My First Vlog in Korea

I haven't made a vlog in a couple of years--mostly because of time, also because as much as I like the process of video editing, I don't really think of myself as a very interesting person.  Haha.  However, when a group of my friends decided to create vlogs to update each other about "where we are now" I thought I would join in on the project.  I was in luck this past weekend because I was borrowing a camera to take pictures of one of our sporting events at the school and had time to record a video before returning it.

I struggled a bit with the lighting and had to re-record when, in my first round of editing, I found that everything was really bright and washed out.  I had more success the 2nd time and so here it is: a quick snapshot of my life on Jeju thus far broken into 3 main ideas.



If you liked this video and think I should try to do more vlog-type things, please let me know and I will make more of an effort! Huzzah!

Love and Hugs.

Teen Pregnancy, A Digital Story

In one of my classes this semester, we had a unit on Social Injustices.  In specific the unit was meant to explore social injustices that were found in the classroom from racism, homophobia, and prejudices based on religion or gender (and many other things in between).  As you might imagine, the topic in itself is interesting and definitely something important that, as teachers especially, we need to be aware of and consider.

For the final assignment in the unit, we had to pick a social injustice and either read some of the related literature and write a paper, or create a digital story.  I'm a little bored with writing papers so I decided that even though it might be a bit more knit-picky, I would make a digital story.

My social injustice issue is Teenage Pregnancy and I chose this topic because I remember hearing recently about a grade 9 student who found herself pregnant.  Teen mothers are prejudiced against because society often paints them as sluts and whores.  Sometimes they are kicked out of their houses and wind up living on the streets and living in poverty.  This is a social injustice.  People make mistakes everyday for which society forgives them, but becoming a teen mother is something that society can't seem to look past.

For those of you interested, here's the resulting video.

 

What is Estell?

So you've read a brief excerpt, but where's it from? What is the story about?

Watch this clip and you shall be informed...


If you have any questions about Estell, please, ask in the comments and I will answer them on Friday!

Stay tuned for more...