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josoundandphoto-blog · 13 years ago
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Asking questions
After coming back from the 12th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, I realized and learned a lot. We attended the “Women Forging Peace” panel and the worldwide issues they spoke about really opened my eyes up to try and make a difference. They all kept saying that the children and teens of today hold the future of the world in our hands. To know as a young woman that I can make a difference means a lot. During the Summit volunteers were walking around with note cards for those who had questions. Mine was one asked out of the many given stating, “How can we help women and children in other countries who suffer from government abuse if we have not political or government control over them?” I was very excited and proud that my question was asked. Professor Jody Williams answer stated that they slowly try to support groups in other countries that help women and children. Ms. Caryl Stern of the United Nations Children’s Fund said, “It only starts with those not looked on.”
-Jackie Berrios
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josoundandphoto-blog · 13 years ago
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Maybe we need a new lesson in history class....
I recently attended the 12th summit of Nobel Peace Laureates at University of Illinois Chicago where we listened to a panel called “Women Forging Peace”. It was my first time hearing any type of discussion on peace. And now that I think about it really strange that we’ve never talked about peace at school. How do we make the world better without talking about peace?
One of the women on the panel, Professor Jody William said, there is” nothing heroic about war” she went on to say we need to stop teaching history through the glories of war. Williams said that it’s important that we stop focusing on saying that war created a country or government but rather talk start a discussion about how we might help support people within their country to bring about change. I think she’s right and it made me think about my own history classes and all the lectures on war. The first time I remember learning about history was my sophomore year of high school. We learned about explores, the US constitution, and the Bill of Rights but mostly we learned about battles and wars. I am a little conflicted because think it’s important for us to learn about our past wars and all so we don’t make the same mistakes. But it seems to me that it’s war after just with more and better technology.
Another speaker Dr. Shirin Ebadi agreed with Williams saying we have to “re-write the history of war and change it the history of peace”.  I like her idea but I think this will hard, there still so much suffering around the world it will be hard to teach peace when there is so much civil unrest.  I think one way to create a more peaceful world is to teach children at a very young age about kindness, peace and non-violent ways of expressing themselves.
By Samantha Schelberger
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josoundandphoto-blog · 13 years ago
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Reported and produced by: Jaquelyn Berrios and Toni Castillo
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josoundandphoto-blog · 13 years ago
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While Putting together the audio slide show I learned a lot of different techniques, such as learning how to take professional photos. I also learned how to properly record sound, and finally learning how to use the software for putting both sound and pictures together. I think the hardest part was trying to make sure the pictures matched what was being said and just making sure the story remained interesting. We met Naveen on his way to work and politely asked to him, if he would be interested in letting us create a slide show on him and his business. The questions we asked revolved around us trying to get to know more about what he does.  All and all the process of creating an audio slide show was fairly easy and I would do it again.  -- Desiree Hines
This audio slideshow was produced and created by: Desiree Hines and Melissa Young
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josoundandphoto-blog · 13 years ago
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The making of Forte
Making the Forte audio slideshow was both difficult and exhilarating. It was a lot of fun. The first thing we did was find a place to interview. After we agreed on the place, a little art gallery on the corner of North and Oakley  called Forte Framing and Gallery, we had to study asking questions and create a plan on how approach the interviewee. We then set up an interview time with Jude our interviewee. The interview itself was a lot of fun. We learned a lot about framing, and how a frame can make a picture look better. Doing this interview changed how we look at art, which made us understand all the components that go into creating a frame.  One of the things we learned is the frame draws your eye into the art. After we finished the interview, we took pictures and brought the material back to the classroom. We used a program called Pro Tools to edit the sound. After that we picked all the pictures we liked and we then put the final audio and photos in a program called Soundslides. Using this software, we arranged the photos.  With this project we learned about photography, sound recording and storytelling. We also learned about framing.
By  Samantha Schelberger, Alissa McGee, and Amalia Hernandez
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josoundandphoto-blog · 13 years ago
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This audio slideshow was produced and created by: Samantha Schelberger, Alissa McGee, and Amalia Hernandez
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josoundandphoto-blog · 13 years ago
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Henry came to class!!
