IMED Final Video

Here is the link for our final IMED Video
"A Day in the Life of Aisha"
The members of our group are Aisha Khan, Gladys Varghese, and Ady Martinez

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJlRQ-36nrY&feature=youtu.be

Graduation Invitation Video

Here is the YouTube link to my Graduation Invitation Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUdDnczpn9o&noredirect=1

Capstone Presentation Display

    This is my Capstone Presentation display. My colors were gold, brown, and green. To aid in the presentation of my Capstone Project I used my laptop to display my website, and my iPad to display my PSA. The light gray binder contained my end product, while the black binder contained my paper and articles used during research. My board served as an attention grabber and short synopsis for those who wished to have a general overview of my project. The bottom corner displayed my bookmarks, which were available for people to take. The apples, small books, and candies helped the overall appearance of my presentation.
   Overall I had a great Capstone presentation experience. The judges were very nice and asked great questions. The actual process of presenting was not as difficult as I thought it would be.

Website

Here is the link to my website

http://adyelizabeth7.wix.com/integrityinwriting

Capstone Presentation

The day of my presentation, I plan to have the following visual aids present:
 
   -My Poster displayed on an easel
   -A Tri-fold displaying various statistics and graphs supporting my project
   -An iPad displaying my ad/Prezi
   -A laptop displaying my website
   -Various bookmarks for the judges/people who wish to learn more about my project
   -A bowl of apples
   -Cookies (individually wrapped) with a tag containing a mini version of my poster and my name
   -My table will have a table cloth (either yellow or brown)
   -A pen/pencil holder, a stack of books, a notebook, a ruler, and other props that would give it a
    classroom feel to the table set-up.

More ideas to come...

Capstone Ad

   This is the advertisement for my Capstone Project. I am currently having trouble with the Screen Recording program, so for right now it is still in Prezi form. As soon as I am able to record the screen and have to video ready I will post it.

http://prezi.com/xobslm4jx1sc/integrity-in-writing-a-teachers-guide-to-plagiarism/

**Update***

This is the Prezi after it has been made into a video using QuickTime.
(However, the quality is not the best, I will find a way to fix this.)

Dr. Manes Vist

Although I already know what my Capstone project is and how go about it, I found Dr. Manes visit very helpful. What I did learn was that there is Capstone tutoring on Saturdays; I might just take advantage of that resource soon! Another thing that I did not know is that our service learning has to tie into our paper.  I am glad that he came to talk to our class so that other students had the opportunity to ask him questions.

PSA

The key points that my PSA will emphasis are mainly not plagiarizing and some consequences that plagiarizing may lead to.
Images of the learning environment and other educational material are appropriate elements to include in the video. Audio elements are yet to be decided upon.
Preferably I will use a PSA modeled after The Girl Effect (i.e. more words based than skit based).
The outline of the PSA is yet to be determined.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTniIcv4mPI

   This PSA is a great example of what I wish to accomplish through my PSA. It has images the correlate with what the speaker is saying and everything in it ties back to plagiarism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyEr04c5nuM

   This video contains good information and statistics concerning plagiarism; however, the background music and images do not pertain to the topic at hand. They are distracting and do not correlate with the topic. 

Website Outline

For my website project the following pages will be used...

1. A home page welcoming people and a short introduction to my project.
2. A research page containing all of the sources used, as well as subjects used in my research.
3. An essay link will be provided. Here page viewers can read my essay. This section will also contain a link to the teacher's guide that will be produced.
4. A link to video/animations that help explain my project will be available in this section.
5. Finally all other information will be provided here, such as why this project was conceived as well as why it was produced.

Hopefully this outline will paint a picture, however vague it may be, of what my website will look like.

Thoughts on Poster

     My Project is an academic project, however since the end product will de designed for an Elementary school environment , there needs to be a serious, yet playful, feel to the poster and the overall project. Initially I had thought of a blue and gold color scheme, however that, along with the majority of the poster design, is still up in the air. Neither a quote nor any graphic design aspects have been decided upon yet. An easel would probably be the best option for displaying my poster. 

My Capstone Project

   I am an English Major, eventually I want to go into teaching. My Capstone project deals with the way plagiarism is taught in schools. Since second grade english, every teacher that I have had has spent more than the necessary amount of time explaining plagersim and how we can avoid it; after 3 years of the same lesson, even the student who sleeps through class knows what it is, and after 10 years of the same lesson, that same student could probably recite verbatim what the teacher is going to say. I have proposed that every 5th grade teacher spend a predetermined amount of time (3-4 weeks) per school year teaching his/her students the Do's and Don't's of plagiarism. My topic has been approved by the Capstone committee.
     My final product, what I would actually present to the judges, is a Teacher's Guide to Plagiarism. This Teacher's Guide will lead the teacher, class by class, in what activities they will do with the students during the predetermined time. Lesson plans will be provided in the guide, as well as projects and other productive ideas.
     What I hope is that eventually middle and high school teachers will not have to spend so much time talking about plagiarism because their students have already been instructed upon the subject, this will allow more time in the class room for greater instruction.
   

Poster Research (When Creating a Poster...)

According to stanford.edu, the top five elements to keep in mind when creating a poster are...
     1. The overall attractiveness of the poster
     2. Making sure the work is well-organized
     3. The poster is self-explanetory (i.e. can stand on its own without explanation)
     4. Careful in linking text and imagery so that the poster flows well
     5. The poster must be appropriate to the audience at hand

According to  the poster below represents the criteria listed above. The poster was voted to be one of the best posters of 2012, by flavor wire.com.

As you can see the poster is of a movie named V.H.S. Although I haven not personally seen the movie, I can infer that it is a horror movie. The attractiveness of the poster comes out when one realizes that the skull is actually formed by the arrangement of V.H.S'. The position of the V.H.S' also ties in to the organization of the poster. The transition of the light, white, color closer to the top of the poster, help the eye transition to the bottom of the poster, which contains the title of the movie. Because the arrangement of the V.H.S. is in the form of a skull one can infer that it is a horror movie (criteria number 3). The audience was well linked in its creation and is appropriate to the audiences that enjoy horror movies.


CItes Used...
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/cgibin/drupal_ual/OO_research_opps_SURPSResources.html

http://collider.com/top-5-posters-2012-ken-taylor-olly-moss/