nicole,+T

One issue i'd like to fix in the world is to have less waste on the ground and in our oceans. When we have snacks/food and it has a wrapper we dispose of it on the ground near us because we are to lazy to throw it away, even though the grabage/recycling bin is near by. :)

Imagine you are an environmental activist. What is an environmental issue that concerns you? Why does it matter to you? What can be done about it?
 * November 25, 2013- Journal 3**
 * Journal #3 || __**Attitudes**__ || __**Skills**__ || __**Knowledge**__ ||
 * __**Issues**__ || The issue is still the same, even with our action it hasn't resolved but if we kept it up we might have a small impacted at first to some people than to more. For our action we spread the word around with fliers, posters and tweets. Us alone can't solve this problem but if we spread it and people start noticing we might start a change, maybe even a chain reaction to what will happen in the future. || The primary and secondary research helped quite a bit, if we hadn't done that we wouldn't have seen that there was a problem to be resolved. Once we saw the problem we started finding ways we could show other people about it. Ex Facebook ,twitter, out and about || Before we did this project I to didn't think this was a problem but now that I have done the primary and secondary research I see that this is a problem, and it may even be growing gradually over the years. ||
 * __**Research**__ || We saw some people in action using our "posters/barcodes" and they actually didn't use the newspaper they used the app/website. But it isn't up to me whether the person would rather use the newspaper or the app, which ever is more convenient to them. My partner and I thing that this is a problem and we are trying to fix but it depends if other people also find it a problem or if in the future they will see it as a problem. Spreading the research we already had, to other people. || As it states above about my primary and secondary research. || I didn't really research, I more observed if people were noticing something different around or on the news stand, many people noticed it, but only some people tried. We noticed the people that tried walked away without a newspaper and they were reading it on their phone/tablet. ||
 * __**Actions**__ || Spreading awareness on your researched topic was important. Our action was to be informative to the people receiving it. We had to make it clear as to what problem we want to resolve and over all I enjoyed working on this action with my partner, it was interesting at first how we would make this work and how we would even make an action towards this action. But in the end we came up with a creative idea with barcodes and spread the word. || Skills I needed to make this action possible, I had to be able to create affective posters that people would notice and see, also to tweet something persuading to my own followers on twitter. Also to show/tell people about this problem. ||= I am much more knowledgeable on this topic than I was before. After my action piece I saw how many people cared to stop and see what "the poster" said. And how many people care about our use of supplies and for our environment. ||