Photos by (from left to right) Melissa Young, Jackie Berrios, Sam Schelberger
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Spring came early to Chicago so the girls took pictures of all green and growing things.
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josoundandphoto-blog · 13 years ago
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This audio slideshow as produced by some very talented gals at Josephinum Academy.
photos by Alissa McGee and Jaquelyn Berrios
sound recorded by Amalia Hernandez
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josoundandphoto-blog · 13 years ago
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oh the place we will go....
In digital storytelling class we are putting together audio slideshows and we all have different topics. Alissa, Amalia and Sam are creating a piece on Forte, which is a framing shop one the corner of North and Oakley.
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 Jackie and Toni are putting together a piece on Jays beef which is a family owned local restaurant.
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Finally, Desiree and Melissa are working on a piece for Naveen's cuisine that teaches how to cook Thai and Indian food.  
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  In these audio slideshows we hope to incorporate the different camera angles and photojournalism techniques we learned. We will also capture the power of voice using a digital recorder and mesh the two together to have an outcome of an interesting audio slideshow.
by Desiree Hines
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josoundandphoto-blog · 13 years ago
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Photo by Melissa Young. This shot is a great example of showing patter and detail.
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josoundandphoto-blog · 13 years ago
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Photo by Alissa McGee
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josoundandphoto-blog · 13 years ago
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Photo by Amalia Hernandez
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josoundandphoto-blog · 13 years ago
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This dog's name is Spanky and this is a great example of the rule of thirds.
Photo by Amalia Hernandez.
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josoundandphoto-blog · 13 years ago
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josoundandphoto-blog · 13 years ago
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on storytelling
Some elements to storytelling
Introduce Character + Setting
The anecdote
Sequence of actions
Moment of Reflection
Why do we care?
  These are the elements of the digital elements of digital storytelling. The first element is introducing your charters in your story and making a setting for the story so one they read or even hear it the reader or listeners can picture what you are talking about. The anecdote would be putting an interesting event in the story that captures with reader/listener to your story. The third element would be having the sequence of the actions in the story based what happened in that specific and what actions occurred in the sequence. After you have the sequence of actions you have the time to have a moment of reflection of the story. You put what you think or believe based on the story. Lastly, you put why do we care about this topic and you explain what you think people should care and put what you feel about the topic.
By Toni Castillo
Using these elements Jackie Berrios wrote this following short story:
When I was ten my mom woke me up in the middle of the night, it was happening again. My name is Brittany Simon and my family is a victim of domestic violence. Every night waking up to my mom scream and yell for my dad to stop, I think finally this time she has had enough. I didn’t have time to pack my bags she had my coat in her hand telling me to put it on while she was grabbing my brother and sister.” We had to leave quickly before he comes back,” she kept repeating in a whisper. I had no idea what was going on, still being half asleep, but seeing her crying and moving so quickly I knew not to anger her, so I got up and put my jacket on. Before I knew it-- we were out the door.
My aunt was already waiting outside in her red car seeming to watch out and be aware with every car that passed by.  The next day when I woke up I was in a bed I was not familiar of and with a stench I will never forget. We were not home! I asked my mom what was going on but was interrupted with a knock at the door. A lady with long black hair, dressed in formal wear with little black shoes was at the door and asked me to join her downstairs. She asked if I knew why I was here and I gave her my guess, that my mom left my dad because he hits her. She nodded her head and told me this was true.  She told me we would stay here until it was safe for us to leave. I went days without eating, bathing or brushing my teeth. The next couple months living there would be the worst experience of my life. Flashbacks of my mom yelling for help would constantly come back. Doctors said I had PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). I live everyday trying to overcome what has happened to me in my life, but realize it will always be a part of me.
Creative story by Jackie Berrios
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josoundandphoto-blog · 13 years ago
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This photo is an example of a point-of-view shot.
Photo by: Sam Schellberger
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