There are some things that I liked while making the Teen Life Project and there are some things that I disliked. One thing that I disliked was doing the 500 words every week but I made them the saturdays because I had a lot of home work during the school week. I didn`t liked to research on the internet but I found good information that later help in my documentary.
I also liked very much the documentaries that we saw on the school because they showed the things that a good documentary should contain like interviews, intro, body, and conclusion. The documentaries were Spelling Bee, Super Size Me, The Ground Truth, Bowling for Columbine, and another one about global warming.
What I liked about my doucumentary is that we were the directors so we came up with brilliant ideas and weput them together. I liked when I filmed Daniel when he was playing a violent video game called "Gran theft Auto San Andreas," because he was making a disaster there was a pandemonium in the game. Also when he filmed me when I was playing a sport game called "Winning Eleven 10." It was cool to make interviews because you get to know other people`s point of view.
The Teen Life Project (TLP) was a very fun experince and I learned a lot with it. It aslo put our brains to work and to come up with excellent ideas.
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Monday, March 26, 2007
How I imagine songs?
On the first song I imagine people on a car on the night watching and knowing all the history of a city. They are watching the city with their heads going out of the sun roof. However they are drinking margaritas and they are all laughing and enjoying the beatiful city. The city was like Las Vegas full with casinos and fancy restaurants. They were a man and a lady and they both had elegant dresses and they were drunk. I think they were drunk because they had won many money on the different games of the casino. The car was a huge, black limosine.
On the second song I imagine people dancing an irish dance in a a farm at night. The musicians are farmers and they are playing their tipical dance. There are also people dancing and kicking the wooden floor with their shoes. The dancers have a little straw in their mouth. There are alos kids dancing.
On the third song I imagine the rural areas of China and the farmers are picking up the crops and milking the cows in the early morning. I also imagine an old chinese singing to his grandsons the song of his ancestors.
On the second song I imagine people dancing an irish dance in a a farm at night. The musicians are farmers and they are playing their tipical dance. There are also people dancing and kicking the wooden floor with their shoes. The dancers have a little straw in their mouth. There are alos kids dancing.
On the third song I imagine the rural areas of China and the farmers are picking up the crops and milking the cows in the early morning. I also imagine an old chinese singing to his grandsons the song of his ancestors.
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
The Pros and Cons of Video Games
My next step of my International Teen Life project is to put more effects of video games on kids. For example the pros and cons of video games. First I was going to do this post in other things related to technology like ipods, cell phones, computers and their effects on kids. But I realize that I didn’t put enough information on the effects of video games on kids so to be more specific on this topic I decided to make my new post on this. Please read the copy and paste paragraph.
“In the last several years the television debate has been extended to video games, many of which involve aggression. Because the popularity of video games is relatively recent, only limited research has been conducted on its effects. However, several articles have recently reported that video games may have negative effects on children's aggression and desensitization to violence. For reactions to these studies and comments on the issue of video games and violence, AOK interviewed Richard Gallagher, Ph.D., Director of the Parenting Institute at the NYU Child Study Center.”
In this page I learned that video games of violence or agression are the most buyed video games by kids. Most of the kids are able to recognize the difference between the real life and fantasy, so they see this games as pointless entertainment. But there are others kids that like the violence, which may make a kid a bad view of other people and in a tomorrow they can be agressive in their thougths, attitudes, and actions. There are some “first-person” shooting games that looks that you were the one shooting so the kid could get use to violence. This kind of games are used in the army and it helps the militaries to get used to harm others and also to aim.
One con of video games is that it influence in the academic side because if a kid plays a lot of video games it takes up time that he can spend doing homework or other things related to school. Also in this page says that a kid becomes addicted to video games because if he wons he is rewarded with something, and if he lose it is easy to start again and continue to work on the mision. A video game can have and advantage in a kid’s coordination and the ability to think fast and study a situation if this kid don’t abuse of the video game. A kid can abuse of a video game by exaggerating in the time he plays it. So the results will come out if a kid plays a video game for a reasonable time.
I think that video games are not bad but I also think that they are not so good. I said that because a video game is not bad if a kid knows how many time is enough for him to play it. A video game is also good if a kid buys games with little violence content. Video games can also be good because they make you think fast and improve your vision if you are not sp close to the television. I said that video games are not so good because if you play them very close to the television it can harm your vision. And sometimes kids get like “addicted” to it so it can take up time that you should use to do school work.
