The process I went through to make my Kids Matter archive/prototype breaks down into three main categories. Interviewing Sibylle Tasker from Kids Matter’s board of directors was the first main step in my process. The second step in my process came in the form of research, and the last main step was organizing and compiling the needed information and media for my final blog site. I did run into some problems, but none that I could not overcome. This project was an eye opening experience that I feel has made me more aware of the problems and issue that effect foster kids.
The interview with Sibylle was conducted for the third assignment, and really set up my final project. This interview gave me many possible topics to expand on for my final, and the three topics I used from the interview are: getting involved with Kids Matter, events for foster kids, and the importance of training and work experience for foster kids nearing age-out. I recorded the audio and video from this interview and then edited five relevant video clips for my blog site. The editing of my video was difficult, because the audio and video did not originally match up, but with some expert help from Dale I was able to make pretty good video clips. I also took several pictures from the interview, and used one of them on the blog site. To set up and explain the video clips I used several paragraphs of text to go along with the video clips.
The research segment of my process was tedious, but very important to my final blog. I used a combination of Kids Matter web pages and articles found through the UWM library databases. The three pages I used on the Kids Matter web site helped me with my sections on volunteering for Kids Matter and events for foster Kids. Two of the scholarly articles I used focused on the importance of technical training for kids in general and foster kids specifically. The other article was about a job training and placement program that has been successfully implemented in Philadelphia. This program is a great example of where Kids Matter would like to advance their training programs to.
The organizing and compiling of my research and media on my blog site was the last main step in the process. Using the Blogger site was hard because I missed the class when we went through the capabilities of the site. I was able to overcome this with help from Vicki and trial and error while making posts to my blog.
I learned a lot from this class, and specifically from working with Kids Matter on this project. The problems in the foster care system do not get enough media coverage to influence the general population. I know this because I was uneducated on the subject before starting this project. The one overlying theme that I will take away from this class and this project is that one person can make a difference. Be it through donations, volunteering your time, or volunteering your expertise everyone has the power and capability to change someone’s life.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment