effects the animals.

http://www.longbeach.gov/health/organization/eh/water/water_faqs.asp
http://www.slc.ca.gov/Division_Pages/DEPM/DEPM_Programs_and_Reports/Shell_Mounds/pdf/3-8geowaterbio.pdf


Question 2: What can we do to help make Imperial beach clean for the animals?
For this questions I'm going to talk about the affections on the animals that live in Imperial beach. I also want to mention about programs that are trying to help the beach to make it cleaner and safer for the animals.

http://www.ci.long-beach.ca.us/health/organization/eh/water/default.asp
http://www.longbeach.gov/health/organization/eh/water/water_samples.asp
http://www.polb.com/environment/water_quality/default.asp