• Has the status of your issue changed since the last time you checked it?  Explain your answer.                                             Yes the status of my issue has changed it went from “open” to Acknowledged”

 

• On Edublog #1 you were asked to predict whether or not SeeClickFix would fix the problem you reported.  Did you find that your prediction came true?  Explain your answer.

Yes my prediction is true. At first the city cleaned it but now i see people dumping their trash even more.

• Are you satisfied with the result of the issue you reported?  Explain why, or why not.

No i am not because i want this issue to be completely fixed and i don’t want any more trash on my street

• Do you think that SeeClickFix is a useful tool for helping people fix problems in their communities?  Explain your answer.                                                                                                                                                                                   Yes i think it is useful for helping people because they do they fix some issues but not all of them and its easy to do, you can do it from home if you want.

 

• If you could change or improve SeeClickFix, what would you do?  Explain your answer.

I don’t think i would change anything because is good as it is.

• Which class project do you think was best able to help the people who resisted an oppression gain agency:  SeeClickFix or the May Day March?  Explain your answer.

Well at first i thought that marches would work more but i came to figure out that SeeClickFix can help more people fix their issues and it is easier to do than walk around all day yelling and losing your voice

• Do the results of the SeeClickFix and May Day projects imply that one form of resistance is better than another?  Explain your answer.                                                                                                                                                                      Yes i think that SeeClickFix is better than marching because it is easier to do than march around all day and you get updates to see if your issue has been resolved.

 

• What did you learn about the status of the issue you reported to SeeClickFix?

I learned that the issue that i reported has been seen by someone who works for the city of oakland

• Describe the response you got about the issue you reported.  What was the message you received?  Who sent you that message?

I received a message from the city of oakland call center they said “your issue  is registered as service request”

• Describe how the 9th grade students are tracking the progress of the issue we reported using stickies and posters.  What do each posters mean?  

We are tracking the progress using a sticky note method and there are three papers that say Open, Acknowledged, Closed/Archived. when your issue has been seen by someone you put your sticky note on the open poster. When it has been seen by someone who works for the city you then take your sticky note and put it on the Acknowledged poster. When your issue has been fixed or deleted then you put your sticky note on the closed poster.

• Did you change the status of the issue you reported on a poster?  Explain why, or why not.

Yes i did change the status of my sticky note it went from being on the Open poster to going to the Acknowledged poster

• Did any patterns emerge on the poster about which issues are resolved, and which are not?  Explain your answer.

There are a lot less sticky notes that are on the poster that says that your issue has been fixed and a lot more on the ones that have not

• Do you think 9th grade students are gaining agency based on their efforts on this project?  Explain your answer.

Yeah some what because some issues have been fixed and some have not but i will say that this is easier than doing a big protest

 

 

• In your own words, explain what the words RESISTANCE and AGENCY mean.

Resistance is when you are being oppressed and you fight back against the oppression

Agency means that you are gaining something from resisting

 

• In your own words, explain what the term SOCIAL MOVEMENT means.

A social movement is when a group of people join forces to make some type of change

 

• What does the company called SEECLICKFIX do for people living in Oakland?

The company SeeClickFix helps people living in oakland because they help people that want to fix things around their community.

 

• Do you think SEECLICKFIX helps people in Oakland to resist oppression and gain agency?  Explain why, or why not. 

I dont think that they help you resist oppression but i do think they help you to gain agency because they helped you fix an issue.

 

• Explain the story of how you took your picture for the SEECLICKFIX project (Describe what you took a picture of, when you took it, where you were, how, and why).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

 I took a picture of an illegal dumping ground and i chose to take this picture because it was one of the issues on the paper and it was fairly easy to get the picture because i live right down the street

 

• What did you do in class to join SEECLICKFIX?  Describe the steps you took.

The things we did to join SeeClickFix was fairly easy it just asked for our name and for our email, for people who did not get how to do it Mr.Muniz made a video on how to do it step by step.

 

• What did you do in class to report an issue to SEECLICKFIX?  Describe the steps you took.

What i did in class to report my SeeClickFix picture was to first get the picture of the issue you are trying to fix, then you make an account and then it gives u steps in order to make your issue public. They ask you simple questions like where is this issue located and tell us a little about the problem. Its very easy to do.

 

• Do you predict that the City of Oakland will fix the problem you reported?  Explain why, or why not.

No i do not think that the city of Oakland will fix my problem because they know about it and have never done anything to fix the problem, unless SeeClickFix is that good and it actually fixes my problem

 

What is the name of the student whose Infographic you reviewed?  

The name of the student is Pelesauma

 

What feedback did you give to that student in the comments section of their edublog?

I gave this student feed back on his answer for Criteria of reliable sources.

 

What kind of things do you expect another student will have to say about the infographic that you created, and your answer about reliable sources?

I hope that they give me good feed back about what i did and i also want them to say what i did wrong so i dont make that same mistake next time

 

Do you think Colonization, the Encomienda System, and the African Slave trade still influence people’s lives today?  Explain your answer.

I think it does influence peoples lives to this day because people of color are always at the bottom because of the white supremacy that still exixts and people of color are always being treated unfairly and it has not stopped this has been happening for a long time and it would have been much worst but Martin Luther King J.R spoke up made a big change in society.

What is a dominant narrative?  Explain in a complete sentence.

A dominant narrative is a story that is told by someone with power.

What are two examples of a dominant narrative?

A white person who is correcting the spanish of a person who is born and raised in mexico and has grown up speaking spanish.

A rich person describing what its like to be poor.

I live in Oakland California. The neighborhood i grew up in has been full of violence. Me as a person i am very calm, respect full, and very good and general. As a son i might be a handful sometimes but i try my best to be a good kid and person in general. An assigned identity was being born in the U.S because my mom wanted to have me in the U.S because i could have been born in Mexico.

To begin with a dominant narrative is something that people with power say about people with no power. For example one picture i put was about my city and that there is a lot of violence and police brutality and that’s not all true because if you go down to lake merritt it’s really nice. This image can affect how people feel because if they hear that oakland is unsafe than will want to leave because they are scared that something might happen to them.

Another kind of narrative is a counter narrative. A counter narrative is an argument that disputes a commonly held belief or truth. These beliefs often relate to cultures, people and even institutions. Some images i used were about where i live and people say a lot of bad things about my city and my city is not that bad so i don’t know what they be talkin bout. This makes me mad because people who say oakland is bad and violent,don’t even live in oakland

Also if you don’t know what identity or identity images are then ill tell you identity is the fact of being who or what a person or thing is. Identity image are images that represent who you are. A couple identity images that i chose were about sports because i like sports i also have an image of oakland because it represents where i am from. these images make me feel good because i am proud to show them.

In conclusion i think people see me as a normal person becasue i dont have anything crazy on my shadow box. If people really knew me they would know that i am a pretty chill and relaxed person i dont like getting into conflict or anything like that. I think it is important to correct people about your domminant narrative with a counter narrative so it does not sound as bad.

In your own words describe what you are supposed to do to complete the 2016 Identity Project.

I have to finish getting all  my pictures into my shadow box I got to add my 3 counter and 3 dominant narrative on to the lid of my shadow box and then after that mabe add a couple more images and after that is done i will call the teacher over and tell him im done and then go take a picture with my shadow box.