Now that I have completed my research I don’t know were does my path leads because Mr. Hide told us that this was going to be our last step of research. I think that our next step would be to finish thinking in how our documentary would be and start planning or doing it. Maybe Mr. Hide would change his mind on saying that this would be our last post and put us another five-hundred words to do which me and my friends off course won’t like that idea.Monday, February 19, 2007
How Does Video Games Affect Kid's Vision?
My next step of my International Teen Life Project is to put how does video games affect kid's health. I decided to do this post about that because I already wrote of video games and I wanted to do one of health. I also wanted to know how action video games affected the percent of a kid’s vision. Here is my copy and paste paragraph.
"Researchers at the University of Rochester have shown that people who playedIn this page I learned that playing action video games can make changes in how our brain process visual information. Some times it can make you see symbols more clearly with one eye, even though that the symbols are very closer. These improvements are made when there is a substantial raise in the spatial motion of their vision. But these improvements can be notice after just 30 hours of playing.
action video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month improved by
about 20 percent in their ability to identify letters presented in clutter—a
visual acuity test similar to ones used in regular ophthalmology clinics."
One day Daphne Bavelier, a science professor, made a test with students from college. She divided the students into two groups. One of them was the experimental group and the other was the control group. In this test both groups needed to play a video game for one hour and then they needed to distinguish a “T” that was hidden with rare symbols. The experimental group played a game called “Unreal Tournament,” an action game, and the control group played “Tetris,” a game visually less complex. After one hour the experimental group could distinguish the “T,” but the control couldn’t. Action video games can make good and bad things to your vision. The good ones are the ones from the test that I just wrote, and the bad ones are that if you are playing the game very close to the television, the light that produce the game can give eye problems and you will need to use glasses or contact lenses.
I think that the parents should know what games they should buy to their children how many hours they should play on the day. Not only if in a test they show that if you play video games it will improve your ability to distinguish objects, you need to play a lot of video games. I have some recommendations for the parents:
You should let your kid play video games, but if you see him playing a lot you should stop him.
If you buy him an action game you should be aware if your kid is far away from the T.V because it produces a lot of light that can be harmful for their eyes.
I think that amount of hours that a kid should play in a day is 1 hour in a school day and 2 hours in the weekends. That is because in the school days a kid has more responsibilities.
Now I am interested in doing my new post on what are the effects of new technology like ipods, computers, cell phones, and other things that have to do with technology, on teenagers. Another thing that I would like to do is that since many teens use the computer I can make my new post on cyber-bulling.
Monday, February 12, 2007
(Video Games)Second Part of Technology
My next step of my topic which is technology and the things related to it is to do my post about the impact of video games on children. I entered google and I put "children, “then it appeared several links and I put “Video games and children." This topic is related to technology so I wanted to know how this topic affects teenagers. Read the copy and paste to see some effects of video games.
In this page I learned that the rate of playing video games and watching television has doubled because following the statistics in 1967 the average of six-graders watching television per day was of 2.8 hours. And in the statistics of 1983 the average of six-graders was of 4.7 hours per day without counting the time they spent playing video games. This increase of rate can affect the children in health because maybe it can cause eye problems or problems to sleep because every body knows that sleeping has a huge influence in a kid’s growth.
Years ago seventh and eighth-graders had the chance to vote for their favorite video game category. The most voted category was of fantasy and violence which occupied 32% in the statistics. I also saw that that the second favorite category was of sports and other kinds of stuff that contained some violence. And this category occupied 29% in the statistics. The other 39% percent was divided into three categories, general entertainment theme, human violence, and educational content.
I also learned that there are more males that play video games than females.
I think that the rate of kids watching television and playing video games has increased because in the 1967 not so many people had a television so the one that had didn’t saw so much T.V because it did not have so many channels and sometimes the T.V didn’t worked. So when they made the voting in 1983 more people had more televisions at home and it worked better because of the advances of technology. I think that fantasy and violence was the favorite category of video games because when these kids were little maybe their parents saw with them Power Rangers or other T.V shows that contained guns and other stuff.
I also think that games with violence are the favorites of the children because they are full of entertainment and kids want to do all the things that appear in the movies and the television shows. Maybe the video games of sports are the second most favorite category because the children want to try to do the magic things that Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Messi, Maradona, and other awesome soccer players do with the ball. I think that boys play more video games than girls because they are more interested in guns and cars.
