youthvoices

During my time visiting and using the Youth Voices website, I realized that I contributed a lot of my work. Every time we finished a project or editing a picture, we would write on Youth Voices and share our work with the whole environment. For example, we learned about famous artists and how their work connected to ours. Once we completed our research, we were ready to submit our final work to the Youth Voices website. 

A really easy task to do on Youth Voices is finding the post that you want to find. There is a search engine along with keywords so it's really easy. Joining a lot of groups and seeing posts in that group is also really helpful. I feel that having a lot of groups is really organized and having work stored in certain locations is quite easy. 

In my opinion, the hardest struggle that I encountered on Youth Voices would be finding all sorts of templates or forms that we had to use. This website is really organized yet it can be very confusing at some points. Overall, this website is easy to navigate and know your way around.

Overall, i feel that i am doing good with my work.  I am taking many pictures and exploring many aspects of my theme (nature).  I feel that my photos have changed in appearence since the first day in this class.  In the begining of the year, my photos were really plain and 'lifeless', now they are striking and more clear.  Now my photos actually show my theme in a more clear way.  I feel that as the year goes on my photos will be even more better than they are today because I will learn more techniques to make them look even more striking!  

I feel that my photos can relate to many other photographers pictures.  I think this because as i browsed through Flickr and Youth Voices group i came across many photographers that took striking photos. 

Being the winter season is just around the corner, I think that my photographs taken in this time will depict another side of nature in New York City.  

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Many students want to join youthvoices but cannot becuase in the process of creating an account, they have to join a youthvoices group but cannot becuase they do not have a group to join. I made this screencast in Technology class, so that students who cannot join youthvoices are able to create an account by joining the students 2.0 group. This screecnast teaches them how to send a request and then create an account while becoming members of the students 2.0 group. I hope this will help you join this group!

This is the Design Specification from which my screencast was developed. If I suceeded in doing so, then my screencast should fulfill the reason, requirement and constrants in the screencast. 

This is a tutorial screen cast on how to create an account on youthvoices, and how to use the site for educational purposes (discussion post:

http://www.screencast.com/users/afsharm/folders/Jing/media/335b18f8-7c21...

This is the Design Spec:

http://www.screencast.com/users/tokac/folders/Default/media/f3ef49b6-e92d-4357-88d1-03807add3615

This screencast teaches people how to sign up for youthvoices. It is a detailed video where I explain the steps and sow the viewer the screen as I proceed.

Design Spec:

To be honest, even as much as I hate writing and posting them on my blog, I had improve my writing skill.

My experiece with YouthVoices this year has been pleasant.

My friend on Youth Voices posted that she was going to do her project on Animal Cruelty and she posted why she wanted to do her project on Animal Cruelty and I  can connect my reasons of why m

Twitter, youthvoices and friendfeed are similar but at the same time different.

Overall, the main use of social networking sites is to stay in touch with now and old friends. Sometimes even family.

    I am not always informed or amused by some posts. Sometimes they seem pointless and not important. Some of the posts of youth voices are pretty cool and interesting. They keep me reading. If a post has a picture then it would be a little more interesting too. With a picture relating to the topic you can stay tuned a bit and maybe relate the picture with the post.