Parent Empowerment Via Youth Website Project

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2009-08-13T11:25:00.000-07:00

Can't believe that these six weeks had past so fast. I had learn a whole bunch from this program. If I was asked to do this again I would have. I feel like I had achieved a lot from this experience. My working skills had got better. Know I'm 100% sure that I could get a job anywhere with the skills I gained. I dont have anything bad to say about this program.Thanks to all the people who had put this program together so we, the youth could succeed in life a lil' better.

Week 3

2009-08-07T12:00:00.000-07:00

This week as a inviduals we all have managed to work four different powerpoints. These four powerpoints are about 'How to Use Family Net' 'How to Create a Google Account' ' How to setup a Skype Accoiunt'and How to create a powerpoint itself. To be more specific my powerpoint was on 'How to Use Family Net'. In order to use Family Net you have to first make an account. Family Net is a website for parents. Parents on this website can view thier childs academic scores, the days their child has been absent and tardy. This website is very useful.

Week 5

2009-08-07T11:59:00.000-07:00

We all made videos of different things. My video is about Skype the the video show how

to make account. I used the PowerPoint and imovie. Jorge made a video about creating a video. Aisha made a video about FamilyNet. Jenny made a video about a google account.

2009-08-07T11:57:00.000-07:00

On week 3 i had to create a video on making a video on imovie. It was a little hard but i got through it. I had a lot of fun i had to do it step by step there were lots of steps. I talked about taken screen shots. I also talked about transition power point and etc. We also worked on our portfolio for a little bit. Next week we will be putting it on the web site.

:::8/7/09:::

2009-08-07T11:54:00.000-07:00

Today we presented all the videos that we created to our supervisor and the parents. They were pleased with our videos. we had a lot of positive feedback. Also, they gave us advise on how to make it better which was really helpful. I'm proud of all the work ma team and myself had put up to get 4 bilingual videos done in a week. These videos were: how to make a Google account, Skype account, an iMovie, and how to get into FamilyNet. All educational videos for both parents and students.

::Getting started on ma own video::

2009-08-03T11:38:00.000-07:00

Creating an Google Account
Today I started researching how to create an Google email account. The purpose of this research is to make a video to help parents create an account. I did a slide for every single step from stating your name until actually creating the actual account. All the steps where put into individuals slides in the powerpoint program. After i was all done with the Powerpoint i did screen shots (Apple+Shift+3) of each slide. All these slides were put into the iMovie in chronological order. At this moment all the slides are put into iMovie all its left is to put bilingual voices and edit after that.

Stocks and Resume

2009-07-27T11:10:00.001-07:00

Today we all went to www. stocksquest.com. The web site it like a game you get to buy stuff and learn how to invest money. Stocksquset is important to save money and invest. This is some stuff that I got at my stocksqest, Burger king and foot locker. Friday we made a resume. A resume is if you want a to apply for a job. A resume tells about your experiences in working or other useful activities.

Investing and Resume

2009-07-27T11:10:00.000-07:00

Today and Friday we worked on making a Stockquest. We also created our resume on Friday. Today we just spent some time on Stockquest. We had to find some products that we use on a daily basses and find their parent company. The stockquest is a web site where you can learn how to invest. On the web site you can buy stuff and sell stuff. The point of stockquest is to help us understand how to learn how to invest. It is not real money but it is reflecting real stocks. On Friday we mainly worked on our resume. A resume is something you are going to need when you go to apply for a job. It will help the employer know more about you and your experience.

..:::UPDATES for 8/24/09 till now:::..

2009-07-27T11:09:00.001-07:00

On the 24th we did a lot of work related things. We started taking about Resumes. Everybody constructed a resume. The resume included such things as our name, address, phone number,email and so on. We also included our work experience if any, education, and so on. We were also introduced to an educational game from the website; Stockquest.com. This game is based on stocks. It gives you the opportunity of buying and selling stocks with imaginary money. It's interesting to see how your investment profit you money as well as leave you on debt. This game is useful for any body that wants to start buying stocks because you could practice investing and eventually be successful at real life investments.

