Josephine’s Online Technology Journal

 Duration (how long will your MID be?)
I think my MID will be about 30seconds to 1 minute long. I don’t want to make it really long because it will only just make it harder to create it; and probably bore the viewers. Probably 50 seconds will be just perfect- especially if I am going to make my MTV+Me on flash.

Music (what music will you use and why?)
I am thinking to use a fun song; a song that is really short and exciting. I’ll have to go back to the songs from the music file of the MTV folder. Because my MID won’t be that long; I might just have to use one part of a song. All the songs are boring, dull and long to be honest. But the most okay one is: fast_deepbeats

Technical specifications (be specific about your design)
I will be using “Macromedia flash” software for this project. I am not really confident of what to use- but I don’t want to use other programs because it will take time to download, reset, etc etc! I will follow the design specification that was copied and pasted from the site. It needs to be 10 MB size with 25 FPS, and 441.kHz. I won’t forget to put a title for my MID (which I will make after the project is done), I will make the MID original and exclusive, I will just send a file instead of sending a non-returnable item. And finally, I won’t be sad even if MTV rejects my project…:)

MTV logo (which one will you use and why?)
I will use the original logo of MTV. If I can make the logo look exactly the same as the original one, then I would like to make a new one of my own, with my own design. If that turns out to be impossible, I will using “MTV_logo_white.jpg”. As I have mentioned in my investigation, I liked this logo because it was plain and clean.

Actors, drawings, photos? (describe your video in detail)
Well, I will be using Macromedia Flash for the project. I won’t need any actors for my MID. I will just use flash software, and a couple of photos and drawings from other sites. My video will be about 50 seconds long (I think). It will be like a short little animation that I am going to make. To give you a vague idea of what it’s like- it’s going to be about……ice-cream flavors!

I made a HUGE mistake! Due to my ignorant investigative skills; I did not notice that this Turkey ice-cream had a name called “Dondurma.” On wikipedia, they do have an article related to it. However, there aren’t many information related to it. I am still planning to work on this article, but expand more on to it. The text that are in bold are the information that I copied from Wikipedia. The ones that I added are in plain.

Dondurma
Dondurma (Turkish: Dondurma, “freezing”) is the name used for ice cream in Turkey. In English it specifically refers to Turkish ice cream. It is common knowledge that all ice-creams are made out of milk; cow’s milk. However, in some unique countries such as Turkey, they have their traditional ways of making an ice-cream with goat milk. Their ice-cream was first originated in a region of Turkey called “Karaman Marash.” ²

<Description>
Two features distinguish Turkish ice cream: texture and resistance to melting. It is much tougher and chewier than that of the ice cream used in sundaes, gelato or commercially produced ice cream; the unusual texture is produced by the use of salep and mastic resin as thickening agents, together with other flavorings. It is sometimes sold from carts as street food, where the mixture is churned regularly with long-handled paddles to keep it workable.

The Kahramanmaraş region is known for its distinct dondurma, Maraş dondurması, which contains more salep than usual; it is much tougher and stickier, and may even require a knife and fork to eat.

The popularity of the salep flavor in Turkish ice cream has caused a decline in the populations of the region’s wild orchids. For this reason it is illegal to ship true salep out of the country.[1]

Dondurmas usually cost about $1~2. There are 100 different various flavors of dondurmas.

<Shops>
Dondurmas can easily be purchased in big markets of Turkey everywhere. “Yasar” is a famous and the biggest company name that produces ‘dondurmas’. “Marashu Dondura” and “Mado Dondura” are part of “Yasar’s” branches. Yasar’s director is named “Mehmet Kanbur”. His family has been running the company for 4 generations. The company was established in 1990. They maintain in the fields of buying, marketing, depot, and trasnportation in Kucukbakkalkoy in 2000, in Dudullu in 20903 in 1050 m2 area.³

<Nutrition facts>
Dondurmas don’t include agglutinin when making the ice-cream. Instead, they include short chain and medium chain fatty acids. Dondurmas have softer curds which helps digest the ice-cream faster for little children. There are lower levels of lactose (4.1 percent versus 4.7 percent in cow’s milk). This is an advantage for lactose-intolerant people. Dondurma also outweighs ordinary ice-cream made out of cow milk by: 13% more calcium, 25% more vitamin B, 47% more vitamin A, 134% more potassium, 200% more niacin, 300% more copper, and 27% more antioxidant selenium.²

