Kern Clarke

My video is on SchoolTube. Here is the link.
I worked with Maggie Long- Water Stream :D

​I choose to do the 6th amendment 

Sources:

http://www.aclu.org/racial-justice_prisoners-rights_drug-law-reform_immigrants-rights/bill-rights-brief-history

http://www.ushistory.org/documents/amendments.htm#amend06

I chose the safe water drinking act because I've been interested in fracking for a long time and I wanted to know tieback story behind it. In order to do that, I needed to also know about the SWDA because it has a huge factor into why people are upset. I chose this particular format, because I was attempting to have a chain of events, this lead to this, which lead to this. Most challenges was the actual presentation program, every time I would save my presentation to the site, the presentation would delete things and stuff. If I would do this over I would definitely choose a different presentation format.  This process was easier than I thought, just because everything was on governmental sites because this is very governmentally involved. If I would have known it was this easier I would have started the presentation earlier and realized the fail quicker, and then change the format of the presentation.

I took a trip around the corner (literally) to local poling station to get a layout of the land. It was surprising active. Supporters grouped together ready to make their way to pick new representatives. I thought people were relatively knowledgeable. I have been seeing picket flags on lawns saying vote Karen Brown and others for a while now. So, after a couple ignoring attempts I got an interview.

My somewhat word for word records:

Greetings and Salutations*

1.What motivated you to come out and vote?
"I work for the city so I know how much these elections matter. I need to vote or I won't make a difference."
(everyone sounds amazing when they know its being recorded)

2.What would you like to see changed in our politcal system?
"In general?"
No, locally.
I think it is pretty solid. Although I think the national elections should be more transparent.

3. How often do you vote in elections?
"When I can find a reason. This time around I think I should vote because there are people that that could make change."

4.Do you know why we vote on Tuesday?
"Not really."
(Me being smart with my previous research)
"Because back in the day, people needed to vote before Wednesday which was the market day. This gave them time to travel"
"Sounds Primitive"
(Ya I know right) awkward*

5.What changes do you expect from these elections? What are you hoping for?
"I hope to see more work. I know a lot of people out of work and I hope my vote makes a difference."

Goodbyes and Thank you's*

By: Amaris Romero

Reflection:

Originally I had chosen to do a different law but I had changed it because I wasn't as interested in it as I thought. I decided to do the "Indian Civil Rights Act" because I wanted to know more about them. I always had an interest in Native Americans. Every year I write about or talk about something that involves Native Americans and I wanted to know, I felt as though I didn't know enough. I chose the Prezi format because I felt it was one of many simple ways to create a story format. I came across many challenges while doing research, one of them being not being able to find the right answers for the questions that was being asked. I had another problem where I didn't know how to format the work in a presentation. I didn't know how to work Prezi I had never used it before. I got a hang of it after I had a brief tutorial of it. In the end I decided to do it like a story book with a table of contents, chapters, index, and glossary. The way a book would be setup. If i were to do this project again I would make my prezi a little less wordy because I wrote a bit to much information and not everyone wants to read a presentation when it resembles a book. Thats BORING, so next time I will make sure it is less wordy. I noticed that the project and the entire process doesn't just take 1 week or 2 weeks it takes time. Especially when it has to go through stages in which people have to agree with it. The entire research process was simple to me because I knew about it all and I knew how it would all turn out to be or so I thought. After my researching of the law I realized I didn't know to much about it all I knew that I would have to dig a bit for certain things such as those who were involved in the process. I found this BM very useful to me because of my interest in Native Americans.

Sources:

http://www.enotes.com/major-acts-congress/indian-civil-rights-act

https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=L11_1104_US4_Susan_BA/en/US&utm_source=B11_1104_US4_Susan&utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_campaign=C11_1104_US4&language=en&uselang=en&country=US&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCivil_Rights_Act_of_1968

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/516.html

http://facstaff.uww.edu/guliga/uwec/american_indian_history_timeline.htm

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html

http://www.tribal-institute.org/lists/icra1968.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Civil_Rights_Act_of_1968

http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/projects/2001/04/brokentrust/history/history10.shml

http://www.answers.com/topic/indian-civil-rights-act

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_civil_rights

http://www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/Indian%20Civil%20Rights%20Act%20of%201968.htm

http://blog.michaelsinanian.com/tag/indian-civil-rights-act-of-1968/

http://caicw.org/Indiancivilrightsact.html

http://www.citizensalliance.org/Major%20Issues/General%20Legal%20Issues/indian_civil_rights.htm

http://www.citizensalliance.org/links/pages/articles%20and%20CERA%20news/Wall%20Street%20Jounal%20Reply.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_self-determination

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/civil-rights/

http://thorpe.ou.edu/guide/robertson.html

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h2876.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1968

Reflection

In the beginning, right when Ms. Laufenberg mentioned this benchmark, the first thing I thought of doing for my bill was the Clean Water Act. Not only does it relate to my lobbying topic of fracking, but I also learned alot about it when I actually worked at the EPA over the summer. It seemed very interesting and I had heard that it was actually vetoed which made it seem like it would be an interesting story to tell. I chose a Prezi for my presentation format because it makes any presentation look great and keeps the attention of any viewer. Also it has great transitions from zoomed in to zoomed out to tilted right or left. I have used Prezi in the past, and I basically knew how to use it well. I would change up my project differently in the way in which I would change up the presentation format. I would probably make an iMovie that is sort of a skit and plays out the whole history in one little timeline, as I saw a classmate do last year. The research and investigation told me that the process from idea to bill to law is actually a hard, complicated one. Many people disagree or agree and many other people have their own opinions on things and it takes a long time to settle those disagreements. Also it takes time because the idea has to pass through so many different processes and stages until it finally becomes a law. The research was actually pretty easy, especially since I basically had the whole process in which it was passed. The only hard part was finding out background on when the Clean Water Act was vetoed, but later on I found it out. Overall, it was interesting finding out more about the Clean Water Act and the true insight to how a bill becomes a law.