Well, I already finished another part of my Teen Life Project topic which are “The Effects of Video Games and Technology on Teenagers.” Now I a going to look or search about how does vide games affect children’s health and how does other technological advances affect teens in other ways.
“Some research suggests that playing video games may affect some children's
physical functioning. Effects range from triggering epileptic seizures to
causing heart rate and blood pressure changes. Serious adverse physical effects,
however, are transient or limited to a small number of players. Research has
also identified benefits associated with creative and prosocial uses of video
games, as in physical rehabilitation and oncology (Funk, 1993). Proponents
of video games suggest that they may be a friendly way of introducing children
to computers, and may increase children's hand-eye coordination and attention to
detail.”
In this page I learned that the rate of playing video games and watching television has doubled because following the statistics in 1967 the average of six-graders watching television per day was of 2.8 hours. And in the statistics of 1983 the average of six-graders was of 4.7 hours per day without counting the time they spent playing video games. This increase of rate can affect the children in health because maybe it can cause eye problems or problems to sleep because every body knows that sleeping has a huge influence in a kid’s growth.
Years ago seventh and eighth-graders had the chance to vote for their favorite video game category. The most voted category was of fantasy and violence which occupied 32% in the statistics. I also saw that that the second favorite category was of sports and other kinds of stuff that contained some violence. And this category occupied 29% in the statistics. The other 39% percent was divided into three categories, general entertainment theme, human violence, and educational content.
I also learned that there are more males that play video games than females.
I think that the rate of kids watching television and playing video games has increased because in the 1967 not so many people had a television so the one that had didn’t saw so much T.V because it did not have so many channels and sometimes the T.V didn’t worked. So when they made the voting in 1983 more people had more televisions at home and it worked better because of the advances of technology. I think that fantasy and violence was the favorite category of video games because when these kids were little maybe their parents saw with them Power Rangers or other T.V shows that contained guns and other stuff.
I also think that games with violence are the favorites of the children because they are full of entertainment and kids want to do all the things that appear in the movies and the television shows. Maybe the video games of sports are the second most favorite category because the children want to try to do the magic things that Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Messi, Maradona, and other awesome soccer players do with the ball. I think that boys play more video games than girls because they are more interested in guns and cars.
Well, I already finished another part of my Teen Life Project topic which are “The Effects of Video Games and Technology on Teenagers.” Now I a going to look or search about how does vide games affect children’s health and how does other technological advances affect teens in other ways.
Saturday, February 10, 2007
First part of Technology
My topics for the Teen Life Project are things related to technology. Technology has many things but I wanted to get started with the internet. In Goggle I put “effects of technology on teens,” and saw some articles about technology on teens. As I read I understand that school is the place were more teenagers use the internet. Read the copy and paste to see the statistics.
I think that technology has good and bad effects on teenagers all around the world. Some good effects are that it is a good source of information and you can use it to do projects, home works, or other things. I also think that people should not use internet to see inappropriate content because many statistics say that in the last years the average of teenagers using the internet for this bad things that are not for their age. Teenagers are also using the internet to see videos of violence or terrorism. Some videos such as tortures that show many blood and crazy people that do not think in others than him. I also think that spending many times in the computer can damage your vision and you would need to use eyeglasses or contact lenses.
Now that I already kind of finish my first part of my Teen Life Project topic with is technology, I am going to search about other things related to it such as ipods, cell phones, television, and other things. I hope that for the next part of this project I would found the right and much information about my topic. I would try to put information like how does ipods affect teens or how television affects them.
Mr. Hide I didn’t linke to other pages because I didn’t remember how to do it.
The most recent Pew Internet Project survey finds that 87% of all youth betweenI learned so many teenagers are using the internet at school to do homework, reports, projects, e.t.c. But many kids are doing copy and paste in their homework and the teachers in their schools are getting programs to find out if a kid is cheating or not. In my school if a teacher finds out if you are doing copy and paste you would received a suspension and a zero percent on your project or home work. But I believe that in schools that have low resources don’t have does programs to detect plagiarism. Other thing that I figured out on the internet is that many kids are using internet to see inappropriate contents like pornography, violence or other things that aren’t appropriate for their age. I also learned that kids are staying more time at their house in the computer chatting in messenger or hearing music for a very long time than knowing what is happening in the outside world or playing outside with their friends.
the ages of 12 and 17 use the internet. That translates into about 21 million
people. Of those 21 million online teens, 78% (or about 16 million students) say
they use the internet at school. Put another way, this means that 68% of all
teenagers have used the internet at school.
