Web Presence: GLAAD and GLAAD BLOG
-These particular websites are a good source for adults who are advocates for Gay Rights and Equal Rights.
-I liked this particular website because it has a blog within the website.
-GLAAD is a great source for news, calendars, events.
Social Media
Twitter is a great way to reach the mass amounts of people across the world and allow them to get involved!
Humor: Lizzy The Lezzy Cartoons One and Two
- These cartoons are a humorous take on equal rights. It takes a large, serious issue and makes light of it while still getting the importance of equal rights out. This is a great way for people who like to be humorous, but still take the issue seriously to maybe share these with others who also enjoy humor.
Celebrity Influence in Multimedia
-NOH8 is one of the biggest Gay Rights/ Equal Rights campaigns in the United States. It is a silent protest with a lot of familiar faces.
-Celebrities have a huge influence on the world because they can reach a mass amount of people.
-GIVE A DAMN is a celebrity web presence filled with multimedia videos such as public service announcements that try to bring everyone together to take a stand for equal rights.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Tutorial: Unit 2
Tutorial Unit 2: How to take your story to your audience via a presentation tool
Step 1: Play with different presentation tools, get a feel for what works for your story
-Prezi
-PowerPoint
Step 2: Pick a tool that best tells your story
-What is easiest/ most effective way to tell your story
-What works best for your story?
Step 3: Start creating your story in the form of the presentation tool you choose
Step 4: Present a draft to your peers in your group for help/feedback.
Step 5: REVISE, REVISE, REVISE! Grow and add plenty of pictures
-Be sure to have at least 18 to 20 slides, but it is likely you will need more than that for your story.
-Be sure to have 10 or more multimedia pieces such as pictures, charts, videos..etc
WAIT! Before you turn in your final draft make sure your story has:
1. Narrative Coherence:
-Does your story move effectively? Flow smoothly? Nicely organized?
2. Communal Relevance
-Is this interesting to your audience? Can your audience members relate? Does it make them want to do something?
3.Authentic Voice
-Do you have your own voice? Is it different from those of your class members? Does your audience know it is you?
4. Proximity
-Is your presentation grouped together into appropriate sections?
5. Alignment
-Are your screens organized? Are your pictures and words aligned?
6. Repetition
- Does your question, them hold throughout? Repetition of a question or action?
7. Contrast
-Do colors of screens and fonts stand out?
Step 6: Final for now presentation to class for more feedback
Step 7: Turn in :)
Have fun!
Step 1: Play with different presentation tools, get a feel for what works for your story
-Prezi
-PowerPoint
Step 2: Pick a tool that best tells your story
-What is easiest/ most effective way to tell your story
-What works best for your story?
Step 3: Start creating your story in the form of the presentation tool you choose
Step 4: Present a draft to your peers in your group for help/feedback.
Step 5: REVISE, REVISE, REVISE! Grow and add plenty of pictures
-Be sure to have at least 18 to 20 slides, but it is likely you will need more than that for your story.
-Be sure to have 10 or more multimedia pieces such as pictures, charts, videos..etc
WAIT! Before you turn in your final draft make sure your story has:
1. Narrative Coherence:
-Does your story move effectively? Flow smoothly? Nicely organized?
2. Communal Relevance
-Is this interesting to your audience? Can your audience members relate? Does it make them want to do something?
3.Authentic Voice
-Do you have your own voice? Is it different from those of your class members? Does your audience know it is you?
4. Proximity
-Is your presentation grouped together into appropriate sections?
5. Alignment
-Are your screens organized? Are your pictures and words aligned?
6. Repetition
- Does your question, them hold throughout? Repetition of a question or action?
7. Contrast
-Do colors of screens and fonts stand out?
Step 6: Final for now presentation to class for more feedback
Step 7: Turn in :)
Have fun!
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Narrow Streets, Narrow Minds
Taylor and Alexis live in a small town of roughly 1,000 people. The town can be driven in one mile and has a railroad that is parallel to the road you travel on. The town's people are just as narrow-minded as the street that guides you through it. Taylor and Alexis both come from big families and hope to have one of their own someday. They share a loft above the local market that Taylor's father happens to own. Their home smells of fresh fruit because they are given free produce from the market before it goes bad. They both have full time jobs, like most successful young couples who are saving for a life together. They both hold jobs serving their state and community. Taylor is a high school English teacher who volunteers at every school dance, fundraiser and meeting. Alexis is a supervisor in the Traffic Engineering Department of the local state office.
