Finished our presentation!
On October 17th, our team did our presentation for Red Burn's class, "Applications of Interactive Technologies". The format of the class is very interesting - the first half is two student presentations reacting to the previous week's guest speaker, the second half is a invited guest.
Our team's speaker was Ethan Zuckerman, founder of Global Voices Online, an aggregator of blogs from places that are not reached by the global news media.
Our presentation worked very well: each member of the team chose a different style to present, and delivered it on and off the stage. Meredith took to the stage with a mike, myself and Baek stood in the back and read from blogs from different regions, Emery made a tickertape that ran under a video of Ashlen with her mouth taped up. Goal was to show how the conventional media "drown out" voices from other places, and how active intervention by the audience is necessary to change the situation.
There was some tension in how the team worked, but in the end it worked out. I think I have learned a lot about how to work with people who do not come from a business background, where team skills are kind of hammered into you.