Finally figured out the blog.

Finally got onto the blog with little to no time to spare.
I just went over all my the original slides that I had put together and the edited versions by Caitlin.
Everything looks great.
Kelsey Devaney

Sept. 30

I just spend some time making some final few tweaks to my slides to prepare for our group meeting Oct. 1. No new sources or video, but refinements to what has already been organized and edited.

Sept. 27

Today I refined and edited the information on my slides, and found further information with a lot of appropriate statistics and percentages that well describe the public's view of the Islam faith in relation to recent events and how the media has portayed them- the main source I based it on was a 1000-person survey conducted by an American-Islam society dedicated to improving the image of the faith. I also found a couple of videos that well describe the American citizen perception of Islam, and how various people really are in their opinions of it- radical especially on a negative side.

Sept. 23-24

I spent some time both days today taking the most important and applicable information from the sources I found concerning the Muslim events. It's a rough draft, but I do have information to put onto slides as we began to organize our group PowerPoint tomorrow (Sat. the 25th).
-Rhett

Sept.20

Today, I researched on the news events of the Koran burning threat from Terry Jones and others, and the opinions and news surrounding the mosque by Ground Zero. I feel like I got some good articles and print-outs for our group meeting tomorrow as well.
-Rhett

last call...

I'm finally getting everything FINALIZED on our powerpoint!!
Remember we decided to chance presenting order (Rhett, i think we forgot to tell you!)
it's now:
Caitlin: Intro
Kim: truthiness
Jay: truthiness
Kelsey: Truth
Caitlin: truth
Rhett: effects on us
Tara: effects on us & conclusion.

if you guys have changes to the slideshow, please email them to me by like....11.
thanks!!





Caitlin.

meeting on 10/4/10

Caitlin and I went over the changes that were made to one of my powerpoint slides.  We watched a video that Tara put together.

-Kim Bodrero

last meeting

We met at 3 in the library and finalized our project.
everyone gave their final say on the project and we agreed to meet in room 141 at 2:30 tuesday oct. 5 to present.


all of us.

Dott'n the I's and Crossing the T's!!!!!

Put together my note cards for the presentation..... hopefully by tuesday I will no longer need them:) ALMOST DONE GUYS!!!!!

Tara Lemon

almost there!

Googled Images of muslims, using only keywords like muslim, media, and islam. It was interesting that even the majority of images brought up were portraying muslims in a negative light. I put together a powerpoint of these images to be played at the same time as the comments made by the Utah State Students. Super new to putting together projects like this but... I think its really coming together:) HOpe you guys like it ill show it at the next meeting.

Tara Lemon

in the libruuury.

I'm in the library workin on our project!
I reformatted the slides and added some effects, I also did some more research and edited a lot of info on my slides, added a title and conclusion slide! see you guys tomorrow at the meeting!


Caitlin

EDITING THE NIGHT AWAY!!

THANK GOODNESS FOR MACS! Uploaded all of the clips from the focus groups from the night before used imovie on the good ol mac and was able to edit and piece together all of the footage to about four min...... quite the process! haha

Tara Lemon

Next Group Meeting: Gettin' Things Done

Today, we refined and edited our slides, and completed the ones that we hadn't quite finished on our own time. We added style, format, pictures, and videos to the slides. We showed different text and videos to each other for their approval.
We determined that we will have a brief introduction and presentation, given by Tara, to provide greater organization and formality to the project.

Next Meeting: Movin' Things Forward

Saturday, Sept. 25
Today we combined the rough-draft slides that we created on our own into one PowerPoint presentation. We organized the pattern of the slides and compared information as to not overlap onto each other's presentation too much. We edited each other's slides a bit as well and assisted each other with research of our respective subject- media portrayal, the media's impact on the public, and the facts found within the individual coverage of Fox News, the Colbert Report, and the Daily Show.

meeting on 10/01/10

We went over our powerpoints.  I asked Rhett and Caitlin for advice about my powerpoint slides and they gave me advice.

-Kim Bodrero

Friday's Meeting

We met in the library for an hour and got the powerpoints merged and edited.
We'll be meeting again on Monday, with EVERYTHING FINALIZED
GROUP MEMBERS:
make sure you have citations, and full on script ready to go on monday's meeting,
we'll do a FULL run through to make sure it looks & sounds perfect.

one of the last

today went to meeting took a look at the latest power point went over it myself to make sure i knew how things were going to flow. Also was able to get my bibliography done.

Public Perception of Muslims: Focus Group

Met with a group of 15 Utah State Students. Discussed Various topics concerning Muslims: Stereotypes, Media Portryal, students opinions, and where these opinions began. I think the interviews went great and that I was able to get enough footage and clips to really add to our presentation. YAY:)

Tara Lemon

Workin on it...

Just thought I'd post to let everyone know I'm getting my slides finalized and everything! I found some pretty good photos if you guys wanna use these on your slides feel free to! I'll see you all on the meeting on Friday!

 

talk to you guys later! 

Caitlin

Last meeting!

At Our last meeting (tuesday 28th) we put slides together and made sure everyone knew exactly what they were responsible for.

Tara is working on the workshop asking students their opinions on different images of Muslims (great idea)
Kelsey worked on formatting the powerpoints and getting everything organized with Caitlin
Rhett, Jay, and Kim got all their information together and  formatted in order.

Before the meeting on Friday at 3 everyone needs to have their slides FINALIZED.
we're also meeting on Monday the 4th (day before) to do a complete run through and perfect the presentation aspect.

meeting on 9/28/10

We worked on our powerpoint.  Kelsey agreed to put my information in powerpoint since I do not know how to do powerpoint.

-Kim Bodrero

Meet with the group for class. made sure my slides made sense in the mold of things. trying to find all my sources again to get my bibliography done.

meeting on 9/25/10

We all had our rough drafts of what we are going to put on our powerpoint.

-Kim Bodrero

Research Research Research

Well the title about sums it up. Just searching the web using different search sites mostly trying to find articles that deal specifically with the media and its relationship to the public.... how the medias portrayal of muslims shape the way the general public percieves them.

Our First Group Meeting:

met at the library at noon on 9/21
we established the plan:
divided topics up between the 6 group members
 Jay & Kim: how the media portray muslims (koran burning & Park51)
Rhett & Tara: How the messages affect the average citizen
Kelsey & Caitlin: the truth about koran burning and park51
Shared research information and discussed the events surrounding media Muslim coverage and perception with print-outs and so forth.

was given my assignment to make sure that theory was taken care of in the slides. started to look into material  on the subject for fox and comedy centrals Colbert and Stewart.

meeting on 9/21/10

Decided that we would do powerpoint presentation.  Jay and I (Kim) are doing ours on how the media portrays Muslims, the mosque, and burning of the Koran.  Kelsey and Caitlin are showing the actual facts.  Rhett and Tara are doing theirs on how the public sees these issues and what they think about them.

-Kim Bodrero