I think that technology has good and bad effects on teenagers all around the world. Some good effects are that it is a good source of information and you can use it to do projects, home works, or other things. I also think that people should not use internet to see inappropriate content because many statistics say that in the last years the average of teenagers using the internet for this bad things that are not for their age. Teenagers are also using the internet to see videos of violence or terrorism. Some videos such as tortures that show many blood and crazy people that do not think in others than him. I also think that spending many times in the computer can damage your vision and you would need to use eyeglasses or contact lenses.
Now that I already kind of finish my first part of my Teen Life Project topic with is technology, I am going to search about other things related to it such as ipods, cell phones, television, and other things. I hope that for the next part of this project I would found the right and much information about my topic. I would try to put information like how does ipods affect teens or how television affects them.
Mr. Hide I didn’t linke to other pages because I didn’t remember how to do it.
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Favorite Hangout Places
I want to answer a question that I read on the Teen Life Project and it was made by Tyler and Dustin from Mr. Fisher’s class. The question was what are your favorite hangout places? My favorite hangout places are Campito 2010, Mc Donald’s, Otoyal, Andres´ house, and others more. I chose this four because there are the main ones.
My friends and I go a lot to the campito because we love soccer. Two months ago we won a tournament at this field and it was called the UEFA Champions League. We were the Real Madrid and we played the final against another team called Manchester United. We won 4-2. The 1, 2, and 3 places received medals, and the winners received a replica of the champions’ cup and a CD player. There were other prizes like a soccer ball to the best player of the tournament, a soccer ball to the kid who scored the most goals and soccer gloves for the best goalkeeper. We go almost all weekends to the Campito 2010.
We also go a lot to Mc Donald’s to eat and to hangout with our friends. Before almost all Friday plans were to go to Mc Donald’s. Mc Donald’s is places were all the teenagers join and meet other people. Sometimes when we are on the cinema and the movie ends we go to eat to Mc Donald’s. The best things that I like in Mc Donald’s are it French fries and it ice creams. My favorite ice cream there is the Sundae which almost every Sunday I go and eat it after church. When I go to eat I eat a Mc Tocineta with French fries and coke.
Another place that we usually go is the Otoyal. It took this name because the owner’s last name is Otoya. The Otoyal is a restaurant were they sale hamburgers, hot dogs, French fries, and meat sticks. They also sale bread because it is also a bakery. The hamburgers of this place are very very good and the hot dogs too. As I said with Mc Donald’s, the Otoyal is a center of teenagers too. For me the best bread comes from the Otoyal.
Andres house is another place were we and my friends usually hangout. You would ask why I chose a friend’s house as a hangout place. Well, before almost all the weekends we went to this house because Andres has some soccer goals and we do tournaments which are very fun. He also has a PS2, Wii, and a computer so we are never bored on his house. Some fun PS2 games are Winning eleven 10, Tony Hawk underground 2, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, and Metal Gear. Some fun games of wii are Wii Sports, Zelda, Call of Duty 3, and Trauma Center. We play soccer on his patio but when the cars of his parents are parked there or we ask them if they can move it, or we play on the street since that street is not so bussy.
Well, I already answer this question now is your time to answer it.
My friends and I go a lot to the campito because we love soccer. Two months ago we won a tournament at this field and it was called the UEFA Champions League. We were the Real Madrid and we played the final against another team called Manchester United. We won 4-2. The 1, 2, and 3 places received medals, and the winners received a replica of the champions’ cup and a CD player. There were other prizes like a soccer ball to the best player of the tournament, a soccer ball to the kid who scored the most goals and soccer gloves for the best goalkeeper. We go almost all weekends to the Campito 2010.
We also go a lot to Mc Donald’s to eat and to hangout with our friends. Before almost all Friday plans were to go to Mc Donald’s. Mc Donald’s is places were all the teenagers join and meet other people. Sometimes when we are on the cinema and the movie ends we go to eat to Mc Donald’s. The best things that I like in Mc Donald’s are it French fries and it ice creams. My favorite ice cream there is the Sundae which almost every Sunday I go and eat it after church. When I go to eat I eat a Mc Tocineta with French fries and coke.
