5th blog!

The 4cast and Flash had the banquet last night and it was actually fun! I enjoyed seeing the video segments highlighting both the 4cast and the flash throughout the year. The awards were also fun to recieve and acknowledge everyones accomplishments that we work so hard for. I also loved the good bye video for Mr. Krebs that all the alumni made. It was very thoughtful and nice of them to recognize him, not many teachers have their students do that for him and I loved seeing how touched he was by it. I loved that the banquet wasn't just serious but we watched all of the funny parts of it also and my parents were laughing the whole time so I'm glad they made it enjoyable for everyone. Well that's all I have to say about that!

4th blog! may 9th

Today I had to write a review for an article concerning East Asian affairs for my Modern World History class. I was dreading doing the assignment because I was expecting it to be boring and a waste of time. As I searched for an interesting article to write about, I definitely hit the jackpot! It was about a man who used e-book and twitter (Forni's favorite thing in the world) to raise $25,000 for the Japan Red Cross. He asked people through Twitter to send in pictures, stories, art or anything relating to the disaster which he would use as the basis for his book that he would sell and all profits would go to charity. The project was a huge success and he ended up getting around 200 editors, writers, designers and translators to contribute and found a company to sell it online and print it without any extra cost. I found this story very inspiring because this man had no big connections other than his Twitter account. I'm amazed at how simple it can be to help.
So, I have officially let down my guard about Twitter. This definitely changed my mind about it!
Wow Forni, you're right this time! congrats.

Week 3 blog

Well just last night we were all informed that Osama Bin Laden had been killed and the news stations were covering it for hours before Obama gave his little speech. I thought that they did a very nice job of covering the information and even talking to people other places about the situation in such a short amount of time. The had mini stories already and news casters ready to go, which i think would be very difficult to do with short notice. Although they did intterupt CSI for the night, it was interesting to see the broadcasting that was going on.Well that's my blog for the week!
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