Thursday, September 20, 2012

Danger of a Single Story


  1. What does it mean to have a 'single story' about a place or community?  It means to hear one story and thinks its like that for everyone where the story took place or a stereo type story.
  2. Describe a single story you have heard told about your community. What is missing from that story? How could people learn more about that community?  I heard a story about the times when African Americans were slaves and they said that most to all African Americans were slaves back then. The story was missing the parts when African Americans weren't slaves and they escaped to freedom. People could learn more about their community by getting biography's by people who actually went through it and they come look it up an trusted sites and learn more their communities.
  3. Describe a single story you have heard about another community. How did you learn that story? How could you find out more about that community?  Another story was about Mexicans and how we all snuck across the broader to the US. I read this story on a untrustable site on the computer. You could find out more about this community by different biography and true stories.
  4. How could a game let players experience many stories about a place or community?  You could make a game about their real life actions and each level change the action so they see what they actually do in real life.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

A New Year

My school year has so far been great!! My classes are okay, I don't like some teachers but I guess I'm gonna have to get use to them. I hope to accomplish being in volleyball, basketball, cheer-leading and then in soccer. I also have to have good grades to be in sports so another accomplishment that I have to have is good grades and respect to my teachers and the faculty. So those are some goals and accomplishments i want to do this year.