Another place that we usually go is the Otoyal. It took this name because the owner’s last name is Otoya. The Otoyal is a restaurant were they sale hamburgers, hot dogs, French fries, and meat sticks. They also sale bread because it is also a bakery. The hamburgers of this place are very very good and the hot dogs too. As I said with Mc Donald’s, the Otoyal is a center of teenagers too. For me the best bread comes from the Otoyal.
Andres house is another place were we and my friends usually hangout. You would ask why I chose a friend’s house as a hangout place. Well, before almost all the weekends we went to this house because Andres has some soccer goals and we do tournaments which are very fun. He also has a PS2, Wii, and a computer so we are never bored on his house. Some fun PS2 games are Winning eleven 10, Tony Hawk underground 2, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, and Metal Gear. Some fun games of wii are Wii Sports, Zelda, Call of Duty 3, and Trauma Center. We play soccer on his patio but when the cars of his parents are parked there or we ask them if they can move it, or we play on the street since that street is not so bussy.
Well, I already answer this question now is your time to answer it.
Monday, January 15, 2007
Sports Maniac
Hi, my name is Juan M, I have 13 years old and I am in seventh grade at Colegio Jorge Washington of Cartagena, Colombia. I have two brothers older than me and I also have many friends. My school starts at 7:00A.M and it ends at 2:30P.M. My seventh grade teachers are Mr. Hide and Ms. Hall. My favorite sport is soccer and for me I play it very well. I like to play other sports like baseball, basketball, ping pong e.t.c. The things that I do when I am with my friends are to go to the Campito 2010, a mini soccer field, and play soccer with my friends, to go to Mc Donald's, Otoyal, Crepes and Waffles, and other restaurants. Some times we go to the closest theatre to see a movie. I am in the school’s soccer team as some of my friends and every year we have some tournaments with schools from other cities. We tournament called Binational Games were we go to another city for about a week to play sports. We have to recesses at school. The first one starts at 10:15A.M to 10:45A.M and in this recess we play. The second recess starts at 12:40P.M to 1:00P.M and in this recess we eat and sometimes we play.
When I grow up I want t have a good job were I earn a good amount of money. A job where I feel good working. Some jobs that I have in mind are an engineer or an arquitect.
Here are some issues that I chose for me English project:
· Drugs and Alcohol: Younger people are consuming a lot of alcohol and drugs. This can influence more kids to consume it because some are seen it daily.
· Environmental: The causes of the global warming are smog burned fuels, smoke from factories, burned trash, etc. This can affect us later with the melting of the ice on the poles which cause higher sea level. The increasing of the sea level can affect cities build near the ocean.
· Crimes: Some people are making many crimes like stealing, corruption, murders and these are damaging cities. For example, if someone wants to build a bridge so he give an specific amount of money to the bridge builders. The chief of the builders takes half of the money to himself and the other half is use to buy cheap materials to build the bridge. Because the bridge is going to be made by cheap and bad materials, when the bridge is built it may damage soon.
New things for my intro:
Technology: It wil affect us in the future in good and bad ways. The good ones are that the things are going to be faster and easier to do because new machines can be able to make you stuff in seconds so you don´t need to be in a hurry. And the bad ones are that some persons are going to loose their jobs because new machines are going to do their job.
When I grow up I want t have a good job were I earn a good amount of money. A job where I feel good working. Some jobs that I have in mind are an engineer or an arquitect.
Here are some issues that I chose for me English project:
· Drugs and Alcohol: Younger people are consuming a lot of alcohol and drugs. This can influence more kids to consume it because some are seen it daily.
· Environmental: The causes of the global warming are smog burned fuels, smoke from factories, burned trash, etc. This can affect us later with the melting of the ice on the poles which cause higher sea level. The increasing of the sea level can affect cities build near the ocean.
· Crimes: Some people are making many crimes like stealing, corruption, murders and these are damaging cities. For example, if someone wants to build a bridge so he give an specific amount of money to the bridge builders. The chief of the builders takes half of the money to himself and the other half is use to buy cheap materials to build the bridge. Because the bridge is going to be made by cheap and bad materials, when the bridge is built it may damage soon.
New things for my intro:
Technology: It wil affect us in the future in good and bad ways. The good ones are that the things are going to be faster and easier to do because new machines can be able to make you stuff in seconds so you don´t need to be in a hurry. And the bad ones are that some persons are going to loose their jobs because new machines are going to do their job.
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