2Naver Kowledgeins, “Turkey Ice-cream.” Naver. 2004, February 8^th. 24 April 2008
<htttp://kin.naver.com/detail/detail.php?d1id=9&dir_id=90208&eid=AtvOotFWWPh/yLBlaCXcxdZ8vjbLQxUX&qb=v7C80iC+xsDMvbrFqbiy&pid=fsjN9doQsDhssu/Stg4sss?160117&sid=SAac2y6FBkgAAEh4OVw>

 3“About us”, Yasar Dondurma. 25 April 2008
<http://www.yasarlojistik.com/aboutus.asp>

List of things that I should have done in order to know at the end of the project:
-Did I include a correct format of MLA bibliography?
-Did I actually gather information from a reliable source?
-Do I have at least more than 2 sources to back up my research?
-Did I use my time during class effectively?
-Did I get my assignments done on time?
-Did I do a thorough, wide range of research (meaning that I used more than one site on the Internet?

What should I include?
First off, although including a correct MLA bibliography for this class project is important; it is also important that I actually have a reliable source to backup my research. For the last project, it was easier for us to gather information from government based organization- which are definitely reliable. However, since ‘dondurma’ is not a subject that everybody really knows, I will definitely need a reliable source.

How will I know if I did a good job?
I will be able to know that I have done a good job by the comments and the grade that Ms. Wilson will give me. I am also planning to get my article edited and be read by other classmates- so that they can give me some comments of how I did, and how I can improve. Once I post it up on Wikipedia and no one changes it; it probably would mean that they didn’t bother deleting it since it was good! Lastly, I can go back to read all the rubrics in the assignments- making sure that I followed all the requirements.

This is how we will edit the Tsagaan Sar Wikipedia Page: 

The White Moon holiday is celebrated two months after the first new moon following the winter solstice. In 2008, White Moon falls on Feb. 8th. After Naadam, Tsagaan Sar is the second-most important Mongolian holiday.

Around the New Year people greet each other by saying “Amar mend uu”, a very formal greeting which one says to one’s elders. Mongolians also visit friends and family on this day and exchange gifts. A typical Mongolian family will meet in the home dwelling of the eldest male in the family. _______ When greeting their elders during the White Moon festival, Mongolians grasp them by their elbows to show support for them. The eldest male receives greetings from each member of the family except for his wife. During the greeting ceremony, family members hold long pieces of colored cloth called khadag. After the ceremony, the family eats buuz and drinks airag (fermented mare’s milk) and exchanges gifts.

The day before Tsagaan Sar is called “Bituun”. On this day, families gather together_______–immediate family usually, in contrast to the large feast gatherings of White Moon day–and see out the old year. Traditionally, Mongolians settle all issues and repay all debts from the old year by this day. Mongolians eat their fill at the Bituun meal, as tradition says that if you are hungry after Bituun you will be hungry for the whole coming year.

These are sources that we have found so that we can change the tsagaan sar page, and not be removed by wikipedia editors:

“Tsagan Sar: The Mongolian Lunar New Year”. Mongoluls. 2007. March 13^th, 2008.       
     <http://mongoluls.net/tsagaansar.shtml>

“Festivals”. Asia-planet. 2002. March 11^th, 2008.
     <http://www.asia-planet.net/mongolia/festivals.htm>

 List of things that I should have done in order to know at the end of the project:
-Did we include a correct format of MLA bibliography?
-Did we follow what criterion B asks for?
-Did we use our time during class effectively?
-Did we get our assignments done on time?
-Did we do a thorough, wide range of research (meaning that we used more than one site on the Internet)?
-Did all of the members in our group do our work together?

What should I include?
I should include an accurate bibliography from the Internet. This means that I should site the sites/ sources that I have visited by an MLA format. I think these are basically it for all the things that I need to include for the Wikipedia. I should also make sure that I used a good site- probably a government based organization.

How will I know if I did a good job?
I will be able to know that I have done a good job by the comments that the grade that Ms. Wilson will give me. Or, if nobody changes that information that our group had edited; then it would probably mean that they didn’t even bother touching it because it was way too good! Basically, the grades tells us everything about how well we have done. Lastly, I can go back to read all the rubrics in the assignment sheet to make sure I have done what each criterion has asked me to.