Sources:

http://greenlaw.blogs.law.pace.edu/2011/04/01/cwa101/

www.epa.gov/lawsregs/laws/cwahistory.html

http://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/legal14water/cwa.htm

http://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/fwatrpo.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Water_Act

Pictures:

http://www.brevardgreenhomes.com/images/clean_drinking_water.bmp

http://us.123rf.com/400wm/8/215/livinglifephoto/livinglifephoto0912/livinglifephoto091200011/6076679-young-boy-swimming-in-ocean-during-the-summer-in-florida-with-a-big-smile-on-face-fort-desoto-park-f.jpg

http://c0365781.cdn2.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/datas/21202698/original/701px-Puffer_Fish_DSC01257.JPG

http://images.politico.com/global/070626_thisday6-27.jpg

http://limitlessdroid.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/shaking-hands.jpg

http://www.iphonebuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/spglascampanaseccheck3e04e.jpg

http://www.aph.gov.au/house/pics/chamber.gif

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB195/photo1-350-drop.jpg

http://images.ctv.ca/archives/CTVNews/img2/20091015/470_great_lakes_091015.jpg

http://www.downloadwinzipfree.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/I__m_just_a_Bill_by_kilroyart.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1412/1272200949_d4f811978e.jpg

http://www.manversusfish.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/dirty-lake-water-bass-fishing.jpg

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?imgurl=f69baf8c0d7f7dc1

SOURCES:

http://www.fincen.gov/statutes_regs/patriot/index.html

http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=patriot_act


REFLECTION:

I chose this bill mainly because when I first heard about it I was really interested to know how the process of it becoming a law went. I knew it's process was one of the fastest to becoming a law but I really didn't know about the details of the process and thought it would be an interesting bill to research and talk about. When I get different projects I usually transform them into a little movie since that is what I love and it makes the process more fun but for this I wanted to tell a story like if it was a children's book so I kind of found a way to put two and two together making it like a storybook but adding different effects and music to make it kind of like a little film. For the most part this project wasn't to difficult since I was kind of having fun doing it but some of the challenges I faced was probably trying to find a good source to explain some detailed parts of the patriot act since most sources just told the main stuff and it would of made the video way to short so I wanted to make sure I could get some good details so the video/storybook would be better. So finding a good source and then incorporating it into the video/storybook was I think the biggest challenge I faced. If I did this project again I would probably make sure I used my time more efficiently and probably add more to the story like after it became a law as well. When researching the process of an idea becoming a bill and then becoming a law I learned a lot about some of the reasons why it truly takes SO long for a bill to become a law. The idea becoming a bill was a fairly quick process but the process of a bill becoming a law was the long one. When a bill is being introduced and such if just one person says no, depending on how high he/she is in ranking, they will have to pause the bill and review it again in a later meeting. So for this law since at first it wasn't very popular within the committee it was paused and brought up later and then throughout the process there was always someone who would disagree and then slow down the process once again. So one person can really effect the process of a bill becoming a law. I didn't really have any expectations for this law just because I chose it because I wanted to learn more about it so I didn't think about whether it was going to be really hard or really easy. But overall I think the process was kind of in the middle, in a lot of ways it was simple but gathering all the info was difficult at times. But in the end I believe it came out well. 

Reflection

The reasoning for picking the NCLB Act was because I've heard about it before in middle school but never really knew what it was. I wanted to educate myself on what this act was about and how it worked. There were so many things that I knew about but didn't completely know what it was about. For example I remember hearing about AYP which means "Adequate Yearly Progress." All AYP basically means is setting a goal for example get more then 23% of the students in elementary school to score proficient or higher. Usually they use AYP for PSSA's. I decided to do my presentation using a Prezi format because I felt as though it would let me present my information in a very creative way. I also did my prevention in this format because it wouldn't be as the traditional powerpoint or boring.

Some challenges that I ran into during the process of this project was trying to put up the information on the Prezi in a creative and not boring way. Another challenge was trying to upload the Prezi so that it would play on the blog. There was code that needed to embedded into the blog which I found after about fifteen minutes of playing around with Prezi. There aren't many ways I would change my project, but if I had to I would add more pictures. I think that pictures give it a little push, and it wouldn't look so dull.

I researched a lot on why this act was made. I found out that they created this act because they seen a big percent of colored kissed who seemed not to be getting the right education. Basically they wanted all kids to achieve so they created this act and ever since they did they seen the number of kids getting below basic has dropped. The NCLB act wasn't as hard to research since this law was created around 2001 and all the information was available on the internet. 


Sites used for the project

http://dese.mo.gov/divimprove/nclb/QandA.html

http://www2.ed.gov/nclb/landing.jhtml

http://www.ed.gov/esea/flexibility

http://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/no-child-left-behind/

http://www.fldoe.org/nclb/


Pictures

http://www.homeroomteacher.com/images/raisinghands.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Boehner_official_portrait.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:No_Child_Left_Behind_Act.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:George-W-Bush.jpeg

http://dese.mo.gov/divimprove/nclb/QandA.html
http://prezi.com/aepzytpmrxi9/no-child-left-behind-act/