4-11-12

Everyday you learn something new. Throughout my whole life I have never been much of a magazine person. I like many people have a smart phone, and in the non-default browser that I use I found a special section for online magazines. The first time I used it I figured it would be a bit dumb and pointless, the way I felt about magazines at the time. It turns out I was completely wrong. I like technology stuff and in the webzines I found several websites with all kinds of articles that I actually cared about and wanted to read. The main 3 were Lifehacker, Techcrunch and Wired. Eventually the webzine function was removed from the browser app due to a security issue, witch I ironically found out about through those webzines. It would be really great (at least to me) if things like that made it to print and were sitting in lobbies. I wouldn't have to read Time Magazine all the time. At least I finally found a magazine style form of media that I actually want to read.

 "Shoot for the Moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the Stars" - Les Brown

4-9-12

Everyday you learn something new. Our group has finally had our meeting with our contact, Terry Laaker. He gave us a lot of information that was very intriguing and helpful. He told us a lot about the people who tag, how they are mostly just artist trying to get their work out and many of them are young. He told us about the art of graffiti, and the history. From all the information we gathered from him we have a lot more to work with now, but it also appears we have taken the wrong approach. We should have worked more towards the idea of art and legal graffiti, instead of pushing anti graffiti. Its good that we have more information and a better understanding now, but we have to undo a lot of what we've done, starting with our website. At least we have been given more time on the project to do so. It also gives us more time to start creating a great presentation. The end of April will come up before we know it, so we need to get this done soon.
 "Shoot for the Moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the Stars" - Les Brown

4-4-12

Everyday you learn something new. Today in Language Arts we got back our research papers. I've been a bit excited/anxious, even though I had pretty much forgot about that paper. I got a 12.5 out of 16. At first glance that seemed really bad, considering it was around a C, but I feel a bit better after understanding that this is a "rough rough" draft, and that I have done well compared to my peers, and out of those who I read, I though they were good. Some of the things that are noted in the edits/revisions on my paper I do not nessecarily agree with, but I don't know everything, and will probably find that what I think is wrong. I do think that the APA template didn't help, because even though I used it along with many people I know, our average grade was probably barley more than a 2 out of 4. I also think that we were led away from good formatting (based on the presentation) by BibMe. The BibMe formatting was much different from the APA formatting in the presentation. I am a bit excited to go over my paper with the teachers, but also a bit nervous because I already know we will disagree about a lot of things.  

 "Shoot for the Moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the Stars" - Les Brown

4-3-12

Everyday you learn something new. Things with my group are still going extremely well. Everything has fallen into place. Our website, www.evograffiti.weebly.com is all written, we just need to finish putting up our research paper. I have talked to Terry Laaker and we are meeting on Thursday. I have also spoken with Lydia Odem and handled our supplies and clean up date schedule. The flyer has been designed. We do still need to post it though. We also need to get our video going if we are still going to do it. Next week should be a lot of work our presentation. I'm glad to see that we went from being the group that seemed a little behind to being almost done.

 "Shoot for the Moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the Stars" - Les Brown

3-30-12

Everyday you learn something new. Today was a very good day for our group and project. We contacted the City Of Phoenix to get approval on our clean up, and found out that they were going to give us materials as well. This is great because we can now assign the people who were in charge of materials to other tasks. With this new amount of resources things should come together pretty quickly. I am very excited to see what will happen next week once things are up and running after the weekend. We have several communication actions to make on Monday so it should be an efficient day. I can wait to see how all f this goes.

 "Shoot for the Moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the Stars" - Les Brown

3-28-12

Everyday you learn something new. It seems that our project is coming together pretty well. Everything iss up and running its mostly just making this better that we still need to do. We d need to start the video soon, but I think that we will have that covered next week. I think we need some more work done on the actual clean up dates though. It seems to be the one unknown. The awareness is going well, but the actual clean up is not moving forward at all. Hopefully we can get that going next week too.

 "Shoot for the Moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the Stars" - Les Brown

3-26-12 (Makeup for 3-16-12)

Everyday you learn something new. I guess since I'm writing this right after spring break I should probably blog about it. I did a lot of camping over the break witch was really fun. I rediscovered my love for it, and thought about why I hadn't gone in so long. It was mainly due to the fact that I had become very busy and finances hadn't permitted until this last week. It's pretty interesting thinking about how society and human life moves so fast. For me It's nice to slow down, but I think a lot about all the things I want to do. I wonder if other people experience this too. I also thought about why people don't like camping, as I had been talking to a friend who didn't. Maybe it is just because people are too stuck to their electronics and comfortable luxuries.  
 "Shoot for the Moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the Stars" - Les Brown