 * November 2, 2013- Journal 2**
 * Journal #2 || __**Attitudes**__ || __**Skills**__ || __**Knowledge**__ ||
 * __**Issues**__ || An issue I noticed was that, because we did a survey, we saw who our targeted audience is. Our audience is mainly people from the ages of 12+ but they know how to us technology so they would be able to mange with the barcode we will put up as our action piece. We were wondering about the 20+ year olds if they wouldn't be able to figure it out. An issue with this is maybe they wont be as good with technology as young people. I'm trying to make it the easiest and most fastest way to get, from a barcode to an app. My group and I thought of a few ideas, but some of them were to complex, we went with the barcode idea, if you had a scanner on your phone you could scan and access the news. || As a student we don't have many resources to do our project with, have to work with what we've got. For primary research we made a survey. For our action piece we made it an easy yet simple way to access information, with a barcode. We tried making it the most convenient way possible. || You should know about your topic as well as know who needs to be informed about your topic, such as mine, no one thinks it's a problem, even though they don't notice how many trees we waste to make so many newspapers that sometimes go to waste. Also the pollution the factories make when producing the newspaper and the litter we make by just tossing our newspaper on the floor. People should know that this is a problem, and if it isn't now it will be in the future. ||
 * __**Research**__ || As I said before we made a survey and we researched who actually reads the news, we know that that not may young people do, some of the newspapers go to waist without even being opened and read. We also saw that on a scale of 1-10 an average of about 8, people see newspapers on the ground in subways(places they're not suppose to be. We also saw that mainly females took the survey. Our survey shows us that people mainly us the internet to get their news. So if we make a barcode that leads to the internet, it would be more convenient for many people. Most of our survey answers showed that many of them had smart phones/tablets. || We did a survey for our research piece, we tried putting out questions that would help us in the idea of making our action piece. The survey is a good way of gathering knowledge because it's resent. || People likely know about your topic in some ways not exactly how you are making it now (ex. they know about newspapers). They can research a bit about it to find out more about your topic. ||
 * __**Actions**__ || Our action was to go to newspaper stands and stick a barcode with a little message, this barcode will lead them to the internet, to the newspaper that it's on (ex. Toronto Star news stand, Barcode that leads you to Toronto Star on the internet from your smart phone). Instead of carrying the newspaper around and just leaving it somewhere, which is a big problem, you could get it on your phone/tablet....I don't think you'd want to leave that behind! || We have to carry out our action at the right place which we have chosen the news stands considering it's what our project is targeting. Also at a good time is always important, we thought that if we put the barcodes up in the morning people would start noticing that there's something different on the news stand and maybe they would try it out and see how convenient it is. Also because were are going to tweet to the companies about what they are doing and not doing we have to be respectful. ||= You need to pick an interesting eye grabbing action, something that may not be as common. So it's interesting to your audience. You have to pick an appropriate action towards your audience. We picked something outside the box because when you go to a news stand you don't usually see a barcode in the front but now there will be in some areas. ||


 * October 17, 2013 - Journal 1**
 * Journal #1 || __**Attitudes**__ || __**Skills**__ || __**Knowledge**__ ||
 * __**Issues**__ || An issue I saw in the world was that, we have many newspaper dispensers, which have multiple news papers in them but how many of those news papers are actually being read and are actually being recycled, rather than being thrown out at the end of the day. || Which issues are the most important in the (newspaper)..the amount of trees used, the amount of pollution the factories create when making a newspaper, the amount of newspapers created or even the amount that get thrown on the ground or that end up in land fills. || I have to see if people are having any problems with newspapers such as they might be everywhere(floors) or people might want to have something convenient something close, if they had an app it would always travel with them and they would get the latest news or even breaking news. I would much rather read it off my phone than some big paper. It is also very convenient and handy I don't have to walk half a block to get my newspaper. ||
 * __**Research**__ || There is a lot of information on this topic, such as how many news paper companies there are, how many trees are used to create the newspapers. But we still make loads and loads of copies even if they are just being thrown out in the end. || internet,google,newspapers,media, and the people || I researched on my topic by looking up things on the internet about my project. I looked up many things ex. amount of newspapers made by one tree, the amount of ink used to print out one copy of a newspaper, how many newspapers are made a day by just one company and multiple companies. ||
 * __**Actions**__ || I want to do something meaningful that will actually lead to change, I was thinking of creating a barcode and sticking it to newspaper stands..this barcode will lead people straight to a newspaper app for phones. Instead of paying $2 for newspapers they can scan the barcode andget rent to the very same news paper but as an app, its more portable than a newspaper and you wont have to throw it out in the end, you just have to close the app. || I need to mobilize (newspapers) instead of people carrying around newspapers everywhere with them, they're so big and they are a drag to carry around instead we could make an app to read the same exact newspaper,we carry around our phones everywhere anyways, it wouldn't hurt you if u uploaded an app instead of carrying a newspaper around, it would most likely benefit you if you are that type of person who loves reading the latest news. ||= I don't really think anyone has tried to change this, they probably haven't seen it as a massive problem, but as we can see more carbon dioxide is in the world then oxygen, and plants and trees take that carbon dioxide in and change it to oxygen for us to breath in, but if we cut down trees(our main oxygen producer) we are eliminating our source of oxygen. Which we have like 25 different companies and I don't really think we need that many we can limit them down or just make them as an app instead. ||