Today, we continued taking about the stocks. We did a list of 10 everyday items and look for their parent company just because not all company are their self owners. With that list we incorporated it into buying the rest of the stocks in our game.

Resumes and Stocks

2009-07-27T11:09:00.000-07:00

Since Friday 24, 2009 we learned how to make our resumes. Resumes are really useful when applying for a job. Resumes are really just a piece of paper that explains really about

you and what you have done though out your life. We also, learn how to use a website that goes by www.stocksquest.com. This website is basically to learn how to invest using false money.On this website we can purchase companies such as your favorite food or clothing stores. For example,hollister,h&m,aeropastale,checkers,and Mcdonalds. I bought AT&T which is a phone company. This website is actually fun except when you lose your money. Its also really helpful towards life.

Week Four- Investing in the Stock Market!

2009-07-27T10:56:00.000-07:00

Today we continued our discussion about the stock market and what it means to invest which started last Friday (July 24th). Using the StockQuest program online we began learning about what it takes to purchase stocks with the correct thought process. We discussed such questions as what is a stock, how does one purchase a stock, and how does one know when to purchase or sell a stock. As the mentor of this group, I feel it is very important that the interns engage in this sort of activity because it should give each of them an idea of how individuals in society can impact the over all economic structure of the country.

www.stockquest.com

Week Three- Buying a Computer

2009-07-23T08:46:00.000-07:00

Finishing our video was kinda fun. well i can say that i was kinda shy and nerves when we had to record our voices,but we got it done.We also had to edit a lot of things.Such as what type of background for the slide,the color of the text,and correcting the spanish. While doing this project i learn a lot about computers (Aisha).

We finished our video i hade lots of fun it took us some time. we are finally done we had to take it from power point and put it on imovie. i had to do all the spanish translation. today i learned about alot of stuff. we had alot of cachin up to do on our portfolio so we did we caught up. by JORGE..

Week Three- Building a Computer

2009-07-21T12:06:00.000-07:00

(Jennifer & Jonathan) We finished doing a video about how to build a computer. We used Powerpoint and imovie to create this video. We recorded voice to these video with the purpose of making it easier for the parents that can't read. With this video we wish to inform parents about all the benefits of building a computer. These benefits includes such thing as learning about the computer parts itself and saving money.

Week Two -Research/Scripts

2009-07-14T11:52:00.000-07:00

Group 1- (Jennifer &Jonathan)
Our Topic was "How to Build a Computer". We started defining all the parts from the computer first. We find out that a ram stores the memory of the computer and can cost about 20 dollars. Also we learned that a CPU is the processor of the computer. Then we created the introduction that we going to have in the video. We looked up a picture for all the parts because we are going to include them in our video. We also created the conclusion. Through out the whole script we also translated everything into Spanish because it would be useful for parents that don't speak English.

In this video it shows the parts of a computer in depth. We would like it to be an example of how we want our to look like.

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/microprocessor.htm

Group 2- (Aisha & Jorge)

Our topic was on ''How to Buy a Computer''. We began putting our introduction together, we had three different version of an introduction and finally choose one. Everybody took a part with writing the script. We learned of many locations of where you can purchase a computer. Such as; apple.com, dell.com, and tigerdirect.com. " i liked this group but i think we can have done a little better working together."

Week One- Introduction

2009-07-07T11:44:00.000-07:00

We are a group of high-school and college students working on two websites along with the help of parents. The purpose of the website is to inform parents of events the occuring at the school, along with other useful information (sporting events, lunch menu, homework assignments, various instructional videos, etc.) from within the school; Julia de Burgos Middle on 4th and Lehigh and Sheppard Elementary located at 120 W. Cambria St. Both of these schools are located in North Philadelphia, PA.