 Possible topics for my podcast:

• comedy

• life in Mongolia

• life in Korea

• information about our school ISU

• about myself

• jokes from joke books

• book reading

• comments about songs and video clips

• instructions of cooking

• travel guide to Mongolia

• interview with someone special

• horoscopes

• blood types

My intended audience for this podcast is simple ANYONE who is willing to listen to my audio from the beginning ’till the end- without skipping anything in the middle. Mrs. Wilson, our IT teacher will definitely be one of my audiences- as well as our grade 10s. Any netizens online serfing for any one of these podcast subject is my audience as well!

Steps of recording and publishing my podcast

First step
1. Record my podcast in “Audacity” program
-Get a microphone ready
-Open up “Audacity” program
-Start recording (Click on the red circle button)
-once you’re done recording, click on stop (brownish green square button)
-name it by clicking on the “Audio Track” on the left side. (click on “Name” under it)
2. save it under a MP3 file
-go to files => Export as MP3
-save it under a file in which you’ll remember where you’ve saved it!
3. Make a podcast site with MyPodcast

Second Step
www.garagepodcast.com
This site enables you to upload your own podcast. After you record your audio in podcast in audacity, you can export it as a mp3. Then from the site, you can obviously import it as the same file- and then post it.

Third Step
iTunes
Basically, the first step of publishing a podcast is to record your audio in some kind of program. The best one I would like to recommend is to record it in ‘audacity’ program. Once your done, go to iTunes. You need a membership if you want to upload a podcast. However, it requires payment. Then you can link from iTunes directly to podcast as an import file. Next, go to music store for customer service page. Follow the instructions for adding a podcast to the catalogue.
<http://101.findexcellent.com/26/record-edit-publish-and-let-your-podcast>

Fourth Step
Ourmedia.org
Upload your podcast if you don’t have a website or an FTP server. This site allows you upload a podcast for free. You can upload a file in any size. This is an advantage- since you wouldn’t have to worry about the limit of the file size. However, be ware that the speed publishing would take quite a while!

Fifth Step
Recording the podcast without using the Internet. This can be done so by calling a certain radio station. You can read off what you want to say through the phone and they can record it- and publish it for you. I got this information from Mrs. Wilson. There are 3 different sites that you can publish your podcast through phones: gabcast.com and voice2pod.com. These two sites enables you to record any sort of audio. The next site instructables.com requires you to research how to record an audio. The steps are the following.

1. Gather supplies: 2 phones (in order to capture 2 of the interviews), a phone audio recording device (for example, the Quick Tap from JK audio), a laptop, audio recording software, audioBlogging/Podcasting hosting device.

2. Connect inbound Audio: with 2 phone devices, use a device called “Quick Tap” from JK Audio to tie these phone lines into one audio cable that plugs into the laptop.

3. Launc hAudio software:

Now you need to launch whatever software you will be using to record the audio on your computer. use Sonic Foundry but there are a number of packages available for little cost. This application will not only capture the audio but will allow you adjust the recording volume and other variables that will allow you to produce better quality audio.

If possible, normalize (usually a common feature in this kind of software) the audio, this will smooth out the difference between loud and quite parts of the recording. Then you save audio as wav file (this preserves the original in a high quality format). Finally, you convert wav file to MP3 file (try to include ID3 meta data). This is done because MP3 files are so much smaller than wav files and are easier to dowload.

5. The Learning Feeds (www.learningfeedsd.com) is the one that has set up to handle all of the podcasting. When you publish something from the AudioBlog site- this iw where it lands. Use the “View Source” command in your browser and copy the relevant pieces out of it and past e them into the Learning Wiki.

6. After the audio shows on the blog, add it to the Learning Wiki (www.learningwiki.com)

One chosen method

I decided to follow my first step of publishing the podcast. It seems as if I’m more familiar with the steps. If I need to work on this at home, I can easily work on it without any problems. Although it does require an access to Internet in order to publish it- hopefully, I will manage it without getting into any trouble.

Design specifications

• I will include music in my background

• I will speak slowly and clearly

• My podcast will be 3 to 7 minutes long

• I will add some sound effects

• I will try to make it entertaining and interesting- instead of dragging/ or making it sound boring