They both are members of their local Baptist church and attend every Sunday morning and Wednesday night. They walk into church from the back, down the isle to the corner on the right where they sit every visit. Eyes meet them each and every time they walk in as if they're walking down the isle in marriage, which they will never be able to do. The room goes from quiet to a room filled with mumbles and whispers like clockwork until they reach their seats. Sitting in the front they feel the eyes of the people that glare at them from behind as they feel out of place, like new comers in town. Through the laughs and the whispers and stares they think to themselves, "This is church and they say only God can judge, right?" Alexis and Taylor are both females who are not able to marry in the very church they pray in each Sunday. They volunteer their time at church plays and events, but do so separately because it is frowned upon they be together. They are members of the community and do more for it than the ones who make them feel unwanted. They are never invited to community or church activities. They are denied the right to marry, but also denied the comfort and safety of their community.
They are just like every other couple; better in some ways. They've started a college fund for their children that they may not be able to adopt and most children of male/female relationships do not even have college funds. Their house is paid off and they donate money to the church that can do nothing for them in return.
How can you be so unwanted in a town that you do so much for? How would you feel if you couldn't go to church or the grocery store without being stared at and talked about by your neighbors? How would you feel if you were denied the right to marry because your partner wasn't of the opposite sex?
How can you treat people differently because of who they choose to love? How would you feel if every single day was a fight for what you wanted? How would you feel if the easiest feeling in the world, to love, was challenged simply because of who you choose to be with?
Imagine...
-not being able to be yourself with your family because you are scared they may not accept who you are.
-being afraid to go to school or work everyday because your co-workers or other students treat you badly.
-being kicked out of your home because of the person you choose to love.
-being judged by others, not by your character, but by your sexuality.
-being fired from a job or kicked out of a team or group because they do not accept you.
-thinking you have no one to turn to
-being alone in a world that is against you.
They both are members of their local Baptist church and attend every Sunday morning and Wednesday night. They walk into church from the back, down the isle to the corner on the right where they sit every visit. Eyes meet them each and every time they walk in as if they're walking down the isle in marriage, which they will never be able to do. The room goes from quiet to a room filled with mumbles and whispers like clockwork until they reach their seats. Sitting in the front they feel the eyes of the people that glare at them from behind as they feel out of place, like new comers in town. Through the laughs and the whispers and stares they think to themselves, "This is church and they say only God can judge, right?" Alexis and Taylor are both females who are not able to marry in the very church they pray in each Sunday. They volunteer their time at church plays and events, but do so separately because it is frowned upon they be together. They are members of the community and do more for it than the ones who make them feel unwanted. They are never invited to community or church activities. They are denied the right to marry, but also denied the comfort and safety of their community.
They are just like every other couple; better in some ways. They've started a college fund for their children that they may not be able to adopt and most children of male/female relationships do not even have college funds. Their house is paid off and they donate money to the church that can do nothing for them in return.
How can you be so unwanted in a town that you do so much for? How would you feel if you couldn't go to church or the grocery store without being stared at and talked about by your neighbors? How would you feel if you were denied the right to marry because your partner wasn't of the opposite sex?
How can you treat people differently because of who they choose to love? How would you feel if every single day was a fight for what you wanted? How would you feel if the easiest feeling in the world, to love, was challenged simply because of who you choose to be with?
Imagine...
-not being able to be yourself with your family because you are scared they may not accept who you are.
-being afraid to go to school or work everyday because your co-workers or other students treat you badly.
-being kicked out of your home because of the person you choose to love.
-being judged by others, not by your character, but by your sexuality.
-being fired from a job or kicked out of a team or group because they do not accept you.
-thinking you have no one to turn to
-being alone in a world that is against you.
What Can I Do?
What can you do? There are plenty of organizations out there, local and national, that stand up for equal rights and you can make a difference.
1. Give A Damn Campaign
2. NOH8 Campaign
3. West Virginia University BiGLTM
1. Give A Damn Campaign
2. NOH8 Campaign
3. West Virginia University BiGLTM
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
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